Black Stork Nest in Karula, 2021

[Heloise]

Revenge

[Heloise]

20:36



21:11 It´s raining, it' s thunder/lightning...



but it´s not heavy rain, beacause they do wing exercises now

[Heloise]

21:21 heavier rain now... but they don´t care





Lightning! Made this picture bright...

[Heloise]

I really hope this thunder is not so bad that it loses the transmission again...

[Swenja]

Thanks to everyone for the beautiful pictures, video, weather report and comments.

Feedings:
05:59 Karl II
07:29 Karl II
10:10 Kaia
12:19 Karl II
14:43 Karl II
18:30 Karl II
19:55 Karl II

Today 7 feedings could be observed and with each feeding there was a good portion of feed.

It's thunderstorm. I hope the camera transmission stays.



Good night!

[Heloise]

21:42


It´s raining, but no thunder now...
21:49


21:55 thunder again.. but only for a while... it´s still raining.
21:59


22:02 thunder again...

[Heloise]

Thank you so much, Swenja, Anne7 and Sniedzins for all these beautiful pictures, videos and comments and of course many thanks for the summary, Swenja!


Let´s hope for the best!
Sleep well and good night, all Karula-family and friends!


22:06 (no thunder anymore)

[Anne7]

It started 19:18:10.


What a bird is calling at 19:21:47? 3:56 and 4:13

Swenja, I think it could be the call of a buzzard.

But perhaps someone else thinks otherwise.

[Anne7]

Thank you all for today’s wonderful contributions!

Swenja, Heloise, Sniedzins

Tatiana, are you still with us? We miss your adorable reporting!

I cross my fingers for the camera transmission…

Sleep well, everyone!

[Amanda777]

Thank you all for today’s wonderful contributions!

Swenja, Heloise, Sniedzins

Tatiana, are you still with us? We miss your adorable reporting!

I cross my fingers for the camera transmission…

Sleep well, everyone!

GN

[Swenja]

July 28

Good morning!

05:05:07 and 05:08:21 P puts down two pellets.
05:08:44 T puts down a pellet too.
05:09:33 U puts down a pellet too.



06:10 Karl II is here

[Swenja]

07:32 P stands close to the edge at the curved branch and is preening. T goes there and pulls P back on his feathers.





beautiful stretching

[Swenja]

08:02 Karl II brings second breakfast

[chrisitz]

dear stork-friends!
I travelled on holidays through the Balticum and I also visited the Karula nationalpark hoping to see our storks somewhere flying. What a pity, I didnt see any black stork but the park is so wonderful and I understand why the generation of all karls have chosen this sommerplace and I was happy to know being our storks so near.

and bth way thx for all your reports making possible that I can join a bit of their life!

[Heloise]

Good morning!
Many thanks, Swenja!

I am happy that our storklets are well fed and we didn´t lost the transmission.
The weather is warm, max.temp. 27°, partly cloudy., it was really rainy tonight, our storklets are still wet.

https://weather.com/en-GB/weather/today ... 74ce5e9478


Karula - 7 day weather meteogram
https://freemeteo.ee/weather/karula/7-d ... ry=estonia

Hello chrisitz
Nice to read you!
I am glad that you had the opportunity to visit Estonia
Yes, Karula NP is wonderful and beautiful... but of course the opportunity to see black storks flying there is rare...

[Heloise]

09:39




09:44

[Heloise]

Little T wants to clean everything



But P... goes away

[Heloise]

P wants to fly!



But s/he is ready to preen T too



P is training

[Heloise]

09:50 Little beak fight (P and T) that almost always becomes cleaning procedure

[Heloise]

T preens "back"





U wants to play