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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Maya has just flown leaving the chicks to carry on with their exercises.
Also there is a fish lying at the back of the nest so the chicks have had breakfast as it looked like Maya was feeding one of the chicks in Mary's post at 06:42 when the other was wing flapping
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MaryGK said:
Plenty of flapping going on just now..... won't be long
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Morning Mary - no it wont be long!! They are lifting off the nest a little now but as yet I've not seen any helicoptering :-)
Lovely weather forecast over the next few days - sunny with a moderate breeze. Perfect for them exercising those wings!
07:51 082
and view on the bottom cam
07:53 Intruder! Maya quickly takes off and the chicks flatten
07:56 Chicks up and 080 self feeds
080 now having a good wing flap
catch up
08:35 Maya arrived and fed the chicks
09:00 081 exercising its wings
view of 081 from bottom cam
11:21 083 wing flapping
083 looking much more steadier on its feet now
083 has got the fish piece and attempting to self feed
082 now has the fish piece and self feeding
Each day they are becoming more and more independent