Black Stork Webcam - Tiit & Tiina 2011

[Felis silvestris]

Have to get up quite early tomorrow for shopping, so it's good night now

[Jo UK]

Bociany, do you know if this tuft or crest is associated with gender? I don't recall seeing it on other black storks.

[Olga]

Jo, I think I found the word for the 'form' of the 'head with a tassel'. Last time I saw it on the head of the Portuguese Black stork in last year...
The head form, seems like "tapering" or "tapered" (suippo, takaraivo näyttää suippenevan, kun höyhenet nousevat ylöspäin.. Where is ame!! ), due to the feathers on the back of head when they turn upwards (slow or fast).

Oh, I tried to find a photo I used when I knitted the hat! I have one million pics..

[Olga]

Good night

I wish that everything goes well! The life of Black stork is.. not the easiest. How to say without being too dramatic..

The life of storkaholics is... uncertainty and hope, but anyway it is support for them who do their best in the field for Black storks. It is wonderful to know that there is always some eye watching what is going on there on this Black stork nest...

[Bairbre]

Goonight all on the other side of the ocean.

[juta]

Good sunshine morning!
Only two eggs! Just T or T fluffed them and moss.

[alice44]

April Saturday 23

A stork in the nest -- looks like it just woke up.






Back to sleep

[NancyM]

Bociany, do you know if this tuft or crest is associated with gender? I don't recall seeing it on other black storks.

Jo, perhaps in some species it might be. The red cardinal male usually shows a crest but not the female (that I have seen). I really do not know anything more than that, except that some birds, like the bald eagle, will raise the feathers on their head a bit when they are stressed and otherwise you don't see anything you would call a crest.

This video shows Tiina (??) on the nest and Tiit bringing in some moss - I just missed recording his landing. He flies off within a minute or so. Tiina stands up and we can see the two eggs.

I love the light and the birdsong!

[Bubo]

Good morning!
There are two eggs in nest and one black stork Tiina(?). She is preening now.

[asteria]

Incubation started.

[jopie]

Good morning everybody. Morning sunshine, birds are singing, still 2 eggs, one BS preening, the other behind the stam.

[Kuremari]

Good morning!
my guess is - Tiit on the eggs

[Bubo]

Good morning!
my guess is - Tiit on the eggs

I think on eggs is Tiina and Tiit is on the branch....

[Kuremari]

I like this guessing game!

any other opinions or wild guesses ?!

[Bubo]

Kuremari, You was right! It was Tiit on the eggs, because they already mated

[jopie]

Mating a minute ago, you can see the male is making avances



And definitely it is the female who stands in the front now

[Bubo]

After mating they start preening

[Kuremari]

Gosh it feels good to be right all the time!

[jopie]

Tiit flew away, Tiina at the nest

[Olga]

The same mating, but seen from a bit different angle:
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