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Summary of the season so far:
Maya arrived back 12 March and Blue 33(11),on 14 March. The pair are currently incubating three eggs - #1 laid 28 March, #2 laid 31 March and #3 on 3 April.
Maya and 33 have incubated these eggs for 34 days now and in a few days we should see the first hatching of the season and another record broken!
Aw, three little bobbleheads
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Wonderful news! KAREN, like your idea of 33 punching the air with joy
Well chosen SHEILA What a lovely day for you
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Another feed #1, I presume looking very strong but, as to be expected #3 still a bit wobbly
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Feed over but No 1 Bobble wants more Maya now brooding and 33 has arrived to move a stick and gone already
33 just brought in a huge clump of hay
Maya is wrestling with it
As I can't watch this cam, but it has to look after itself, I'm landed with very long periods of frozen cam :( I don't have any hatch footage, but here's a clip of all 3 bobbling:
(I now see that I should have watched this right thru real-time and excised some freezes, sorry.)
Later, I did look across at the screen and was quite worried for a while - Maya was really feeling the heat, obviously :o
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33 didn't bring the hay It was perfectly OK where it as, but he had to move it nearer to Maya and nearly put it on her so she had to wrestle with it to get it into a better position.....and he just flew off Had he come hoping to see the babies?
I saw him arrive with the hay, patily.
Scylla, I think ospreys, wintering in West Africa will experience far higher temps than experienced at MB today. There was also a pleasant cooling breeze. Even by 17.00 in the area there was a significant cooling down. I believe this hot spell will have passed by tomorrow. Maya will be fine.
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