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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33 took it away at 0613, Mike. He came back later without it, so either ate the lot or dropped it.
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09:40 Maya taking a break while 33 stands guard
head up - nice and strong
Maya returns nibbling at some bark. 33 has flown
so cute :-)
09:44 Maya covers up the bob again
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Maya being very attentive checking and giving the other eggs a turn while the bob wriggles about
could she be hearing something???
11:24 Maya standing at the edge of the nest with a fish - good to see her eating
bob is yelling