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.EnteredPhaseEntryMinutes
E0420 Sept 2025Departed

Platforms, water towers and the last storks of August

Why 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.

Nests · revised 14 Sept 2026

7 min
E0312 Jul 2025First flights

Counting stork chicks in June without climbing anything

When 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.

Summer · revised 5 Jul 2026

7 min
E0219 Apr 2025Arrival

Arrival week: late March mornings and the first storks on the loop

First 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.

Spring · revised 12 Apr 2026

7 min
E0111 May 2024Sitting

The loop and the register: how I count stork nests north of Šiauliai

How 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.

Method · revised 4 Oct 2025

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.