{"id":1658,"date":"2014-05-12T21:45:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T21:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hosting.schoolsays.co.uk\/~strettonhandley\/wildlife\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2014-05-27T09:13:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T09:13:59","slug":"we-have-blue-tit-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/we-have-blue-tit-chicks\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have Blue Tit Chicks!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1658 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/050514colbox.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/050514colbox-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1671\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1671'>\n\t\t\t\tFull clutch of 8 eggs\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Snapshot_20140512_130443.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Snapshot_20140512_130443-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1663\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1663'>\n\t\t\t\t12th May &#8211; Chicks start hatching\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Snapshot_20140512_154841.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Snapshot_20140512_154841-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1660\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1660'>\n\t\t\t\t12th May &#8211; Newly hatched chicks being fed\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>What an exciting day! We weren&#8217;t expecting the chicks to hatch for another couple of days as the eighth and final egg of the Blue Tit clutch was laid on the 1st May. However, a couple of diligent birdcam watchers from Kingfisher Class spotted that two chicks had hatched out by mid-morning. We&#8217;ll forgive the boys from being side tracked from working because they brought us this exciting news! After lunch Woodpecker Class watched as a further chick hatched and the female ate the egg shell. We also watched the parents feeding the chicks some tiny caterpillars. These chicks start life helpless, blind and unable to feed themselves unlike the chicken chicks which we watched hatch out a couple of weeks ago. It&#8217;s amazing to think that in around three weeks time they will be nearly as big as the adult birds and ready to fledge (fly) from the nest box.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: 16th May<\/strong>\u00a0 We think we&#8217;ve managed to spot eight beaks at once which means that all the eggs hatched. One or two of the eggs hatched a couple of days after the others.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1658-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/12thmay2014_feeding.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/12thmay2014_feeding.mp4\">https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/12thmay2014_feeding.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><b>Update 27th May &#8211; Half the brood have died over this wet bank holiday weekend. Will the remaining four survive their final week before fledging?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an exciting day! We weren&#8217;t expecting the chicks to hatch for another couple of days as the eighth and final egg of the Blue Tit clutch was laid on the 1st May. However, a couple of diligent birdcam watchers &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/we-have-blue-tit-chicks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viewers-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}