Parco Gallipoli - Oliveto Lucano

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our male is still on the nest - he is preening, some cleaning and waiting, resting and so on

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and this time long preening follows



continuation

and again waiting for the chicks and resting

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male is still on the nest

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surprise





FEMALE arrived to the nest

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they are preening each other

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continuation

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FEMALE



MALE

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later I was gone
after my return (after 17.30) I did not see anyone at the nest
the nest remained empty for the second night



August 02 viewtopic.php?p=22335#p22335

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August 02 viewtopic.php?p=22335#p22335

August 03
Hello everyone

Chicks will be today 93/93 days old
(hatching: 01.05, 01.05, 03.05 - perished 18 days old, 04.05 - died 5 days old: parental infanticide/brood reduction)
on 16.07 the first storklet fledged, on 17.07 the second storklet fledged too (17 / 16 days ago)

it's a shame that the streaming had a breakdown/interruption, as it was probably the last stay of the storks at the nest at that time...and now they seem to be gone

no streaming: July 30 (from 15.22 - chicks 90 days old/fledged 14/13 days ago), July 31, Aug 01 stream is back (I was gone from 14.30 to 18.15 and stream is back this time)
empty nest for the night: Aug 01, Aug 02

I will try to get information about where the storks fly from the south of Italy to spend the winter (I know of 2 Polish storks with transmitters that successfully wintered in Italy - one of them is our Skierka and she was repeatedly photographed there in a small group of black storks in the area around the Lake Kerkini)