White Stork / Weissstorch / Ciconia ciconia
Nest on the Altenstadt fire fighters home / Nest auf dem Feuerwehrhaus von Altenstadt |
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White Stork / Weissstorch / Ciconia ciconia
Nest on the Altenstadt fire fighters home / Nest auf dem Feuerwehrhaus von Altenstadt |
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Nicely captured, Sonja!
-David.
White Storks are protected and people help establish once choosen nest sites in many places, installing extra reenforcements and removing dangers in the first winter after the birds left. Once the first breed was successful, chances are huge a site will be resettled and this nest here exists now for a few years -- in fact it was established before the epic cyclone of 2015....
If the Altenstadt firefighters and the area ringer did anything to fix it in it's corner on the hose drying tower I don't know however. I would have to ask Dieter (niederhofer) to find out for us.
I have got old pics from all over europe -- of still occupied old nests on decaying trees hanging to the side at unbelievable angles, multi level living on stanted roofs or old oaks where they get feed yearround as additional attraction and the upper storks then use the nest of the lower unabashedly to catch their droppings, nests on huge pylons of the humming main power trace, on old industrial chimneys in the downwind of badly filtered active ones full of very, very dark specimen someone might wrongly ID as Black Stork...