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08.05.2007
The Day of the Open Door at the White Stork Information Centre
Long ago "Cico" and "Luna" have become accustomed to the yearly hustle and bustle below their thirty-foot high stork nest. Somehow, in a way, the famous Vetschau Internet Storks are "jointly responsible" for the rush of visitors. On Friday still, guests from faraway Massachusetts,USA had looked in, on Saturday closer visitors made a pilgrimage to the "Day of the open Door" at the White Stork Information Centre.
Klaus Ziegler, who came from the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, overcame a long trip on his Suzuki. "My boss, due to solid business developments, had been very generous with a Christmas bonus which made this first-time trip to the Spree Forest possible," said the 53-year old. "Storks fascinate me. I always wanted to pay the Vetschau storks a visit. I have followed them for years on the Internet," was his reason for the weekend trip from the Alster River to Lusatia. While Klaus Ziegler, with a bicycle made available to him, Winfried Boehme, the NABU Project Leader, and two dozen other nature lovers undertook a bicycle tour to stork eyries, friends of the Stork Centre took care of the many other visitors who had come through the "open Door". Gisela Voss demonstrated her perseverance and industrious deftness by building an "insect hotel" out of pre-drilled wood and pre-cut reed. "The 'topping-up ceremony' will be in me garden." reported the patient Vetschauer. In the immediate neighbourhood, Siegbert Jank and Juergen Jentsch gave extensive advice for the construction of a willow basket for stork eyries. Young nature and bird friends were particularly enthused about interlacing the willow branches. With "It does not have to be too exact," Juergen Jentsch, NABU Regional Association Head, encouraged the small "master builders", "after all, the stork couple needs to do a little as well." That Adebar's (German folk name for storks) home is interesting to other feathered friends, was reported by the members of the bicycle tour upon their return. They excitedly told of an osprey pair which have occupied a stork eyrie. They were also lucky to espy with their binoculars on this sunny day whooping swans, red kites and cranes, even penduline tits and their dwellings. Johanna and Richard Sambale pointed out these extraordinary and seldom found nests of the penduline tits. This seniors couple often crosses the region by bicycle and with open eyes. Even to reach the White Stork Information Centre in Vetschau and the excursion to the stork eyries they had jumped onto their bicycles and pedaled all the way from Calau. "Most eyries are now occupied, with a few open ones still", said in summing up. He suggested to stork friends who were unable to participate on the "Day of the open Door" to undertake the tour on their own volition. "In our informative excursion brochure you will find everything about storks and a detailed route to the best known eyries of the region", says the Project Leader of the NABU Regional Association Calau. "We strongly recommend the tour", emphasized the Sambales of Calau, and in the end Klaus Ziegler from Hamburg "I learned things, I never knew before. I will tell my co-workers about the excursion and recommend a trip to the Spree Forest."
Uwe Hegewald
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