On the edge of the stork-nest sat two gray owls, an old, gray-streaked cat, and a dozen old, decrepit rats with protruding teeth and watery eyes.

W. I. (Bill Morgan) Morgan (A); 31Dec74; R594340. R594341. Stork bite.

Every summer there lived a stork couple in a large nest on the roof.

Then did Religion in a lazy cell, In empty, airy contemplations dwell; And like the block, unmovèd lay; but ours, As much too active, like the stork devours.

At certain seasons, numbers of storks may be seen upon the chimney-tops, for Delft is supposed to be the stork town par excellence.