{"id":454,"date":"2024-04-23T08:33:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T07:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=454"},"modified":"2024-04-23T08:37:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T07:37:02","slug":"16th-april-incubation-has-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"16th April &#8211; Incubation Has Started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On turning on the camera on this morning, I saw the female Coal Tit was still in the nest at around 8am.  For most of the day, she remained in the nest, only leaving for a few minutes at times.  It looks like incubation has started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on information I have found online, it appears a Coal Tit has the same incubation time as a Blue Tit &amp; Great Tit, which on average is around 14 days.  If all goes well, then the first eggs should hatch around the end of April\\beginning of May 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have heard the male Coal Tit calling, but so far I have not seen him feed the female inside the box.  I am hoping that when the chicks need feeding he will help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More in my next diary update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On turning on the camera on this morning, I saw the female Coal Tit was still in the nest at around 8am. For most of the day, she remained in the nest, only leaving for a few minutes at times. It looks like incubation has started. Based on information I have found online, it appears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apr2024","category-diarys2024","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}