Continued from Manton Bay – March 2021
The history of the Manton Bay nest, breeding stats and links to previous threads can be found here.
The season so far:
Mar 19: Blue 33(11) returned @ 12:29
Mar 19: Maya returned @ 12:54
Mar 30: Egg #1 laid @ 11:45
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Wonder if we'll see fluff balls this weekend Looking at the weather its going to be heavy rain latter and wet again tomorrow, dry over the weekend and wet again next week
C ROP
Morning ALL
Patily - found this earlier FB post from Rutland advising of dates to start looking out for
I really do hope the team has got to grips with the new camera and are able to zoom in on the eggs as so far, we have had no close ups of them.
Maya, who is incubating just now, gives the eggs a quick check
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And I see someone has lost a feather!
12:58 33 arrives with a large stick
landing almost on top of Maya!
Maya rises helping 33 place the stick
Maya flies off
33 takes over incubating
Maya has been calling and looking - suspect 33 may have a fish?
Morning ALL -
Sun shinning on the nest - lovely start to the day
Maya gives the eggs a turn .
In less than a week we could be seeing the first hatching of the season!
and quickly settles
Birdies LG DU update.