Black Stork Nest 2, Jan and Janika, 2021

[Solo]

he is resting long time


preening


and flew away at 09.48

[Solo]

11.00 - blue tit

[Solo]

11.30 female is back

[Solo]

11.52 also male arrived, long loudly singing


and preening, preening

[Solo]

very good reading to similar situation in Latvia - Sigulda (streamed nest)
prof. Dr. Māris Strazds
http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... e6#p797676

[Solo]

12.52 female out, 12.54 also male





12.59 male is back - calling

[Solo]

13.07 - calling, female is back and greetings ritual :-)

wing flapping (female) - more times


preening, preening, resting

13.35 short dancing and mating

and next nice wing flapping

[Solo]

they are really very, very nice birds

[Bibibu]

Bibibu, it seems so
Heloise, you're welcome

Hello all,

Great pictures

I have never seen such a fight either, interesting, pushing the opponent out of the nest under the breast. somehow it looked like a harmless shoving match between men.
I would have thought it was more like fencing between storks.

[Sabsy]

How loving the storks stand together and are with each other

[Bibibu]

How loving the storks stand together and are with each other

Hallo Sabsy, yes I also find that..... really harmonious

[sova]

Good afternoon to all

very good reading to similar situation in Latvia - Sigulda (streamed nest)
prof. Dr. Māris Strazds
http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... e6#p797676

thank you Solo .... then the two of them can practice nicely this year

[Sabsy]

Good afternoon at all

yes really totally harmonious @ Bibibu ♥

[Anne7]

very good reading to similar situation in Latvia - Sigulda (streamed nest)
prof. Dr. Māris Strazds
http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/view ... e6#p797676

Hello all

Thanks!
I’ve made another translation (using a few translation-apps) of the text that Professor Maris Strazds has written about the current situation on the BS nest in Latvia. I hope you don’t mind.

Professor Maris Strazds' message about the events:
"Hello! Yesterday, some followers of the Stork Camera (in the YouTube chat) were already rejoicing that "soon there will be eggs", but I would suggest to "pray to the highest powers" that this does not happen. There are several reasons. The earliest date when the first egg could be laid (according to what we know so far) is 9 or 10 May. Eggs take 32+ days to hatch, chicks approximately 90 days to leave the nest, let's assume 88 for ease of counting. So 120 days from the 1st egg, or converted September 10, until the expected departure date. This IS still possible, and there have been cases, although it is not known how successful they have been. Mare, who was also a late hatchling, hatched on 2 June (so the egg she hatched from could have been laid on 1 May or a day earlier) and she departed from the nest at 77 days on 17 August. She was successful.
But there are a few other considerations. The female that was in the nest yesterday is a young bird (95% certainty) by her plumage - one could say a juvenile, in her 3rd calendar year, or a full two years old. There are known nesting attempts at this age (one also in Latvia), but the Latvian case was not successful. Mare started nesting a year later, which is the normal "starting age". Even if the bird is biologically capable of laying an egg, she is certainly inexperienced in every respect and - judging by the biographies of the tracked birds - has arrived in her breeding territory for the first time. She is not familiar with it and does not know that the ditches that are now filled with water, which are apparently good feeding grounds, and which are very numerous (more than 100 km of ditches within a 3 km radius around the nest), will all be dry in a month or a little later, when food will be needed most.
If there are eggs, if they hatch and no predators interfere, then the most likely scenario in this nest is that the chicks will starve to death as the parents will stop feeding them because of lack of food. Get used to the idea. Some might argue that 3 and 4 young birds have been reared in the same nest before. Yes, that is true, but that was BEFORE all the surrounding ditches had been cleaned as part of "sustainable and responsible forestry". Forestry is accountable at the best to the money-lending banks and to its own income, but not to the forest or to what lives in it. Do you think you can change that? Then start a campaign for the drainage system cleaners, in order to explain them their responsibility (towards this nest), to install at least 4 feeding places around the nest (each bird has its own feeding areas, which hardly overlap, and "one for each" is a too risky situation), which must have water and at least 1kg of live small fish every day. Already now.
Maris Strazds
5 May 2021"

These are very clear words.

Personally, I suspect that there will be eggs in this nest, however much we hope or pray for the contrary.
This female looks stronger and healthier than Kaia last year; she seems to be well fed and behaves more confident, less shy.
If eggs are laid, we can only hope that the food conditions in this specific area in Jõgeva County, Estonia are different and better than in the area Maris Strazds wrote about.
Anyhow, as always, we can only watch and accept what happens.

Please correct if you see mistakes in the above translation.

[Sabsy]

thank you very much @solo and @ Anne7
yes we wait for it
and just hope that the best possible will happen
and when she lays eggs- please only 3
and only when both storks find enough food.

[Solo]

17.32 male out, 17.36 both back - male calls
17.38 female out and male immediately too
17.50 male back with twigs, 17.51 out

[Solo]

18.50 male flew calling in

[venegor]

flew in for the night

[Solo]

Venegor - nice shot , thanx

19:25 rain


the rain intensified

it is still raining (19.59)


​20.02 digging the nest bowl (short) and position change


20.21 and 20.26 short walking and position change

[Solo]

21.20 our male is still without female (maybe because the rain)


21.30 female arrived