{"id":518875,"date":"2026-04-08T04:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518875\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:14:21","slug":"star-rutland-water-osprey-maya-lays-first-egg-at-manton-bay-nest-on-easter-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518875\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Rutland Water osprey Maya lays first egg at Manton Bay nest on Easter Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wildlife fans were thrilled when a star osprey at Rutland Water laid her first egg of the season on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincsonline.co.uk\/rutland\/news\/unwelcome-rival-chased-off-as-osprey-season-at-rutland-water-9458877\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rutland Water osprey Maya<\/a> and her mate 33(11) returned to their regular nest at Manton Bay recently and after seeing off competition for her mate\u2019s affections from an unringed female, the popular pair wasted no time in restoring the nest ready for this year\u2019s arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>On Easter Sunday, the Rutland Water Osprey Project reported on Facebook that there was an egg in the nest, with many comments saying it was a \u2018wonderful Easter treat\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1058 575\" alt=\"Maya laid an egg on the Rutland Water Manton Bay nest on Easter Sunday\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"142S8ZBO6KHMNWMKOVAM.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.84\"\/>Maya laid an egg on the Rutland Water Manton Bay nest on Easter Sunday<\/p>\n<p>Ospreys usually lay their eggs at three-day intervals and they take between 35 and 42 days to hatch.<\/p>\n<p>Maya, thought to be at least 19-years-old, has been in Rutland since 2009 and breeding on the Manton Bay nest since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>During that time she has raised 42 chicks, making her one of the most successful breeding female Ospreys on record, 31 of which have been with her mate 33(11).<\/p>\n<p>As well as live footage of the Manton Bay nest where Maya and 33(11) nest, there is also live footage of an osprey nest at lagoon four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildlife fans were thrilled when a star osprey at Rutland Water laid her first egg of the season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2851,1397,192,8739,9882,9883,90,96852,194,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-518875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-human-interest","11":"tag-lincs-homepage","12":"tag-oakham","13":"tag-rutland-homepage","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-stamford","16":"tag-syndicate","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom","20":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518875","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=518875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}