{"id":49,"date":"2008-04-30T15:33:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T14:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=49"},"modified":"2008-04-30T15:33:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T14:33:19","slug":"magpie-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Magpie pie??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly sorry for not being posting for the past few days, I have not been on great form.\u00a0 In fact no, I have been sitting in a darkened room with a pillow wrapped round my head swaying back and forth, but that is another story.<\/p>\n<p>Well yesterday morning I was laying in bed when I heard a pecking at my window, nothing uncommon there, I live on the edge of the Chiltens loads of wildlife around.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was a fluttering!<\/p>\n<p>As I sleep with my curtains closed I thought nothing more about it, rolled over and tried to get back to sleep.\u00a0 Then the flapping happens again, but this time I see the curtain moving.\u00a0 A young Magpie had managed to get in through the window and was now trying to fly through the glass to get out again.<\/p>\n<p>This was at around 5:30 in the morning.\u00a0 I was not happy.\u00a0 Giving the bird 10 minutes to try and calm down and or find it&#8217;s own way out I go off and have a cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p><em>10 Minutes pass<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I walk back in and he or she is still there, still frantically trying to get out, well it is now time to take action, I walk back into my kitchen and get a get a small tesco&#8217;s reusable bag (other reusable bags are available).<\/p>\n<p>Now I don&#8217;t know if you have ever tried to catch a bird with your hands but it is not easy, luckily<br \/>\nit did not have too much space so after a couple of attempts i caught it and put it in the bag, took it out onto the balcony and slowly opened.\u00a0 The Magpie walks out slowly then flies off.<\/p>\n<p>All I had to do then was clean all the bird crap off my window and window sil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly sorry for not being posting for the past few days, I have not been on great form.\u00a0 In fact no, I have been sitting in a darkened room with a pillow wrapped round my head swaying back and forth, but that is another story. Well yesterday morning I was laying in bed when I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more-coffee.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}