{"id":746207,"date":"2026-08-22T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746207\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:34:09","slug":"new-osprey-chick-at-cumbrias-foulshaw-moss-nature-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746207\/","title":{"rendered":"New osprey chick at Cumbria&#8217;s Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An already record number of osprey chicks hatched at a nature reserve has turned out to be higher than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cumbria Wildlife Trust, which previously said five chicks had been born across two nests at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve, has discovered two new nests and one more chick &#8211; pushing new-born numbers to six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nature reserves officer Paul Waterhouse said: &#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely amazing, I never contemplated there might be a third or a fourth nest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ospreys went extinct across Britain in the early 20th Century but populations have slowly recovered in recent decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For more than 10 years Foulshaw Moss only had one long-standing breeding pair of the birds, which Waterhouse said felt like a &#8220;real privilege&#8221; in itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two years ago another pair of ospreys came to stay, giving birth to a first chick last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both pairs had two chicks this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An already record number of osprey chicks hatched at a nature reserve has turned out to be higher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-746207","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\/746207","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=746207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}