Stork's nest - tricks and nuances of building with your own hands. 55 photos of the nest

Since ancient times, people consider the stork a bird - appearing near housing for good. Storks live near human habitation, but very few cases are known when they were tamed. To attract this bird, in places where it is found, you can build a nest near the house, or even on its roof. But do not forget that the stork’s nest on the roof of the house is not only beautiful, and the birds are nearby, but also the waste products of the bird, the whine of hatched chicks.

If you are lucky and the storks settle with you, you will sometimes have to adapt to the regime of this rare bird, so as not to disturb it.

If it is decided that the stork can live near your home, then there are several signs. And if signs are to your liking, you can learn how to build a bird's nest, perhaps it will agree to settle very close.

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Signs about storks

Rumor has it - they bring peace and financial stability to the family. The stork’s nest on the roof means that the house will never fire. If the stork circles the dwelling for several days or weeks, the couple will soon have a baby. If this bird sat on the roof or took a position on the chimney where the wedding is now walking - in the first year a baby will appear.

There are also bad signs: if a stork made a nest on the roof, and then suddenly left it, then trouble will happen to the house.

It is not necessary to attach importance to signs, just a bird is comfortable to sit where it is high, and it will settle where it is found.

Therefore, if you want storks to make a nest on your roof, settle where they live, and to make the bird of happiness easier, build a nest for it yourself.

Birds are very busy creatures, they have a year scheduled for mating, laying eggs, hatching, raising them, and then on vacation, in warm places until new masonry. The stork will be happy with the finished house.

Preparing to build a nest

How stork nests look in nature, and what a person can do - see a photo of stork nests, if inspired, you can start working.

In order for storks to live freely in the nest, they need to have somewhere to feed - there should be farms, meadows, swamps nearby. The likelihood of populating your nest becomes higher if a lot of birds already live in the area, which means that the stork will also take root here.

What to consider when choosing a nesting place:

It is advisable to build a nest for a stork 300 meters from the neighboring nesting place for these birds, not closer, otherwise they will divide the territory and quarrel;
the nest should be ready in early March, so that the birds have time to settle in: in late April - early May, laying has already been done, storks hatch eggs; or build in the fall - next spring;
it should be convenient for birds to fly up - it is impossible that there are electric wires above the nesting place, roofs of buildings, poles, tall trees are suitable;
the place must be at least 4 meters high;
nest support must be strong - two adult storks with chicks and nest weigh about 40 kg, these birds return to their nests for more than one year, each time the nest will become heavier.

Nest building

It’s difficult to build a nesting place on a pillar yourself, and on the roof of any building is absolutely real.

For the base of the nest, you can take a bicycle tire or a rim from the wheel of the trolley, you can make the basis of boards, thick branches or metal rods. To prevent the structure from crumbling, it must be strengthened on the sides with pegs or long nails.

In order for the stork to like the nest, it is necessary to make it as if he built it himself. To do this, line the bottom with dried branches with a layer of about 35 cm.There is no need to make a high pillow, otherwise the chicks will be high to the sides and hot.

The middle must be filled with straw and manure - in nature, storks feed on frogs, lizards, mice, even a hare or mole can swallow, sometimes storks eat carrion, the smell of an animal attracts them.

To strengthen the base, you need strong brushwood, you can not fasten the wire - it does not break, the birds can get tangled in it with their paws when taking off, or just being in the nest.

A little human trick: it is necessary to spray the nest with lime - abundantly around the edges, this imitates bird droppings. To attract a stork - his house should look old, old.

Operating procedure

First, a wooden overlay is made on the roof. Take two bars about one and a half meters each. Lay them with a cross so that the two ends of the bars are shorter than the other two - for the stability of the structure. Lay the same design on them.

In total, 4 timber is needed. The base is ready: a quadrangular base is obtained. It is advisable to nail it to the roof so that it is motionless. A wheel is placed on the finished base - the nests of birds are always round.

Next begins weaving the nest. It is better to take the material in the forest, with a natural smell of nature. It will take three or four arms of brushwood: it can be willow branches, straw, reeds, vine grapes - you need flexible material. Branches can be bought at the garden market or at a store.

Bend all branches with a ring and connect the rings. To connect, take a twine from natural threads. Fresh branches are difficult to bend, they will need to be dried for some time: for this, cut branches must be left on the street, in the fresh air - they will dry naturally. Do not leave in the rain, bring it into the room.

You need straw for the middle of the nesting area. On top of it is a layer of twigs. Manure to be laid between branches. With a lime solution to simulate droppings, spray the nest from the outside. Do not use white paint - only natural material.

What to make a stork attracted a new nest

Poultry feed should be put in the nest. Stork is not easy to attract. First, he must know that there is food.

From time to time, the nesting site needs to be checked: whether the branches began to deteriorate and rot, whether they began to bloom - fresh sprouts can begin to break out on the branches, this is unacceptable for nesting.

Before the storks settle in your nest, it may take more than one year. But if this is your permanent home, and there is time to maintain the nest - one day the owner of the house will certainly wait for his stork.

The nest on the roof is beautiful, but the birds are alive, if a person is ready to share his territory with the bird, is not afraid of noise, whine and some inevitable dirt, he can wait for a stork, observe, be surprised and realize all the good signs associated with this beautiful a bird.