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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17:28 #4 now getting its share
A solo feed
Its crop is huge!!
17:37 An older chick has moved in for more as #4 decided it had had enough
Off to cook my dinner. BFN
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20:24 I can't get the top cam. There must have been a fish delivery as Maya is feeding at least one chick
20:38 Feed is continuing
21:05 Chicks are alone
Top cam still isn't working
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Scene at 21:37
Sandra - thanks for the updates - much appreciated.
I was watching but unable to post however I did manage to record the feeds so as per your earlier posts:
16:50 Maya Feeding the Chicks
17:04 Maya Resumes Feeding Chicks
and my favourite LOL
17:30 Chick #4 getting a solo feed from Maya
Earlier at 18:00 33 landed and offered the chicks more fish!
Video: 33 Feeds Chicks @ 18:00
I thought before signing off I would check the cam to see if Maya is spending the night with the chicks or if this is to be their first night alone and the cam is still down - black screen !!
Can't really see much on the bottom cam
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I had to go off and do something else, waiting for the RF to open up - so I don't know exactly how long it took >:(
Also, I didn't refresh the page to see if this had already been posted, given the further delay that would cause.
IMAGICAT
Karen W said:I thought before signing off I would check the cam to see if Maya is spending the night with the chicks or if this is to be their first night alone and the cam is still down - black screen !!
Unfortunately I didn't think to start recording the bottom cam until 04:15 - at that time the chicks were alone, Maya flew down a moment before 33 arrived with the fish.