MANTON BAY - MAY 2022

I do hope Maya is well.

Morning ALL - I am watching and speechless!!

How can Maya be so naive??   But this has happened before and Maya has been clueless leaving 33 to pull the fish from the cup.

But the chicks, as well as taking a thrashing from the fish, Maya also appeared to trample on them when trying to get in to brood.

In addition to Scylla's stills & great video, here are some more of the incident:

07:13  33 delivers a fish

Maya takes it and starts to tear at it

Maya feeds chicks

fish flaps into cup over the chicks

Maya just looks on

Maya is trying to get herself into brood the chicks and the fish

Maya now stands on the chick !!

She really doesn't have a clue what to do about this situation

and down she goes on top of chicks and fish

33 arrives - he picks up a couple of bit and can't get under her for the fish

33 flies off and Maya continues to brood the chicks and fish

(sorry for dups Scylla but must record this incident):

I'm out most of today so will look back later to see what's what - this does not look good. BFN

The confused way she's been behaving - I wondered if she could have had a "stroke" of the bird variety.

Oh dear. I hate it when things seem to be going wrong.

She doesn't seem to be opening her eyes

Occasionally she perks up but soon droops again.

Oh dear - is all I can say. Is there one chick exposed nearer us, lying between Maya and the stick on the rim?
She has paddled briefly under her, but it is unusual for her not to have moved her head. The nictitating membrane is covering her eye.
It is so alarming after yesterday's excitement at LG.

She's up 'n feeding one chick - I was going thru the overnight and early morning, noticing that her eyes had been closed much of this time this morning, before the fish and whilst sitting up.

Continuing on from the "calamity" video, so remember that she now seems to have recovered - but I have to examine the chick-feed that just went on, don't know if both are OK.