Black Stork Nest in Karula - 2016

[Michi]

You can see how looks the area where our nest is located. Pictures are taken during voluntery work to clean black storks feeding areas last autumn.

Thank you, Juta, for the links! There are very interesting pictures about the nest area!
Is it really necessary to clean the feeding areas? Apparently it is ...
The volunteers have made definitely a very good (and hard!) job.

Good night!

[Lussi05]

27. April - Good morning

07:47 - Kati "had to go" on the nest edge, and stretched her wings

07:48 - back on eggs, and Karl arrived

07:49 - Kati left, Karl on eggs.

[Lussi05]

07:58 - Kati came back with some grass, and left again

[Summi]

10:16
I'm so happy that the rain has stopped and Karl's (?) feathers are dry. He is more active- preens from time to time, puts a twig from one place to another, looks around.

[yarko]

17:20
One parent on the nest.
Sunny, seems to be a bit breezy. Looks cold!

[Hellem]

17:33 Karl is incubating. The air temperature is about +14C degrees

[Birdfriend]

18:47 Kati comes. Greetings between Karl and Kati. Then shift change, Karl flew and Kati aerate the nest bowl. Then she incubates the eggs.

[Bairbre]

Good Afternoon, Evening,

Thank you to everyone for your observations and posts. It is a great way for me to catch up on the storks' activities during the day.

[Michi]

Good evening,
I'm relieved that the rain finally has stopped and it is not so cold anymore. :-)

Here some pictures from Kati.
19:15 She is listening to a special sound ...


Hiding the beak in her beautiful feathers ...


Again listening and looking to something. She is such a beauty!

[Michi]

19:34 Kati rolled the eggs. She did it quite quickly. She got up, once only stretched her wings, rolled the eggs and sat down immediately.





Edit: I forgot, Kati has still taken time to go to the toilet. :)

[Michi]

19:57 Kati was again up for a moment. She rolled again the eggs and improved the positions of some moss and a twig.

[juta]

Thank you, Juta, for the links! There are very interesting pictures about the nest area!
Is it really necessary to clean the feeding areas? Apparently it is ...
The volunteers have made definitely a very good (and hard!) job.

Michi, they cleaned mostly creeks( or brooks?) from all kind of natural rubbish that water(with fishes) could flow freely and storks get food.

[Liz01]

You can see how looks the area where our nest is located. Pictures are taken during voluntery work to clean black storks feeding areas last autumn.
This links are from Estonian Ornithological Society home page (http://www.eoy.ee/node/872 )
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 6f9590deb2
https://plus.google.com/photos/10315899 ... 785?sort=1

Juta, thank you for this Links! these are great pictures
It was hard work for the whole team. But they had fun, you can see it
A beautiful area, I would like to live there.

[Michi]

Thank you, Juta, for your answer! When I see some of the pictures again, I believe that cleaning the brooks is necessary. I couldn't imagine that. What a lot of work!

[Olga]

Good morning
Karl was there at first incubating alone ..

Then I saw this. Karl landing at nest...
Next time I saw this:

(pictures are not in right order??) I'll correct later on..
7:49:14


7:49:16


7:53:34


7:53:10


7:53:04
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[Olga]

Karl was coming and going. I saw him bring moss, hay and a big branch. Kati helped to put them in right place.
The moss and hay she pulled closer to her. It's also cold weather?

7:56:33


7:56:43


7:56:46


8:06:22


I heard Karl working there also when I was editing these four picture. He is really devoted to make everything righ!

[Olga]

Morning life of Kati and Karl goes on:

8:18 -8:19

[Olga]

8:19

[Olga]

8:24







( please tell me if I put too much pictures.. I can't be home after the midday.. )

[Olga]

8:28
and again: more hay and moss