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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scene just now @11:23
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Maya with the chicks around her seeking shelter from the elements
rain seems to be forecast for the next few days
Good to see brighter weather forecast for next week (fingers crossed the weather forecasters are right) and hopefully we will see the chicks exercising a bit more and starting to build up those wing muscles
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14:26 Feed in Progress
16:54 Maya with the chicks and there is a large fish at her side
17:06 33 arrived
and had himself some fish while the chicks all looked on :-)
17:07 33 continued to enjoy his fish dinner
17:08 Maya then made a move towards the fish - Look at the size of #4 now!
17:09 33 flies off
17:09 Maya has taken the fish now
#4 itself up for some fish
17:19 #4 seems to be full and lying down but Maya stuffs the fish into it :-D
7:22 Chicks are full - Maya stops feeding and walks away
18:15 Maya watches over her chicks who all look very cosy in all the new nesting material that has been brought in today
off for the night now - BFN
Many thanks Karen. #4 has changed dramatically! 19:56 Another 'stickgate'!
B33 flew off leaving Maya to sort it out
Perhaps here
No, back to here
20:04 Maya still not happy with it
20:11
20:14 Still not happy so went back to sort it out some more
Some cane/straw stalk/stick is lying on the chicks
20:19 Finally, Maya is satisfied with the stick placement
20:22
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