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Young stork trying out their wings. Still a bit patchy, but it can't be much longer until the first flight now.

They're almost full size and the nest is very crowded.

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A stork nest on a concrete pole. Inside a parent stork stands guard while a young stork (one of three) is standing up and slowly flapping their wings. The flight feathers still have some small gaps where the clouds shine through.

Junior says hi. Guarding the nest while the parents are away.

A young stork standing up in a stork nest high above. Its still mostly black beak is open as if it were smiling. The sky is blue with a piece of white cloud.

The three storklings are growing up fast. They're already spreading their wings, although the flight feathers are still patchy. They clacker quietly and clean themselves and no longer soil the nest.

But they can't get their own food yet and they're getting pretty big, so both parents are extremely busy flying in delivery meals. As soon as they arrive, three black beaks start looking up at them, squeaking and pulling on the long orange beak to cough up some pre-chewed meals.

Sometimes both adults go out foraging now, as the kids are already larger than most predators, especially crows.

The only time both adults are in the nest these days is when an intruder needs seeing off, like today.

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Stork nest, with two adult storks standing in it, staring down and intruder. One is posing with the wings half opened and the beak clacking away.

Zoomed shot of the stork nest, with three small heads with black beaks visible next to a tall adult bird looking proud.

An intruder flying overhead faster than the camera could follow. You can only see the legs and wings, which are curved nicely.

Wet stork on a sunny day? Either someone fell into the lake or they do bathe.

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A wet stork in a nest, wings spread for drying, feathers wet and spiky.

We had stork intruders today. A stranger came, then two, then three. Ours clackered alarm and luckily the partner was not far and returned to the nest in a hurry. Then they clackered and posed their wings together.

The three intruders circled closeby and one took a few swoops at the nest, but eventually they left and nobody was hurt.

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Very crooked picture of the sky above a barn. Two storks are circling in the sky above a nest. In the nest, an adult stork stands up, staring at the invaders. A youngling is up too, trying to help.

The same nest, different angle, also crooked. Two intruders are circling further away and there's two adult storks in the nest now, both standing up and having their wings at an angled pose.

Young #stork looks so funny when trying to stand up for the first time. 😆 🦩

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Almost moved the camera fast enough.

The storks are very busy feeding all three youngsters, but they seem to be developing well.

I've learnt to tell the adults apart. One has a red beak, the other a paler orange. Also, they have preferences in their takeoff direction. One does an elegant hop from the nest into a glide low over the meadow, on a good day managing to fly half a kilometer without a single beat of their wings.

The other, depicted here, takes off towards our garden, wings beating frantically to swoop just over the powerline and then glide off towards the neighbours meadow from there.

Right over my head in this case :)

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A somewhat poorly framed and zoomed shot of a stork in flight above some trees in a rainy sky. The wings are curved down, feathers extended like fingers, legs pulled bag and beak straight ahead.

Knepp storks in the news
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj487e0p9no
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The morning routine.

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Crummy digital zoom shot of a stork nest high up on a concrete pole. There's two storks visible (out of 5). Both are standing up. One is clapping its beak with the head 180° backwards over its body. The other is spreading its wings with tip feathers extended.

Stork update! There's at least two storklings up in there. They're growing fast and make all kinds of cute squeaks now. Some sound like a frog, which I'm not sure if it's the baby storks or their food.

It took a few weeks, but now they're big enough you can sometimes see them peeking over the edge of the nest.

They clacker their little black beaks almost as loud as a big one.

Parents very busy bringing all the takeout food the kids keep ordering.

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Stork nest photographed at crummy phonecam zoom past a big bush into a grim sky. There's an adult stork with its head pulled back so you see the spiky neckfeathers and a small head just above the rim of the nest, which is one of the little ones.

Same stork nest a few days earlier. The kids aren't visible, but the adult stork is standing there with its beak open, telling a bedtime story to the kids. No actually it was repairing the nest which took some damage from the intense rain or perhaps a bodged landing.

✨ Sibiu on film 🎞️
Wandering through the pastel streets of Sibiu Romania. Cobbled lanes, watchful rooftops—and then, a surprise: a stork perched high above the city in its nest, settled on an old chimney like it’s been there for centuries. 🕊️🏠

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Sunset garden walk. It's rare to see these two together now. They're usually too busy hunting and bringing home food to retch up for their offspring while the other guards the nest.

Not seen any small beaks pointing skywards yet, but lots of horking up food, so there must be some hungry beaks to serve it to.

No shortage of frogs and snails after all this rain.

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Two storks standign in a nest, having a palaver. The nest is on top of a tall concrete pillar. A large fir tree intrudes from the left. The sky is blue with some white clouds. The nest is enjoying the last sunbeams of the day.

Meanwhile "our" storks might have younglings in there now. We don't have a good view into the nest and don't know for sure (and don't want to disturb them either), but we've seen the parents hork up food in there, which probably means there's somebody to feed now.

There's also a few sparrows that have moved into the basement of the stork nest, which is actually a really well protected place. The storks will keep any airborn predators away and the pole is hard to climb. If you can cope with the noisy upstairs dwellers.

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An old stork nest with many years of nest building layered on top of each other. It's atop an old concrete beam with perforated steps in it. The sky is blueish with clouds. The rear end of a white stork sticks out in the nest, its head down in the center of the nest doing something. If you look closely, you can see a small sparrow perching on a stick protruding from the bottom right of the nest. There's probably at least two sparrow nests in the bottom of the stork nest.

Sad to watch. City stork is way too late to build a nest, picked an awkward location with an antenna in the middle of the nest and in the middle of a dusty used car sales lot.

Perhaps he likes the proximity to the Hesburger dumpsters, but I don't think this is going to work out.

Probably a young bird born last year. Hope he'll pick a better spot next time!

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A stork stands on top of a mast that has three lamps attached to it, and a broken stick where the fourth used to be. A white pole or antenna sticks up next to it. Several wires are strong to other poles in the vicinity. Below are two trucks with advertising parked. The stork stands there, looking into the distance. A few sad twigs are stuck to the mast in a doomed attempt to build a nest there.

Stork thinks that rain might happen soon, so I've packed up my things for today.

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A stork standing in its nest atop a tall concrete stick, peering off into the distance where there are some clouds wandering by. A cloud nearer to the bird does look like it might hold some rain.

Stork update! There must be eggs now, because someone is sitting in the nest all the time, head barely peeking over the edge. Smart to wait until the surprise snow and cold had passed. Apparently they also wait until at least 2 eggs have been laid.

So in about 33 days there should be young storks. Hopefully nobody gets thrown out.

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A stork nest on a tall pole. The head of a stork is peering over the edge. The sky is grey blotches.

Stork still improving the nest. Perhaps the last week of crappy weather has necessitated some repairs. He's nicely cleaning up the birch twigs in front of the house. Get them all!

I'm not sure if there are eggs yet. There should be, but according to the previous folks, last year they did not succeed either.

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