{"id":496353,"date":"2026-03-26T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496353\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:07:07","slug":"returning-ospreys-in-dorset-avoid-last-seasons-love-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496353\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning ospreys in Dorset avoid last season&#8217;s love drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the brief romantic entanglement, female 1H1 settled down with male 374 and they became the second pair of breeding ospreys in southern England since 1847.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx24njjzny1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hatched two chicks last year in early June<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity has set up 10 nest platforms in Poole Harbour hoping a third breeding pair will arrive this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many of the south of England ospreys are ringed but do not carry trackers. They return from their annual migration, usually to western Africa, through late March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A reintroduction programme began in Poole Harbour in 2017 with the long-term aim of establishing a breeding population. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the brief romantic entanglement, female 1H1 settled down with male 374 and they became the second pair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-496353","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\/496353","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=496353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}