White Stork Nest - Bad Salzungen, Germany

High above the rooftops of Bad Salzungen, a spa town on the Werra River in Thuringia, a pair of white storks (Weißstörche) nest on top of an old drilling tower, right beside the camera.

White storks fly south each fall to spend the winter in Spain or Africa, then return in spring to repair their nest. Both parents take turns sitting on three to five eggs for about 33 days, and the chicks leave the nest after around two months.

The nest is busy from spring through summer and quiet once the storks leave. Bad Salzungen grew up around its salt springs, which still feed a historic graduation house where salty water trickles down tall walls beside the Werra.

Did You Know? White storks have almost no voice. Instead of calling, they greet each other by clattering their bills, and in German folklore the stork, nicknamed Adebar, brings babies.

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