{"id":608,"date":"2011-05-13T11:38:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T09:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/photos-and-places\/shhh-stone-curlews-at-nest\/"},"modified":"2011-05-13T11:38:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T09:38:41","slug":"shhh-stone-curlews-at-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/photos-and-places\/shhh-stone-curlews-at-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"Shhh! Stone Curlews at nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the pair of <strong>Stone Curlews<\/strong> that nested by the side of one of our <strong>Bee-eater hides<\/strong> on the plains of Lleida.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/stonecurlew.jpg\" alt=\"Stone Curlew, Burrhinus oedicnemus.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The nest<\/strong> was basically a small hollow lined with a bit of dry grass and gravel-sized stones. <strong>The eggs<\/strong>, two,\u00a0were speckled and brown-beige. The adults were very discreet in their comings and goings, as you would expect from a ground-nesting bird. One of the adults would incubate while the other would stay around preening, dozing or stretching itself, although at times the incubating bird also got up and took a small rest from pre-parental responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/stcurlewnest1.jpg?resize=220%2C143\" alt=\"Stone Curlew, Burrhinus oedicnemus, eggs and nest\" height=\"143\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/stcurlewnest2.jpg\" alt=\"Stone Curlew, Burrhinus oedicnemus, nest and eggs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday the female started making some strange noises, which Jordi Bas\u00a0explained as the female making contact with young which were almost ready to hatch. Sure enough, the next day there were two tiny chicks, to the delight of all. Today\u00a0all the birds have gone from the nest site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the pair of Stone Curlews that nested by the side of one of our Bee-eater hides on the plains of Lleida. The nest was basically a small hollow lined with a bit of dry grass and gravel-sized stones. The eggs, two,\u00a0were speckled and brown-beige. The adults were very discreet in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-and-wildlife-trips","category-photos-and-places"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-9O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}