{"id":608,"date":"2025-04-11T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=608"},"modified":"2025-05-12T17:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:02:21","slug":"11th-april-still-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"11th April &#8211; Still Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When checking the box today, the female Great Tit appears to have started full time incubation.  She only left for a few minutes before coming back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the times she left the box, I was able to see that she still had seven eggs, so this looks like the final total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incubation normally lasts around 14 days. So if I came correct my guess is the eggs should hopefully start to hatch around 25th April 2025.  Will I be correct and will the eggs hatch, after what happened the last time I had a Great Tit nest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More in my next diary update<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1104251.jpg\" alt=\"Full Time Incubation Started\" class=\"wp-image-609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1104251.jpg 737w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1104251-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1104251-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1104251-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1104251-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Full Time Incubation Started<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"738\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1104252.jpg\" alt=\"Still Seven Eggs\" class=\"wp-image-610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1104252.jpg 738w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1104252-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1104252-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1104252-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1104252-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Still Seven Eggs<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When checking the box today, the female Great Tit appears to have started full time incubation. She only left for a few minutes before coming back. During the times she left the box, I was able to see that she still had seven eggs, so this looks like the final total. Incubation normally lasts around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-apr2025","8":"category-diarys2025","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}