Continued from Manton Bay July 2022
Details about the Manton Bay nest can be found on the season’s opening post
The season so far: Maya returned 15 March @ 10:21 & Blue 33(11) on 21 March @ 17:29. Egg #1 laid 31 March @ c 23:30 & hatched 09 May @ 23:02, Egg #2 laid 03 April @ 18:31 & hatched 10 May @ 12:30 and Egg #3 laid 06 April @ 20:30 & hatched 12 May @ 08:24. On 20 June the chicks were ringed with their unique blue darvics. Chick #1 was fitted with 1H1, #2 with 1H2 and #3 with 1H3. All chicks were females and their biometric data can be found here. 1H1 fledged on 2 July @ 05:34, 1H3 on 3 July @ 12:09 and 1H2 on 4 July @ 09:06.
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09:43 Maya lands on the nest
and joined by 1H2 - both pick up bits of fish but very little :-(
1H2 fish calls and Maya tidies up, tries to move the awkward twig
Hopefully a fish soon for 1H2 or perhaps 1H3 will return with it.
10:25 33 arrives with a small fish
which Maya takes
Maya and 33 fly off
10:26 1H2 arrives and fish calling
Maya returns with the small fish and 1H2 grabs the fish along with her foot!
Maya flies off leaving 1H2 to tuck in
close up of 1H2 who is now 96 days old with her fish
All three chicks have had fish this morning.
As I type (10:37) 1H2 has flown with the fish
And sadly I must go out too. BFN
Morning ALL Today, Blue 1H1 is 86 days old Blue 1H2 is 85 days old & Blue 1H3 is 83 days old
05:32 1H2 and 1H1 on the nest fish calling
05:35 FISH
quickly taken by 1H2
1H2 tucks in as 1H1 stands by
06:16 1H1 grabs the fish - real tug here
1H1 tucks in
06:23 1H1 takes off with the fish
07:37 33 arrives with another fish - Maya and 1H2 waiting
Maya grabs the fish
Maya flies off with the fish
07:39 Maya returns and gives the fish to 1H2
07:51 33 has joined Maya and 1H2 who is having more fish
07:52 Maya takes the fish from 1H2
and flies off with it
08:06 33 follows leaving 1H2 on the nest
Off now BFN
Morning ALL,
All the family still here. 1H1 was the first to show picking up the fish left overnight on the nest. More fish from 33 ensured 1H2 and 1H3 ate too.
Captures of the chicks this morning & their ages:
Blue 1H1 is 87 days old.
Blue 1H2 is 86 days old -
& Blue 1H3 is 85 days old
05:12 I think there was an intruder on the nest - perhaps 1H5??
1H1 is wing flapping as a juvenile lands - we have not seen any conflict between the siblings
best capture I could get of darvic
1H1 sees the other juvenile off