Latvian black storks - 2018

[Solo]

15:06 again I can see the hole. the hole is in the egg in front ...

it is very promising beginning

[Liz01]

15:49 there is someone

all clear?

[Michi]

15:07/15:08 Pics from defending the nest against the intruder. Kaupo looks very impressing!

[Michi]

15:09 Both look synchronal if the danger is over. Then Kaupo flies away.

[Liz01]

Michi, I have been waiting for nice pictures of you. They are amazing!


15:52 Kaupo is in the nest now

[Michi]

Liz, thanks! It took me quite a while to choose the best from the many pics I've taken. But now I'm quite content.

[Liz01]

Liz, thanks! It took me quite a while to choose the best from the many pics I've taken. But now I'm quite content.

It is a lot of work to take good pictures

16:12


A little hole.. almost no progress

[Liz01]

16:36 Egg talk

[Michi]

Did I see a pip? crack?
13:13:07 egg in the middle first row

15:06 again I can see the hole. the hole is in the egg in front

The cracks in both pictures are on different places on the egg(s). The dark point, I've seen at 13:13:19, was more on top of the egg, - but much bigger than the pip in Liz' picture from 13:13:07. So do we have maybe cracks in more than one egg?

[Michi]

16:39 I've heard a lot of egg talk.

[Solo]

15:07/15:08 Pics from defending the nest against the intruder. Kaupo looks very impressing! ...

Michi, super shots

[Anne7]

15:07/15:08 Pics from defending the nest against the intruder. Kaupo looks very impressing!

Great shots, Michi!

Edit: Haha, I sound like Solos echo!

[Solo]

... So do we have maybe cracks in more than one egg?

it is probably 2 different eggs (within hatching time the first two storklets isn't usually - very - long time)

[Michi]

17:06 Kaupo digged the nest bowl and rolled the eggs very careful, one over the other .
From 17:05 - 17:08 I could hear egg talk again. But a crack was not to see.






Just now, 17:23, I've heard a bird, that sounds like a WTE. Or was it another bird, who imitates them? A Jay?

Edit:
Anne, Solo, you're welcome :). Solo, thanks for your answer. I think also, that cracks are at least in two eggs.

Edit 2:
17:26 The "WTE" called again.

[Liz01]

The bird was a black woodpecker. They sometimes sound very similar to WTE

the crack... hole is a bit bigger now.
now I have forgotten the exact time. It was to the end of the digging. Ohhh! I have noted the time 17:40:47!

[Michi]

The bird was a black woodpecker. They sometimes sound very similar to WTE

Thanks Liz! Just now, 18:09, he calls again, quite long, and this time it was more obvious, that it was not a WTE.

[Solo]

The bird was a black woodpecker. They sometimes sound very similar to WTE ...

...the crack... hole is a bit bigger now. ... I have noted the time 17:40:47!

We can always just wait patiently

[Liz01]

18:29 A little Bird flew flew through the nest


Kaupo was scared

[Liz01]

There are little holes in two eggs. But I did not hear egg talk

19:28 egg talk Kaupo is digging and the little one is still talking

[Michi]

Beside of these tiny dark points in two eggs I didn't saw a bigger hole. Also the quite big dark point from 13:23 I haven't seen again.

19:16 While digging


19:30 Again while digging


I'm excited if tomorrow until dawn a storklet has managed to break the shell. But I think, this is not certain. The cracks are still very small.