I may not ever have believed that storks brought babies when I was very young. For one thing, my parents' stories kept changing. One day it was storks, the next, babies were found under cabbage leaves. And I could never square any of it with the fact than Mom kept going to the hospital and coming home with little ones.

However, I did believe that storks built nests on chimneys in Holland. Just as I believed that Dutch people wore wooden shoes and little boys saved the country by putting their fingers in dikes—a terrifying responsibility in my opinion at the time.

I had largely forgotten about storks' nests in chimneys until, during the taxi ride to the airport in Marrakech, I spotted a huge nest built of branches on top of a building. Although it was abandoned, I immediately knew it for what it was.

Almost a month later, in Consuego, Spain, I photographed this church.

After shooting, I noticed the nest on a roof ornament.

A nesting pair stood guard over what I assumed were baby storks, although they weren't visible.

In another part of La Mancha, I finally got to see chicks. They were in yet another nest, this one in a chimney just the way it is supposed to be.

For some reason, seeing these storks was special; more so than seeing, for example, the egrets that live in Parque Juaréz next to my house. Something about their mythology. For example, whoever has storks nesting in her chimney will have good luck. Or her next baby will be a boy. (Bad luck?)

Someone has set up a web cam on a stork nest. You can watch two parents and three fuzzy babies in real time. And you can listen to the noises they make, as well as the sounds of traffic, dogs barking and children playing. Check it out here.