It is a sad day for storks-enthusiasts – and probably in particular for the storks-expert Mogens Long Petersen.
It is due to the storkepar, which had just been bred in Enslev, Denmark, on Sunday morning, flew from the nest. The storks left two dead cubs.
– I was so happy, but now it’s over. How can such a story end abruptly. It is really a great loss, for it is not often that new storkepar breed in Denmark, ” says Mogens Long Petersen to TV2 Østjylland.
Both the storks left the nest around at 10 o’clock, and when they did not return for several hours, was launched a drone to get a look in storkereden.
It is the dronetur, who given it for the storkefans disheartening result.
According to Mogens Long Petersen, there may be several reasons why it is ended as it is.
– It is two relatively immature parents, and experience a lot in this context. It is a thin nest, they have sat in the stand, and the isolererer worse compared to the cold, he says, and continues:
– It may also be that the parents have not been good enough to find food.
Mogens Long Petersen, however, has a theory about why there are two found dead in the nest in Enslev.
– My assumption is that it is the torrential rain that has been, and the cold, that life has taken the life of them. The birds are not drowned, but they have been chilled down too much, he says to TV2 Østjylland.
He is now excited to see the kids to find out, ‘if there is food in them’, because it help to clarify what has happened.
That the storks have left the nest, does not bode well for next year, says the storks-the expert.
– it is not a place one returns to to spawn. Such is the nature, especially when it is the first time. If such a pair cannot master to spawn, they will probably not form the few next years, says Mogens Long Petersen.
however, There is a glimmer of hope.
– It is not inconceivable that they return and stay there the rest of the summer, when they have just flown around a bit. It is not to see to the kids, but because they know where there is food, he says.
There are, among other things put buckets out with trout.
– New storks must have help the first year. They must, because they are førstegangsynglende. They need to learn some things and make some experiences, says Mogens Long Petersen and continues:
– We have 250 kilos of frozen fish, which we would have given you over the coming months. Them we now use for something else.
Storkeparret came to the small town of Enslev in Norddjurs Municipality 21. april.
Friday spotted photographer Peter Staunsbjerg as the first, to storkeparret had begun to change behavior. Ago observed several others, that the storks were apparently starting to feed the one or more cubs.
The two storks took turns to be out and hunt for worms, and when they returned, gylpede the food up in the redebunden.
– It is clearly a sensation. There has not been breeding storks in Denmark in over 50 years, so it is a great sensation, said Peter Staunsbjerg Saturday to TV2 Østjylland.
According to Peter Staunsbjerg there has not been storkeunger in Denmark since 1965. The cubs came to the world in a thatched farm in the small town of Bendstrup.
Denmark is, according to Mogens Long Petersen is the absolute northernmost place where the storks nest.
