<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Stork Nest Watch</title><link>https://storknestwatch.com/</link><description>One driver's register of white-stork nests on farm poles and old water towers around Šiauliai: arrival dates, chick counts in June, platforms and departures.</description><language>en</language><item><title>Platforms, water towers and the last storks of August</title><link>https://storknestwatch.com/journal/platforms-water-towers-and-the-last-storks-of-august/</link><guid>https://storknestwatch.com/journal/platforms-water-towers-and-the-last-storks-of-august/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Counting stork chicks in June without climbing anything</title><link>https://storknestwatch.com/journal/counting-chicks-in-june/</link><guid>https://storknestwatch.com/journal/counting-chicks-in-june/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Arrival week: late March mornings and the first storks on the loop</title><link>https://storknestwatch.com/journal/arrival-week-on-the-kursenai-road/</link><guid>https://storknestwatch.com/journal/arrival-week-on-the-kursenai-road/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The loop and the register: how I count stork nests north of Šiauliai</title><link>https://storknestwatch.com/journal/the-loop-and-the-register/</link><guid>https://storknestwatch.com/journal/the-loop-and-the-register/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>