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
Maya has now arrived with a stick - both adults busy
© Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust
The chick is 080 standing up in front of Maya
12:21 Truly a miserable sight. Maya has stood by the chicks, who are huddled together, for over half an hour now.
According to the forecast, the rain should be easing now and will be dry in a few hours.
Starling said:Oh wonderful, good to see them again, I admit I was worried that was the end of the cam for the season, but all is well :)
Must admit Starling, so was I for I recall after ringing last year the connection to the bottom cam was lost and could not be fixed.
For the rest of the season we only had the top cam which the team managed to zoom out and tilt as much as they could so we could see the chicks wing flapping/ helicoptering/ fledging.
I am truly relieved to see both cams back :-)
Birdies LG DU update.
Thanks Mike. We are fortunate for no rain here (Edinburgh)!
Chicks up having a stretch.
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And here are the chicks' profiles!
Click here to access their FB Post and read more!
For the record:
Individual profiles of the chicks ringed in age order on 16 June
Blue 080(20) [41 days old]
Blue 081(20) [39 days old]
Blue 082 (20) [37 days old]
Blue 083(20) [34 days old]