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.
Glider said:Meanwhile, Maya had another fish delivery. 1R0 decided it was easier getting a feed from her!
Typical Teenager CHOL););
Morning all..07.09ish
1RO certainly exercising those muscles.
Whoa steady
but safely down
©️L&RWT
16,05 33 still bringing Fish
33.watches/waits for Mum to arrive
Mum wants to supervise.
so takes over,the lad just looks on
33 flies off
Mum reluctant to feed little one ( not so little)
trying to coax him to take from her beak
Fab sequence Kate, thanks.
According to the chat, there have been 5 whole fish brought to the nest today. This boy is so well looked after…………then 33 arrived with a branch and landed with it settling on 1R0’s back.
19.33
1R0 was non too pleased and pecked at dad
twice!
They then worked together to lay the stick
You can see the contrast in eye colour.
I don’t know if you’re able to check in Karen but if so I hope that you are comfortable and getting better and enjoy all the updates showing you how well this family is doing.
Morning all and Thank you Glider I am sure we all join you in wishing our Dear Karen was in fact here with us ,and posting her so informative posts.
Life at times is so cruel,but do hope she is able to at least see our attempts of this very important stage of 1RO.
Am sure next few days will see him fly, those wings looking very strong and Healthy
is he going......Noooooooo Ha!!
Incidentally, for anyone new looking in,there is wonderful fulll daily activity on observation, HERE and at top of that page History Links.
If i recall 53 days is average flight time and think we are day 51/52
Thank you Kate, you’re on the ball with your stats. So any day now for flying. 1R0 is a very handsome juvenile Osprey.
Here are the 2 large fish deliveries today.
12.49
Same type of fish at 14.48
21.35 1R0 has 2 “companions” on the nest tonight.
Hi Everyone, I’m back home and doing fine however I need to take things easy.Thanks for all the posts and wonderful captures. I so appreciate you keeping the thread going monitoring IR0’s early days. It really means a lot to me especially as I know you are monitoring your regular nests. I’m not quite up to posting as yet but hopefully soon and that I see IR0 fledge which should be any day soon. Meantime I’ve change the thread’s title adding “to end of season” as I see others have done and will update the OP in a few days time. But should anyone wish to start a new thread then please feel free to do so. Thanks again, Karen x
So good to 'see' you, Karen, and yes, please take it easy. Look after yourself x
Hi Karen, good to hear from you. Please look after yourself, I wish you a speedy recovery and take it easy. Enjoy all the posts and pictures. Hopefully, it will not be long now before the fellow fledges.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.