{"id":632,"date":"2025-04-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=632"},"modified":"2025-05-12T19:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:16:01","slug":"28th-april-six-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"28th April &#8211; Six Chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well I am pleased to say there have been no more unsuitable food deliveries made to the nest box. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finally managed to count six little yellow beaks, so it looks like one egg did not either hatch or the chick was sadly lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both parents continue to feed the chicks and just it is amazing to see how quickly they are growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The female continues to roost and keep the chicks warm overnight and is a very good house keeper, with the nest being cleaned very often.<\/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=\"740\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2804251.jpg\" alt=\"Six Chicks Growing Well\" class=\"wp-image-633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2804251.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2804251-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2804251-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2804251-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2804251-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Six Chicks Growing Well<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2804252.jpg\" alt=\"The Chick Begging For Food From The Male Great Tit\" class=\"wp-image-634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2804252.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2804252-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2804252-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2804252-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2804252-48x36.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Chick Begging For Food From The Male Great Tit<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I am pleased to say there have been no more unsuitable food deliveries made to the nest box. I finally managed to count six little yellow beaks, so it looks like one egg did not either hatch or the chick was sadly lost. Both parents continue to feed the chicks and just it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-632","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\/632","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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}