{"id":678085,"date":"2026-07-07T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678085\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:33:08","slug":"joy-as-webcam-captures-young-rutland-ospreys-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678085\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy as webcam captures young Rutland osprey’s maiden flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

WIldlife experts monitoring ospreys at Rutland Water are celebrating after the first of this year’s chicks took to the skies for its debut flight.<\/p>\n

Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust’s Osprey Project features a webcam trained on the bird’s nest at Manton Bay.<\/p>\n

The project team said the young male – known as 8R5 – flew from the nest on Thursday evening and was seen on camera soaring over Rutland Water.<\/p>\n

After enjoying further “off-nest excursions” in the days since, the team is hoping the osprey’s siblings will soon be joining him in the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WIldlife experts monitoring ospreys at Rutland Water are celebrating after the first of this year’s chicks took to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-678085","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\/678085","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=678085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}