Link to previous thread: Manton Bay – June 2019
The season so far: Maya arrived back 14 March and Blue 33(11) on 23 March. Maya laid 4 eggs 2, 5, 8 and 11 April hatching 11, 11, 13 and 17 May. The four chicks were ringed on 21 June as follows: #1 Blue 054 (F), #2 Blue 055 (M), #3 Blue 056 (M) and #4 Blue 057 (F). Further details of their vital statistics can be found here.
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Thanks Mike - be interesting to hear what they find and also thanks Scylla for the captures and videos.
Agree Jane, I too think it was having difficulty swallowing something stringy however the fish did not look particularly bloody to me. But what caught my attention was the amount of blood on its throat when it first appeared and the amount later in captures.
Yes Jane, my brother watched it and he is rattling on about the organs and some track!
@5:09 into Scylla's video, here is a capture of the stringy thing I saw the juvie pick up
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Yes fingers crossed it is fish parts causing this blood but one good thing surely is that we did not see the juvie throw up.
Jane - the juvie picked it up of the nest - not the fish! But, and hoping, most likely fish parts that have fallen
Update from Rutland on 056's injury