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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33 has brought another stick !!!!
drops on the older sticks
33 is off again - chicks seem fine!
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I must go now - dinner to prepare! BBS
The older chicks all together while #4 snoozes at mum's fishy toes :-D
Video of 33 feeding the chicks earlier stopped when Maya took the fish from 33 and coaxed the chicks and of course then fed them :-) I felt a bit sorry for 33
Maya finds a scrap of fish. Not much fish - older chick up with #4 in front.
Older chick gets a bit and #4 too
18:36 Maya now finishing off the tail / skin and #4 is pecking
FISH @ 19:08
#1, #2 & #3 up - 33 flies off
#4 has just woken and at the back
Maya has to move round the nest as the chicks keeping push her back to the edge
resulting #4 finds itself in front LOL
chicks now in a line - #1 - #4 - #3 & #2 and all getting fish
19:19 Maya moves again - they are near the edge!!
19;26 Maya continues tearing and sharing the fish between #1, #4, #3 & #2
19:30 #3 turns away - #4 gets a bit and then more fish
19:35 Maya starts to cleans up
19:38 Feed over
Another good feed lasting 30 minutes!! . All chicks were well fed.
Richard B
Feed complete, and surprise surprise, #4 was the last to finish and still wanted more.
Maya then moved across the nest and started to rebuild the cot rails, they are certainly very high on the left hand side of the nest and a nice clear space in front of them.
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