Greetings, Fellow Monochromers And Other Life And Feather Observers!
This is my entry to the #monomad daily challenge. Here is a link to the latest collection.
Summer 2024 still and the same vacation village that was in the centre of my beach wanderings during which I took my latest-shared photographs. That was a bad sentence. Anyway.
On the streets of the village there is a stork nest. It seems July is the season when these three young fellows are beginning their flight attempts.
Camera Settings:
Aperture F4
Shutter Speed 1/1000
Light Sensitivity ISO 100
Focal Length 145 mm
I used a Canon 70-200 4 L lens.
No flight was flown on that day. A single youngling did try to lift above the nest but managed less than a meter at best. The others seemed a bit not (yeah, not not a bit but a bit not, that's precisely what I mean) interested in that pointless activity.
As I say in regards to other life situations involving younglings... I guess there is time for that and it shall come.
But as far as I can remember, I have seen young storks managing to learn flight even in June. Well, that could be just a couple of weeks of difference and it should be normal to have a longer time range for that expected result.
Our storks here in Bulgaria usually come in March along the Via Pontica migration route from Egypt, the Nile delta mostly. They then split into couples and they do their thing and they let their children learn flight (Well, they feed them in the nest for quite a while until that happens) and practice some of it until the end of Summer when they head back
to the Great Warm Lands.
Of which I am also thinking right now...
Peace and Harmony!
Yours,
Manol