Time was when seeing a single stork or possibly two storks was considered a delightful sighting. On the weekend I counted 16 storks walking behind a tractor pulling a harrow. The were walking in the furrows looking for juicy worms brought to the surface. As … Continue reading #17 A Burgeoning Population
Place of the Republic in Plzeň, Czechia. Eschollbrücker Straße in Darmstadt, Germany. And now for something completely different: Cee’s Which Way Challenge: Roads with Traffic
Thursday Trios
Three storks on their way home.
Three Egyptian Geese feeding in the meadow.
Three young mallards, one boy and two girls, swimming and staying close to shore.
Thursday Trios
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Not every stork can afford their own free standing nest.
Some storks compromise by finding eccentric locations.
First you have to build the next, then you sit on the eggs … and wait.
And soon, the youngsters are taking over the nest.
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Wordless Wednesday
Midweek Monochrome
“One cannot resist the lure of Africa.”
said one stork to the others, quoting Rudyard Kipling.
So, off he flew.
to Africa
and then he came back and quoted Ibn Battuta:
“Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then it turns you into a storyteller.”
Writer’s Quotes Wednesdays: A Trip to Remember
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