Continued from Manton Bay – April 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 20:52Apr 04: Egg #2 first seen 13:27Apr 06: Egg #3 first seen 05:09Apr 09: Egg #4 first seen 07:00
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You're welcome Sandra & Starling and Good Morning to you both :-)
As I have joked with you Starling, never call a dog "Dawn" lol
33 has just returned for the fish
which he flies off with
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33 returns with the fish and another top up
more fish - the older three bobs are up first
#4 gets itself up now
but not for long - head down again
33 arrives with a stick then stumbles back into the chicks!!
all bobs up and seem OK
08:47 Feed over - I never saw #4 getting any but it did get a couple of bits earlier and it doesn't need as much as the older ones
Video of 08:38 Feed
33 has just arrived with another stick!!
Maya steps in to push it away from the chicks
now moving nesting material
33 flies off. Maya then tidies up a bit and then flies off for a quick break.
08:55 Returns and once more is tidying up the nest
What a nightmare!
Video of 33's Destructive Visit!!
Gosh, even Maya was faffing about with a stick too!
Edit - saying that, she did move it to a better place on the other side of the nest
Karen W said:
Four bobs !
I've still got ? pages to go before I'm caught up, but must say what a brilliant "4 bobs" capture that is, and how it brought a beam to my face in difficult circs here - got a new telly coming today, fingers crossed, and preparation for it has been fraught, to say the least.
IMAGICAT
9:40 Maya feeding the chicks
9:44 I can't see how much #4 is getting
Cam is freezing/blank screen/buffering now
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