Continued from Manton Bay March/April 2023
Details about the Manton Bay nest can be found on the season’s opening post.
The season so far: Blue 33(11) returned March 16 @ 12:58 and Maya on March 19 @ 06:54. Maya has laid four eggs on Apr 4 @ 15:52, April 7 @ 09:04, April 10 @ 07:03 and April 13 @ 08:08. The first egg is expected to hatch around 12 May.
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With a bit of animation:
Loved 3's reaction.. floppy fish.. Duck!!.. It's a smart kid!
Look at the before ⇑ and after ⇓ picture of 2's crop!! It's almost bursting
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Hello everyone, so sad about little Bob 4. Whatever happend we will never know, but as Glider said, mum and dad have 3 healthy, fiiesty other Bob's to look after. Nature is so cruel and sad to see at times. My goodness the little ones sure grow, little wonder with the amount they eat!! Hope you feel better soon Karen.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Well... this scared the living daylights out of me!!Got back.. checked in and saw...A completely empty nest!!
Oh my... they're good at hiding (they're all okay ofcourse)
An unringed female lands on the nest, twice!, during a feed
Bart molenaar said:
That would do the same to me Bart, what they doing under the grass??
Good morning!A very good breakfast for #3 this morning (it was in front).In the video I sped up most of the feed, and you can see 3's crop growing, until it is totally satisfied and crawls away.. 2 didn't get much this feed, but had huge feeds yesterday
Great stuff Bart - loved the video watching #3 crop bulge out- it's so good never needing to be chary of watching this nest (the older I get the more 'sensitive ' I seem to have become in regards to sadness on the nests , not helped of course by loss elsewhere here and in my personal life)j. Thank you very much.
Morning ALL - thanks for all the updates. Just a quick check in as I am no better!!
I see this morning's breakfish came from a fish delivered late last night!
21:49 33 arrives with a large fish - Maya does not rise
04:56 33 arrives on the nest - fish as he left it last night
33 collects the fish and takes off with it
05:03 Maya is eating from a scrap bit of fish she found on the nest
05:07 33 returns with the fish
05:07 Feed 1
06:15 Feed 2
07:24 Feed 3
08:42 Feed 4 currently underway
Family have been well fed this morning