{"id":14905,"date":"2024-02-03T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=14905"},"modified":"2024-02-03T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T10:00:29","slug":"time-for-magpies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/02\/03\/time-for-magpies\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for magpies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magpies can see the future. I just saw one briefly investigating the known site of a pigeon nest, outside my windows. 30 minutes later, a pigeon turns up to do its first reconnoitre of the same site. For some reason the site of a tall hedge is liked for nesting, even though exposed to the north-west wind. But as yet the hedge has no eggy nest for the magpie to raid, and it won&#8217;t have for some six weeks. Spring only just started late Friday afternoon, in that glorious pink-sky 5pm stillness, and &#8216;spring proper&#8217; is still weeks away in the lowland valleys of North Staffordshire.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the intelligent and bold magpie is both remembering where the pigeon nest was last year, and also anticipating a clutch of pigeon-eggs to scoff. At that time the magpies will then fit the slot nature has allotted them, that of population control. Because it wasn&#8217;t for the intelligent nest-raiding magpies, we&#8217;d be even more overrun with dozy and pestiferous pigeons than we already are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magpies can see the future. I just saw one briefly investigating the known site of a pigeon nest, outside my windows. 30 minutes later, a pigeon turns up to do its first reconnoitre of the same site. For some reason the site of a tall hedge is liked for nesting, even though exposed to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}