Black Stork Nest in Karula 2019

[Liz01]

7:25 Storklets are sleeping.'Kati is still preening herself

8:26 Hello Karl II

[Liz01]

Kati flew to the right

8:27 Karl II starts feeding his kids


one is behind the other. #4 is in front on the left. Finally, everyone has a well-stuffed crop


8:30 Karl II is eating back .. one of the storklets is still eating

8:31 Feeding is over. Karl II takes care for the storklets

[Liz01]

There is a problem with picr. de I have to be patient

Karl II covers the storklets

Maybe you can try this one http://tinypic.com/

Crissy, thank you very much.
But I use this uploader if picr.de doesn't work.
https://abload.de/uploadComplete.php#

I will reboot my PC...

[Crissy]

There is a problem with picr. de I have to be patient
...

Maybe you can try this one http://tinypic.com/

[sova]

There is a problem with picr. de I have to be patient

I can not reach the page anymore

[Liz01]

#4 is smart

Karl starts feeding #4 is behind the siblings


it crawls to the left

[Liz01]

#4 after feeding




Parent change-over and feeding by Karl II

[Liz01]

I can not reach the page anymore

They have done a big upgrade a few days ago. In the early morning it still worked for me. Now it doesn't work.
We have to be patient.

It works

thanks, sova

[sova]

They have done a big upgrade a few days ago. In the early morning it still worked for me. Now it doesn't work.
We have to be patient.

thanks Liz

[sova]

They have done a big upgrade a few days ago. In the early morning it still worked for me. Now it doesn't work.
We have to be patient.

It works

[Liz01]

9:59:16 cute

[chrisitz]

dear all!
Karl II is really a marvelous storklet father! I hope he can convince Kati that nr. 4 is strong enough!
thx for your reportings!

[aquiline]

The storklets are completely exhausted by feeding Eating so much fish is very tiring

[Biker]

Hi, everyone!
i wonder how often do black storks manage to raise four?

It is perhaps possible that black storks act even more foresighted, when they sort (seemingly strong) chicks out?
current there is enough food for four, but they need more and more food. it is adequate now, but later?

[Liz01]

Biker, there is a statistic for it. At least for Latvia.

The storks know when it will not be enough food for four.
If they are too tall to be thrown out of the nest, they starve to death in the nest.
When there is very little food, the parents leave the nest forever. Maris S. found some nest with big chicks, left by the parents. An attempt to rescue these big chicks failed.
They are able to raise 4 to 5 chicks, if there is enough food. There were already 6 in a nest.

EDIT: This year, I'm positive that all four are flying to Africa

EDIT 2: The statistics are different every year. It just depends on the weather. The winter should be cold and wet, even the spring should be wet. These are good conditions for amphibians and fish.

[Liz01]

12:48 Kati comes home


12:49 She starts feeding... all are in a row on the left . She has brought frogs


three piles frogs

[Biker]

thanks, Liz01 for answer.

i can't get the scene from 21th out of my mind (an irrational worry, i know).
Kati looked directly at us, a few moments before.

[Liz01]

It would be much easier if the frogs had no legs




https://youtu.be/2G2iwTQDL2E

[Liz01]

i can't get the scene from 21th out of my mind (an irrational worry, i know).
Kati looked directly at us, a few moments before.

I have the worry too. It should rain soon

A case of parental infanticide in the black stork

........During the visit on 11 June an adult black stork was observed brooding five small chicks. On 18 June the
nest was observed from the hide from 08.00 h to 14.00h. There were still five chicks in the nest. All five chicks are clearly visible in Figure 2 (it is easiest to count bills) and Figure 3 (where one chick is seen falling). On that day, after arriving at the nest at about
09.00 h, a parent bird regurgitated a bolus of food consisting of many small items into the middle of the nest. The five chicks quickly swallowed all the regurgitated food from the nest bottom. No aggression was observed between the siblings. After feeding the parent stork rested at the edge of the nest for about 30 min. At 09.30 h the smallest chick was attacked for the first time during our observations. The parent bird (sex unknown) squeezed the head of the chick with the bill but let it free after a moment and flew away. The storks paid no attention to the observer hidden inside the hide as they had already become used to it.

At 12.40 h the chicks were fed for the second time. A parent stork (sex unknown) returned with food and regurgitated it on to the floor of the nest. All five chicks quickly consumed the food. As before, no aggression among siblings was observed, nor did the chicks try to
insert their bills into the parent’s mouth or grab the parent’s bill. After feeding the parent stork rested on the nest rim. At 13.00 h the parent bird seized the head of the smallest chick with the bill (Fig. 2) and threw the chick, which was still alive, out of the nest

Attention! The link contains pictures of a dead chick.
http://www.solon.be/wp-content/uploads/ ... inski2.pdf

We have to wait and see what will happen.

[Liz01]

13:41 Another feeding by Kati. Still a lot of frogs