In the past I had found Black storks to be very shy of man but this holiday proved that to be complete nonsense, they would fish in the river adjacent to camermen in their vehicles or fly low over the marshes and the birders there, I had never seen so many, they seemed to easily outnumber the White's.

The White stork on it's nest was oblivious to all the Spanish sparrows nesting in the lower storeys of it's nest, and I heard from another birder that he had also seen a Little owl sitting in the side of the same nest.