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 his vitals were 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.
03:47 lovely start to the new month
06:27 Maya dishes out breakfish
07:46 Chick getting another top up
Thank you very much Karen and for the synopsis - from one month to another
Good morning Karen
Many thanks for the new thread - a wonderful resumé! (To note, the link to this thread is not working on the end of May's last page?)
Hi Sandra, I did the new thread this morning in a hurry and just hadn't done it. But all done and working fine now - thanks for the heads up.
Checking back on the day and not too much to report - the chick has been well fed, when not eating or snoozing, had a couple of little wing flaps lol
33, Maya and a snoozing chick
nice capture of Maya - she's looking in good condition
a little wing flap
and after that, a snooze
and a constant supply of fish
Morning ALL and a lovely sunrise to start the day
04:44 Sunrise
05:29 Maya takes a comfort break
07:16 A good stretch
07:17 33 approaches
Breakfish
and Maya soon starts dishing up fish
Chick looking over the side as Maya cleans up after breakfish
Today the chick is 23 days old
08:36 33 returns with the fish
and another top up