asteria wrote:The cam doesn't work at the moment and yesterday I saw a stork lying in the nest. The pic you placed, Baska, is very vague and better wait for the better view.
I don't think they just allow the chicks to die. I remember how in 2008 four storklets were taken away from the nest, because the male stork(Willie) died and the female(Antonia) couldn't feed them alone, a man with busket came and took all the chicks, they were put in other nests. That happened in Germany, maybe you heard about it too.
Hello asteria,
unfortunately the cam stopped completely.
I suppose this nest in Germany might have been Bad Waldsee . But I know hundreds of webcam-nests with all their owners who have got names,
I can't remember all these names exactly. Especially, because the names are repeating very often.
It happens quite often that the chicks get rescued when they are in danger. But this one in Gemenc is a special case.
I noticed that the carers always rescue the chicks if one of the parentstork dies. But when the parentstorks are badly looking after their kids,
generally the humans don't help because they don't want to intervene the bringing up of the storks. Their motivation: "This is nature"
(Sarah was coming very seldom so that Tobias was forced to fly away and look for some food while the chicks were alone, beeing cold in the rain.)
As sorry as I am, but in my opinion they did die of coldness and hunger.
If it was possible to take them out of the nest, it would have been too late. They were already too weak.
Furthermore, there is a big difference between the nests of White Storks and the nests of Black Storks.
If it concerns White Storks, you only have to ask the firebrigade or a private company which comes with it's hoisting crane,
naturally after the question is settled: who is going to pay that? Technical this is a quick and simple act.
But with the nests of Black Storks it is much more complicated because these nests you can only find somewhere deep in the forest,
in a height of 20 or 30 meters, one got to find a person who is able to climb up very high trees .....
By the way, did you know that
rescuing storks from the nest is forbidden by law in Germany, on pain of punishment !!!
Reason: "interventions in proceedings of the nests of
wild birds is not allowed". (Even to change wet nestmaterial for dry material).
Despite that many carers do it on their own responsibility.
But they risk a lot: first of all, if they don't find somebody who pays for the action or does it voluntary, they must pay it themselves.
AND: if somebody does an offence to the
nature conservation authority they got to pay a lot of fine.
Unfortunately it is like this in Germany. Every year there are a lot of fierce disputes because of that.
I would be very interested how that is treated in other countries. Does anybody know anything about that ???
It's too bad that
Macko isn't reading here anymore. I'm sure, he could give us some information. I was looking for a hungarian forum but I can't find any.
Excuse me, but I don't see anything but branches and twigs
- haven't made it ... 
