There is a season,
Turn, turn….
In Faro old town, in the Algarve, it was mating season for storks. Everywhere you looked, they were swooping through the sky, calling and shrieking to each other. The cacophony had everyone riveted to the spot, staring upwards. Try as I might, I couldn’t capture a good photo of these magnificent creatures in flight. I was always a wing beat, if not two, behind them.
Fortunately, the architecture almost compensates. Have you noticed the seasons changing? The Weekly Photo Challenge would love you to share. Me, I’ll probably be singing ‘that song’ all day!
And popping in to see Cate at Six Word Saturday, of course. Enjoy your weekend! Hope to see you on Monday, for a walk.
restlessjo 
Amazing bulding detailed! Awesome.
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Glad you liked it. Many thanks for your visit. 🙂
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You have really worked the angle here .. with this beautiful building. Love it!
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Faro old town is lovely, Vivi. A place you’d love to linger. Good food too! 🙂 Hugs, sweetheart. Thanks for your company. 🙂
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I’ll be singing that song all day now too Jo! I love storks, spring is in the air everywhere it seems, if the storks are at it lol 🙂 Great photos!
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The crows are pretty chirrupy here at home but it doesn’t have quite the same… 🙂 Thanks, Sherri!
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Haha…yes, I know what you mean about the crows Jo!!
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I actually think it wouldn’t be better if they’re in flight. You captured the scene perfectly fine.
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Thank you, kind sir 🙂
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stunning photography and a lovely blog!
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That’s very kind of you- thanks a lot! 🙂
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The architecture is definitely glorious…but I think you got some lovely pictures of the storks!
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Thanks, darlin’ 🙂 Happy Monday!
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Beautiful architecture Jo and those nests are huge, but then I guess the storks are too.
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With wings fully extended they are quite a size, Pauline, but when they curl in on themselves they shrink 🙂 🙂
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then when they swivel their heads around to follow you is amazing too.
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Photographing birds is a real specialty. I don’t know how they do it. Patience and long lenses, I suppose. You did get some good standing pictures of them, though, and that one with the bird in flight. They’re beautiful birds. Lovely churches too.
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Patience isn’t a strong point of mine, Nicki, and wobbly wrists don’t help 🙂 But they are fascinating to watch.
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Lovely buildings. Those are massive nests – the town just lets them be?
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Throughout Portugal! I’m not sure if there’s a conservation policy but those huge nests are never disturbed. Year on year the storks guard those city walls. 🙂
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Stork mating season looks like way more fun than magpie mating season here.
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I can’t say I’ve paid any attention to these things in the past but they were awfully raucous. Hard to ignore 🙂
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But if they acted like magpies, you’d need a pretty big helmet.
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Oh yes those magpies can be very scary when they swoop you…
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Have to say that ‘that’ song is the inspiration for my offering this week, and although on a slightly different theme to yours it does include Portugal 🙂 Only bird I see here at the moment is a cheeky blackbird who loves to dig in my pots at this time of year looking for worms and nesting material I suppose. he does make one helluva mess though – soil everywhere! I shall do my best to get a photo of the culprit.
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I was just going to put the laptop off and go to bed but I’ll have to come and look now 🙂
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Not scheduled until Tuesday 😉
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That’s why I couldn’t find it 🙂
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Now, will it be worth waiting for?
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Of course! I am always in awe of your excellence. (grease! grease 🙂 )
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[splutter…]
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🙂
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Fabulous birds, aren’t they? I always enjoyed the storks when I lived in Spain.
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I’ve never heard them before, Susan, so I was quite taken aback. 🙂 They’re usually peaceful souls.
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Storks aren’t a feature of life here, but I remember longing to get out of the car on the way to Gryżyna in a village that had heaps of storks (and fantastic brickwork as well). Your shots compensate a bit for not being able to stop then. Thank you and also for value-added architecture.
My first encounter with storks, as with many of my first encounters, was though fiction, in this case “The wheel on the roof” by Meindert DeJong. My Polish grandson is very familiar with them: when he saw an ibis in Brisbane he said “Funny stork.”
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I’ve not heard of that book, Meg. You are awfully well-read. 🙂 Impossible to avoid storks in the Algarve (or beautiful architecture) but I’ve never witnessed the ‘courtship’ ritual. Quite inspiring 🙂
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Come on! It was a kids’ book! Bring on the courtship ritual.
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That is SO funny! Got to look it up. I like the kid’s section of the library 🙂
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wow- I would love to have storks nesting here! Great photos!
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I was mesmerised by them, Kathe. And making the noise they did, you couldn’t ignore them. 🙂 Thanks, hon!
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I agree with you, the architecture is splendiferous. As for those storks, I hope they don’t bring too many surprise babies.
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I think that could be a distinct possibility, Viv 🙂
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