Continued from Manton Bay – March 2020
The history of the Manton Bay nest, breeding stats and links to previous threads can be found here
The season so far:Mar 16: Blue 33(11) returned 07:12Mar 16: Maya returned 13:16Mar 29: Egg #1 laid 20:52
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Nice headless fish for Maya:
IMAGICAT
Morning ALL and thanks Scylla for earlier updates.
Day 21 - hard to believe it has been three weeks since Maya laid her first egg!
09:55 Maya returned with some hay and took over incubating from 33
presently no change - Maya still incubating
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33 arrived with a small stick, Maya flew off leaving 33 to take over
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Morning ALL - now on to Day 22
Maya incubating at the moment.
Approx 13:00 there was an intruder around.
Maya remained incubating the eggs while 33 was flapping and mantling defended the nest
intruder can be seen flying by
currently, 13:15 - 33 has returned and mantling again
33 has flown