{"id":684616,"date":"2026-07-10T17:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684616\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:41:12","slug":"new-baby-beavers-spotted-at-sculthorpe-moor-near-fakenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684616\/","title":{"rendered":"New baby beavers spotted at Sculthorpe Moor near Fakenham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The kits are the latest additions to the beaver family in the enclosure at Sculthorpe Moor, near Fakenham.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Volunteers first discovered the arrivals last week before spotting\u00a0the tiny pair with an adult female at Sculthorpe Moor yesterday (Thursday, June 9).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokeswoman for Hawk and Owl Trust said there could be more kits in the enclosure that have not been spotted yet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The first beavers arrived in 2021 (Image: C. De Witt)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Liberty Wells, digital communications and outreach ranger for the trust, said: &#8220;The staff and volunteers here at Sculthorpe Moor are delighted to have spotted two new additions to the family of beavers within our enclosure.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It is such a positive and exciting time for the project, and it is lovely to see the two beaver kits on both camera trail footage and in person.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The first adult beavers came to the site in 2021, and the family has since grown making the space an &#8220;amazing habitat for all&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Wells added: &#8220;Watching the family unit interact with each other is sweet, with the older kits showing the younger kits the way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The ever-changing landscape within the enclosure is amazing to see as they are shaping the wetland habitat, which then benefits the wider ecosystem.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We are excited to see what the future holds for the project.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The kits are the latest additions to the beaver family in the enclosure at Sculthorpe Moor, near Fakenham.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-684616","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\/684616","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=684616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}