Black Stork Nest in Karula - 2016

[Hellem]

Birdfriend They like to play this game every evening

[Birdfriend]

They are a nice couple, Hellem!
Then is the incubation time not so boring.

[varahoidja]

Karl looks like an Eiffel Tower. :)

[Birdfriend]

20:56 Kati stand up, Karl aerates the nest bowl and then on the eggs. Now Kati is preening.

[Lussi05]

24. April - Good morning

07:38 - Kati on eggs.

08:01

[juta]

Good morning!
Karl arrived ~8.52

[Liz01]

good morning

eggs tuns


where are the eggs

[juta]

Eggs are so well protected that you can hardly see them behind the moss

[juta]

The weather forecast for today http://ilmajaam.postimees.ee/estonia/va ... ahvuspark/



and for next days

[juta]

9.33

Kati arrived and took place on the eggs

[Lussi05]

09:39 - Karl arrived with dry sticks

[Lussi05]

09:50 - Karl..

..left.

[juta]

Karl worked on the nest building and chased Kati away

[Jo UK]

Juta's weather forecasts are a good idea. Thanks, Juta.

This is such a quiet time on the nest. We can see only that Karl leaves. Kati incubates or Kati leaves.Karl incubates.

Dates of hatching - if eggs are incubated for 32 - 38 days, then we may expect the first egg (12th April) to hatch on or about
14 - 20 May
Fourth egg 18th April expected from 20 - 26 May.

We have to hope that this quiet, boring time continues peacefully until then. After that, it will not be peaceful!

[Hellem]

15:17 Change, Kati came home and Karl left

16:28 It's very windy, even the nest is shaking

[Jo UK]

Now there is white stuff on the branches of trees in the distance. Snow, from the WTE nest area?

[Olga]

Oh, no.. Do you mean this:


What if it is just a dry branch, no bark, it's bare but wet, and it just looks white??
perhaps this is my wishful thinking..

[Jo UK]

I don't know if it is snow or not, but looking at the same tree branches in earlier pictures, there has been a change. I am not thinking of the white stuff on the nest!

[Birdfriend]

20:18 Kati holds her eggs warm. No snow to see at this time.

[baska]

April 25

Good morning all together

06:33
rain, rain, rain