This worked out well. Walked down a dike further out than I had been lately since reeds and cane blocked both sides of the trail. Too thick to see anything a friend and I were only watching straight ahead.

So of course up pops an adult Stork from behind. We had gone right past him.

He choose to go straight giving me a chance at a few shoots before the tall reeds blocked us again.

He changed his mind again though and turned heading back to where we had just come from.

I watched for a while and yes, he flew and landed exactly where we had been standing way down the other side. Of course he came down next to Ellen.