{"id":4848,"date":"2016-03-16T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2016-03-26T16:43:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T16:43:36","slug":"egg-thief-postscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4848","title":{"rendered":"Egg thief – postscript"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following on from yesterday evening’s post about the stoat stealing eggs, I read up about it’s habits and learnt that they keep food stashes in various locations. So this morning we had a look around.<\/p>\n

This is what we found under one of the nest boxes:<\/p>\n

\"egg<\/p>\n

No wonder our egg numbers kept dropping! Looking closer at the last photo from the wildlife camera yesterday, as it was illuminated by the infra-red lamp, underneath the nest box you could just see these eggs from the camera’s low viewpoint (circled):<\/p>\n

\"eggs<\/p>\n

We then started to look around and found other stashes of eggs – this one was under an unused wooden ark:<\/p>\n

\"outside<\/p>\n

This had both whole and eaten eggs. But we found holes everywhere with eggs in them.<\/p>\n

We have put some obstacles in place to make it more difficult and I am placing the wildlife camera outside the run to see what happens today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following on from yesterday evening’s post about the stoat stealing eggs, I read up about it’s habits and learnt that they keep food stashes in various locations. So this morning we had a look around. This is what we found under one of the nest boxes: No wonder our egg numbers kept dropping! Looking closer … Continue reading “Egg thief – postscript”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,87,12,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-rural","category-smallholding","category-wildlife-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4855,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions\/4855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}