{"id":617,"date":"2025-04-23T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=617"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:13:58","slug":"23rd-april-am-i-hearing-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"23rd April &#8211; Am I Hearing Things&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Upon checking the bird box this evening, I found the female awake but still continuing to incubate the seven eggs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst watching and listening to the camera feed, I thought I could hear the small sounds of little chicks.  Had some of the eggs hatched?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly the female did not let me see, during the time I was able to watch the camera feed.  I will turn on the cameras early tomorrow to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have some of the eggs hatched and will I finally have a Great Tit nest to report on?<\/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=\"733\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2304251.jpg\" alt=\"The Female Great Tit In The Box\" class=\"wp-image-618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2304251.jpg 733w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2304251-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2304251-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2304251-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2304251-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Still Incubating<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon checking the bird box this evening, I found the female awake but still continuing to incubate the seven eggs. Whilst watching and listening to the camera feed, I thought I could hear the small sounds of little chicks. Had some of the eggs hatched? Sadly the female did not let me see, during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-617","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\/617","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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}