{"id":485532,"date":"2026-03-20T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485532\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:53:07","slug":"peregrine-lays-first-egg-of-the-year-on-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485532\/","title":{"rendered":"Peregrine lays first egg of the year on Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A cathedral&#8217;s resident peregrine falcon chose Mothering Sunday to lay her first egg of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then, the breeding pair living on the spire of Leicester Cathedral have added a second to the clutch, webcams operated by Leicester Peregrine Project have shown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The expectant mother, part of a brood hatched on the spire in 2024, will hopefully hatch and then raise a new family over the summer months, said project lead Jim Graham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When it comes to this time of year, it does tend to get a little bit tense to see when the first egg is going to be laid,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cathedral&#8217;s resident peregrine falcon chose Mothering Sunday to lay her first egg of the year. Since then,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-485532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485532","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=485532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}