{"id":24776,"date":"2018-04-02T06:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T06:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=24776"},"modified":"2018-04-02T06:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T06:55:29","slug":"the-blocked-perch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=24776","title":{"rendered":"The blocked perch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the first dry day in ages. At bedtime when I checked on the girls this is what I found.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24793\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=24793\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24793\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24793\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24793\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/speckles-and-emerald.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/speckles-and-emerald.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/speckles-and-emerald-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/speckles-and-emerald-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speckles and Emerald at bedtime<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I blocked this perch from the other side because they usually access it from the table. Instead they must have jumped straight up from the ground. This would have been a tricky manoeuvre and shows how determined they are.<\/p>\n<p>I removed the blocker as I don&#8217;t want them risking themselves with a tricky manoeuvre. The forecast is back to rain again for the coming week so that will stop them for a while.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment they are going in seven o&#8217;clock which is when we have our evening meal. As the days get longer they will go in later and it will be easier for me to keep going out and moving them from this spot.<\/p>\n<p>This habit is going to be difficult to break!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the first dry day in ages. At bedtime when I checked on the girls this is what I found. I blocked this perch from the other side because they usually access it from the table. Instead they must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=24776\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24796,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24776\/revisions\/24796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}