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Stork Dance: Aha!

Today it is clear that yesterday’s performance was not a mating dance, but the result of a previous mating dance: The storks are teaching their young ones to fly. I don’t know whether it was a parent demonstrating the technique or one of the youngsters just trying things out, but this morning one of them [...]

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Stork Dance

Oh, I am cursing myself for not having a decent camera! I looked out the window just now and the storks were putting on quite a show, chasing each other around the chimney and dancing! Could this be a mating ritual? Is this the right time of year for that? Must do research on stork [...]

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Storks

No, not a good name for a dog. The parkflat (condominium) where we live, in The Hague, is home to a pair of storks, which I think is just wonderful. I watch them several times a day. Yesterday I tried to take photos with my old, nondigital camera, but the telephoto lens is woefully insufficient. [...]

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