Continued from Manton Bay – April 2024.
The history of the Manton Bay nest and stats can be found here .
The season so far: On 12 March, Maya returned 12 March @ 15:58 and Blue 33(11) on the 13 March @ 15:25. Maya laid her first egg on 30 March @ 13:58, the second on 02 April @ 13:15 and a third on 05 April @ 11:06.
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Maya and 33(11) have taken turns incubating their precious eggs and we should see the first hatch towards the end of the first week in May.
Catch up
08:48 33 arrives with fish
09:06 another top up
09:37 33 grabs the fish and eats side of nest with bob looking on
33 is stretching over to feed bob but can't quite reach
but soon he does and slips bob one piece - nice to see 33 feeding his offspring
soon the little bob is sleeping off its fish
and a bit later its up - a real wee cutie
12:23 Maya is up along with the bob waiting on 33
12:24 33 arrives with a live pike
he may have been followed as mantling
Maya walks over and takes the fish
Maya begins to feed with her back to us then 33 flies off
12:31 we get a view
close up
13:00 33 is again slipping the little one some fish
13:20 Maya preens watching over the little one who is sound asleep after all the fish and sheltered with the hay brought in earlier
14:30 mumbrella
Morning all
On scroll back and also on Chat, there appears to be no shortage of fish today, 3 or 4 in all CHOLL
He's doing well, I have lost count today,although, this a bit of a tiddler
Afternoon ALL and thanks for earlier updates.
Good to see that large fish brought in just after 6am, certainly kept them going a while.
14:08 33, Maya and the bob - nice family photo
Morning ALL
04:33 33 joins Maya as the sun begins to rise
06:52 After a spell away, 33 returns with a large stick
06:55 33 remains on the nest as Maya rises. Bob awake too
07:40 33 is away and Maya settled down.
07:42 33 returns and gets down beside Maya - unseen intruder?
Present: 07:58 33 still on the nest, hopefully he will go fishing soon
Morning Karen and all
Maya was fed up with being hit on head with that bushy stick, so broke a piece off, but he snatched it from her Ha!!
Intruder has been around on and off this morning, this from earlier