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Review of 2008
March 27
2:45 p.m. |
Arrival of 1st Stork, possibly Cico |
March 30
3:10 p.m. |
Arrival of female, she stays overnight |
March 31
12:25 noon |
Female leaves eyrie |
April 4
11:35 a.m. |
Fierce battles between 4 storks, one female remains |
| April 5 |
In the forenoon outsider
storks are driven away |
| April 10, 2008 |
1st egg is laid |
| April 12, 2008 |
2nd egg is laid |
| April 14, 2008 |
3rd egg is laid |
| April 16, 2008 |
4th egg is laid |
| April 18, 2008 |
5th egg is laid |
| April 20, 2008 |
6th egg probably laid |
| April 27, 2008 |
One egg with a hole in its shell is removed. (probably damaged during battles for the eyrie, or while the eggs were rotated). |
| April 28, 2008 |
An additional damaged egg is removed. The clutch consists of four eggs now. |
| May 13, 2008 |
First chick (Finja) hatched (in the early morning) |
| May 13, 2008 |
Second chick (Bree) hatched (in the afternoon) |
| May 16, 2008 |
Third chick (Apoll) hatched (in the morning) |
| May 18, 2008 |
Fourth chick (Afra) hatched (in the morning) |
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| May 25, 2008 |
Afra (the youngest chick) died around noon and was eaten by one of the parent storks. |
| May 25, 2008 |
Bree (the second oldest chick) died at about 5:00 p.m. and was thrown out of the nest. The cause of death is still unknown. |
| June 27, 2008 |
Finja receives band #H 7878
Apoll receives band #H 7879 |
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At temperatures above 85°F (30°C) the parent and young storks chalk their legs. By way of this temperature regulation and panting the body temperature is lowered. |
| July 17, 2008 |
At about 3:00 p.m. Finja departed unintentionally from the nest and landed unharmed on the neighbour's roof. After some three hours she returned to her nest. |
| July 18, 2008 |
In the morning of today our young stork again flew away on an excursion of a few minutes. |
| July 20, 2008 |
At about 11:45 a.m. Apoll finally manages to take off for the first time |
| July 18, 2008 |
One of the young storks undertook an extended flight which, however, lasted for only a few minutes |
| July 20, 2008 |
Between noon and about 3:40 p.m. both our young storks undertook their first extended flights |
| August 17, 2008 |
Finja and Apoll on their way to Africa. |
| August 26, 2008 |
Cico and Luna were at the eyrie together for the last time on August 26th at 6:20 a.m. |
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