As I was parking my car early
on Friday morning I heard a flapping sound nearby, looked over the wall
of a delapidated factory and found myself staring at about six white
storks and their nests, right in the middle of the Silves
town centre!
The sighting of these birds
reminded me fondly of when I was a child growing up in a suburb of
Salisbury (now Harare).
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Storks (black storks, I think)
were frequent visitors to the grassy plots next to our house, but they
disappeared when those plots were built up.
Did you know that in 2000 a
stork's nest got tangled in power lines and caused a blackout all over
Lisbon and southern Portugal? No? Well I didn't either, I was living in the north of the
country then!
Now protected and off the endangered list, they continue to make their enormous nests in high places - on the top of electricity pylons and even on chimneys and palm trees in the centre of this Algarve town.
How could I have been going into Silves quite often for almost 3 years and have only seen them now?
Hi,
ReplyDeletethe white storks also nest in outcrops of rocks in the sea. I was amazed when I first saw them. there is a stork's nest in the rocks at Praia do vale dos homens at the moment
Hi, thank you for looking in. I read your post about that beach. Brave woman, you, making that video while going up all those stairs! I was also surprised to see the stork's nest there. Nests on electricity pylons and very tall chimneys are quite common, but I must say I'd never seen them on cliffs or on short chimneys in a town centre!
ReplyDeleteThere was an article in the Portugal News about the poor weather affecting baby storks this year, but I saw more of them than ever this trip.
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