Continued from Manton Bay – May 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. At 23:23 on 10 May, egg #3 after 35 days was the only one to hatch. Maya had previously removed one egg at 10:50 on 5 May and the other remains on the nest. On 15 May at 14:21 a live fish flapped, displacing the chick into the sticks at the side of the nest. Unable to get free, Rutland Officials accessed the nest and placed the chick back in the middle of the nest thankfully none the worse for its ordeal.
Around the third week in June, the chick will be ringed with its blue darvic and we will learn more about it ie its sex, measurements, weight etc. Until then, it will eat, sleep and continue to grow into a beautiful young osprey.
08:14 Chick now being fed
catch up later - BFN
20:38 33 arrives with a large live fish for supper
fish flapping around the chick!!
Maya gets hold of it, 33 flies off
Chick gets itself up for fish
33 collects the fish leaving Maya and the chick settled down for the night
The chick really seems to have blossomed these past few days leaving the dino stage and beginning to turn into a beautiful young osprey
I love this stage of feather development in Osprey chicks, Karen, the colours are so beautiful!
Couldn't agree more Sandra - it's amazing and such a privilege to be able to watch every stage of their development
Morning ALL
04:11 soggy start to the day
04:33 Maya is eating up some fish ends and there is a large fish left over from last night
04:36 33 arrives with a fresh fish and chick is first to nibble
the first gets loose, Maya gets hold as 33 flies off and soon breakfish underway
06:45 Maya and the chick hunker down - very wet
07:29 one soggy chick
a particularly beautiful chick I think Karen
I agree Cirrus and it’s lovely to see it standing fully upright showing off it’s amazing development.
Last night the chick slept alone
23:45 Maya flew up to the campost
03:59 sound asleep
04:29 Maya comes down from the post to the nest
04:39 Sunrise
05:36 Maya has taken off and chick is up having a wing flap
one beautiful young osprey
07:08 33 arrives with a small fish
breakfish gets underway
Presently - 07:56, chick resting
Thank you Karen
you're welcome Kate