It was wonderful to see both Maya and Blue 33(11) return much earlier this year. Maya arrived back on the 21 March and 33(11) on 27 March .
Since arriving back Maya and 33 have reestablished their partnership and are busy preparing their nest to hold these precious eggs which we so eagerly await.
Maya laid her eggs after 9 days last year so we could see eggs anytime from 6 April.
sorry for duplicate Mike ... I didn't notice you had posted the capture. :-)
33 has flown off and the sky is getting blacker there!!
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Kayleigh's next update will be interesting to see what they make of egg situation
Maya has now stopped eating, leaving the fish to return to incubate the egg
Unknown said: Kayleigh's next update will be interesting to see what they make of egg situation
Yes, I'm looking forward to it!
Karen W said: sorry for duplicate Mike ... I didn't notice you had posted the capture. :-)
Better two than none Karen!.
Birdies LG DU update.
Unknown said:Yes, they do start incubating as soon as the first egg is laid for the reasons you give; but would the viability be any different to the egg of a blue Tit if incubation was partially delayed as happened last night?
Quite. In fact we have seen a number of cases where the incubation of egg #1 has been unusually long which may well have been due to a delay in incubation. The most obvious was Dyfi in 2011 where egg #1 hatched as chick #2 after the distinctive egg #2 hatched as chick #1. Maya's first clutch in 2010 all hatched after egg #1 had been given up by human watchers as overdue. This was before the development of splodology so we don't know what order Maya's eggs hatched in.
Hilary J
33 returned and Maya rose and flew off for a comfort break. Maya has flown off again leaving 33 who has one talon on the fish here
but decides not to eat and ventures round the nest and eventually moves towards the egg
and has now settled down to incubate
Maya returned about 10 minutes ago
33 obviously has got himself comfy and not moving :-) Maya stands by and is now enjoying a good preen
HilaryJ said: Yes, they do start incubating as soon as the first egg is laid for the reasons you give; but would the viability be any different to the egg of a blue Tit if incubation was partially delayed as happened last night? Quite. In fact we have seen a number of cases where the incubation of egg #1 has been unusually long which may well have been due to a delay in incubation. The most obvious was Dyfi in 2011 where egg #1 hatched as chick #2 after the distinctive egg #2 hatched as chick #1. Maya's first clutch in 2010 all hatched after egg #1 had been given up by human watchers as overdue. This was before the development of splodology so we don't know what order Maya's eggs hatched in. [/quote]I'm not sure it changes the viability but blue tits since you use them as an example according to research do not start incubating until the clutch is almost complete ranging from 7-13 eggs. I was just pointing out that again following research raptors, eagle varieties in particular incubate as soon as first egg is laid and are not the same as blue titp or other garden birds This made me question whether this pair of Ospreys believed there to be an abnormality in the egg that made them not incubate as they may normally have done
Yes, they do start incubating as soon as the first egg is laid for the reasons you give; but would the viability be any different to the egg of a blue Tit if incubation was partially delayed as happened last night?
[/quote]I'm not sure it changes the viability but blue tits since you use them as an example according to research do not start incubating until the clutch is almost complete ranging from 7-13 eggs. I was just pointing out that again following research raptors, eagle varieties in particular incubate as soon as first egg is laid and are not the same as blue titp or other garden birds
This made me question whether this pair of Ospreys believed there to be an abnormality in the egg that made them not incubate as they may normally have done