In case anyone wants to forecast, here are the locations of storks in
the UK in the past month, courtesy of birguides.com. They raise
questions of whether a stork escaped from a zoo can still bring a baby
(what species?!) and whether the colour of the stork matters. The first
text on each line is the timestamp for the report on birdguides.
Allan
17:25 24/10/10 White Stork Cheshire Sandbach Flashes 16:55
escaped White Stork still in stubble field by Elton Hall Flash
16:19 24/10/10 White Stork Cheshire Sandbach Flashes 16:08
in stubble field by Elton Hall Flash
08:21 18/10/10 White Stork Dorset Wareham 11:00 17/10/10
one again yesterday on the water meadows
16:38 10/10/10 Black Stork Kent Dover
one on a roof at Eythorne this morning but no sign this afternoon
17:00 09/10/10 White Stork Devon Newton Abbot
five flew over west this morning
17:15 04/10/10 White Stork Dorset Wareham
still, over the water meadows viewed from East Holme Bridge this
afternoon
09:54 03/10/10 White Stork Dorset Wareham 09:50
still in cattle field on west side of the bypass at Wareham Water
Meadows mid-morning but distant
16:49 02/10/10 White Stork Dorset Wareham 16:30
still at Wareham Water Meadows on the west side of the bypass late
afternoon
16:34 02/10/10 White Stork Dorset Wareham
still at Wareham Water Meadows late morning
08:13 02/10/10 White Stork Dorset Wareham
still in cattle field by bypass at Wareham Water Meadows this
morning
17:06 01/10/10 White Stork Dorset Wareham 17:02
in water meadows between Wareham and Stoborough at 17:02
17:04 01/10/10 White Stork Dorset Wareham 16:52
still in field by bypass, northeast of bridge over River Frome late
afternoon
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