Spring cleaning in the stork's nest in Kottgeisering: Just in time for the breeding season, Dieter Eder and Wilhelm Huss swung themselves up to the lofty heights of the fire brigade hose tower using a lifting platform.
Kottgeisering - The nursery from last year should be converted to that of the current year.
"A lot of dirt has collected in the nest," said Eder after the action.
Hardened bird droppings, glued together with feathers, threatened to turn the nest into a bathtub in which the future boys could drown in heavy rainfall.
To make it easier for the Adebar couple to start building their nests on the basic tubular steel structure, Eder and Huss layered new branches and leaves on the old nest (photo on the right).
"Of course, that was not good enough for the two storks, which is why they could be seen shortly afterwards how they were further optimizing and plucking the nest with their beaks," reports stork expert Eder.
The two red stockings - probably the same from the previous breeding years - have already returned from their winter quarters.
They couldn't have been far away, according to Eder, because at the end of 2020 he had last seen them next to the fire station.
The courtship was relatively short - if it took place at all.
But the act of love could already be observed - which makes Eder confident that there will be little rattle storks for the fourth time.
The front runner was last year, in which three young animals reached an airworthy age.
It will be exciting to see whether the nest on the roof of the library, some 50 meters away, will be occupied for the first time this year.
This potential nursery has also been revamped, but is still waiting for the feathered guests.
Interested parties had already been spotted circling above the nest last year.
