Black Stork Nest Cam 2

On the 24th (Wednesday) the LK homepage said: "The first hatched black stork chicks are four weeks old and have developed nicely. The Eagle Club men plan to ring them after the holidays."

I am not sure to which holiday they are referring -- Midsummer's Eve?

Bisky wrote:On the 24th (Wednesday) the LK homepage said: "The first hatched black stork chicks are four weeks old and have developed nicely. The Eagle Club men plan to ring them after the holidays."

I am not sure to which holiday they are referring -- Midsummer's Eve?

yes,midsummer's eve-we have now long holydays from 23 till 26 june

From LK Forum:

Urmas
Post subject: Re: Black Stork Webcam - New Nest.
Posted: June 27th, 2011, 7:26 pm

Tomorrow nearly at noon we plan to visit nest and make necessary works there.


That's 4:00 Tuesday morning at my house! If they fix the camera and solar cells before they ring the storklets, I hope someone can snap pictures or make videos.

And I will probably not be at home..................

in lk forum are two videos of banding

And I came to read this too late (I´ve been target shooting all morning). At least the cam is working nicely!!

Today around noon I was watching the storklets doing a lot of wing flapping. Suddenly the biggest one took off




It returned very quickly and it was funny to see the reaction of the others - they thought it was Mom They started to beg for food like crazy!!!




A while a go I looked at the cam again - only 3 storklets there now




I already thought that the 4th is coming back when the begging sound began again but it was Mom (or Dad) who came for a very quick visit with some food.



How does this all happen?? Will the storklets leave one by one and then fend for themselves or will they return to the nest for a while?? Will the parents feed those who have left the nest??

I guess they will return to the nest for a while. And until the storklets know how to fish the adults will feed them (but maybe not outside the nest, though).

If I remember correctly from past years, they start out taking short flights and return to the nest for food and to spend the night.

It was getting pretty crowded with all four of them, especially when the adult came in to feed them. The one out flying is probably really enjoying not being squeezed between its siblings.

I can believe that!!

Looks like it is now down to two! When I checked in this morning (afternoon for the storks), it appeared that one was trying to get up the courage to give flying a try. He/she must have succeeded.



There were only three in nest when I checked during their night, so the first to fledge did not come home to sleep.

I wish we could see what they are doing there, out of the nest....

This is my all-time favorite video of a stork making its first flight. It takes a little while for the action to begin, but keep your eye on the treetops in the distance after it takes off--I laugh every time watching the flyer and the one left in the nest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbhixm1GXb0

Hehe, that was funny

ehhe,this is like a ballet

we can see again our birds migration map:


http://birdmap.5dvision.ee/#

I saw this yesterday too.... it would have been cool if one of the storklets we have seen this summer would have been fitted with a GPS.....

caysa wrote:I saw this yesterday too.... it would have been cool if one of the storklets we have seen this summer would have been fitted with a GPS.....

i thought the same, that why they not put cam to raivo's place.