{"id":1789,"date":"2015-02-11T22:27:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T22:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hosting.schoolsays.co.uk\/~strettonhandley\/wildlife\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2015-03-01T10:52:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T10:52:27","slug":"bird-box-clear-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/bird-box-clear-out-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Box Clear Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The school&#8217;s bird boxes have been cleaned out ready for this year&#8217;s nesting season &#8211; thank you Mr Marriot for helping once again!<\/p>\n<p>All the boxes showed signs of having been used; six had nests in them and the rest had been used for roosting.<\/p>\n<p>Sparrow terrace 1 \u2013 \u00a0one section had a partial nest of dried grass and moss and the other two had droppings<br \/>\nSparrow terrace 2 \u2013 \u00a0all \u00a0three sections had droppings in them (roosting birds)<br \/>\nCorner field box \u2013 no nest but droppings (roosting birds)<br \/>\nSilver Birch Box \u2013 full nest of mainly moss (successful Blue Tit nest)<br \/>\nInfant Birdcam Box\u00a0\u2013\u00a0no nest but droppings (roosting birds)<br \/>\nButler Box \u2013 no nest but droppings\u00a0(roosting birds)<br \/>\nStaff car park box \u2013 mainly mossy nest (successful Blue Tit nest)<br \/>\nSycamore tree box \u2013 no nest but droppings\u00a0(roosting birds)<br \/>\nPond box \u2013 inaccessible, unable to clean out<br \/>\nBird table roof \u2013 not cleaned out<br \/>\nOpen fronted nest box \u2013 \u00a0nest, cleaned out<br \/>\nColour Birdcam box \u2013 full nest, mainly moss (successful Blue Tit nest)<br \/>\nFlowery bird box &#8211; Blue tit nest (box now split so not cleaned out)<\/p>\n<p><em>Box locations can be seen on a <a title=\"Bird Box Locations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/bird-box-locations\/\">satellite google map<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In addition to these boxes, a pair of Robins successfully nested in a bag of leaves in the school&#8217;s greenhouse!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1800\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bwbox200215.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1800\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bwbox200215-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Blue tit roosting in Infant box, 20th February\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue tit roosting,20th February<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When\u00a0the birdcams are left running overnight, a\u00a0Blue tit can be seen roosting in the Infant box. It has already added some droppings back into the newly cleaned out box!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school&#8217;s bird boxes have been cleaned out ready for this year&#8217;s nesting season &#8211; thank you Mr Marriot for helping once again! All the boxes showed signs of having been used; six had nests in them and the rest &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/bird-box-clear-out-2\/\">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":[6,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viewers-diary","category-infant-birdcam","category-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","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=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}