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Bird Stories - A Tale about Storks - Post Scriptum
Just a quick note, saying that my book sale advert, mentioned at the bottom of my final part 10 of A Tale About Storks, has been shifted to another section on the forum. You will now find it at: Books, Magazines, Publications, Video & DVD Thanks! Erna -
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Opportunity for bird watchers, book lovers and collectors
Hello to all of you! Autumn equinox. A good day for posting my tenth, and final part of my bird story: A Tale about Storks, part 10 (you will find it in the Blogs section). It was quite a journey, following fourteen stork nests in my area in The Netherlands from last April, to only a few weeks...- Erna Horn
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A Tale About Storks – (final) part 10: Flying Out
Well, here it is, finally, the last part of my tale about storks. As much as I was hurrying around fourteen stork nests in mid-June (see part 9) - defying blustery cold winds, drenching rains and annoying umbrellas - to check on fourteen stork nests and the survival rate of their young... -
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Bird Stories: A Tale About Storks - part 9
Eleven days later, I ventured out on an overcast, windy, and very wet day, feeling there was really no time left to wait for fairer weather to come along. I urgently needed to check on all the nests, as bits of news had filtered down about stork chicks succumbing to the cold, or even drowning in... -
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A Tale about Storks - part 8
The past so many weeks have not only been awfully wet and windy, but also horridly cold at often no more than fourteen degrees Celcius. After having being spoiled by the absurdly warm temperatures at the beginning of May, we all got our winter clothes back out again. A quick, second check on... -
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Bird Stories - A Tale About Storks part 7
A Tale About Storks – part 7 It is mid-June already, and it has been a bit of a struggle to keep up with this tale for the past 6 weeks. Mainly due to the atrocious weather with endless rain and strong winds. I haven’t been on my bike all this time, and the month of May was officially noted... -
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Bird Stories - A Tale About Storks part 6
A Tale About Storks – part 6 It took less than an hour to walk the circular route around the ‘colony’ of storks the next day. A bit of a grandiose term for three tree nests (and one nesting pole), but hey, one shouldn’t be too picky now. There they were: three big trees, with three large nests... -
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Bird Stories - A Tale About Storks part 5
A Tale About Storks – part 5 Having watched the snails - commonly called Roman, or Burgundy snails (the edible type) and quite rare so far up north - for some ten minutes doing their thing, I forced myself to get going. The afternoon was getting on and I still had some way to go. Back into the... -
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Bird Stories - A Tale About Storks part 4
A Tale About Storks – part 4 Blue sky, sunshine and an unexpected balmy twenty-three degrees C°. Oudemolen, here I come! Relying on a thirty plus year memory of when I had been there last, I was looking for a lovely little white bridge, followed immediately by a broad entrance path into the... -
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Bird Stories - A Tale About Storks - part 3
A Tale About Storks – part 3 Exchanging stork info with one of my neighbours - a retired nurse with all the time in the world to go birdwatching every day - I learned of a brand new nesting pole that had been put up in a meadow behind our apartment block last winter. Huh, a new one?, I asked... -
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Bird Stories - A Tale About Storks part two
A Tale About Storks – part 2 Recalling myself from the useless wishful staring at the empty spot in the field beside me, I found a news article that told me that one of the pole’s support beams had been rotten. Being close to the cycling path, it had been taken down for safety reasons... -
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Bird Stories - A Tale About Storks - part 1
A Tale About Storks Part 1 The storks are back! Three weeks ago I sighted my first stork of the year gliding through the sky in front of our high rise apartment block, right on the edge of town. I spotted the first couple foraging in the nearby field a few days later, and had heard... -
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Bird Stories - A Tale About Storks
Bird Stories – A Tale About Storks (coming up soon) Last week, on April 16th, I became a member of this Bird Forum. I posted an intro about myself that day in the Say Hello forum. In my intro I refer to my late brother, who was a passionate lover of birds and keen observer, teaching me enough... -
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Hello from The Netherlands - and an ‘Opportunity for bird watchers, book lovers and collectors’
Thank you, thank you and thank you Kits. I appreciate your kind words, as well as your helpful instruction. -
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Hello from The Netherlands - and an ‘Opportunity for bird watchers, book lovers and collectors’
Thank you for your welcoming messages! Nice (-, My apologies for inadvertently not adhering to the rules with regards to putting up a post in the for sale section (minimum 5 days member/10 posts). I did look for rules and regulations but couldn't find them anywhere. Should have looked harder... -
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Hello from The Netherlands - and an ‘Opportunity for bird watchers, book lovers and collectors’
Hello all, My name is Erna Horn. I am based in The Netherlands, back on home ground after having spent 26 years living in the UK. I am not a specific birder myself, but did grow up with a brother whose passion in life was nothing but birds, birds and more birds. My brother’s enthusiasm, keen...