Black Stork Nest In Karula 2023.

[Swenja]

06:46 feeding
The moss pad still obscures the view.
Karl II first gives a few fish and watches the chicks.

#1 eats immediately. #2 chirps and twitters. #1 seems to block his sibling or #2 has yet to learn to eat quickly.



06:48:10 #2 eats and stop tweeting.



Karl II take back the fish.

[Swenja]

06:49 An egg with a hole becomes visible.
In the hole moves a small beak.





07:37

[Swenja]

08:16 feeding
Karl II gives a fishball.





Both chicks take food.

[Swenja]

Karl II takes back fish.



The egg with the hole is in front of the chicks.

[Swenja]

08:48 Kaia is back. Short greeting.




Karl II flies away.

Kaia loosens the moss and covers everything.

[Swenja]

08:56 Karl II brings nesting material.



even more moss now we see nothing at all.

[Swenja]

Karl II brings a big branch.
He walks a bit clumsily through the nest with the branches.

[Swenja]

Karl II brings grass and moss. He nibbles on Kaia
and flies away again.







09:11 Karl II brings two branches.

09:14 dry grass and moss
09:19 more moss

Kaia stands up. Short greeting.
09:20 Karl II flies away. Kaia covers the chicks again.

[Swenja]

09:50 Kaia ps

Egg #3 makes progress. It begins to break open!

[Swenja]

09:51 feeding
Both chicks are eating.

[tsang6482]

Another thing about the BS/WS chicks that amazes me is their ability to handle bones in the food. A chick that hatched just over 24 hours can eat fish or other animals with the bones in it. Even if the food for small chicks are predigested, the food isn't broken down beyond recognition. The chicks' digestive system can reduce that food to a liquid on the other end.

Compare that other carnivorous birds. Eagles feed only soft tissues to chicks, which are broken into smaller pieces (see those cameras on the Kotkaklubi YouTube channel). Penguins essentially feed a slurry or paste to their chicks.

[Swenja]

10:40 ps
10:42 feeding
Both chicks are eating. This looks very good, even with #2

No, it's not a rat. Even if it looks like it.


I see the swallowing movements of both chicks.
Kaia takes back some food.



#3 is quaking. The egg is not fully open yet.



Kaia loosens the nest floor a litte and covers them all.

Hello @tsang6482

[Swenja]

Kaia preens a litte bit.

The egg #3 is 31 and egg #4 is 29 days old.

The hole in egg #3 is bigger now. I don't see the crack on the side of the hole.


Egg #4 also has a crack in the eggshell?

[Swenja]

12:10 Karl II is at home. Short nice greeting.
Kaia flies away.



Karl II wants to give food.

[Swenja]

12:12 feeding attempt
Karl II gives bigger fish.
There was also a big perch?

I think #1 has eaten. For #2 the food was too big.

The chicks ate something and spat out again.

[Swenja]

12:31 new feeding attempt
fish to big

[Swenja]

13:03 feeding
This time both chicks could tear off something to eat.

[Swenja]

Karl II easily rolls the eggs. The eggshells look very brittle on both eggs.

[pirkkokn]

Karl is such a wonderful father and spouse

[Swenja]

14:09 another feeding

The chicks find a few small pieces of food and try to tear something off a big fish.
They have to make a good effort at feeding today to get enough.



Karl II watches patiently and gives a second helping.