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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And he's nest cupping now!
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33 just had a nest scrape!!
I was recording and a video of this mayhem - all 10 minutes for that is how long 33 was on the nest - will follow shortly !!! 33 has now flown. phew !!
Just seen the egg! Maya has brought it up under her
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I hope the egg and the bobs are all ok after 33's visit.
To recap 33's visit -
He arrived at the nest with a stick, rearranged sticks/nesting material then proceeded to look under Maya presumably for fish. Maya flew off whereby it appeared 33 was going to bury the chicks. Maya returned and both started moving stuff around. Maya then settled on the chicks then 33 got settled down beside Maya, and finally a nest scrape!!
One concern was when Maya backed, she appeared to walk over the chicks/egg!!
Here is 33's visit of complete chaos ending with him settling down with Maya and the nest scrape!
It was a bit chaotic wasn't it! I'm sure no harm was done to the chicks and egg, her talons appeared to just glance over them. Good to see a little bit of clearer view now. Many thanks Karen!
Yes Sandra - phew, I have re-watched it. Also I saw the feathers attached in the hay!!
33 has just arrived with another stick and placed at the front of the screen but thankfully not blocking.
33 took off and is back with another albeit somewhat smaller stick than the last!
He really doesn't know what to be up to!
Karen W said:33 has just arrived with a stick!
Here's the video of that and subsequent "activities" until 33 leaves - much of it FF:
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Thanks Scylla - Excellent. Editing is one thing I really must learn to do. Maya, I think, is starting to pay quite a bit of attention to the egg now. Have been seeing some shoogles and her head down at it. Off course she is doing this for the chicks too but the fact she has the egg up to the front of her , I think we'll see a hatch soon :-)
Karen W said:Thanks Scylla
That's very generous of you, Karen (no more than I'd expect, tho ) ...
I've just got the notification of your video from YouTube, I didn't realise you'd done one. I've been a terrible gazumper lately