Parco Gallipoli - Oliveto Lucano

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both are there again

at 11.50 I noticed our male is on the nest


he preens himself and is observing the surrounding,resting

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male noticed his mate



first pic offered by the stream with bot storks

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and they are preening each other again and again

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still both on the nest

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again jump and female is away on the next offered pic

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male stayed on the nest for a while and after few minutes he flew out too



long neck


and on the next offered pic the nest is empty (longer jump)

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August 06
Hello everyone

both adult storks arrived to the nest again

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they spent today lot of time on the nest together

some one unwanted is nearby

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situation calmed down


and female is out


and she arrived back again

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they preens each other very often, but today I observed also this