Karula National Park (Karl II and Kaia)

[Madli]

15.10 Another black stork flies by. It's good that the stranger is not aggressive and doesn't attempt to intrude the nest. Just observing from afar. ( Or the stranger remembers that Kaia has already thrown her out before?) Kaia follow the movement and lookt to the left.

I can't tell if the stork flew away or landed somewhere again.

The strange stork flies from left to right, turning further into the forest and flying back from the left to right, out of the forest. Basically, it makes a circle between the trees.

[Madli]

15.20 Kaia continues with egg care and preening.


I know that these are the only photos of Kaia preening or aerating the nest, but I don't see it as a "must have" during every session. This is their basic instinctive behavior.
Although I have counted and written all the times in the post above , for who wants to keep track of the egg care times

You can check Kaia's egg care times here: https://ciconianigra.sk/viewtopic.php?p=2548#p2548

[Madli]

18.35 Karl arrives home! Kaia immediately steps away from the eggs and flies out. Karl continues with egg rolling and spreading the nest material a bit.
Kaia's incubation shift was 11 h 55 min.


18.37 Karl continues incubation.

[Madli]

Karl's egg care breaks ( preening, aerating, rolling + PS):
18: 35 / 53
19: 17
20: 02 / 33
21: 00 / 22
22: 01 / 27 / 45
23: 24

[Madli]

A few shots from the evening:

21.02 Karl aerating the nest. ( a cockoo is singing in the backround)


21.50 It's getting dark and Karl is already sleepy.


22.01

[Madli]

22.28


22.57-58 A zoom in on Karl from the operator. Thanks!


And also a zoom-out


23.06 The camera is back to normal.

[marika.solo]

15.10 Another black stork flies by. It's good that the stranger is not aggressive and doesn't attempt to intrude the nest. Just observing from afar. ...

prof. PZ says to similar situation on the PL nest: In my opinion, it was a female with no experience. She just watched. If she had been invited, she would have jumped into the nest. But she didn't get in and flew away. So if she found a nest with a lonely male, she would probably have accepted the invitation. ...

[Madli]

prof. PZ says to similar situation on the PL nest: In my opinion, it was a female with no experience. She just watched. If she had been invited, she would have jumped into the nest. But she didn't get in and flew away. So if she found a nest with a lonely male, she would probably have accepted the invitation. ...

This sounds very logical. There was an assumption in Looduskalender already that this stranger is probably a female.
But Kaia is very short-tempered and gets stressed very easily. She doesn't take these visits easy.

[marika.solo]

15.20 Kaia continues with egg care and preening. ... I know that these are the only photos of Kaia preening or aerating the nest, but I don't see it as a "must have" during every session. ...

Madli,
good decision again. You have counted and written all the times - that is enough (only reporting without photo documenting).
Good job! Thank you

[marika.solo]

... But Kaia is very short-tempered and gets stressed very easily. She doesn't take these visits easy.

PZ described that situation: Fer didn't know how it would end and was nervous all the time.

So Kaia's behaviour seems to be quite normal.
(I remember on similar situation also on the LV nest years ago.)