Black Stork Nest in Karula 2019

[Anne7]

Kati gets up ... the usual WC
and then ... she stretches her leg just like Karl II ... could not take a picture, it went so fast. At first, I thought, Karl II is on the nest

Sova, thank you.
I scrolled back, put the speed at 0.25 and found those movements.

17:54:29 ... the usual WC. Not white but yellowish.


17:54:30 and then ... she stretches her leg just like Karl II ...


17:54:41 Kati rubbed her preen gland.

[Anne7]

21:36 Karl II is on the eggs.


Maybe we will see the first chick in a week, on Thursday 16.
We can start the countdown.

[sova]

10. May
Good Morning

Sova, thank you.
I scrolled back, put the speed at 0.25 and found those movements.

Anne, thanks ... great that you found that.
I do not know how you did it.

07:41
Karl II is still on the nest

[sova]

08:12
The usual

[sova]

08:00


08:20
relax a bit

[sova]

08:41
The usual ritual




I have to go

[Anne7]

Good morning, everyone!

Sova, thank you!

09:43:23 It started raining


09:43:38 Karl II shakes off the raindrops.


09:43:42 He takes care of the eggs

[Anne7]

10:33 It's raining harder now. I hear thunder in the distance. A cuckoo is calling.

[chrisitz]

hi dear stork-friends!
is it possible,that Katie is ill? or ate something wrong?

[Anne7]

hi dear stork-friends!
is it possible,that Katie is ill? or ate something wrong?

Why do you think that, chrisitz?
Is it because of the colour of the PS, yesterday?

I think BS droppings look usually rather 'white'. But the colour may be different due to what they ate, I think.
We know that Kati loves eating frogs. Maybe that changes the colour to yellowish?
(This is just a guess)

https://www.petcoach.co/article/bird-dr ... -in-early/

[chrisitz]

yes, I asked it in fact of the yellow colour....and sometimes she tooks a bit tired....in contrary to her adhs-male

[Anne7]

11:21:26 I think it stopped raining. His plumage is quite wet.


11:21:37 Karl II shakes his wings.


11:22:04 He turns the eggs.

[Treia]

Good afternoon to Karula Forest,
and thanks for all great pictures !

I also think that Kati looks somewhat tired and stressed, especially after the visitor. Maybe she is somehow ill, maybe she's old compared to Karl II,
or maybe she misses Karl I (even though Karl II is a good stork) ? Of course I don't know, these are just thoughts coming to my mind.

[Anne7]

Good afternoon to Karula Forest,
and thanks for all great pictures !
I also think that Kati looks somewhat tired and stressed, especially after the visitor. Maybe she is somehow ill, maybe she's old compared to Karl II,
or maybe she misses Karl I (even though Karl II is a good stork) ? Of course I don't know, these are just thoughts coming to my mind.

Treia
Yes, probably Kati is (much?) older than Karl II. She could be 10+, in my opinion.
I suspect that Karl II is still quite young. Maybe 4-5 years old?
(Since we do not know where and when they are born, all this is just speculation.)

We can't know what birds think or feel, of course, but I don't think that Kati misses Karl.
Wild animals live in the present and don't worry about the past, I think

11:51:31 Is it raining again?


11:59:49 Karl II takes care of the eggs. Is the black spot that we see on one of the eggs still the same stain?


11:51:54 Back on the eggs

[Anne7]

12:37 Still no Kati

Karl II rearranges tiny bits of moss.





13:19 Karl II is still waiting for Kati. It doesn't rain anymore.

[Treia]

Hello

by Anne7 » May 10th, 2019, 12:33 pm
Treia
Yes, probably Kati is (much?) older than Karl II. She could be 10+, in my opinion.
I suspect that Karl II is still quite young. Maybe 4 years old?
(Since we do not know where and when they are born, all this is just speculation.)

We can't know what birds think or feel, of course, but I don't think that Kati misses Karl.
Wild animals live in the present and don't worry about the past, I think

Thank you Anne !
Maybe Urmas should now ring Karl II
so in the future it would be better to follow his ways

[Anne7]

...
Thank you Anne !
Maybe Urmas should now ring Karl II
so in the future it would be better to follow his ways

I hope that, if there are plans to ring Karl II, that will happen after the storklets have left the nest and do not need their father anymore. Attaching rings and a transmitter disturbs adult BS quite a lot, for a couple of days.
When Karl was ringed, he did not come home for 2 days, and it turned out that Kati had already left for the south ...
That was difficult for the nearly full-grown storklets who were still on the nest. (and for us, observers )

I have to go for a few hours.

[sova]

Good day
I have not been watching BS for a long time and that's why I do not know; but is not that very long Kati is not coming to the nest?

[sova]

14:57
Karl II is still on the nest


15:17
Karl II is always in the nest

[sova]

15:23

Kati is here

Karl II leaves immediately

Kati takes care of the eggs