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.
Morning Patily and Mike (seen you elsewhere too) :-)
That was some tussle with that big stick this morning :-) Maybe Kayleigh will include it in her blog.
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Just noticed this post by Tiger in the Rutland thread for March. This is very strange to leave the egg uncovered all that time. Anyone got any theories?
Morning all - thanks for all the earlier captures Mary and thanks for finding/transferring Tigers post.
This is awful news about the egg. Scylla captured her coming back at 3.03am so uncovered for approx 3 hours and it is cold at night!
Can't help but feel a bit concerned for this one!
Good Morning KAREN That is very unusual Hope all wil lbe well
Yes it is not looking very good for this first egg, seems very strange what with Maya's experience. Time will tell no doubt! One thing for sure Ospreys certainly are never predictable.
Karen W said:Can't help but feel a bit concerned for this one!
It was on the early side, wasn't it? I wonder if Maya wasn't quite ready, psychologically?
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Morning Patily ... yes, it is strange and not like Maya!! We can only hope and trust that they know best!
Change over. 33 has just arrived with some grass in his talons.
maya flies off and 33 takes over incubating
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scylla said: Can't help but feel a bit concerned for this one! It was on the early side, wasn't it? I wonder if Maya wasn't quite ready, psychologically? [/quote] She laid her first egg after 9 days last year and so easy for us to think that 1 day isn't really that much of a difference but I suppose it is when we think of their growth rate so you could have a point. Don't know ... we never understand them but time will tell :-)
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She laid her first egg after 9 days last year and so easy for us to think that 1 day isn't really that much of a difference but I suppose it is when we think of their growth rate so you could have a point.
Don't know ... we never understand them but time will tell :-)
I think that at the early stages of their development the eggs are very able to cope with not being incubated, many birds don't actually start incubating until all the eggs are laid. The most likely outcome is that 1 & 2 hatch fairly close to each other. A more worrying aspect would be to potential for predation of the eggs by corvids, mammals etc, however interestingly with this occuring at night & surrounded by water the chances are pretty low at this location.
Thank you for the reassurance, VC :-)
I've managed to set up so I can snap the 2 cams in one, then I can crop out the req'd one... and give it the treatment ;-) No good for speed, tho.