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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05:54 1H2 joins 1H1 and both fish calling
05:58 33 arrives with a fish
which is taken by 1H1 who gets tucked in
06:19 1H1 finishes
and then flies off with the fish!!
1H2 finds some innards
06:37 1H2 continues to fish call
and then flies off
ENS
Today's chicks' portraits & ages:
Blue 1H1(22) is 88 days old
Blue 1H2(22) is 87 days old
and
Blue 1H3(22) is 85 days old
(hopefully post a portrait of her here later as she has not been seen as yet!)
Edit: 1H3 appears about 10:39
catch up
10:44 33 arrives with a huge fish for 1H3
different view
10:55 off 1H3 flies with it
Hope she manages to hang on to it!!
some more sightings today of the chicks:
12:43 1H1 fish calling
13:26 1H2 and 1H1 on the nest
15:15 33 arrives with a small fish - no one on the nest and 1H2 soon arrives
15;17 1H2 flies off with the fish
19:39 1H2 arrives and calling
17:53 1H2 is still calling - what a racket she must be making lol
Close up of 1H2, she really is a stunner
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Thank you Sheila and you're very welcome.
18:33 33 arrives with a huge fish
1H2, who has been constantly calling, quickly takes it
33 flies off and 1H1 arrives
1H2 tucks in as 1H1 stands by
19:16 1H2 takes off with the fish
leaving 1H1 calling!!
20:19 1H1, who continues to call flew off - ENS