Continued from Manton Bay – June/July 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) arrived 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 removed 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 who thankfully was none the worse for its ordeal. A few weeks later the unviable egg eventually broke and was removed by Maya. The chick continued to thrive under the care and protection of its parents and on 19 June 2024 it was sexed, vitals noted and fitted with the blue darvic "IR0". The ringing of Blue IR0(24) can be viewed here. A couple of weeks later on 3 July 2024 at 08:07 Blue IR0 fledged.
Blue 33 will continue to provide for his family and Blue IR0 will explore his surroundings, building his strength and confidence for the long journey ahead when in a few weeks time he’ll take off on his first migration. Maya and Blue 33, their job done, will soon follow.
And when their time comes to leave us, we wish them a safe journey and return.
Morning Kate, yes the time for him to leave has been drawing nearer the past week and probably why I started to include his age at the start of my morning posts. And yes I did think with all the fish he was getting he would be here until at least 102 days! But we never know.
It is just so strange this morning not seeing and hearing IR0 yelling for his breakfish!
He may be off exploring and could still turn up but it is perfect weather - time will tell :-)
09:04 And IR0 arrives - he is still here
09:13 FISH - 33 arrives with his breakfish
and soon tucking in
09:32 IR0 has finished
09:33 Maya arrives and collects the fish as IR0 cleans his beak
Maya flies off with the fish
09:34 IR0 continues to clean his beak
09:35 IR0 then flies off
ENS
The family are all still here and all fed well this morning.
Off out - SYL