{"id":13936,"date":"2025-08-21T10:53:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=13936"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:53:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:53:50","slug":"stork-spotting-near-nyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/stork-spotting-near-nyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Stork Spotting Near Nyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>A few days ago I was sitting at a desk when I noticed unusual shadows on the tiles outside. I went to see what was causing them. When I looked up I saw hundreds of storks flying in circles above my home. They were heading towards Geneva. I considered getting on the bike and trying to follow them, to see if they would land. I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I finally had the discipline to take things to be recycled and on the way back I looked to my right, at a field, and I spotted storks again. This time I drove around, found a good place to park and then walked up to the storks to take a few photos.<\/p>\n<p>Other people also stopped to appreciate the unique opportunity. I saw a mother and her child or two, as well as one car from Geneva. Another car had come in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second time in less than a week that I see a flock of storks, and this time I could walk nice and close. I was tempted to walk into the field to try to get better photos but thought better of it. I don&#8217;t want to get in trouble for bringing muddy shoes into the apartment building for the first time in years.<\/p>\n<h2>And Finally<\/h2>\n<p>If I went to them by car, rather than by foot the answer is simple. They stop for a few minutes, until they get spooked. The sooner you stop to observe them, the less likely they are too fly away just as you get there.<\/p>\n<p>While cycling I see plenty of herons, from up close, so to see storks is a special treat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A few days ago I was sitting at a desk when I noticed unusual shadows on the tiles outside. I went to see what was causing them. When I looked up I saw hundreds of storks flying in circles above my home. They were heading towards Geneva. I considered getting on the bike and trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[819,13],"tags":[2455,6748,6989,250,6990],"class_list":["post-13936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental","category-summer-holidays","tag-birds","tag-migrating","tag-storks","tag-switzerland","tag-unusual"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13937,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions\/13937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}