Continued from Manton Bay – May 2020
The history of the Manton Bay nest, breeding stats and links to previous threads can be found here
The season so far: The resident pair both returned on 16 March - Blue 33(11) at 07:12 and Maya at 13:16. For the second consecutive year, Maya laid four eggs – the first on 29 March followed by another three first seen on 4, 6 and 9 April. Maya and Blue 33(11) faithfully incubated the four eggs and on day 38, the first chick hatched 6 May c13:20 followed by Chick #2 on 8 May c06:10, Chick #3 on 10 May c14:45, and Chick #4 on 13 May c20:45.
All four chicks have thrived under the protection of Maya and Blue 33(11) who has once again proved to be a fantastic provider for his family.
In two/three week’s time, the chicks will be ringed and we’ll learn a bit more about them.
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19:56 The older chicks appear to be full now but #4 is having some more :-D
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20:11 One of the older chicks now have seconds. #4 has had enough and settled
20:12 Feed over
Off now - just a quick visit today:-) - BFN
22:28 Aww, lovely
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Good Morning everyone
It was no mean feat doing all the chicks profiles Karen, well done! - so nice to see them singled out like that.
Maya has been trying to put some barriers in place on the nest this morning.
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Morning ALL - thanks for the updates.
Today Chick #1 is 34 days old, #2 is 32 days, #3 is 30 days and #4 is 27 days old.
The fabulous four: