Latvian black storks - 2018

[Liz01]

10:22 Kaupo has arrived home


10:36 both at home. Gaja is preening herself, Kaupo is incubating the eggs

10:46 Gaja flew away

[Liz01]

11:25 egg rolling... preening himself.. digging
11:48 ps.. digging and back to incubate.

[Liz01]

11:58 Gaja comes home with a twig


12:10 they mated


12:21 Gaja is incubating the eggs
Kaupo is preening himself

12:41 they are still together in the nest.

[Liz01]

12:47 Kaupo


12:55 Kaupo is preening Gaja. They are so sweet to each other.

13:20 Kaupo is laying in the nest now. Gaja is preening him.

[Liz01]

13:46 streching


then she continues preening Kaupo

[Liz01]

Most of the time she is preening him on the left side of the head.Soon he has no feathers at this point


They are synchronous in many things

[Liz01]

14:27 both standing in the nest and preening themself. Kaupo is in front.

[Liz01]

15:01 mating




https://youtu.be/5pX5NkChOc0

[Liz01]

15:09 Kaupo flew away

17:54 Gaja occasionally rolls the eggs, digs in the nest bowl and incubates.
Nothing special has happened so far.

[Liz01]

18:12 Kaupo comes home


his crop is fully


18:14 Gaja flew away for dinner

[Liz01]

19:23 Gaja returned home. I think it is for the night.

19:46 Kaupo is preening Gaja. Both have a full crop

[Michi]

Michi you are welcome Do you think there will be a fifth egg? I don't think so.

I simply don't know it, Liz. I don't know how probable is a fifth egg. And I can't remember five eggs at any nest I watched the last 5 years. In Gemenc they stopped after the fourth egg. I hope, here also.
In about 7 hours we will know more!

Thank you for the reports and pictures! The storks look really gorgeous and awesome with outspread wings!

[Michi]

For a while I have watched the evening activities at nest with scrolling back the youtube stream. It is a wonderful peaceful and quiet evening atmosphere. Both storks are very attentive to each other. Gaja is on the eggs, Kaupo is mostly preening himself; sometimes he preens Gajas head.
It's so lovely to watch them in these late hours.

I have taken some pictures of these nice moments:

20:46


20:47 Gaja was up for poop shot, digged the nest bowl and sat down again.


20:48 Kaupo carefully preens Gajas head

[Michi]

the new link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIuZr4Sc7AU

Ame , could you please take this camera link to the front page?
For people who don't know the link, it is hardly to find.
Thank you!

[Liz01]

April 20

Good Morning Michi, Solo and everyone

Michi, thank you for the nice pictures and comments

Ame , could you please take this camera link to the front page?
For people who don't know the link, it is hardly to find.
Thank you!

This link is much better. Here you can find the cam, if there is an new link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIcQwg ... hMBclDJENw

[Liz01]

​I'm curious if there will be a fifth egg here. That would be a very interesting nest for observation.

[Liz01]

five!

[Liz01]

That's amazing! I do not know if I should be happy or not. But I'm thankful that I'm allowed to see that.. five beautiful eggs.





The food offer must be very good. And the habitat is close by. Gaja was back very fast yesterday and had a full crop.

[Liz01]

6:15 Gaja flew away-
The beautiful clutch in color. Five eggs in a nest is great and unusual.
I hope we do not see a big drama. But it is to be expected, if all eggs are fertilized.


Kaupo is digging and aerating the nest bowl. Settles on the eggs.

[Liz01]

6:28 Gaja returned with a huge bunch moss. She steps on Kaupo


she put it on Kaupo's head


6:30 She went in the nest for incubating. Kaupo is preening himself