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[mike_dublin]

Originally Posted by Rosie34

The chick in Rottenbach is enormous! Escpecially compared with the ones in Hochstadt -must be all the extra food!

Was thinking the same earlier. Still some time for the wings to grow.

[mike_dublin]

The chick in Roettenbach is huge by now. First flight lessons will arrive soon, I'd say.

There's a quote on the German forum about the Roettenbach nest -
https://forum.lbv.de/t/webcam-storch...h-2024/7162/85

Herbert, the owner of the Storchen brewery, told me that the nest is often very compacted and therefore the water stands in it during heavy rainfall. So today it was enough for a mud bath. It may be that this was also the reason for the high mortality rate of the stork chicks this year.

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[Rosie34]

Really sad for the Lindheim pair - she is still sitting on the eggs but it really doesnt look as if they will hatch now - but she still sits there in hope.

[icampbell15]

Originally Posted by Rosie34

Really sad for the Lindheim pair - she is still sitting on the eggs but it really doesnt look as if they will hatch now - but she still sits there in hope.

What a wee shame. Nature is so cruel sometimes.

[mike_dublin]

Roettenbach stork has now taken flight after plenty of stretching the wings and take off exercises. Empty nest his morning, but they do pop back during the day.

[Rosie34]

That's good news! But the stork on the Lindheim nest is still sitting on the eggs and occasionally I see her standing and just staring at the - quite sad really that she doesnt realise that, after all this time, they will not hatch.

[mike_dublin]

It is quite sad, but their instinct is probably telling them to go on.

Roettenbach junior is just back in the nest. He is the one with the not quite so orange legs.

[mike_dublin]

Junior storck briefly back in the Roettenbach nest this morning. Nest adorned with growing greenery

[icampbell15]

It's been a while since I checked the nests! I found it more difficult this year to see the nests properly. I remember there were quite a few eggs which disappeared one by one...so sad.

[mike_dublin]

extract from a (German) article about the difficulties for the storks this year in Bavaria [via Google Translate]

... the heavy and long-lasting rainfall in the middle of the year weakened the young populations. Many young birds have "died of lack of food and hypothermia," said LBV white stork expert Oda Wieding.

... Because of the heavy and wet plumage caused by the heavy rain, parent birds had hardly flown off to look for food for themselves and their young, Wieding added. Older young birds have also suffered malnutrition and developmental disorders as a result. As a result, among other things, wing feathers could not be properly formed, which made it difficult for the animals to fly.

full article - https://www.faz.net/agenturmeldungen...110008315.html

[Rosie34]

Originally Posted by mike_dublin

extract from a (German) article about the difficulties for the storks this year in Bavaria [via Google Translate]



full article - https://www.faz.net/agenturmeldungen...110008315.html

That is so sad. I noticed only one chick at Rottenbach and the eggs never hatched at Lindheim although the stork sat on them for weeks.

[icampbell15]

Originally Posted by mike_dublin

extract from a (German) article about the difficulties for the storks this year in Bavaria [via Google Translate]



full article - https://www.faz.net/agenturmeldungen...110008315.html

That makes sense after what happened this summer. It was such a shame when so many didn't make it. Hopefully next year will be better.
Thank you for the information.