On a wing and a prayer


The landscape at Knepp is dotted with about 40 stork nests in West Sussex, England. — Hannah Reyes Morales/The New York Times

THE noisy throng of birds beat their wings and hopped up and down in their pen. The three-month-old white storks, fuelled by a generous morning feed, were ready for take-off.

As a keeper opened the gate, a dedicated crowd of bird-watchers held its collective breath several hundred metres away. The sight of a juvenile stork on its first flight is not to be missed.

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