Black Stork Nest in Karula - 2017

[Anne7]

Before leaving for migration Karl would do more nest work, like Tiit always did. So I think he will be back.

asteria
Last year (August 7) Karl didn't do a lot of nest work either, before starting his journey to the south (August 8), if I remember well.
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Lussi05 wrote then:
To me it looked like a closure. Karl arrived, he replaced a stick, pecked a little on the nest ground, cleaned his feathers for a long time, made his mark and left.

We will have to wait and see what happens.
But I believe he's gone. 10 days later than last year.

[Solo]

Before leaving for migration Karl would do more nest work, like Tiit always did. So I think he will be back.

it was also little homework

[Anna_]

17:05 Two nuthatches inspect the nest

[Solo]

17:05 Two nuthatches inspect the nest

[Swenja]

I think they are now finally fled.

I thank you all for the photos and videos and I hope we will see Karl and Kati again next year.
Thank you very much!

[Lussi05]

Thank you so much to each and everyone that have posted interesting comments, links, pictures and videos this season, and have made it possible to watch this lovely blackstork family. I'm so grateful

I wish Karl, Kati, Uno, Tali and Usin all the best, and good luck with their migration to the south. As always, I have mixed feelings when they have left the nest. Glad because they made it, and sad because they are gone.
I have not posted much this year, but I have been watching the cam, and read the posts every day.

[Liz01]

August 18

Good morning everyone

I am glad to see, that they are on their way now. I wish them all many luck on the way to the south. And I hope, that we can see Kati and Karl in the next year again.

Both have done a great job! It was a very hard season for them.

Thank to all they have reportet the last days

[chrisitz]

Dear stork friends!
Thanks for all of your postings. I enjoyed to read them very much.
I wish you and our storks all the best.
Read you next saison!

[Solo]

... 12:22 A beautiful butterfly is on the right from Karl

(yesterday)
Karl and the butterfly (Vanessa atalanta - the red admiral or red admirable)

[Anna_]

Good morning to you all - cannot help myself, I'm still watching the empty nest

May warm winds always carry them to peaceful wetlands with plenty of fish and frogs

Thank you all who made it possible for this interesting and moving experience! This is really an outstanding forum.
Best wishes to the bird families and to you all

[aquiline]

Yesterday in Cologne Zoo I saw two Blackstorks and I was astonished to see how small they are. Being used to our beautiful pics from the cam so close to the nest, I thought they were bigger.
Thinking of Karl and Kati and all the others flying to Africa I was sorry for these two in their aviary

Me too, I am thanking all for the work they have done to make it possible to watch these beautiful birds. Let's hope the best for our Blackstork family and may we all meet again next year

[asteria]

Not that small I guess. They are only a bit smaller than white storks. In Berlin Zoo ppl can enter their aviary and make pics, is the same possibility in Cologne Zoo as well?

[Solo]

Not that small I guess. They are only a bit smaller than white storks. In Berlin Zoo ppl can enter their aviary and make pics, is the same possibility in Cologne Zoo as well?

The camera view evoke they are "big"
Measuring on average 90/95–100 cm, from beak tip to end of tail with a 145–155 cm (another source 173-205) wingspan and weighing around 3000 g. Standing as tall as 102 cm.
BS Zoltán and human (becam ring and telemetry device last Summer) http://gemenczrt.hu/wp-content/uploads/ ... PS1_07.jpg

[aquiline]

Not that small I guess. They are only a bit smaller than white storks. In Berlin Zoo ppl can enter their aviary and make pics, is the same possibility in Cologne Zoo as well?

No, in Cologne you cannot enter the aviary. But I took a photo which is now my avatar
Next time in Berlin I will visit the zoo, promised

Solo - standing as tall as 102cm -yes, that seemed to be right.
Anyway it was a very beautiful stork with shimmering feathers

[Summi]

Good morning everybody
There is an article on the front page of Looduskalender about the red admiral that was on the nest with Karl on his last visit. It is a specimen from the brood of imagos of a migrant butterfly from the south and will migrate with the help of favourable winds (together with Karl I hope ) to South Europe or North Africa 10 km per day.

@Urmas, thank you and the whole team for the excellent quality cam picture.
You are the boss whom Karl tells when he has started his long journey to the south, please disclose us this secret too.

[Solo]

18.08.2017 - 16:32 (orig. 15.08.2017 - 12.12) Last days of stork family nest life http://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en/node/1613
18.08.2017 - 16:38 (orig. 16.08.2017 - 14.22) Black storks seen in nest ever more rarely http://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en/node/1618
18.08.2017 - 10:10 Admiral kurepesas (Estonian) http://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en/node/1623

Summi, TY

[Solo]

videos by igakr
2017 08 17 Ostatni przylot Tali do gniazda https://youtu.be/lBmZgaJQE1M
2017 08 17 Ostatni wylot Tali i Usin z gniazda https://youtu.be/wxbe2ek0gk4

2017 08 15 Wróciły Tali i Usin, ale karmienia nie było https://youtu.be/crRzfD1_rfo
2017 08 15 Karl przyleciał do pustego gniazda https://youtu.be/-N5FUvFJ8oQ
2017 08 15 Poranny wylot młodych https://youtu.be/X4H6bg4jVyY

(more: https://www.youtube.com/user/igakr/vide ... =0&sort=dd )

[Anne7]

Solo
Thanks a lot for posting these videos!
Sweet memories, already. (Leaving all of us with the empty-nest-syndrome)

I really hope our beautiful storklets are doing well.
I believe they will manage. Karl and Kati did such a great job!
I wish we could follow these kids on their long journey.

[lianaliesma]

@Urmas, thank you and the whole team for the excellent quality cam picture.
You are the boss whom Karl tells when he has started his long journey to the south, please disclose us this secret too.

Yes! Please!

[Jujani]

Thanks to all for the pictures, the videos and also the reports on this Stork family. I wish the storks a good flight and a healthy and long life and hope that Kati and Karl next year will breed here again.

OT me is synonymous so when you see the birds, which one at the webcams times in live. We have black storks and white in the animal park. I was especially astonished how small peregrine falcons are, which seem so imposing in front of the camera and are so delicate. Only WTA's are really big and powerful.