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Post by jeanne on Mar 20, 2015 1:41:27 GMT 1
Here is a great website to watch Polish Storks: www.bocianybolec.plThe storks are beginning to return to Poland from their winter stay in Africa. Do any of you Poles who visit this forum have any stork stories? Do they nest nearby your homes? Please share your stories of stork sightings with us! |
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Post by pjotr on Mar 20, 2015 18:25:49 GMT 1
I loved those Storks as a child when we went to the Polish countryside and sow those stork nests on the roofs of farms with the beautiful sight of the storks standing of sitting on them. In the Netherlands there are less storks!
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Post by jeanne on Mar 20, 2015 20:23:56 GMT 1
Pieter,
About two years ago when I was still working at the elementary school (I am now at the High School), I found a great children's book in the library entitled "The Wheel on the School," by Meindert DeJong, copyright 1954.
It's a very charming story (fiction) about a group of children in the Netherlands who observed that lots of storks flew over their country, but few nested there. They set out on a quest to find a wooden wagon wheel to mount on their school roof to attract some storks to nest. After many adventures, they are successful, and of course, as in all good children's literature, they learn many life-lessons along the way. I liked the book so much that I bought a copy for my grandchildren!
If I lived in the Netherlands, that would be one of my projects...to make a hospitable nesting site for storks!!
Jeanne
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 29, 2015 20:17:59 GMT 1
Pitifully, there are fewer storks in Poland today. They prefer Spain where they learnt how to gather food at dump sites/landfills which is easier than hunting in Poland.  YUKK!!  |
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Post by jeanne on Oct 4, 2015 0:50:52 GMT 1
While it may be true that there are fewer storks in Poland now, this nesting season, the nest I watch in Tomaszow Boleslawiecki was tremendously successful. The nesting pair of storks raised FIVE healthy and thriving chicks who all flew off to Africa at the end of August!That is an event to be celebrated after several years of nesting failures!
Jeanne
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 4, 2015 1:00:58 GMT 1
While it may be true that there are fewer storks in Poland now, this nesting season, the nest I watch in Tomaszow Boleslawiecki was tremendously successful. The nesting pair of storks raised FIVE healthy and thriving chicks who all flew off to Africa at the end of August!That is an event to be celebrated after several years of nesting failures! Jeanne It is great news. I keep my fingers crossed for those chicks. |
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