My daughter helped me to find a stork family near Berlin (Nudow): mother and father caring for two young storks. They are coming back since 2004 every year – and have mostly three babies …
photos by frizztext, click on the pictures to enter his flickr galleries: there the photos are geotagged (a map-link is added) …
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1 - stork-breakfast (large size) 2 - longing-for-each-other 3 - coming-home 4 - hello-stork 5 - stork above my head 6 - stork-stats
read my other blog articles about storks:
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flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/malta-bird-killers/
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flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/holy-stork/
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flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/home-with-free-electricity
websites: 1 - my daily wordpress blog "flickrcomments" , 2 - photo pool at frizztext, 3 - flickr group BLOG IT!, 4 - photography news, 5 - twitter etc.
That nest is so involved and perfect. The storks are stunning.
So they use the same nest over and over again? Don’t other birds also want to use the nest?
same nest over and over again – since 2004 every year, when they are back from Africa, that’s their usual behavior; a line, only interrupted, if some idiots on Malta kill them during their journey – read my article http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/malta-bird-killers/
Wonderful series. Such details
Amazing gallery, Frizz!
Beautiful shots. Never seen them up close like this. Thanks for sharing…
Frizztext, I love these stork photos: They remind me of home.
Wow these are beautiful! you make me want to own a camera…
These pictures are absolutely amazing!
fabulous stork photos frizz, just amazing!
Melanie, USA, half Cherokee half German, comments on my flickr photo stream:
“Love it!
I have been following a mated pair of Bald Eagles in Decorah, Iowa, US, for the last two years, on live webcams. The night infra-red light is broken, so now I can only see them during the daytime, but it has been fascinating. I have watched them raise two sets of three babies from eggs to the ‘kids’ leaving on their own. The three ‘youngsters’ are now flying, so they’re not around in camera view much, now. The Mom & Dad will start getting the nest ready, again, in about late November…”
more of Melanie: http://www.flickr.com/photos/myfun/1415058768/
Wonderful colleciton of pictures concerning storks, such fasicnating birds!
Here a small contribution, concerning storks in Switzerland:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35634552@N03/7221727766/
thank you Rosmarie,
for your interesting facts about the storks population in Switzerland!
“The white stork went extinct in Switzerland in 1950. Due to the reintroduction project by Max Bloesch and Storch Schweiz the population has increased again to more than 200 breeding pairs. Will this increase continue, or will the population start to decline again?…”
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compare Rosmarie Wirz, Switzerland:
click on the photo to enter her flickr galleries!
read more there for example:
“The white stork population has been accurately surveyed for more than 100 years. The nestlings are, with few exceptions, systematically marked with rings. Ring resightings and ring recoveries from Switzerland and abroad give valuable information on behaviour, life histories, mortality causes, age structure, migratory flyways as well as on stopover and wintering sites. These data are being analysed with modern statistical methods. Similar data are available from other countries, which allows for interesting comparisons…”
in the latest movie I’ve seen – “Deutschland von oben” – actually in the cinemas, I’ve seen the global migration marked by GPS-signals attached to each stork; they take their way to Africa (and back) via Spain or Turkey or Italy-Sicilia etc.
http://www.deutschland-von-oben.com/
Hope to be enjoying further follow-ups on this wonderful family in the years to come!
Not a common sights nowadays. Lovely photo!
This is so beautiful. It reminds me of a children’s book we loved “The Wheel on the School” by Meindert deJong – “Storks in Shora!”
It’s like a human beings nest. It’s touching.
Fascinating, aren’t they, Frizz? And you’ve captured them so well, too!
This stork family has uplifted me in the blinking of an eye and the flap of a wing! Bless you, dear Frizz, for such fine photographic sharing (and thanks to your daughter, as well!)
The storks are very important because they bring us the children
davon hatte ich auch gehört, Wolfgang, aber dennoch habe ich es mir glücklicherweise nicht nehmen lassen, es auch selbst ein paarmal zu versuchen …
A fabulous submission Frizz… the birds with the most perfect GPS I’ve seen
. Great shots!
Fantastic!