Black Stork Nest in Karula, 2021

[Tatiana60]

the children were fast asleep until their father came. They were obviously suffering from their first lonely night...

05: 52: 27 father is flying


05: 52:29 Karl II has arrived !

[Tatiana60]

05: 54: 10 he starts feeding. Feeds in 1 reception and a little. You can see the fish.
The kids are thrilled. But the fish is not very much and it instantly ended.

The kids can't believe breakfast is over.... they look at the beak of the father, and he picks through the branches, begins to clean the chicks...

The children's necks show that there was not enough food...


The older one's backpack is not full, but with food, but the middle one seems to have nothing at all...


We hope that the father will feed again.

Hungry # 2 sits with his back to his father and chirps plaintively..., the elder busily agrees with him...


the younger one is silent - he lies down on the edge of the nest and sleeps... he must have been on a lot of duty that night...

But they are somehow inconsolable. They don't express their demands aggressively... They must be afraid that father will fly away ... or after so many hours of fasting, at least they have eaten something, and they are happy and do not hope for more...

Or maybe their father had scared them so much with the general cleaning? He cleaned them so hard (especially the older one) that the fluff flew apart...


Father doesn't fly away. He has cleaned all the children in turn and is standing in the nest. Missed you?

[Tatiana60]

06.40.04 everyone has their own way of begging for food...


07.05.30 the middle one asks for food again - he is crying, his voice is pouring like a stream... plaintive...
The father has his own method of calming the child - he begins to clean it... but for our # 2, this method is not suitable - he continues to whine incessantly, and the father moves away from him...

The children went to bed, but not No. 2. He sings, and the elder sings with him periodically.
Look at the feathers of the № 1!


Junior woke up.So he plays with a twig, looks into the forest... Father doesn't touch it - it probably has the least fluff in it...




I'm losing my Internet connection... if I stop talking, it means I'm out of reach...

[Tatiana60]

07.12.03 junior shows how big he is...

[Tatiana60]

07.13.41 chick #1 suffered from cleaning..., he rests and looks at his father.


07.16 the father tries to feed the children, but he does not succeed... didn't he have anything?

He goes back to washing the children. # 1 again gets more than the others.


children hid from dad:

[Swenja]

Good morning!

Thank you very much @ Tatiana60 You were on the night shift!
Thank you very much @Heloise for the late shift!
Thank you very much @ Anne7 for the track data!

The little ones have grown again. They weren't that big yesterday.

[Swenja]

07:34 Karl II is fighting with the edge of the nest. He pulls out a branch and puts it down again.







07:40:16 Kaia comes Karl II flies away.

[Swenja]

07:42 feeding time! Kaia gave small pieces of food twice.



Worm or nudibranch

[Swenja]

The chicks is so warm now. They ask Kaia for some refreshment. Kaia stays in the nest.

# 1 takes a few steps.



08:38:02 #3 makes into the nest ps.



It just lies there and shoots off.

[Swenja]

10:11:58 Kaia flies away to the left. The chicks want some refreshment.
10:14:50 Kaia is back with moss.

# 2 puts the moss in Kaia's shadow and lays on it.





All the chicks want to be in the shade on the moss.



10:20:09 Kaia flies away again.

[Swenja]

10:25:10 Kaia is back with wet grass, moss and water.
Kaia distributes the water and the chicks lie on the damp moss.





Kaia! You should also give shade.

[Swenja]

10:34:41 Kaia flies away to the left.
10:40:42 Kaia is back. She brought damp moss.



10:41:43 Kaia flies away again.

Between 10:00 and 11:00 Karl II or Kaia could come again with food, as it was in the last few days.
Today it is much hotter.

[Swenja]

10:47:26 Kaia comes back with moss and water. She distributes the water.



Kaia rested a little on the curved branch. Now she gives the chicks shade.

[Swenja]

11:09 #1 growls like a bear. Laments
It's so hot and the chicks breathe quickly.



11:25 # 2 lifts its wings.



The chicks ask for refreshment.



11:30 some wind comes up.

[Swenja]

11:34:14 Kaia is having a snack. A little damp puree.



She goes to the curved branch for a while.

Kaia goes back to the nest.

[Swenja]

11:46:52 Kaia flies away.
11:56:36 She is back with water.



The chicks wanted a snack. Kaia gave nothing.

[Swenja]

12:17 The shadow slowly comes back into the nest.

12:18:22 Karl II comes back and Kaia flies away.



12:21 feeding time! Karl II didn't give much food. I didn't see exactly what to eat.



12:24:09 Karl II flies away from the curved branch.

[Swenja]

12:27:37 Karl II is back with grass, moss and water.



12:31:57 Karl II flies away again.

[Swenja]

12:35:04 Karl II brings wet moss and water.
12:43:00 He flies away.
12:45:39 Karl II brings wet grass, moss and water again.
13:03:29 He flies away.
13:06:47 Karl II brings wett grass, moss and water.

[Anne7]

12:27:37 Karl II is back with grass, moss and water.

12:31:57 Karl II flies away again.

I have to go now.

Many thanks, Tatiana and Swenja for all today’s work!

I reserve a few posts and will post some pictures as soon as I am home.

Water and cooling the chicks seems to be the highest priority at the moment.