Continued from Manton Bay – April 2021
The history of the Manton Bay nest, breeding stats and links to previous threads can be found here.
The season so far: March 19, Blue 33(11) returned 12:29 closely followed by Maya @ 12:54. On March 30 Egg #1 was laid @ 11:45 , April 2, Egg #2 was seen @ 07:34 and on April 5 Egg #3 was laid @ 07:05 .
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08:35 another check / turn - still waiting
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poor Maya - what a horrible day
09:17 Another check / turn
and Maya back down, listening and waiting
11:14 33 arrives to relieve Maya
she rises
close up
33 checks
then settles
up again for another check - perhaps he felt movement?
and back down
Latest
Link to their FB Post to watch vid (hope it works as I have had trouble linking to FB)
Edit: not working - sorry.
cam has zoomed in more
Maya arrives back - close ups
More checking by Maya now