{"id":532412,"date":"2026-04-15T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532412\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:33:11","slug":"returning-poole-harbour-ospreys-lay-first-egg-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532412\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning Poole Harbour ospreys lay first egg of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birds of Poole Harbour and Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation began a reintroduction programme in 2017 with the long-term aim of establishing a breeding population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each year, up to 14 osprey chicks from Scotland are re-located, reared and released in the Poole Harbour area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The juveniles usually leave the harbour between in August or September, travelling to their wintering grounds in West Africa, where they remain for a few years before returning to Dorset when they are ready to breed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birds of Poole Harbour and Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation began a reintroduction programme in 2017 with the long-term&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-532412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532412","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=532412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}