ESTONIA Pärnu county (Kergu + Kerli)

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July 30
Hello everyone

AGE: 1st chick - 37 days old ; 2nd chick - 36 days; 3rd chick - 34 days old
4th egg did not hatch

FEEDINGs
x : Kergu x + Kerli x

- 09.22 Kergu
- 11.21 Kergu
- 12.27 Kerli
- 14.22 Kergu
- 14.54 Kerli

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streaming started again at 04.54.04 (https://i.postimg.cc/g0GfJn5Y/2025-06-30-k-04-54-04.jpg)

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- it is still windy
- their bellies are dirty (it must have rained again)

- 06.06 wake up, pooping (open bill), wing stretching, preening (little one - wing flapping), searching for some insects
- 06.11 back resting

- 06.46 the eldest chick is up, short preening while sitting and back resting

- 06.56.52 Benjamin first - up and growling, immediately the eldest and the second chick too
- no enemy in the camera view (wide wings and I hear clapping - aggressive/defending behavior)
- 06.58.10 they calmed down, preening

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for a short while they seems to be frozen


who is nearby? (squirel? )


and again clapping and growling

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- 06.59.26 again growling and they start chirping


- pooping, preening
- 07.05 all are again resting

- for a while all 3 are interested in something dry (a frog? in the nest rim)
- 07.10 all are again resting



- 07.42 they are again playing with this dry something
- 07.43 the biggest chick up and is preening himself

their feet (and legs) are still growing rapidly

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- 07.58.10 they are chirping - 07.58.35 again sillent
- resting while "laying"



all up and they are chirping, begging



- 08.47 short wing flapping (the biggest chick)

- they are searching for insects in the nest rim and chirping time to time again and again

- 08.52 little one flaps its wings

- 08.57, 08.58 they are growling one by one (no defending behaviour)

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- breakfast is already very welcome, Benjamin is walking around and searched for insects in the nest rim
- later siblings are searching too, we see more nice wing stretching (the wings are already big - long)

- little balance on the nest rim


- serious wing flapping / strengthening the pectoral muscles

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- 09.17 they are again chirping (to me it is the little one, storklet is nodding)

- waiting on the food delivery


FEEDING by Kergu

- 09.22.37 they are noticing "the delivery" - and are immediately ready for feeding
- 09.22.42 Kergu is landing
- feeding
- 09.23.17 Kergu out

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- 11.21 FEEDING by Kergu again

- 11.20.43 food is coming
- more regurgitating, for sure:
- one big fish for one bigger storklet + the big brother, who had his back to us, ate the second big fish, another smaller one, and the last big one; I don't know if the little storklet had anything - maybe there were more fish and also for him
- 11.23.05 Kergu out