Continued from Manton Bay – April 2024.
The history of the Manton Bay nest and stats can be found here .
2024 Season Summary: Maya, equalling her own record, was the first osprey to return back arriving on 12 March @ 15:58 and her partner, Blue 33(11) joined her on the 13 March @ 15:25. The pair quickly re-established their bond and Maya laid three eggs, the first on 30 March @ 13:58, the second on 02 April @ 13:15 and a third on 05 April @ 11:06. At 10:50 on 5 May Maya remove one egg from the nest and the pair continued to incubate the two eggs of which only one was viable (most likely the third egg) and hatched at 23:23 on 10 May. On 15 May at 14:21 a live fish was delivered to the nest displacing the chick into the sticks at the side of the nest. Unable to get free, Rutland Officials organised a rescue operation. They accessed the nest and placed the chick back in the middle of the nest and thankfully none the worse for its ordeal.
A few weeks later the unviable egg eventually broke and was removed by Maya. The chick thrived under the care and protection of its parents and on 19 June 2024 was ringed with the Blue Darvic IR0. The ringing was recorded and can be seen here and its vitals noted as follows:
Blue IR0(24) spent the next couple of weeks strengthening his wings and on 3 July 2024 at 08:07, IRO fledged
Blue 33(11) will continue to provide for his family and IRO will explore his surroundings, building his strength and confidence for the long journey ahead when he will take off on his first migration.
Thanks Glider, and not sure if you saw this thread
community.rspb.org.uk/.../1479285
Morning all
33 brings fish 07.19 grabbed by the lad, eats for a few mins and takes it away himself 07.22. The around 20 mins later 33 brings another fish to empty nest , chirps and ducks and dives, but after 10 mins flies off07.52, Maya immediately, flies into check and quickly leaves.
10 mins later
after waiting with no taker 10 mins later
©️L&RWT
SunnyKate2 said:Thanks Glider, and not sure if you saw this thread
No, I didn’t know it was there! Thanks Kate, that’s great to see another Rutland success story.
1RO decides to bring his own green stuff. followed by 33 bringing a twig CHOL:):)
no fish just a twig..
Aw nice 1R0, gathering for the nest!
Morning all.empty nest then Maya flies in followed by himself, no fish, and she leaves immediatelly.
Afternoon ALL. Thanks for all the updates but especially SunnyKate2 and Glider who have done a fantastic job reporting on the nest and IRO's activities.
Since I'm here, a couple of posts as fortunately Maya made an appearance then IR0 spent about 10 minutes on the nest
11:45 Maya arrives
closely followed by IRO
He really is a handsome boy
Does some tidying up
And just like dad - loves a lie down
and another close up
I'm going to update the OP to bring it up to date and hopefully now be around a bit more but please everyone keep posting.
Good to have you back posting Karen
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Thanks Wendy, its good to be back and looking in on the nest for a bit. Hopefully they stay a while :-)
Lovely to know you feel up to posting and keep everything up to date.
Do hope your Health continues from strength to strength.
It has been a labour of love to post in your sadly health enforced absence, took me back to all those years ago, as we mentioned earlier in the Year,
so now I can relax knowing it's back in your capable hands.