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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Hi Karen, Good grief, I hope that gets broken up or moved more to the left side of the nest!
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I know Sandra! Maya has risen and grabs the fish
cam keeps freezing!
Three bobs have their heads up and beaks open
Maya leans forward dishing out the fish
11:11 cams bursts to life for a second!! Maya is still feeding
11:14 Feed appears to be over as Maya has left the fish
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Impossible to follow feed as constantly having to refresh trying to get a picture but knowing Maya - she will have made sure all the bobs got some fish.
I could not see the egg or a shell so no idea about #Egg 4
Maya is having a break leaving 33 on guard
Here, she returns wet - must of had a bath :-)
Maya has taken off again
33 watching the chicks or rather them watching dad :-)
Maya has returned
33 has now flown and Maya settles back down on the chicks
Cam is really playing up this morning and I cannot sit over it refreshing!
Will look back later and hopefully it will be up and running. SYL
12:34 33 arrived, picked up the fish and flew off with it
13:10 33 returns with the fish
13:14 33 blocking but we can just see Maya giving the chicks another top up
33 flies off and we have a view of the three bobbles being fed
for you
and you
and the one at the back got some too
13:23 - Feed Over
cams are just awful :-(
33 arrives but Maya rises, grabs the fish and starts eating
and more for the bobs too
aww
I've never seen the egg this morning but I must go now BFN
Thanks Karen. Camera continues to freeze and need to be refreshed continuously at the moment
15:29 Not going to get much chance of seeing the chicks and egg
Hi Sandra - no, we're not getting to see much just now. But it is such a shame the cam keeps freezing especially as it is zoomed in giving us a much better view than last season!
Anyway - here is a catch up of a few snaps I captured earlier but unable to post
14;24 - Peekaboo
14:36 Maya rose to have some fish with only one bob interested
14:38 soon there was two
14:38 and then there were three
all bobs got a top up
And I see Maya is up and feeding the bobs again - little and often :-)
15:51
What's that?
Do you think it could be a shell Sandra ???
My heart is in my mouth here as we only see two bobs and I hope it is not the third one caught up in that hay!
Edit: This happened one year