{"id":533852,"date":"2026-04-16T09:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533852\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:37:11","slug":"kielder-forests-ospreys-produce-first-egg-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533852\/","title":{"rendered":"Kielder Forest&#8217;s ospreys produce first egg of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A stronghold for ospreys in England has seen its first egg of the year after two breeding seasons described as &#8220;unlucky&#8221; by the expert who monitors them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2025, the eight nests in Kielder Forest in Northumberland resulted in just six fledglings, while storms in June 2024 caused the deaths of a number of chicks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Forestry England&#8217;s Joanna Dailey says she is &#8220;more hopeful&#8221; for 2026 with eight nests occupied, although two only have a single bird on them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The males are bringing fish, all that courtship stuff seems to be going okay,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stronghold for ospreys in England has seen its first egg of the year after two breeding seasons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-533852","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\/533852","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=533852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}