SPAIN - Tajo

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video by our forum member Maria Lewandovska - thank you

Zika chasing a live frog around the nest

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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: 5/4/3 days old

FEEDINGs: 7
Zica 2x + Natalio 5x

female ZICA
feeding 0

- change: 07.26 (night shift:
male NATALIO:
feeding: 1 07.27 (all ate) +
- change: 08.03 (37 min)
female ZICA:
feeding: 2 08.24 (Natalio brought something with moss, 2 ate it)
- change: 11.48 (3h 45min)
male NATALIO
feeding: 0
- change: 11.50 (2 min)
female ZICA:
feeding: 3 12.36 (very few)
- change: 15.24 (3h 34 min)
male NATALIO
feeding: 4 15.25 ( pile, all are full); 5 16.06 (I see nothing, but they are full); 617.15 (all ate very good);
- change: 17.41 (1h 15 min)
female ZICA:
feeding: 7a 17.45 (no body ate - they are still very full); 7b 18.31 (all ate, they are stuffed)
- change: 19.24 (1h 43 min)
male NATALIO
feeding: 8 19.46
- change: 21.07 (1h 43 min)
female ZICA:
feeding:

MATING: 0

MATERIAL:
- Natalio (07.26) griffon feathers - Zica (08.01) moss - Natalio (08.04)longer twig, (08.11) GF, straw, (08.22) moss, (08.24) bough, (08.26) bough,

EVENT:
- 11.52 disturbing with something (geese?) , both are defending the nest and the chicks
- 11.56 Zica charged vigorously at an enemy invisible to us
- the eldest chick pooped out of the nest whole

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Zica is still incubating

CHANGE
- 07.26.10: Natalio in with 2-3 griffon feathers in his bill, he is strengthening the nest rim
- 07.26.36 Zica up, greetings, 07.26.52 she flew out



(1) FEEDING at 07.27.20 Natalio (one pile, all ate)


(little one is far away from this pile of food)

little one managed to get around his eldest sibling

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- 08.01 Zica arrived with moss



CHANGE Zica stayed,Natalio out at 08.03.04

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- 08.04.55 Natalio is back with one longer complicated twig - 08.05.22 out



- 08.11 next delivery - 08.12.01 out



- 08.22 big brunch of moss - 08.23.43 out

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(2) FEEDING within moss there is some kind of food too (2 chicks ate few pieces, Zica too)



- 08.24 next bough - 08.25.13 out


- 08.26 Natalio with one bough arrived again - 08.27.10 out

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- chicks and the egg in the moss bed

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- Zica is sitting on the nest bowl and time to time she stand up and is aerating the nest bowl, she is moving the nest material preens herself
- she is active while sitting too,mostly she s collecting the soft nest material to her body
- storklets are chirping time to time

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ready for feeding but still nothing


moss is better than nothing

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- storklets time to time very loudly are asking for food, I have no idea where is the problem
- adult storks are not yet succeeding in alternating more frequently and feeding storklets - these are too long intervals at this age according to the literature and my observations

- little one in the front (storklet touched Zica's bill); her stomach is empty - she is pooping time to time one little drop