{"id":532868,"date":"2026-04-15T20:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532868\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:48:13","slug":"moment-fourth-osprey-egg-laid-at-rutland-water-nature-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532868\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment fourth osprey egg laid at Rutland Water Nature Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maya has nested at the Manton Bay site since 2009, and with male osprey 33 for the past 11 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sexton, senior species and recording officer at Rutland Water, said the pair had raised 30 chicks during that time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the recent egg, which he believed to be the last of the clutch of this season, was similar in colour to the first and third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Sexton said the second was &#8220;completely different&#8221; in colour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Typically the eggs are reddy-brown speckled coloured, but the second was pale blue,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are not sure why that&#8217;s the case, but we are looking into it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maya has nested at the Manton Bay site since 2009, and with male osprey 33 for the past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-532868","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\/532868","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=532868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}