{"id":689,"date":"2011-11-06T17:26:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T17:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hosting.schoolsays.co.uk\/~strettonhandley\/birdblog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2012-12-01T18:28:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T18:28:21","slug":"bird-box-clear-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/bird-box-clear-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Box Clear Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_857\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-857\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-857 \" title=\"New nesting material\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/211111_1300-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/211111_1300-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/211111_1300.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New nesting material<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Autumn has well and truly arrived, so on Friday we decided it was time to clear out the school&#8217;s nest boxes to allow for a fresh start for next year. The RSPB and BTO recommend that boxes are cleaned each year to prevent the build up of parasites which might harm future broods. Although Tree Sparrows are known to maintain their dome shaped nests throughout the winter, we were advised to clear out their box as well. I&#8217;ve noticed that a few feathers have arrived in the B&amp;W box today, so maybe the Tree Sparrows have already starting to think about making\u00a0a fresh nest for next year.<\/p>\n<p>The non-camera boxes also had remnants of nests made mainly from moss and so\u00a0probably\u00a0made by Tits. We&#8217;re not sure whether there had been any successful broods in these\u00a0because a big hole was found in the new box on a Silver Birch (possibly made\u00a0by a woodpecker) and the Sparrow terrace box had a wasp nest in the middle section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn has well and truly arrived, so on Friday we decided it was time to clear out the school&#8217;s nest boxes to allow for a fresh start for next year. The RSPB and BTO recommend that boxes are cleaned each &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/bird-box-clear-out\/\">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":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bw-birdcam","category-viewers-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}