Black Stork Nest 2 (Jan and Janika) 2023

[juta]

Black stork nest 2


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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.

Text by Kotkaklubi

Season 2021

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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

Season 2022


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Arrivals

08.04 Jan arrived on the nest
11.04 Janika arrived at 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 remaining chicks were rescued from the nest and taken to the Vet Clinic
One chick was taken to Karula Black Stork nest where he grew up and fledged successfully.

Adults

01.06 Male Jan is missing
05.06 Female Janika is missing

[Liz01]

Great! the camera is back thank you Juta


I try to make a good chronology

6:05 arrival


Arrival was yesterday evening
6:20 he flew away
6:30 Arrival and singing and beak clattering


6:32 someone hopped from branch to branch. you can hear it . male is pretty upset

6:34 already a unwanted visitor

[Liz01]

6:36 hissing. that looks like a raptor is nearby
he is still stressed


6:40 again threatening gestures. Thereafter he calmed down . so the raptor is gone


video of his defending
https://youtu.be/2PoYu3P8kT8

6:41 poking in the nest and singing
6:42 beautiful male

[Liz01]

6:48 he sings


7:02 he flew away in an arc behind the nest to the left


7:08 came back with empty hands and is singing
7:16 he starts renovation

[Liz01]

8:41 he flew away
10:43 male came in and is singing nicely
10:57 ps overboard then he sat down in the nest

11:03 stands up up and is singing
settles down again
11:14 stands up and sings (The timestamp is a challenge )

11:00


11:16


11:42

[Liz01]

looks like he sees someone


off he goes to the right

[Sabsy]

Thank you Juta and Liz for your reports and pictures.
a beautiful black stork, I'm curious what will happen...
Good luck for the nest ♥

[Treia]

Thanks for the nestcamera 2023, to Juta for the start, and to Liz01 for the pictures! I wish good luck to you Jögeva's nest !

[Liz01]

April 18

Good Morning.

Sabsy, Treia, great to see you here.


the nest stayed empty over night. Maybe the male was a resting black stork and on the way to his own nest..
he hasn't started any renovations in the whole time he's been here. I thought to myself that he probably wouldn't stay.

[Francesca_V]

Liz, I had the same thought.

good morning!

[Askja]

Hello All Liz, thank you!
What a joy to have this nest back for watching! This year can only get better!

Was this the same visitor as yesterday? I think it was... although, it looked quite "female-ish" to me. S/he stayed just for two minutes on the edge of the nest, looked around and to the ground and did not sing.

11:22


11:23

[Liz01]

....

Was this the same visitor as yesterday? I think it was... although, it looked quite "female-ish" to me. S/he stayed just for two minutes on the edge of the nest, looked around and to the ground and did not sing.

thank you!

that looks like another one - the wing pattern are different

11:23- yours!


from April 17 - the male also has more frayed feathers on the wing

[Liz01]

it is a different stork - she seems afraid- she said no word

Video of the female visit


here you can see the different behavior. You can also clearly see the difference in plumage

Male visitor

[Liz01]

a few more pics






I hope she will return and the male too

[brofasa]

I know that plummage and the eye shape can change in a stork within half a year but this one actually looks like Janika to me.
Not only is the eye shape on point but the beak is also colored dark in the middle. Her frightful approach may be due to her experience last year when she was spooked away from the nest by humans. She may be cautious now around the nest.

[Treia]

It's very quiet here, where are our birds?

Edit: Could it be that there are too many predators in the area
that our BlackStorks are afraid of?

[Jo UK]

New eagle webcam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt1N5Ae ... Kotkaklubi

[sova]

28. April

good morning to all

A very sad sight....I miss Jan and Janika, they were such a wonderful couple

visitor

[sova]

A question;
Is it known what happened to Uncle Eedi?
Has he come back to the nest ?

[juta]

Hello all!

There is a Black Stork in the nest!



Arrived at 12.38