Brief History of Manton Bay:
The nest at Manton Bay was first used in 2007 by White 08(97) and Green 5N(04) who successfully raised 2 chicks. In 2008 they paired again but the nest failed and in 2009 it was unused.
In 2010 a new pair, Green 5R(04) and an unringed female nicknamed Mrs 5R, took up residence and over the next four years successfully raised 11 chicks.
Green 5R(04) failed to return in 2014 and Mrs 5R paired with a new mate, Blue 28(10) and laid 3 eggs. Blue 33(11) arrived determined to claim this nest and evicted Blue 28(10). Blue 33(11) kicked out the eggs and spent the remainder of the season bonding with Mrs 5R who was then officially named “Maya”.
In 2015 Maya and Blue 33(11) returned and to date have successfully raised 18 chicks including two broods of four the previous two seasons.
© Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust
Here’s wishing Maya and Blue 33(11) a safe journey home and for another successful season.
Birdies LG DU update.
Mike B said:MC and all. May be related to the Twitter post by Limpy. Do watch Maya skim the water at 1751.14 I've never seen that before.
Thank you for the heads-up re the lovely skim, MIKE - that could very easily have been, and probably would have been, skimmed over, scuse the not-exactly-pun.
I don't think it was related to the tweet, but anyway have had a look back to trace the blood on Maya's ankle and I think it was probably breakfish-related.
Skim added, plus slomo.
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Many thanks, everyone, for pics and posts, and especially Maya's skimming display. Sometime in the last eight summers in the last half of August, not last year though, we were in the hide at Manton Bay and we were lucky enough to see one of the adults (cannot recall if it was Maya, 33 or 5R, sorry) do that same skim clean-the-feet thing--lovely.
Kind regards, Ann
Coming up to half-past midnight an EG landed for a second - we didn't see an osprey but the goose must have
At least 3 matings so far, here's one goody:
Blue33 got manly a couple of times ;)