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One year about the life of the stork colony at San Roque
When flying is learned the young storks still come back to the nest in the evening, because for sure some food will be served by the parents, if …
… during daytime it did not work with the own search for food, as the parents showed them:
"It is time to say good bye!"
For a last time the family is staying together in the nest before the youngsters gather together with other storks to pass the Strait of Gibraltar to Africa to spend their youth on the African continent. Last admonitions and looks of proud by the exhausted parents.
"Such splendid chaps we raised. We wish you all the stork luck in the world! Watch yourself on your migration to Africa and come back when you are in the age to start a family. We taught you everything what you have to know but now our ways depart forever!":
There is no melancholy in the air, but from everywhere in the colony happy stork clattering is to be heard. And when the many young storks on the Andalusia sky are seen, how they more and more secure play with the winds and know to use the thermal bubbles than it is quickly known with what big love of life and joy they count themselves master of the winds! A feeling which arouses the desire in us humans to be able to do it like them. A wish which will be unrealizable forever, but it is at the humans discretion to make one wish, namely to give to them and many other animals a part of their natural habitat back. They will thank us with their remarkable beauty and their happy clattering!
Best regards
Birgit Kremer