Continued from Manton Bay – July 2021.
The history of the Manton Bay nest, breeding stats and links to previous threads can be found here.
2021 Season Summary: On 19 March, Blue 33(11) returned at 12:29 and Maya at 12:52. Three eggs were laid, #1 on 30 March at 11:45, #2 seen on 2 April at 07:34 and #3 on 5 April at 07:05. Sadly only two eggs hatched, the first on 8 May at 19:51 and the second on 10 May at 19:48, one being unviable. The chicks were ringed on 19 June. Chick #1, a male, was fitted with the blue darvic 096 and Chick #2, a female, was fitted with blue 095 . At 54 days old, Blue 096 fledged at 12:12 on 1 July and Blue 095, aged 53 days old, at 11:12 on 2 July. On 22 August at 09:10, Blue 095 aged 104 days old, set off on migration and 3 minutes later, 09:13, Blue 096 aged 106 days old left. Maya and Blue 33(11) remained and finally set off - Maya on 30 August and Blue 33(11) the next morning on 31 August.
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095 returns and soon warning off someone?
and then settles
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15:49 095 again in defensive mode
15:59 095 flies off - ENS
16:43 095 returns to the nest - screeching and mantling
095 settled after a couple of minutes and has constantly been calling
17:13 FISH!
33 arrives with a huge fish
095 moves to take it
33 has flown and 095 rises up with the fish!
back down - the fish is huge!!
095 back down on the nest with the fish
I hope she doesn't take off
And she has!! 095 gets a hold of the fish preparing to take off
Gone - ENS
She constantly struggled to lift off with the size of the fish which would feed the whole family!
But she was adamant.
We can only hope that she does hold on to it and returns
095 returns. It would appear that she came down from the campost and is now back on the nest
now eating at the edge of the nest
Fingers crossed she stays there and eats then leaves it for the rest of the family!