The valley of the storks has become the emblem of Yesildag, a settlement in the Beyşehir district of Konya on the shore of Lake Beyşehir. Thousands of storks arrive every spring and build their nests here, and that is when to come; they stay until the return migration.
Yesildag is counted among the more important picnic areas of the region for its landscape as well. A second colony is at Adakoy, where 45 stork nests stand together. The valley is thirty kilometres from Beyşehir.
Getting there
- Access
- In the town of Yeşildağ in the Beyşehir district, thirty kilometres from Beyşehir.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Konya as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -0.1 °C in January to 23.6 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (43 mm) and lightest in August (6 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
