{"id":606862,"date":"2026-05-27T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606862\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:53:14","slug":"kielder-forest-welcomes-first-osprey-chicks-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606862\/","title":{"rendered":"Kielder Forest welcomes first osprey chicks of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blair said they have had eight nests occupied before, but not with eggs and chicks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is absolutely a record,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blair said she was &#8220;cautiously optimistic&#8221; about the chicks&#8217; chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;There are predators around, the weather &#8211; I&#8217;d love to say that we&#8217;re going to stay with a lovely and warm summer now until September, but I think we all know don&#8217;t we?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ospreys were once found throughout the UK during the warmer months until they were driven to extinction as a breeding bird in England and Wales in 1847, and in Scotland in 1916.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They returned to the UK in 1954 and there are now close to 300 breeding pairs, according to the Wildlife Trusts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blair said they have had eight nests occupied before, but not with eggs and chicks. &#8220;That is absolutely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-606862","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\/606862","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=606862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}