The purpose of this thread is to record the day-to-day activity at the Manton Bay nest thus freeing up the Rutland Osprey Project 2018 thread for general news on all the other birds, nests and projects.
Details about the Manton Bay nest, including a table of the breeding data, can be found here.
Last year we were thrilled to see both Maya and Blue 33(11) return within hours of each other on the 22 March and I am sure I speak for us all in wishing them both a safe journey home and for another successful season at Manton Bay.
Look quite comfortable together, to say how long they have been apart.
Back on nest, it has to be him
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So comfy, now having a look around
I don't believe this! I go out for an hour and it all happens!!
Birdies LG DU update.
He has flown from the nest now. I so would have like him to have had a little nest scrape as that would have confirmed it :-)
But where is Maya ...
That's pure bad luck Mike.
Another brief visit
Tweet from VC
Wouldn't it be fantastic if it was Blue 33? Keeping everything crossed.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Visited and flown again.
Night cam on and he has come down from the campost to the nest
Has flown up again