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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So Blue 33 must have been using the fast hatching mixture. I think that egg #3 and egg #4 hatched in record time. They were both very fast.
You will not find may 34s here
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Morning ALL
Today the chicks are #1-8 Days, #2-6 Days, #3-4 Days & #4-1 Day old.
We have still to see the little chick that hatched last night
Scene just now.
It was a very cold night - appears to be some frost on the nest/Maya's tail
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Beautiful sky as we approach sunrise which according to the met office is 05:07
05:07
Here is a video of the sunrise
Sun now glistening on the water
33 has just arrived with a fish
33 starts flapping his wings as Maya starts to feed the chicks
difficult to see with the sun glare
05:55 Feed over