{"id":465,"date":"2024-04-30T08:22:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T07:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=465"},"modified":"2024-04-30T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T07:23:06","slug":"29th-april-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"29th April &#8211; Buzz&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I am correct, the first egg(s) should hatch tomorrow or on 1st May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I finally saw the male feed the female in the nest box, so hopefully this is a sign he will provide food when the chicks hatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incubation has continued without any major issues until late this evening, when a queen wasp entered the box and looked like she was collecting wood.  I am hoping it was a one off visit and that she does not take up residence in the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had to power off the boxes for a short time, so was unable to watch the wasp.  Upon checking at 9pm, the wasp had disappeared from view, so I am hoping it has left.  If the wasp stung the female Coal Tit then it is possible she would die from the sting.  Who said having a camera in a bird box does not cause worry at times \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will the first egg(s) hatch tomorrow.  More in my next diary update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I am correct, the first egg(s) should hatch tomorrow or on 1st May. Today I finally saw the male feed the female in the nest box, so hopefully this is a sign he will provide food when the chicks hatch. Incubation has continued without any major issues until late this evening, when a queen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","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\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}