An English castle became a stork magnet

Right you are, but still, the natural habitat which they are adapted to with their long legs, beak and neck is wetlands. Of course, if they can find plenty of food in a freshly ploughed field, they will take that too, but so will many other birds (crows etc.).

Compare to the idea that sparrows in a barn are good luck — I think the causation is the other way around: if you are prosperous enough that you can be feeding your horses better than bare subsistence, there will be undigested grains in their manure, and sparrows come live in your barn.

Similarly, storks, being near the top of their food chain and migratory, probably prefer to nest in villages when there are large* numbers of people plowing regularly, but prefer unpopulated swamps when war or other disturbance has significantly reduced the local agricultural activity?

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oCoVXcZ59Q (chorus: "Stork on the roof / Peace on Earth")

* just like autism causes vaccines, babies bring the storks?

And she was adopted by aristocrats! So aristocrates have done something selfless and generous in their lives, I'd've never guessed. Good on `em.

Snark aside, her mother, Lady Anne Tree is evidently a very fine human being who understood that her being born into wealth gave her the opportunity (or, perhaps, even, responsibility) to help others, which she did, apparently magnificently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Anne_Tree

Once one's heart is opened to the joy of helping others, there is no end to the creative, excellent endeavors we can undertake.

Qed