Ribeauville, Stork Nest

I just searched our Travel Journal to see how often I mentioned that we saw a stork in Europe. I know we saw stork nests, many with occupants, more times than recorded here, but here’s the times I mentioned them in the Journal. I don’t remember seeing any storks in the USA.

In the town of Ribeauville, France, we saw storks actually mating in a nest. The town’s people have built a place for a nest on the top of a pole, and the storks do the rest. Some months later, while visiting in the home of some friends in California, they had a copy of an old (1950’s) Life magazine with a picture of this exact same stork's nest.

Near the campsite in Turkheim, France, there is sort of a sanctuary for storks, and several were there at the time.

Both times we parked in front of the church in Eguisheim, France, (built in the 1200’s) there were several storks in nests high on the steeple.

Drove around in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, for awhile, and at one point we saw a stork’s nest with three occupants.

In the little town of Nagycenk, Hungary, we saw a family of storks on the roof of a large building. We could see babies and mama in the nest and papa at the other side of the building. (So we took a guess at who was who!)

From Warsaw to Poznan, Poland, in 1985 we saw some stork nests, we think, then in 1991 as we drove from the German border to Poznan, there was a tall (30 feet at least) cement post with a stork’s nest on top.

As we dove toward Malbork, Poland, we saw several stork’s nests perched high on top of a concrete tripod, and a couple on top of other buildings.