Black Stork Nest 2 2025

[Anne7]

May 9th

The camera is still off.

[Anne7]

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May 10th

The camera is still off, now for the fourth day. (The camera went off on 7 May at 02:00)

The batteries need a few days of sunshine to get sufficiently charged.

I hardly dare think of what (may have) happened on the nest in the meantime.



The male has been missing since May 5 at 10:48 am.
That's 5 days and nights ago.

If - by miracle - he came home shortly after the camera went off, the situation may be more or less okay again, despite the presence of the intruder. But I highly doubt that our male has returned.

The female can impossibly keep the eggs/newborn chicks permanently warm, dry and protected for 5 days and nights in a row, and at the same time feed the meanwhile hatched chicks (and herself).

[asteria]

The similar situation with white stork family(the male left the female and 4 eggs). Usually people don't intervene in such cases, but not this time.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/710086404910195

[Liz01]

Mai 11th.

Good Morning Anne and all

I'm so sorry for what has happened on this nest



At that time I was not aware that we already have an hour of recording in the archive

[Anne7]

May 11th

The camera is back

No adult on the nest. What a mess…

09:45 I think I’ve seen a chick raising it’s head.

10.07 An adult BS comes on the nest.
Is it our female?


10:07 The stork takes a look into the nest bowl


10:09 The stork takes the chick out of the nest bowl and steps onto the side branch with it.
This doesn't look like our female, does it? Is it the intruder? Is it our male!?
This seems to be a rather well fed young chick!? Newborn chicks need food to grow that big...


The chick didn't seem to move...

[Anne7]

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The camera zoomed a bit out.

10:12 The stork flies away, empty beak. Presumably s/he dropped the chick, or maybe s/he swallowed it...


10:28 A stork lands on the far branch


10:33 S/he flies away

[Liz01]

10:06 strange male has arrived. that is wrong! It is a parent. Sorry!

removing a storklet

[Liz01]

Three little ones!


healthy ps by the defending parent. Stranger on the rigth

[Anne7]

Hi Liz!

At 09:24 three alive chicks were visible in the nest!?!

I don’t understand how the female managed that.
Has our male returned? It looks so...



Pics later. The forum is very very slow, unfortunately

[Liz01]

9:43 fight in the nest. both are trampling on the little ones.
then both fell out of nest on the right
breeding




EDIT: The stranger flew from one branch to another next to the nest. The stork in the nest felt attacked and came to fight.
EDIT2: I'm not a stork. That's how I interpret it. But it could be that it was an attack after all.

[Anne7]

9:43 fight in the nest. both are trampling on the little ones.
then both fell out of nest on the right

Hi, Liz!

This is really awful.

[Hulbi Lorm]

I didn't think it could get any worse than what we thought would happen. It did.

This is the worst I've witnessed since watching black storks. What an incredible tragedy.

[Liz01]

Video will take a bit. Sorry, but I'm not that healthy ..
please don't watch the video, if you are sensitive!

Anne, please check the video. I can't. Therefore, I can't correctly specify the number of storklets.

[Hulbi Lorm]

Thanks a lot Liz, for reconstructing the events, although it's surely awful to watch.

It looks like everything really was fine until two minutes before the camera returned. This is unbelievable in so many ways.

[Liz01]

one of the storklets is still alive I feel sick!

Sirje Raja
​​12.00 there is movement in the nest

if saw it too

[Hulbi Lorm]

The surviving chick(s?) is (are?) covered by a parent. A second stork on the branch to the right. (Probably the other parent?)

I don't dare hope that we could still see at least one chick grow up...

But of course it may well be badly injured.

So it seems the male actually did return, and all could have turned out fine, until that tragic moment this morning. We probably had our small miracle, and it still wasn't enough.

[Anne7]

... Anne, please check the video. I can't. Therefore, I can't correctly specify the number of storklets. ...

I can't either at the moment, Liz. Not yet.

The surviving chick(s?) is (are?) covered by a parent. A second stork on the branch to the right. (Probably the other parent?)

I don't dare hope that we could still see at least one chick grow up...

But of course it may well be badly injured.

So it seems the male actually did return, and all could have turned out fine, until that tragic moment this morning. We probably had our small miracle, and it still wasn't enough.

Yes, Hulbi

Edit:
At 11.15 a parent lifted a second dead chick out of the nest bowl and stepped with it onto the near branch.





11.16 S/he dropped it in the forest.

[Anne7]

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12:29 A parent chased the intruder from the far branch


12:30 The parent checks the nest bowl ...


...and puts some moss and a branch back where it belongs...


I think it's the female.

12:30 She covers the nest bowl.
At the moment, I have no idea how many more chicks died, how many were injured or how many are unharmed.

[Liz01]

4 storklets confirmed by various observers. one was alive. the fifth has not hatched yet?
Female is incubating
12:29 her arrival
12:30:53 flyby by the stranger ?
12:31 arrival male. The strange one or her mate

[Liz01]

13:07 Male comes home and attacked the intruder. He is doing well!

I'm right .. not important! But our male chased away the stranger! Wings from the stork on the right are without gap!

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