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May 13
Hello everyone

YT:
- 06.37.46 the stork arrived singing
- 6:38 healthy ps to the right
- 06.44 threw the egg
- 7:11 preening session
- he seems to see and call/attract someone

gap in streaming

- deliveries: moss

[marika.solo]

- no gap (probably) on the wing, after the landing starts calling, some nest restoration fallows, preening of course and resting



009.47.15 he is noticing one stork (we see a wing in the lower left corner) and stork is landing on the nest



- the female mostly behaved neutrally, she just stood in the nest, occasionally righting branches at the edge of the nest

but later ... Is this the previous pair? (from the previous season/s) or one new?

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- female preens the head of the male



- 10.03.30 female (!) starts fighting, this female pushes this male out of "her" nest
- maybe it is the "nesting" female and the "intruder" male from previous days
- one of them fell out of the nest while being pushed at 10.03.57 (the male!)

- male (sings/calls) flies in at 10.04.12
- she defends the nest and they are pushing again (the male pushed out again at 10.04.35)

btw. based on camera trap images (and ringed individuals), Dr. Strazds expressed the opinion that the nest owners are females (!)



- now this male lands on the parent branch and there is he later preening

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YT

9:24 AM Tanya Don
​​I look at the photos on the forum on page 1 of this season and it seems to me that the storks from April 19th are different from the storks from April 22nd.
I'm hesitating on the count of two. But one seems to me to be exactly the other.

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- male is preening himself on the parent branch
- 10.10.37 she stand up





- 10.11.38 male moved a little closer and preening continues
- 10.18.38 turned to face the female and almost immediately turned back

- male moved to another branch, the female ruffled her feathers and turned away his attempt to fly into the nest

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- it seems the territory around nest is already "empty", stork on the nest starts preening



- not for long time - at 10.29.33 she is noticing someone and she has again the defending posture



- she settled down in defending posture

[marika.solo]

- male is back - he landed on the parent branch and is preening himself long minutes as BS do

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- approx. at 11.11 preening ended





- and preening continues

- male out

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- female immediately up and with long stretched neck is observing the surrounding around
- 11.29.47 she pooped to the left, good (open bill)

- she started some nest work, but quickly she is observing around again

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- male arrives again to the parent branch



- he preens himself long time again and peacefully is on the parent branch