Black Stork - Ciconia Nigra

previous day 22.04.2024 next day 43.04.2024 April 23 Hello everyone :-) EGG is 34 days old today- egg is silent from the night 21./22.04 - eggs laying: night 16./17.03, 18./19.03, 20./21.03, 22./23.03 HATCHING: 1st chick 18.04 - 22.35, 2nd chick 19.04 13.16, 3rd 20.04 - 16.54 - chicks are today: 5/...

April 23
Hello everyone

the fourth egg arrived and it is snowing also here

April 24
Hello everyone

every day I look at this nest - never anyone and no sign of stork presence
the snow has been here since yesterday

BULGARIA: Belozem - a village in Rakovski Municipality of Plovdiv Province - Krum is foraging these days in the eastern area (to the south of the village Beloze) - Krum si v tieto dni hľadá potravu vo východnej oblasti (na juh od obce Belozem) https://i.postimg.cc/Df5w9r6h/2024-04-22-krum-whole-day...

video by our forum member Maria Lewandovska - thank you

Zika chasing a live frog around the nest

- Zica up at 22:05:58, she preens the storklets and is aerating the nest-bowl - at 22.12 she again covered her chicks and the egg
- 22.33 up, she preens the chicks and they are protesting/chirps - 22.40 she covered her chicks

21.35 again up, she is preening herself, aerating, rolling the egg, aerating and at 21.38 down

- 21.28. Zica up, pooping, aerating, and back down at 21.30

- Zica regurgitated 3 pile of food and she shook them into a line in front of the storklets