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.
Handsome boy, look forward to some pics from the ringing session, saw a lovely one on X(twitter) earlier!
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
A boy!!! Fantastic, he’s a big lad because he’s been so well fed.
Thanks for info Kate and Richard.
Link to the video of 1R0 being ringed
Here
Our boy looking lovely this morning , so do hope KAREN will soon return safely from her porrly state, do so miss all her information.
Sending Blessings and Hugs.
and look so funny when they shuffle Ha!!
Many thanks for updates Richard, Kate & Glider ... thinking of you Karen, hope you are well soon and that the footage of the chick being ringed cheered you up!
Looks like 7 fish have been brought to the nest today. Here are some of the larger ones.15.17
17.25 With the reflections on the water, it looks like the nest is in the clouds. ️
A family portrait. Look at 1R0’s face!
18.24
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June 21
There have been 3 fish delivered so far today but mid afternoon, 2 arrived within approx 2 minutes of each other!
14.13.59 Here’s the 1st delivery 14.16 Maya hadn’t even started on the first fish when 33 was back with the 2nd.
33 dropped it and left.
14.18 Maya and her 2 fish.
16.41 1R0 showing us that his wingspan is as wide as the nest as he practises some flapping.
All defensive mode.
Morning all
Lots of wingercising and !!!!
and!!! Helicoptering .
EDIT 08.40
Either pretending to be a tidy Teenager, or pretending to be adult ,tidying sticks Ha!!
Hi Kate, fantastic captures thank you, how exciting.