Latvian black storks - 2018

[Liz01]

There is a big crack in the egg now

We will see the fifth today.. I think it happens soon

[Hellem]

PS: Unfortunately, the youtube link from page 1 leads me into the void. There is no cam.

Here you can always find the right YT link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIcQwg ... hMBclDJENw

[balistar]

Thanks very much, Hellem
I saved the link quickly

[Liz01]

Thanks very much, Hellem
I saved the link quickly

I'm sorry about it
I saw it and forgot it. Too many little storks in all nests


Hellem thank you!

[Liz01]

13:08 very loud egg talk.

[Hellem]

balistar, Liz

[Liz01]

14:25 another nice feeding

and endless egg talk

[Liz01]

15:10 Sunbrella mom

[Michi]

Hello Liz and all,
thank you, Liz, for todays reports and pictures.

I think, there's no real progress in the hatching of the fifth storklet.

15:02 From this egg side is nothing to see.


15:23 I don't know what to say about ... Yesterday I saw a crack that seemed to be more promising than this.

[Michi]

15:43:32 Feeding. All storklets in a row. Kaupo regurgitated a black something, which I couldn’t recognize.


Hardly 10 seconds later the fourth storklet moved away from the food, in opposite direction. I don't think, it has eaten something.

[Michi]

16:01 Four sleepy storklets .


16:02 Finally Kaupo settled down.

[Liz01]

16:44 Gaja has arrived. She has brought little fishes.






16:48 all have eaten well. she is eating back .

https://youtu.be/gD6z7bGJDxY

[Liz01]

18:55 egg talk.. oh dear.. it takes a long time

19:37 A collage.. Kaupo and his chicks

[Michi]

16:48 all have eaten well. she is eating back .

Thank you for the video, Liz!
I'm very glad to see finally a nicely filled crop of the youngest chick!

18:55 egg talk.. oh dear.. it takes a long time

Do you think, it still can manage it to hatch? Meanwhile I ask myself, if it is healthy and strong enough to hatch. But its voice at 18:55 was quite loud.
If it hatches it will be difficult for it to reach the food between the bigger siblings. I'm already glad, if the fourth storklet got enough food to survive.

[Liz01]

May 22

Good Morning Michi and all

The fifth has not hatched yet. I hope, that it will not hatch. I still can hear egg talk..

[Liz01]

.............
Do you think, it still can manage it to hatch? Meanwhile I ask myself, if it is healthy and strong enough to hatch. But its voice at 18:55 was quite loud.
If it hatches it will be difficult for it to reach the food between the bigger siblings. I'm already glad, if the fourth storklet got enough food to survive.

Michi,
Yesterday I thought about the fifth egg.
It seems to me that the parents do not care anymore for it. It was in the sun for a quite long time. It is not turned anymore. I do not see any help for the fifth chick to hatch.Only then, if the nest bowl will be loosened. It looks like it doesn't matter for them, that it hatches? They have enough chicks.

But it's just a feeling that it could be like this. We have to wait.
I would be happy to see four chicks growing up. That's more than I've seen so far.

[Liz01]

6:08 There is no progress visible. I think we will not see a fifth chick. There is no hole and also no crack! I'm happy about it.

A collage from this morning. I think that's a cute pile of storklets

[Liz01]

6:03 a feeding... leftover from the day before

zoom video

[Liz01]

6:38 Gaja comes home


6:39 She starts feeding


There were in a row and all have eaten

[Liz01]

7:13 Danger .. someone is on the nest tree
7:15 She covers the chicks .. the danger is over

It must have been a bird of prey.Her behavior is like this. In a conspecific, the behavior is different.
It was a threat to the chicks. Her vocalization was corresponding.