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Counted three baby storks today. It was a warm day with good thermals, so other storks were soaring high in the sky. One descended and took a few swoops at our nest but was chased off by one of our adult storks.

This is a regular occurence on warm days where the sun heating up the fields produces updrafts that the clever birds use to ascend without expending energy.

That's how they can migrate so far and why they avoid crossing oceans (they cross only at the narrow straits of Gibraltar and the Bosporus).

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Stork is keeping an eye on the situation in the eastern skies.

There's two hatchlings in the nest now and when its quiet we can hear them gently clapping with their little beaks.

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Young #storks are so ugly and cute at the same time. :)

Source: https://www.kukaj.sk/projekt/204-bociany-bolesov

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Wet stork. Its been raining a lot.

But I hear baby stork screeches, so I guess at least one egg has hatched. Well done!

Baby storks screech quietly, sounding almost like a frog, so last year I was wondering why the stork caught a frog and kept it alive up there until realizing what the sounds were 😆

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