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.
Webcam\Copyright: © Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust
05:21 Maya returns and tidies up
05:23 Maya flies off leaving 080 self feeding and the others resting after their breakfish
© Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust
06:15 BLUE 082 HAS FLEDGED [50 days old]
082 flapped his wings and off he went :-)
Video:
Blue 082 Fledges @ 06:15 29 June 2020
06:17 080 takes off and Maya arrives.
Only 081 and 083 on the nest
06:20 Maya now feeds 081 and 083
06:34 081 and 083 still being fed. No sign of 080 or 082 yet
06:55 Maya stands waiting on the nest as 083 self feeds
06:56 Maya now flies off leaving 083 and 081
07:09 080 returns to the nest
Another one goes - good for 082 - TKU Karen for doing the video of the fledge.
OH dear can you feel ENS coming closer by the day.
At the end of every season I always feel a bit empty when they have all gone - then after a few days you can then get on with doing some of the other things that have put on hold since March
I guess we are lucky in the fact that the Ospreys have got a lot of us human's through a pretty strange and dark time.
EJ's Memorial Balgavies Loch Ospreys 2023
This is a very short, very belated and inperfect video of 082's impressive helicopter on Friday evening when we were biting our nails willing 080 to return safely and now he has put all that practice to good use