Black Stork Nest 2, Jan and Janika, 2022

[juta]

JAN and JANIKA


Text by Kotkaklubi:

The Black Stork nest is situated in Jõgeva County in Estonia. We have known this breeding territory since the late 1990s, when black storks successfully nested here for many years.

After 2004, the nest site remained empty. The male bird Tooni, who nested here at the time, moved to the adjacent territory. The nest where Tooni moved, was the first Estonian black stork nest camera in 2005-2010.

Black storks came back to the nest seen currently on the camera only a year or two ago. It is an old artificial nest. We built a new platform in the early spring of 2021.

Considering the critical situation of the black stork in Estonia, itis a small miracle that the storks came back to here.

Coming soon:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCvBXT ... Saqd19N0Sg

[juta]

Season 2021

Video by aare https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 34#p837234



2021 season (Kotkaklubi info)

1st egg - 12 May
2nd egg - 14 May
3rd egg - 16 May
4th egg - 18 May
The 1st and 2nd chick hatched - June 14
The 3rd chick hatched - June 16
The 4th chick hatched - June 17.
One of the chicks died of an unknown cause on July 12.
The chicks were ringed on July 16 and they got satellite transmitters on August 13.
The chicks fledged on 22-24. August. Two of the chicks died shortly after fledging near the nest, and one migrated to France, where the signal of his transmitter disappeared

[juta]

Season 2022

Arrivals

08.04 Jan arrived on the nest
11.04 Janika arrived on the nest

Eggs

15.04 First egg (early in the morning)
17.04 Second egg
19.04 Third egg
21.04 Forth egg
23.04 Fifth egg
25.04 Sixth egg

Chics hatched

22.05 at 02:11 am the first chick
22.05 at 10:58 am the second chick
22.05.at 11:41 am the third chick
23.05 at 06:02 am the fourth chick
24.05 at 10:43 am the fifth chick
26.05 at 06:54 am the sixth chick

Perishing

28.05 the sixth chick
03.06 the fifth chick
05.06 the fourth chick

Rescue

5.06 remained chicks were rescued from the nest and taken to the Vet Clinic

Adults

01.06 Male Jan is missing
05.06 Female Janika is missing

[juta]

Reserved

[Anne7]

Thank you, Juta!

The camera of this nest is now also online!
Thank you very much, Urmas and colleagues!

Both Jan and Janika are already on their nest.
At least, I assume it is them.

May they have a happy and successful breeding season.

The link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do5wJsjJGgU

The Kotkaklubi YouTube channel says:
2022 season:
First stork in nest on 8th of April, second on 11th of April.

Good night!

[asteria]

They are fast this year!

[Askja]

Thank you Juta; Anne7 and Asteria!
I am so glad the BS season begins in both nests! This colorful joy is so much needed in the present dark grey times... Thank you, Kotkaklubi! May all the little J.s thrive and prosper this year!

15:30 True love... They stood together like this from 15:20 - for full 12 minutes!


18:41 Very promising!


18:42 The nest is being "mossed out" already.

[Liz01]

April 12

Good Morning everyone

Juta, thank you for new thread.

6:41 Both are in the nest

[Liz01]

5:45:57 a ural owl is calling
https://xeno-canto.org/species/Strix-uralensis?view=3

5:47 mating

[Liz01]

8:54 one came home .. short whistling.
If I compare the eyes, it has to be Janik

but it is not Janik! Stork looks different! it's the female. So we have a new female?


Janika's head was brownish last year... but feathers change at the moult .. so...(rather not! Kati's head was brownish every year!)
I need a picture of the female to see her eyes clearly
It's too early to say anything specific. I have to watch more closely! So far it's just the first impression!

9:44 is still in the nest.. alone. So I can not see male or female .. not nice

[Liz01]

9:53 arrival and singing
9:57 another mating
10:04 mating!
10:14 mating

10:13

[juta]

Hello all!

Happy new season which has started quite promising!
I suggest not to start guessing if it is the same couple Jan-Janika as last year.
It is known that there are not many black storks in Estonia and there is a very big lack of female storks(for unknown reason).
So better to think:
how likely it is possible that another(new) female came to the nest,
as Kotkaklubi wrote "it is a small miracle that the birds came back to here",
how likely is the whole new couple to come to this nest?

I think they behave like an old couple in a well-known place.

Even if(but maybe we will never know that) they are not Jan-Janika, we can still name them Jan-Janika until another couple comes to get this place.

[Michi]

Many thanks for this topic, Juta! And thanks a lot everyone for information and the pictures!
What a beautiful couple! And also a wonderful nest view!

Juta, from what you have said, it seems very likely that this is the pair from last year. But I can't say anything about their appearance.
It is such a pity and sad that there are so few Black Storks nesting in Estonia.
We are lucky that we have these two wonderful storks here. :-)
May they have a lucky season with lots of food for all.

[juta]

Thank you Michi!
Hope many our members will post here.
Let's enjoy this season.

[asteria]

Without rings it is pretty hard to guess whether it is J&J from last year or another couple.

[juta]

13. April

Good morning!
Black and white at 6.09



6.49 in colours

[Treia]

Hellou

I wish you a good season to Jögeva County in 2022
(and hopefully the bears have moved elsewhere)!

It seems very likely to me too that this is Jan & Janika. Of course, you can't know certainly, but at least they behave similarly and spend a lot of time together.

[juta]

At 11.26

[Triin]

A short time-lapse video form April 9th and 10th. Jan(?) building the nest.

[Liz01]

15:52 Jan is laying in the nest, Janika is preening him


15:55 mating


16:06 Janika is preening Jan
he stand ups ans starts dancing