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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Everything's slow, can't upload to YouTube at the mo, no thumbnails showing... :-/
All of a sudden, here we go:
IMAGICAT
Morning ALL
Today Chick #1 is 10 Days Old, #2 is 8, #3 is 6 and #4 is 3 Days Old.
Scene just now
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06:39 33 has arrived with a fish
Maya is up quickly and starts to feed
33 has left and chicks in a line - #3, #2 and #1 with #4 to the back
Maya managed to stretch over and slip #4 a bit and now another bit
Maya now tidies up and another bit for #4
06:47 Feed Over and Maya now covers them up
That was a good feed - all chicks got some fish and no squabbles.
Video:
I had to reboot in the end, Karen, and never did get to watch details in the video! :-/ It seems to happen every day these days :(
I know Scylla - just something they do and we can only hope we see more "good" feeds than "bad ie fighting". Fingers crossed!
Off out for a bit - BBL
Maya cleaning up while the chicks snooze
Another feed
Eldest two up first
now joined by #3 but is stuck at the back of the older pair
09:33 #3 now has itself in line and getting some fish
#4 is up and at the back but moves to the side and as the others are full #4 now gets a few bits of fish
09:38 Feed over. Maya cleans up
Again, a much better feed where all chicks got fish and no squabbles
Video of 09:27 Feed
Maya takes a break and 33 arrives to guard the chicks
Maya then returned wet, stayed for a moment and few off again. I think she is on the cam perch and most likely preening
33 flew off when Maya returned leaving her preening as she shades/watches over the chicks