Black Stork Nest in Karula 2019

[Liz01]

# 4 is always in the front row. How does he do that?






all have eaten well

https://youtu.be/EZ1wZJT3mfQ

[Liz01]

14:32 Kati is stretching her leg and wing


14:34:30 ps by an storklet with open beak


BTW: If we see green ps by our Storks :
greenish dropping = has eaten a lot of green

[Liz01]

15:29 Kati is stretching leg and wing


15:30 well sleeping ..


15:32

[Owlie]

# 4 is always in the front row. How does he do that?
...

S/he is the smallest and quickest and finds the smallest niche passing the siblings

[Liz01]

16:12 Karl II comes home- There is a thunderstorm. I hear thunder in the distance.


16:13 he starts feeding . He has brought a lot of fish




16:17 storklets are sleeping. Karl II is eating back

https://youtu.be/HqhgQ6hkWRA

[Owlie]

The YT link has changed again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AakKUJlufs

[Owlie]

A stupid question:
do storks have a tongue? I never saw such in the pictures ...
I think they have to have one - how would it otherwise be possible to catch food into that long beak ...
I didn't find any explanation by googling ...

[Biker]

yes, Owlie. Here a picture, i saw the tip rolls a bit up while yawning



play it in slomo, fullscreen, then you can see it

[Owlie]

yes, Owlie. Here a picture, i saw the tip rolls a bit upwhile yawning
...

Thanks, Biker.
I never saw a tongue on an adult stork and I am wondering how on earth do they catch (soak?) the food if the tongue is only as short as in your picture on a chick ...
I have seen tongues on other birds - but their beaks are not as long as storks'.

[Anne7]

Hello, everyone!

Many thanks for all the beautiful pictures and reporting, Liz.
Balistar, thank you too!

I've made some pics from this amazing feeding at 16:13.
I focused on our youngest chick.

16:13:45 "Oops, these are Dad's feet! Not the good direction..."


16:13:48 "That was a bad start! How shall I reach the food now?"


16:13:51 "Throwing myself between two siblings wasn't a good idea... Why are they so big?"

[Anne7]

16:13:56 "If I hurry to the outside and if Dad waits a little longer, I can make it..."


16:13:59 "Thanks, Dad, I'm ready now!"


1614:00 "Great! I'm where I wanted to be! Let the food come, please."

[Anne7]

16:14:03 "Yummy, these are a lot of nice little fish!"


16:14:19 "And now this big one!"


16:14:33 "Your tail is a bit too long, fishie, but I WILL SWALLOW YOU!"

[Owlie]

Thanks, Anne7
for the pic series, it is fun
#4 is a clever chick

[Anne7]

You're welcome, Owlie

17:20 Another feeding


17:20:55 The 3 bigger ones have eaten. This time #4 didn't manage to get in the front line.


17:21:32 Karl II takes back the food.

[Anne7]

17:23:35 Karl II is preening his chicks.


18:37 Again a feeding. The youngest is on the right. A bigger storklet wasn't hungry.
His neck needed a support!


18:37:17 Our little benjamin grabbed something

[Owlie]

There was a feeding again, I looked at the time 19.04 on my screen time and saw #4 fighting tug of war with a sibling of the same frog - finally I think Karl II ate it back and none of the storklets got it. But before that I think all four ate well and all went to sleep (and to grow) quite soon after the meal

[Hellem]

19:10 Change, Kati arrived and Karl II left

[Anne7]

19:10 Change, Kati arrived and Karl II left

Hellem

Kati comes home. Karl II leaves.


It looks as if her neck feathers are wet.


She preens her sleeping chicks.

[Owlie]

A feeding, I looked later the time 20.44 on my screen time. All got fed, there was again a tug of war between two chicks of a frog, but I think Kati ate it back as none of the chicks managed to swallow it.

21:12
Feeding again

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