As we drove into Cordoba in the middle of the day we noticed storks circling above the road … not the freeway, we chose to travel on a smaller highway. That meant there was somewhere we could pull over and take a photo! Yay!
After we drove on I snapped this … a nest on every power pole … do you think the authorities have built a platform there for the storks? Don't you love good news like nests with baby birds? I do.
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It looks like there’s a platform, hope so 🙂
What a fantastic sight and great to see the babies. It does look like a square platform on the first photo, so hats off to the authorities. This is a bird I would dearly love to see in the wild
we saw some near Cadiz, but were thrilled today when we could stop by the road and watch for a few minutes 🙂
Yes, I remember seeing these stork nests in Spain. Our guide told us that in order to protect the white storks, and encourage them to breed, conservationists have got together with electricity companies to build nest holders that safely anchor their nests to power poles.
fantastic! thanks so much for telling me about this, it is so encouraging … and you can see by my photo that every pole was taken 🙂
Cool pics. here they build platforms like the ones shown for the ospreys to nest.
I have seen that on another blog, I think our Aussie ospreys would like that too!
I was so amaze when I was in Tunisia and saw my first stork’s nest…seems like an odd place for a nest though.
these are the first I remember seeing, I was amazed too!
I wonder if the babies Mr Bennett Kent refers to are those the storks deliver to expectant mothers and fathers…
I do too, as you know! Fabulous!
Wonderful.
When I think of storks I think of babies but not baby storks. Wonderful to see.
MARVELLOUS !!! What a wonderful sight, all those great birds nesting up on those ugly great things ! Brings a smile to the face, Christine.
I’m always impressed how BIG they are!
Cordoba is definitely one of my favourite cities – I have a real soft-spot for it 🙂 Have fun!
That’s what you call some electrifying nest-building!
Well, you won’t find any Stork’s in England under normal circumstances 😉 These birds migrate across the Mediterranean via the Straits of Gibraltar, italy and Scicily or round via Turkey. I once saw a great TV program about migration which showed the amount of Radar clutter at night caused by their flocks! You literally couldn’t see the planes for the birds – just as well Storks aren’t fitted with transponders and given flight numbers 😉
how fascinating, they do make an impact on radar then! we dont have storks in Australia … or at least not these … so I don’t know much about them at all beyond their role in delivering babies 😉
They only deliver babies if there is an identifiable gooseberry bush 😉
oh dear, we are short on gooseberry bushes in Australia too … perhaps our babies depend on being found under a cabbage leaf!
I think Kookaburra’s have the franchise for deliveries in Australia 😉
I’ve had a liking for storks since I read “The Wheel on the School” by Meindert DeJong, about 5 decades ago. I saw storks nesting in a Polish village, but we were whizzing by in someone else’s car. Thank you for these photos.
Oh I do hope you will see some on this trip!
Can’t wait to be back in ‘Stork land’, Christine 🙂 They are such a common sight in Portugal too.
Cordoba was my favourite Spanish city. I hope you enjoy it 🙂
Hi Jo, we are loving it!! one of our friends said we should only spend one night here as it was all touristy, but our experience has been wonderful … we are super relaxed tonight after a visit to the hamman!
Granada is much more touristy, as is Seville, I think. Glad you’re happy 🙂
What a wonderful sight! Mom and I watch a nest of osprey on a power pole just out of town — great to see them in the spring and summer.
What a wonderful sight! We had far too little time in Cordoba. Glad you decided to stay longer.