MANTON BAY - APRIL 2021

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 

Webcam/Copyright:  © Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust

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  • Presently Maya incubating the one egg

    © Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust

    Perhaps we will see egg #2 laid later today, if not tomorrow.   

    And of course we are all wondering if we will see another clutch of four this season?   

    Happy viewing everyone!

  • Many thanks for the new thread, Karen!
  • Site still painfully slow but here are some captures from this morning

    09:31 – 09:58

    33 incubating and flies off when Maya returns with the fish which she leaves at the side of the nest and settles down to incubate.  33 arrives a few minutes later and flies off with the fish.  

    11:11 –12:09

    Maya flies off (clearly see still just the one egg) and 33 returns with the fish.   Maya returns, grabs the fish and flies off.   33 settles down to incubate.

    12:09   - present

    Maya returns with the fish and 33 flies off.  Fish left side of nest and Maya settles down to incubate

     © Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust

  • Good to see you back KAREN What was with RSPB this morning......April Fool?
    I looked in about 6.20 and Maya stocially sit on her precious egg buffeted by wind
  • So glad to see you back, KAREN - I thought it was a good sign when you posted yesterday :-*

    I'm off until much much later.
  • Filling in from when KAREN left off - what a reassuringly uneventful afternoon and evening (according to me!).  My "batch downsizer" jumbled the snaps and I cannot read the times prior to posting so they may not be in the right order.

    A changeover, of which there were several:

    Maya ate the half fish:

    A highlight was this bale of hay:

    Making sure it's still there:

    Maya did not raise her tail for the only mating attempt I caught:

    No more fish.

  • Maya has been rather fidgetty the last few minutes Has she laid another egg?
  • I'm sure there;s a second egg She liiftedher taila little to attend to afeather and I saw an egg!!!!!
  • Maya hasn't budged so 33 flies off
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