{"id":21727,"date":"2017-01-23T15:12:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/?p=21727"},"modified":"2017-01-26T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T14:00:10","slug":"an-unexpected-safe-place-for-a-fledgling-hummingbird-to-find-its-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/an-unexpected-safe-place-for-a-fledgling-hummingbird-to-find-its-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"An unexpected safe place for a fledgling hummingbird to find its wings!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hummingbird-dec-2016\"Recently, we were very privileged to have a Hummingbird family come and make their home in a tree in our Early Years playground.<\/p>\n

Despite the busyness of outside playtime, the mother Hummingbird built a beautiful nest and laid an egg. We were so excited to see that the egg had hatched into a baby, and while the mother always let us know she was close and keeping and eye on us, we were lucky enough to watch the baby growing in its nest before it grew big enough to fly off on its own.<\/p>\n

The children loved to be lifted up to check on the baby’s progress (from a respectful distance of course), and enjoyed learning all about the life cycle of a baby bird.<\/p>\n

Whilst we all missed our playground friend once it had flown its nest, we were pleased to have provided a safe place for a fledgling hummingbird to find its wings, just like we do for all our own Early Years ‘fledglings’!<\/p>\n

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Recently, we were very privileged to have a Hummingbird family come and make their home in a tree in our Early Years playground. Despite the busyness of outside playtime, the mother Hummingbird built a beautiful nest and laid an egg. We were so excited to see that the egg had hatched into a baby, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21814,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727\/revisions\/21814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}