Black Stork Nest in Karula 2022

[Jo UK]

Welcome back, Tatiana60. You chose a happy day for your return!

[Tatiana60]

20:13 were distributed by observers around the perimeter, a Bonus on the tower

[Tatiana60]

Welcome back

07:07 interesting morning photo: Iks is trying to sort out the wire...

He has grown up, but he does not have visible shoulder straps (white stripes at the base of the wings) like the others.

[Swenja]

19:56 feeding by Karl II
I haven't seen much.







Hello @Tatiana60
nice to read you again in the forum!

[Biker]

Hello!

20:57
Bounus and Waba (was it a W or V ) had a short conversation and decided to diss the others.
feather pecking etc til a good place freed to rest.
But Bonus is yet restless, wing flapping is needed.

[Anne7]

Welcome back, Tatiana!
Good to see you.

[Biker]

Hello!

20:57
Bounus and Waba (was it a W or V ) had a short conversation...

[Swenja]

21:33 night vision turns on



Feedings by Karl II:
05:40
09:05
12:29
19:56

Kaia's last feeding on August 7th at 06:05.

Good night!

[ame]

thank you for the reports! it has been an eventful day!
it seems like a long time ago but it was only this morning when the first two storklets flew out the first time.

Iks looking at the camera.


a small reminder: it is advised to make pictures invisible inside a quoted post if the pictures are visible on the same page.

[Guy69]

Good night to everyone!
I'm very very happy to join this forum on this very special day watching the first two storklets flying from their nest. I wish them good luck and hope to watch them further more flying on their journey south. I'm a science teacher from Israel and a part of a teachers' group who are going to teach next year about the influence of the global climate change on the migrating birds, and this site will help us alot. We've already analyzed some changes in the routes of some of the black storks such as Eedi that migrates to Saudi Arabia and has changed his behaviour there due to changes in water supply during winter time. Thanks for all the useful information here & Good night.

[jcorrero79]

I’m so, so happy for these 2 storklets today…but especially Bonus. A huge milestone! Also, at 20:07, some cranes flew over. All 4 storklets watched. They sounded almost identical to our sand hill cranes. Does anyone know the species? Thank you

[Hellem]

... Also, at 20:07, some cranes flew over. All 4 storklets watched. They sounded almost identical to our sand hill cranes. Does anyone know the species? Thank you

They are Common cranes (Grus grus)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_crane

[ame]

i made a clip of the crane's calls at 20:07.


they are not migrating yet. that will be in late September.

Guy69 welcome!

[jcorrero79]

i made a clip of the crane's calls at 20:07.
[youtube]8Ae2qRx2FUs[ /youtube]

they are not migrating yet. that will be in late September.

Guy69 welcome!

Thank you very much. I looked up a picture of them. Aside from the tail feathers in the picture I saw, they are almost identical to our sand hill cranes. Thank you again!!

[jcorrero79]

Also…is it common for those cranes to nest that far north?

[Liz01]

August 10

Good morning

thank you for reporting!
today the Storklets are 80 (Bonus), 74, 74 and 71 days old.

...19:56 Karl II feeds the children..

great to read you again I hope everything is alright now and you can stay!

all are at home

[Liz01]

5;58 Bonus is doing a ps and flew to the right


6:00 Voog is on the curved branch and flew off

[Liz01]

Waba and Iks are stiill at hzome





6:02 great WE by Iks

[Liz01]

Also…is it common for those cranes to nest that far north?

Good evening Joe,
yes it is common!
northern crane breeding area: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia!

here where I live there are up to 80,000 of them in spring and autumn. I see them all year round! But only a few are seen during the breeding season. They come from the south in spring and, after strengthening, move to the northern breeding grounds. In the fall they come back to the feeding grounds . A grandiose spectacle in the sky and in the fields

i photograph them and other migratory birds
viewtopic.php?p=774132#p774132

[Liz01]

6:44 Voog flew in from the right