{"id":602973,"date":"2026-05-25T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602973\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:40:09","slug":"public-vote-to-call-falcon-chicks-isa-and-winston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602973\/","title":{"rendered":"Public vote to call falcon chicks Isa and Winston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Posting on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgow.gov.uk\/article\/15042\/Falcon-Watch\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Falcon Watch page, external<\/a>, Glasgow City Council said: &#8220;This is too good&#8230; people huv tae know!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Your votes have been counted, and we have a winner. We are delighted to introduce&#8230; Winston and Isa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Inspired by the beloved Still Game characters, we hope our feathered friends provide Glasgow with as much joy and laughter as their namesakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Still Game characters they are named after live in a tower block which is aptly named Osprey Heights. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The parent birds were named in reference to the phrase &#8220;Bonnie Scotland&#8221; and the River Clyde, as well as the notorious crime duo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posting on the Falcon Watch page, external, Glasgow City Council said: &#8220;This is too good&#8230; people huv tae&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-602973","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\/602973","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=602973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}