Jun 11, 2011: Earlier we`ve already met white storks in Lomonosovskiy raion, and we also saw a nest with young storks near Sosnoviy Bor in 2010. “Lomonosovsky” storks were feeding near a combine in a field and did not let any walking people to come closer than a distance of a gun shot. These storks, on the opposite, felt quite comfortable near people. Until 3 a.m. we were frying shashlyk, making smoke screens from mosquitoes, talking rather loudly, retelling favourite Soviet animated cartoons, laughing on that; besides, some music was playing (not stunningly loudly, but still loud enough to be heard on the street). And Andrei also was walking everywhere and making shots with flash. The storks did not look bothered with all this at all.2011-06-Lyuban1

Leningradskaya oblast, Tosnenskiy raion, Ilyinskiy pogost village

species White stork Ciconia ciconia