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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Do we know which egg hatched? Egg #1 or egg #2?
Tiger Signature
For now, assuming Egg #1 Tiger. Last year Egg #1 hatched on 38 days and on 39 days in 2019 however Egg #2 also hatched later that day. . Unfortunately there were no real close ups of the eggs to determine their order although I do suspect the one with the large red blob is Egg #3 and only because it was referred to as "blood splattered" after laying. Time will tell :-)
Maya taking a break from incubating just now - certainly looking very strong
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Maya, who was out of the picture, has been having some fish and now the bobble gets a top up
close up
I think it was egg #1 that hatched.
13:52 33 collects the fish while Maya having a break
nice close up of bob and eggs
15:53 Maya back to cover bob
bob getting another top up just now
Maya feeds as 33 stands by
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Just now, a quick glimpse of the bobblehead.
not a brilliant capture , I thought I had a better one. C Manton Bay.
Looking good Think I just missed a feed
C ROP