{"id":240127,"date":"2025-11-02T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240127\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:02:09","slug":"children-help-search-for-harvest-mice-nests-in-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240127\/","title":{"rendered":"Children help search for harvest mice nests in Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Children have been taking part in a survey to record the number of harvest mice nests in the countryside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pupils from Holbeton Primary School in Devon visited fields near Mothercombe beach to search for the nests of Britain&#8217;s smallest rodents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two of the students, Viola and Alice, described the nests as grass and hay in a &#8220;little ball&#8221; with a hole in the middle for the &#8220;harvest mice to get in and out&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harvest mouse project manager Sarah Butcher said the children found 17 nests during their hunt which was the most she had found this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Children have been taking part in a survey to record the number of harvest mice nests in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-240127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}