{"id":783,"date":"2026-03-26T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=783"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:31:09","slug":"26th-march-2026-nest-building-has-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"26th March 2026 &#8211; Nest Building Has Started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I will be adding the missing diary entries over the next few days, but excitement this morning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the last two weeks, a pair of Great Tits have been showing interest in Box 2, including the female going in and performing a number of nesting wiggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst watching this morning, I was able to see the first delivery of moss come into the box.  It appears the box has been claimed and taken over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am still hearing Blue Tits around and Box 1 is not located too far away.  If only you could tell them to look around the corner \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 08:30, activity has dropped back down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will the female Great Tit continue to build the nest?  I will keep you updated.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BITN-190226-4.Movie_Snapshot-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"Nesting started in Box 2\" class=\"wp-image-780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BITN-190226-4.Movie_Snapshot-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BITN-190226-4.Movie_Snapshot-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BITN-190226-4.Movie_Snapshot-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BITN-190226-4.Movie_Snapshot-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BITN-190226-4.Movie_Snapshot-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BITN-190226-4.Movie_Snapshot-24x12.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BITN-190226-4.Movie_Snapshot-36x18.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BITN-190226-4.Movie_Snapshot-48x24.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nest Building started in Box 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be adding the missing diary entries over the next few days, but excitement this morning! For the last two weeks, a pair of Great Tits have been showing interest in Box 2, including the female going in and performing a number of nesting wiggles. Whilst watching this morning, I was able to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diarys2026","8":"category-mar2026","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","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=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}