Those of you who have seen my kayaking posts on Facebook know that I love to take pictures of bald eagles, heron, osprey, and other water birds.
Salamanca has storks nesting, the clacking of storks communicating with other storks, stork babies clamoring for food (who brings stork babies to their parents? Storks? It boggles the mind.)
We saw storks in at least four different places, on church domes, in belfrys, and other high, safe places. Going up a church tower also affords the opportunity to see them right at eye level.
Storks in Salamanca/Spain info from another blog:
The white stork is a long distance migrant, wintering in South Africa and/or the Indian subcontinent. When migrating between southern Africa and Europe, where the majority of breeding takes place, it chooses to cross the Mediterranean Sea at its narrowest point by flying to Morocco and crossing at the Straits of Gibraltar where the waterway is only fifteen kilometres wide. An alternative route where no water crossing is necessary other than the Suez Canal is via the Levant. The reason they do not cross large expanses of water is that thermal currents do not form over large masses of water and it is thermals that the migrating storks rely on to carry them forward.
Surrounded by her babies.
Momma stork with baby.
Baby stork.
It's fun to spot the storks!
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