Latvian black storks - 2020/2021

[Abigyl]

JUNE 18th

Good Morning!

04:04 He left the nest !!

[Abigyl]

08:54 Who is it? White is too dirty brown...

09:14 He flew away

[Solo]

08:54 Who is it? White is too dirty brown...

09:14 He flew away

arrival from right
08:54:33 sillent arrival


after landing whistled (or was it singing?)
08:54:39


stork worked with branches on the nest rim

[Solo]

stork observed the surrounding
08:58:23


we saw preening

[Solo]

next round: stork works with branches, aerated the nest-bowl

stork settled down at 09:07:26 (stork breathes with an open beak)
09:12:13


at 09:12:55 stork stand up, ruffled his feathers and after little hesitating and preening stork flew out to the left at 09:14: 54 as Abigyl wrote

09:13:10

09:14:20

[Solo]

21:44:29 stork is here (calm arrival)

21:45:22


short aerating, long staying and nap
21:45:38

22:13:59

[Abigyl]

21:44 Our male arrived for the night

What a cropppp...

[Solo]

21:44 Our male arrived for the night ...

already here viewtopic.php?p=744017#p744017

[Solo]

June 19
Hello everyone

atfter preening stork flew out at 04:09:54


Liz (youtube chat):
​6:11:06 tree creeper in the nest
​It's not a tree creeper it's a Firecrest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_firecrest
it collect feathers

Liz

the little bird I saw already at 06:01:08 in the left nest rim (at 06:12:16 flew to the right)

[Abigyl]

Good Morning!

Thanks Solo

[Solo]

09:14:40 stork is back (silent arrival)

09:14:57


stork scratched its head, do some nest-work and settled down

09:15:59


09:16:17

[Solo]

09:17:27 stork stand up, preening
09:18:41

10:03:53 relaxing


Abigyl

[Abigyl]

09:15 A male is here, it's not a crop! it's a double football!

Back to childhood! sitting like a pianist

[Abigyl]

10:37 Finished the morning siesta! He left

[solveiga]

I enjoy endlessly to see here a lot of amazing photos of black stork's life and its details.
Thank you for the articles, observations and unity of love for these rare black storks!

[Solo]

Solveiga,
here are black storks infos too:
"Black Stork Nests in Europe" thread: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=650&start=12500
(and migration of BS viewtopic.php?f=65&t=2&p=744171#p744171)

[solveiga]

here are black storks infos too:
"Black Stork Nests in Europe" thread: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=650&start=12500
(and migration of BS viewtopic.php?f=65&t=2&p=744171#p744171)

Solo, thank you! I saved it ☺

The migration map is really very important as it brings a lot of knowledge and conclusions to ornithologists. Last year I also followed the peculiarities of Estonian's storks migration. And a map of all migratory birds as well. We can see lots of stamina and danger on their roads.

Also was interesting to see MaxPlanckSociety video how storks gliding strategy is monitored and explored through GPS data visualization with highlighting while thermalling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRq-pan ... ture=share

More knowledge, more understanding cultivates more love for nature!

Thank you once more!
Have a nice weekend!

[Solo]

June 20
Hello everyone

our stork spend the night as previous day/night in the nest


Liz, what is the right term for this moving with neck - swallowing movement of the throat? gulp?


after short preening


stork flew away at 04:09:00 to the right

[Solo]

Solo, thank you! ....Also was interesting to see MaxPlanckSociety video how storks gliding strategy is monitored and explored through GPS data visualization with highlighting while thermalling. .... More knowledge, more understanding cultivates more love for nature! ...

Solveiga,
you're welcome.

All vids about white storks by Max Planck Society are very interesting (and also all the others videos).
Black storks are a different species and it is not right to compare them, they are very specific (e.g. they use more often active flying - wing-flapping and they are flying also long distance above open water). Oriental storks (Ciconia boyciana) are closely related to and resembles the European white storks.

[solveiga]

Solo
Thank you!
Yes, they are different. After all, they are more wild, away from people's societies... So more questions arises

Black storks are a different species and it is not right to compare them, they are very specific (e.g. they use more often active flying - wing-flapping and they are flying also long distance above open water).