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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13:36 FISH !!!
33 lands with a whopper
quickly taken by Maya
who mantles, guards the fish
and then quickly takes off as one of the youngsters approaches
33 flies off leaving the youngster on the nest
its 1H3 - she is still here and calling
13:54 current - 1H3 remains on the nest fish calling
14:24 Maya approaches with the fish for 1H3
Eeek - 1H3 has a hold of Maya's foot !!
1H3 continues to pull
she is not letting go
that must be sore!
at last, 1H3 releases her grip on Maya's talon
Maya flies off and 1H3 tucks in
16:26 1H3 moves across the nest -
16:27 off she goes with the fish
I must go for a bit now but here is today's portraits of 1H1 and 1H3 who have both been seen today.
Blue 1H1(22) - 94 days old &
Blue 1H3(22) - 91 days old
LAM - as always you're welcome for all updates and I really hope they hang on until you visit next week and get to say au revoir :-)
They are indeed PATILY :-) Not seen 1H1 since this morning and quite unusual not to see her hanging about the nest throughout the day!
She could just be away exploring the area and will turn up tonight however if we don't see her on the nest around 5am tomorrow then I would think that she too has headed south.
1H3 is on the nest just now
18:15 33 lands with a fish (piece)
1H3 is hot on his talons
thankfully she took the fish much gentler from 33 than she did earlier from Maya!
33 flies off and 1H3 stands for a minute with her fish
18:16 Off she goes, fish in talon
Morning ALL
20:29, last night, 33 brought in another small fish for 1H3 - some captures
20:47 off she flew