Latvian black storks - 2023- 2024

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Feeding No 2
14:08 Ogris all are back within a second

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he has brought frogs too


frog in the beak from the storklet on the left




the video: https://youtu.be/fwLFOfsd3ZE

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Searching for leftover



14:14:06 Storklet on the right branch


14:37 OXF3 is preening himself


14:44 OXF4 flies up into the tree top. There she is greeting her siblings

empty nest for now

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14:52 one jumps on the left branch. It's OXF4, she came back into the nest
14:53:40 small ps
14:56 beak fencing in the tree top

15:03 OXF3 & OXF5 back in the nest and now a third too OXF4

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15:38 small ps by OXF 5 (small means not tiny)

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15:41 Parent in sight
15:43 is still on the right
15:45 small ps by OXF3

Towards the end of the season, regurgitating doesn't work as well as it used to!

15:59 still nothing
16:22 OXF6 comes down into the nest

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None of them are ready to leave the nest. I think they will stay for a few more days. Unless the parents don't come back.
they are too hungry. Yes, they get food, but it is not enough. If there were only 3 in the nest, it would be much better.
Here you can see what it is like when the parents cannot decide to eliminate one. This was probably a very successful nest in the past.

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stretching the wing


16:32 someone on the left

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16:39 break for me..

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17:45 OXF4 flies out of forest

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Feeding No 3
18:18 Urga brings frogs for OXF3 /OXF5 & OXF6

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Arrival OXF4 - she flew to the left -
18:20 back home in the nest too late

I hope that Ogris will come too!

18:55 twittering

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18:56 preening the sibling


resting

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feathers from OXF6 - to me it looks pretty strange

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looks like they are not fully developed I will ask Māris S. what he thinks about it

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All are still at home


21:14 OXF5 jumps to a branch above
21:18 OXF3 jumps to a branch on the nest


OXF4 & OXF6 are in the nest overnight


I will add the missing pictures, video and GIF at a later date.At the moment I don't have the motivation to do it.

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August 13th

Good Morning Ogres

Ring No. & age of chicks today

OXF3 - #2 = 82,6 days
OXF4 - #1 = 82.8 days
OXF5 - #3 = 82,0 days
OXF6 - #4 = 81.7 days

Food deliveries: 2

OXF4 & OXF6 are still in the nest. It rains. small ps can be seen on nest floor


OXF4 in front


6:04:28 one of them flew from the tree top

6:04 she flies away

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6:04:29 Departure from the tree top
6:04:39 OXF4 took off


OXF6 is looking to the right


6:06 flies above the nest.

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6:55 one landed above the nest
OXF6 jumps down




6:58 is walking on the parent branch
7:02:31 he flies to the left


In theory they are old enough to leave the nest for good. In practice it looks like none of them have had too much food recently.
The parents have done their best. I really hope that at least 2 or 3 will survive.

I think they will continue to wait here for food until the parents leave.

Overall I could be wrong about the nutritional status because I really only saw a fraction of what was delivered.
I only have a comparison to nests where food was left in the nest because so much was delivered. I only saw that here once.

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8:21 still empty nest

8:27:12 OXF6 came down into the nest . My hungry one
8:28/8:29 is eating moss

8:32 I hope that Ogris will comes with breakfast for my little one

8:33 tits are flying around and are calling

he's looking to the left


8:49 Sibling OXF3 came home. He flew in from the forest. Now there are two hungry ones

8:51 OXF5 landed on OXF3's head


Video return of two siblings