{"id":614,"date":"2025-04-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=614"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:06:35","slug":"21st-april-still-incubating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"21st April &#8211; Still Incubating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Incubation has gone well and hopefully in the next few days, the first egg(s) will hatch.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One difference I have noticed with this nest is that the male Great Tit seems to call the female out of the box, when he has some food to give to her.  In other nests I have seen the male come into the bird box to feed the female.  I hope he is going to help feed the young chicks!<\/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=\"741\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2104251.jpg\" alt=\"Still Incubating\" class=\"wp-image-615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2104251.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2104251-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2104251-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2104251-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2104251-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Still Incubating<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incubation has gone well and hopefully in the next few days, the first egg(s) will hatch. One difference I have noticed with this nest is that the male Great Tit seems to call the female out of the box, when he has some food to give to her. In other nests I have seen the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-614","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\/614","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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}