Sekçuk Storks...

The Selçuk Storks. Love the storks. They are compulsively watchable. I think we've taken hundreds of stork pictures. Here's the deal. Selçuk is on the migratory path of these storks, and they come here to breed and lay their eggs. They started building nests on top of all kinds of things, especially the ancient aqueduct, and the Selçuk citizenry have helped by reinforcing the nests and ensuring their safety.



































Every year the storks come back, usually to the same nest. Feliz was telling us of her biologist friend who assisted in relocating a nest from an unsafe power pole, to a new location, but when the storks returned, stick by stick momma stork began to move the nest back. The biologists stopped moving nests.


























Our little tiny balcony is located directly across from one of these nests. Four fledglings are in it! with momma never far away. I think - and hope - that maybe one of them will fly before we leave. They're so big and look so ready. The young'un on the next pole over must have flown the coop today - the nest was empty when we got back from Aphrodisias.