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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16:38 Four very full and sleepy chicks
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Before I go, here is a video of chick #4 when it fell on its back and then turned itself and then eventually back up in line for fish
17:36 Fish
#4 not joining in with this feed
17:46
Laid back down now
17:58 #4 now up and Maya is feeding it
18:00
All 4 chicks were fed really well
18:07 B33 comes to the nest and flies off with the fish
Off to have my dinner now. BFN
Here is a video of Chick #4 being fed towards and at the end of the 17:36 feed reported earlier by Sandra.
#4 got a lot of fish :-)
Sorry Cathy, I wasn't watching at the time. It did have a really good feed earlier, as in Karen's video (thanks Karen!), so perhaps it was sleeping?
20:13
Brower is so slow this morning, the event I was going to report as being in progress is over now...
Huge battle of the bobbles was going on and on and on! Maya was trying to feed them at the same time. I think it was the two eldest with the others keeping down out of the way, I'll do an unedited vid...
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