{"id":3945,"date":"2010-06-16T18:16:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T22:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2010-06-16T18:16:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T22:16:56","slug":"egg-citing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/egg-citing-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Egg-citing News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3944\" title=\"hum-16-06-10\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/hum-16-06-10.jpg?resize=460%2C345\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are eggs-tremely egg-cited to see that our little hummingbird has laid an egg!<\/p>\n<p>Having finished her nest a couple of days ago, we have since been waiting patiently, and checking the nest every time she has flown off for food, to see if she had laid an egg or two.\u00a0 To our delight we saw one this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The tiny milky-white, elliptical egg is just a little bit bigger than a jelly bean.\u00a0\u00a0 Bahama Woodstars usually lay 2\u00a0 white eggs so we look forward to taking another peek tomorrow to see if she lays a second egg.<\/p>\n<p>She will incubate her egg or eggs for 15-18 days.\u00a0 With only 16 days until the last day of the school year, we hope that a chick will hatch in time for us to see.\u00a0\u00a0 Great timing on her part to have the egg(s) hatch when school finishes and the playground will be quiet.\u00a0 We will have Summer Camp during the holiday, however,\u00a0 so I am sure the children will enjoy monitoring the chick(s) progress during this time.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a photo of proud mum today, sat on the nearby branch that she often flies to before approaching the nest.\u00a0 Does her tummy look a little chubby to you &#8211; perhaps there is another egg in there waiting to come out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/hum-16-06-10c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3950\" title=\"hum-16-06-10c\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/hum-16-06-10c.jpg?resize=460%2C613\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"613\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are eggs-tremely egg-cited to see that our little hummingbird has laid an egg! Having finished her nest a couple of days ago, we have since been waiting patiently, and checking the nest every time she has flown off for food, to see if she had laid an egg or two.\u00a0 To our delight we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/3945"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}