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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Maya giving her feathers some attention I'm struck, as Iam annually, as tohow much they have already grown
ROP
scene just now
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Unseen intruder around - Maya risen and mantling
threat passes and Maya soon at ease
11:23 33 arrives with a large, live fish
Maya has it but it is flapping over the chicks
lying on the chicks !!!!!
Maya pulls it away
33 flies off and Maya starts eating ; feeding the chicks
both chicks up and being fed and seem OK - just hope that fish doesn't flap any more
must go now - BFN
Morning ALL
07:06 33 had arrived with a fish and Maya starting to feed chicks
Chick #1
Chick #2
Both chicks were well fed :-)
Head now darkening on the oldest chick
Off now - hopefully back later - BFN
10:41 33 arrives and mantling!
screeching - warning something off
threat soon passes and 33 relaxes watching over the chick with Maya
10:44 33 then takes the fish
has a few bites at the nest
then flies off with it