Census sheet, newest entry first
Register entries
Every written-up entry since 11 May 2024. The phase column is where the stork year stood on the loop when the entry was written; the tally is its reading time in minutes, marked the way nests are counted in the notebook.
| No. | Entered | Phase | Entry | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E04 | 20 Sept 2025 | Departed | Platforms, water towers and the last storks of AugustWhy the loop's storks nest on poles and old farm water towers, what a nest platform does, the nest that fell, and how the birds gather and leave in late summer. | 7 min |
| E03 | 12 Jul 2025 | First flights | Counting stork chicks in June without climbing anythingWhen stork chicks become countable from the road, how cold rain and baler twine change the numbers, and the rules I keep so that counting never costs a chick. | 7 min |
| E02 | 19 Apr 2025 | Arrival | Arrival week: late March mornings and the first storks on the loopFirst arrival dates on the loop since 2021, why males come back before females, snow on the nests in April, and what storks eat before the frogs wake up. | 7 min |
| E01 | 11 May 2024 | Sitting | The loop and the register: how I count stork nests north of ŠiauliaiHow the nest loop is driven, how each nest gets its number, what the international census codes mean, and why the same roads in the same order matter. | 7 min |
Entries are revised when a later season changes the picture; the revision date says when. How counts are checked before they go in is on the page about how counts are kept.