Continued from Manton Bay – May 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 & Maya @ 12:52
Mar 30: Egg #1 laid @ 11:45 / hatched 8 May @ 19:51 [39 days]
Apr 2: Egg #2 seen @ 07:34 / hatched 10 May @ 19:48 [38 days]
Apr 5: Egg #3 laid @ 07:05 / ----------
In a couple of weeks, the two chicks will be ringed with their blue darvics and we will learn of their vitals.
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Holy Mackerel. I just got back from 4 weeks on the road to check on things here, see the sad news at LG, and I see pre-teen osplets at Manton Bay! Season is whizzing by...
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SheilaFE said: I came across a photo of T7(16)m, a MB chick, on Rutland Osprey Images, FB. Has he intruded at MB this year at all?
As far as I am aware Sheila, No. 055 has intruded and also a large unringed female a few days ago.
Just now Maya is standing watching over the chicks and perhaps waiting on 33 bringing dinner :-)
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SheilaFE said:. I came across a photo of T7(16)m, a MB chick, on Rutland Osprey Images, FB. Has he intruded at MB this year at all? He returned as a two year old in 2018 and was seen in Devon in August, but 2019 and 2020 he was seen at MB. In 2020 he was seen twice. I wonder whether he has been lucky enough to find a female this year. Apparently there has been much discussion about his sex over the years. He was ringed as a 'she' but when he was seen on his return the consensus went to 'he'!
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By sheer coincidence, Sheila, I've just checked River Gwash Fb page to see which Ospreys had been fishing there - look who has been!
28th May (more pictures are shown with the Fb post and on earlier ones too but I'm unable to put the link on at present)
He's been there today too
17:27 Fish and it is a whopper!
33 flies off as Maya feeds the chicks
Morning ALL
Today: Chick #1 is 28 days old
and #2 is 26 days old.
Both chicks being fed just now
11:29 chicks watch Maya fly by
11:29 She soon returns and chicks get themselves under her
and settled, shaded in her shadow