Webcams in Germany

It looks like the incubation time is well gone and suggests the eggs are not viable sadly.

Well, earlier today (26/3/2024) 3 eggs, but sadly now just two. Backed up the video and saw one of the storks fight the nesting stork to get them off the eggs, grabbed one and threw it overboard :(

I see one egg! Just today, 21/03/2024! Yay!

I have watched this cam for years. For awhile I had lost it. So glad to have found it again.

I really can't see, but today (Feb 2, 2024) it seems one of the birds is setting on an egg possibly? Spreading the wings out and roosting and looking at a spot in the nest just out of view. Does anyone know for sure? I love watching these birds! To whoever provides it and maintains it Thank You!

In the past few years, apart from occasionally roosting at night, once the young have fully fledged, they aren’t seen on camera again. This evening, there was obvious niggling aggression between two of the three birds on the nest. We wait to see if “mum” overwinters in Germany, as she has been doing in recent years? A screenshot of her, in quite deep snow, once featured as one of my Christmas cards!

From the shadow that is occasionally visible, the nest appears to be atop a very, very tall, industrial-type chimney. After the breeding season, the ground below must be covered in guarno - a great fertilizer but not so good for camera lenses! Perhaps the camera should be mounted a little higher, next year.

Watching and waiting - they should be flying off pretty soon now! Wondering how high up this nest is? I wouldn't want to be that person up on the ladder earlier this spring! I was so devastated when the one chick was booted from the nest. Mother Nature is hard to watch sometimes.

It wouldn't surprise me if a parent threw out the weakling. It happened at this nest with a previous brood; then, the 3 bigger youngsters had been tormenting their smaller sibling & it seemed a kindness to end its misery. This year, the 4th chick seemed quite feisty.

Please do not break my heart and tell me the 4th and smallest of the young storks (who seemed just fine), was not rescued by whoever was in the May video cleaning around the nest area, and removing debris from the baby storks themselves. He was wearing a blue glove on his left hand. The title of that video was "Rescue Operation."