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.
Morning ALL
06:00 33 arrives with a clump of straw and plonks it on the chick lol
chick soon up - always nice seeing them together
The way the chick is looking at 33 in the third pic! lol. I don't think it appreciated the mass of straw that its dad put on top of it!
Lovely photos though of the family together.
Looking back on 4 June
18:48 33 arrives with a partial fish - Maya in no hurry to grab it
Maya eventually dishes out the fish
33 flies off leaving them eating
20:03 raining at Manton Bay
23:01 settled down for the night
02:13 break then quickly settled down again
03:28 beginning to stir as dawn approaches
08:14 33 delivered breakfish
once finished, chick, who is so well camouflaged, settles down with mum on guard.
and just now
09:58 33 arrives joining them on the nest
The camouflage is amazing. You wouldn’t see the chick if just glancing at the nest. It’s feathers are fairly coming in now,
I know Gilder, a right wee bundle of fluff
And Morning ALL -
06:12 Maya stands over a left of fish tail
which the little one is nibbling on
Maya soon dishes some out
and presently (07:28) both having a rest
07:42 33 warning something off as he collects the fish
chick stretches letting us see its wing development
That’s an impressive wing the wee one is growing!
little one is growing fast Glider!
last night @ 09:13 33 arrived with a large fish for supper
soon Maya and the chick are tucking in