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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Oh how fantastic!
17:17 He's just flown off with the remainder of the fish
17:22 He came back with the fish piece (front left of nest)
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17:27
Another top up - there was a little chick aggression
Video:
Maya had stopped but is feeding again
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Video of 33 Feeding a Chick @ 17:12
It was really funny the way Maya was watching 33 feeding then she took the fish from him. But 33 was having none of it and took the fish back and fed the chick again :-D
FISH @ 18:21
33 started to eat but then stopped and stood for a bit.
He then flew off with it mostly likely to remove the head and take his share
Karen W said:
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Lol, and even funnier when she barged him away to get the fish back yet again!
Brilliant! Thanks Karen
33 returns with the fish
chicks up
Maya takes the fish - she better watch it was still flapping and 33 put his foot on it! and starts feeding the chicks
Maya blocking - not a great view
18:41 Feed Over - Maya soon covers the chicks.
33 Has just flown off with the fish
And I must fly too - BFN
19:41 Another feed in progress
20:09 B33 landed on the nest
20:12 Nest scraping
He left at 20:14