LITHUANIA

[marika.solo]

- 12.26 is he loudly singing back - fanned tail feathers, he is moving the nest material and sings
- 12.27 waiting, watching around and out again

[marika.solo]

We urgently need active members

- one person is able to responsibly cover 1 nest
- in addition to regular posts, as an administrator I prepare and update the first post in each thread so that we have an up-to-date overview - quick access to information and many other activities in the background

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[marika.solo]

April 09
Hello everyone

- around 12.20 our male arrived, singed loudly repeatedly and at 12.30 flew out
- 12.32 he is singing back, 12.34 again out (so handsome in the sunshine)
- 12.43 again, 12.44 out

[marika.solo]

- 13.30 male is back, again loudly repeatedly singing, fanned tail feathers, ...

13.33 female flew in
- male settled down, she started preening
- after while male stand up and is preening himself too
- both shine beautifully
- 13.40 again very short dancing,and again nothing, both are preening
- 13.43 dancing and mating (!), it seems to be successful and female/this female did not raise her bill high after mating
- 13.45 he settled down again and she preened him for a short while
- 13.46 male stand up, started preening ad female flew out

[marika.solo]

- is she nearby? male settled again down for minutes
- 13.50 preening again
- 13.57 short singing, observing carefully the area around
- 13.59 male is again loudly singing, repeatedly
- 14.02 out

[marika.solo]

- our male stork did not show up at the nest again today
- it seems that he is guarding the territory, the nest, and when the stork shows himself close, he immediately reacts
- there is a certain difference between the behaviour when he calls the female and when he drives away the enemy
- unfortunately I don't have the capacity to compare females - if is it new every time
- the fact is that he behaves not quite typically (this male sits too much and for too long and makes little attempts to mate)

[marika.solo]

April 10
Hello everyone

stork is one the nest yet, I go scrolling back the whole day again

[marika.solo]

- 07.18 stork arrived sillent, because he delivered new nest material (maybe first time)



- nest restoration started, but still he is working only with the old material (mostly he is strengthening the nest rim and digging the nest bowl)
- between work he is observing the surrounding



- 07.25 resting and observing

[marika.solo]

- around 7.40 our stork is again working (shortly) and resting and observing the surrounding
- 7.52 he is eating moss from the tree to the right
- 8.10 nest restoration continues
- 08.23 resting, observing (very handsome in the morning sun shine)
- 08.33 away

[marika.solo]

- surprisingly male is back again with building material
- some nest work and again resting - observing the nearby area
- 8.39 again out (opposite direction) - 8.40 back with some moss
- resting + observing
- 8.43 out and back with few moss again
- 8.45 out and 8.46 back (from opposite site) with some kind of material
- he builds and builds / nest restoration continues
- 8.52 short resting - observing and 8.54 out again