The news that Blue 33 has now has two chicks home (well nearly) from the first two eggs that he fertilised puts him in the super osprey class.
Now 33 has always been a bit special since 1st August 2011 when he decided to visit the Manton Bay nest in Four's a crowd In 2014 he evicted his older brother (Blue 28) from the Manton Bay nest and moved in with Maya
Nothing really prepared us for his extraordinary feat in his first year of breeding. An osprey can strive for a lifetime to have two returning chicks. Blue 33 has done it in just over 2 days the time between eggs #1 and egg #2 in 2015
The legendary 3 (97) took four years to sire a chick that returned, the wonderful 5R (04)
Here is a resume on Blue 33 also known as 33 (11)
and Manton Bay stats
Tiger Signature
reserved for images of 33 year 2020
(will update later)
Blue 33(11) - now 11 years old
Kind regards, Ann
Birdie's DU Summaries 2018 https://www.imagicat.com/
Hello.. been browsing the net for some history and collected the most amazing photo's (about 73 high-res) on flickr about 33.. you might have seen them all, or not :-). I'm not sure of they should be uploaded here (c) and if so, they should be sorted by year, so I put them on my own server:
https://bartje.org/birds/ospreys/osprey-blue-33
Didn't find any photo's after 2019.. yet..
https://ospreycam.net
Karen wrote the following post at 16 Aug 2022 7:50 AM:
Reserved for images of 33 year 2021
Brought over from current Manton Bay thread, as "instructed" by Karen
IMAGICAT