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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Morning ALL and thanks for the updates
05:26, 1H1 lands on the nest
05:40 still fish calling
06:03 returns after a brief break off the nest
1H1 soon flies off - ENS
Today's portrait - Blue 1H1(22) - 101 days old
08:20 Fish
33 arrives with 1H1's breakfish
and soon tucking in
close up of 1H1 with her fish
as at 08:26, she flies off with it!
Maya arrives and only finds one scrap
13:15 1H1 on the nest fish calling
looking up - has 33 or Maya got a fish?
13:18 fish delivery
guards her fish
and then flies straight off with it
Good afternoon thanks for the updates Karen and all.
Here again for our fifth visit this year and swansong I think.
33 on fallen tree with fish and 1H1 shouting for delivery.
1H1 waiting not so patiently...... Not for the fish!
The lovely Maya sunning herself!
Finally gets a meal.
Edited picture 1 showing 33 feeding on fallen Poplar.