Tag: Storch

The storks are back for good

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2008 riddle

For Six Word Saturday.  More six words and accompanying photos are only a click away.

 

And I need to add this German children riddle song:

Auf unsrer Wiese gehet was, watet durch die Sümpfe.

Hat ein schwarz-weiß Röcklein an, trägt auch rote Strümpfe.

Fängt die Frösche, schnapp, schnapp, schnapp.

Klappert lustig, klapperdiklapp.

Wer kann das erraten?

 

Something walks in our meadow, wading through the marshes.

It wears a frock that’s black and white,

and also wears red stockings.

It catches frogs, snap, snap, snap.

It clacks merrily, clack, clack, clack.

Who know what this could be?

 

After the harvest surprise

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I saw this stork stalking through the cut off wheat stalks (oh my!) and grabbed my camera.  If I noticed the two spots in the back to the left of him, I didn’t give them a second thought.

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I got closer.  Magnificent bird, I thought, totally focused on the stork.

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I zoomed in.  What a wonderful bird!

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Only at home, when I had transferred the photos to my computer and saw them on the larger screen, I realised that those brown, indistinct lumps had ears.

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Stork flies but fly doesn’t

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After last week’s One Word Sunday I thought I had to share a stork taking flight; i.e. a stork which flies.  Possibly, storks which fly.

Which fly? This fly:
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But it wouldn’t fly for me.

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