New Forum on Nature Calendar!
To begin at the beginning, we must travel back two years and across one ocean. The Nature Calendar's stork camera watchers were already scattered all over the planet. Some of these stork fans happened to gather on Canada's Hancock Wildlife Foundation forum. The storks nested, the years passed, and friendships grew.
Here we need to explain why today's Nature Calendar forum is in English. How else could it be? The Nature Calendar cameras may be in Estonia, but the forum participants are from the four corners of the earth: Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Russia, Great Britain, Poland, Hungary, France, Turkey, the USA, Canada, and Australia. And it's certain that users will join us from new countries, as well. So it's only natural then that we'd communicate in English. This hardly means our English must be perfect—for many the forum is also a school—a great place to practice and improve our English. Though in order to post, you do need to register. The Estonian stork camera's forum has been praised to the skies, and newcomers are warmly welcomed, though anyone who hesitates to post is certainly welcome to simply read.
A few words about the "storkaholics"—as many stork camera viewers refer to themselves—might also be appropriate here. Fair warning: Nature Calendar cameras are addictive! When the black storks nest and raise their young, the day's first and last thought (and most in between) in the storkaholic's mind are associated with the stork camera. And after the storks migrate comes withdrawal. Fortunately, the Nature Calendar has provided us a "soft landing"—a wild boar camera, and this year an eagle feeding platform. And there'll be more surprises.
Behind the forum are a group of professionals. Eagleman Urmas Sellis, who cares for the storks, has happily and exhaustively answered dozens of reader questions. What else? The best characterization of what has developed from the forum is a circle of friends. Two get-togethers have been held, with storkaholics crossing international borders to meet. The Nature Calendar forum has indeed become a gathering place. Welcome!
