Black Stork Nest 2 2025

[Anne7]

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09:47 A second stork arrives on the nest on the right.
Who is this? Probably the intruder.
No gap in the wing, as far as I could see.
https://up.picr.de/49599445sb.png

A lot of excitement.


Greeting.


The male sits down.
https://up.picr.de/49599449sd.png

This is typical courtship behaviour. What is happening?

[Anne7]

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10:03:02 The female preens the head of the intruder.


He gets up.
I think he wanted to mate...

10:03:54 The female clearly didn't agree.


10:03:59 She throws the intruder out of the nest.

[Anne7]

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10.04 The male flies in again. The female is defending the nest.


A FIGHT!





One of the storks (presumably the intruder) is thrown out again.

[Anne7]

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10:06:41 The male (?) arrives on the near branch


The female gets up.

It looks as if the male (intruder?) wants to get closer and closer to the nest. Maybe he wants to enter the nest.
The female clearly doesn't agree.


10:22:54 The male jumps onto the far branch


10:23 The male jumps onto the nest, but is immediately pushed away by the female.

[Anne7]

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10:29:41 The female observes the surroundings.
She is in a defensive posture again.


10:48:27 The male arrives on the near branch.


He preens. The female is still in defending mode

11:27:55 He flies out

[Anne7]

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11:32 The male is back

[Everglade]

Stork number
718A


12.41 ringed stork flew away...

[Anne7]

Stork number
718A
12.41 ringed stork flew away...

WOW!
Thank you, Everglade.
A BS with a ring. 718A
This is an Estonian stork!

Bonus is 7184

It seems to be crowded in the forest.

[Everglade]

Update and info from Urmas.

Bird is from 2022 nest, located in Harjumaa.. he thinks that it's a female bird.

[Anne7]

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Update and info from Urmas.
Bird is from 2022 nest, located in Harjumaa... he thinks that it's a female bird.

That's great news. Thank you!

Two pics of the beautiful stork 718A

[Anne7]

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The male is preening on the near branch. The female in the nest is still in defending mode.

12:08:03 Fanned tail feathers and singing by the male

12:08:06 He sees someone (I think) and flies off

[Anne7]

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12:10:38 A BS lands on the nest. The intruder?


12:10:43 Another BS lands on the far branch.
This is the ringed stork! Female 718A


The intruder “kneels down” in front of the female.

[Anne7]

Three black storks !

12:32 A "new"(?) couple in the nest ...


I think it is the intruder (on the left), and in my opinion, it is surely our female (on the right).


...and a "new" BS female on the far branch.



I need a break now.

[Hulbi Lorm]

This nest is utter insanity at this point.

[Liz01]

Anne, Everglade, Hulbi and all and thank you!

13:48 fight in the nest . It looks like a dance. It really looks great

[Liz01]

male with gap in the wing could grab the neck from the intruder

[Liz01]

end of fight doesn't look great
The stranger is attacking our male very violently. He bit his wing and tried to throw him out of the nest.


the gap looks very big! He lost more feathers?


The intruder has thrown the male out of the nest with a gap in his wing!

the gap in males wing maybe caused by fights. It is definitely not a normal moulting. They are losing primary feathers only one at a time.

and the video


To be clear about who is who, close observation would have been necessary from the very beginning. It takes too much time to research everything. I'm no longer sure who is or was the owner of this nest. The female, that is clear to me. She's still here and was in the nest. With whom at 12:48? They got along well. The stork with the gap in his wing is also here. And another male who also behaves like an owner. Perhaps there is another one too? This stork with rings is the only good exception. Recognizable at any time.

[Liz01]

Three black storks !
A couple in the nest ...
and a "new" BS female on the far branch.

Anne, thx! the video
12:37 it starts. couple in the nest . she is preening him
video ended after defending - strange stork flew away

[Anne7]

Many thanks, Liz!

To be clear about who is who, close observation would have been necessary from the very beginning. It takes too much time to research everything. I'm no longer sure who is or was the owner of this nest. The female, that is clear to me. She's still here and was in the nest. With whom at 12:48? They got along well. The stork with the gap in his wing is also here. And another male who also behaves like an owner. Perhaps there is another one too? This stork with rings is the only good exception. Recognizable at any time.

The male with the gap in his wing was definitely the initial male on this nest.
He is the one who incubated the eggs in partnership with our female, and went missing for a while.

I agree that the female is most probably still the same


I'll try to find out who's the male at 12:48
EDIT:
He arrived on the nest at 12:10.
This is not the initial male. No gap in the right wing!
So it must be the intruder.

[Anne7]

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At 10:03:02, she also preened the head of the intruder.
I think that made him think she would be willing to mate.
He stood up... and was decisively and very forcefully thrown out of the nest by the female.
It was clearly not the right time for lustful activity.

Our female is a lady with spunk!

See: viewtopic.php?p=956027#p956027



The fight at 12:37 was really nasty. This was serious and meant to injure! Not just to throw a rival out of the nest
It seems to me that the intruder is ‘a size bigger and stronger’ than the initial male, who is perhaps hampered by the missing feathers (or by whatever caused that big gap). This might have been a decisive fight….



I am also almost certain that it was not our female who took the first two chicks out of the nest bowl and then dropped them into the forest.
In my opinion, that BS didn't look like our female, and also didn't have a gap in the right wing. So it was not our male either. So probably it was the intruder.