{"id":797923,"date":"2026-10-10T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797923\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:50:09","slug":"first-osprey-chicks-in-200-years-reported-in-herefordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797923\/","title":{"rendered":"First osprey chicks in 200 years reported in Herefordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fish-eating birds can often be spotted following rivers during their migration, Fountain explained. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you&#8217;re lucky enough to see them hunt, seeing an osprey fishing is a pretty amazing sight,&#8221; he added<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local wildlife photographer Victor Talmaciu was among those lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the birds, capturing  images of ospreys two years running at Bodenham Lake in Herefordshire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was very excited because I know how rare it is in these parts,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For [the osprey] the lake is just a pit stop before he goes back to Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The photographer said he returned to the lake again at the beginning of September to try and spot the bird before it left the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This time an osprey was being harassed by a flock of crows, &#8220;and didn&#8217;t stay long,&#8221; he explained. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I went there full of hope and didn&#8217;t come back disappointed,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fish-eating birds can often be spotted following rivers during their migration, Fountain explained. &#8220;If you&#8217;re lucky enough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-797923","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\/797923","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=797923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}