{"id":620,"date":"2025-04-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=620"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:26:00","slug":"24th-april-at-least-four-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"24th April &#8211; At Least Four Chicks!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am glad to report that I was not hearing things yesterday.  After turning on the camera feed early this morning, I was able to see the female feeding chicks.  I am a little concerned in that some of the caterpillars being brought in seem very big to me for such a small chick, but they know best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am also glad to report that the male Great Tit has made an appearance and is bringing in food for the female and the chicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So after a failed Great Tit nest once before, I have a nest I can report on \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many more eggs will hatch?<\/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=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404251.jpg\" alt=\"The Female Great Tit Feeding Chicks\" class=\"wp-image-621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404251.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404251-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404251-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404251-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404251-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Female Great Tit Feeding Chicks<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"742\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404252.jpg\" alt=\"At Least Four Chicks!\" class=\"wp-image-622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404252.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404252-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404252-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404252-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404252-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>At Least Four Chicks!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404253.jpg\" alt=\"The Male Great Tit Brings In And Passes Food\" class=\"wp-image-623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404253.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404253-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404253-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404253-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404253-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Male Great Tit Brings In And Passes Food<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"739\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404254.jpg\" alt=\"Both Male &amp; Female Great Tit In The Box\" class=\"wp-image-624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404254.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404254-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404254-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404254-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2404254-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Both Male &amp; Female Great Tit In The Box<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am glad to report that I was not hearing things yesterday. After turning on the camera feed early this morning, I was able to see the female feeding chicks. I am a little concerned in that some of the caterpillars being brought in seem very big to me for such a small chick, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-620","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\/620","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=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}