{"id":555904,"date":"2026-04-28T23:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555904\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T23:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:35:10","slug":"pigeon-family-nesting-beneath-postal-van-in-nailsea-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555904\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigeon family nesting beneath postal van in Nailsea rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A family of pigeons has been rescued from beneath a postal van after secretly accompanying daily deliveries for more than three weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Louise Thomas, a Royal Mail worker in Nailsea, north Somerset, said the birds had gone undetected until Saturday when the mother was spotted trying to climb underneath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local rescue team Curious Critters was called to retrieve two babies, known as squabs, and an adult female. A spokesperson said all three birds were &#8220;in good health&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Given pigeons sit on their eggs for around 18 days, and the squabs are at least three weeks old, they have been under there a long time,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family of pigeons has been rescued from beneath a postal van after secretly accompanying daily deliveries for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-555904","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\/555904","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=555904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}