{"id":143204,"date":"2018-06-19T10:57:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/pine-marten-poaches-loch-garten-ospreys-rotten-eggs\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:57:15","slug":"pine-marten-poaches-loch-garten-ospreys-rotten-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/pine-marten-poaches-loch-garten-ospreys-rotten-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pine marten poaches Loch Garten osprey&#8217;s rotten eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pine marten and osprey EJ at nest\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/2A3B\/production\/_101011801_ej.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  RSPB Scotland\/Carnyx Wild<figcaption>Image caption                                      EJ defended her nest against a pine marten earlier in the breeding season                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Three eggs laid by a Highlands nature reserve&#039;s most successful breeding female osprey have been taken by a pine marten.<\/p>\n<p>Laid by the bird known to conservationists as EJ, they had failed to hatch at the RSPB&#039;s Loch Garten reserve near Grantown on Spey.<\/p>\n<p>The clutch has been in the nest for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Staff at the site have suggested that the pine marten&#039;s meal would have made for &quot;a rancid midnight feast&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Ospreys migrate from west Africa to Scotland to breed and can be seen hunting for fish from rivers and lochs.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  RSPB Loch Garten\/CarnyxWild<figcaption>Image caption                                      EJ at her nest earlier this year                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Twenty-one-year-old EJ remains Loch Garten&#039;s most successful breeding female osprey.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the season, she defended her nest against a pine marten.<\/p>\n<p>The reserve in the Cairngorms is home to other ospreys and a wide range of bird species as well as red squirrels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright RSPB Scotland\/Carnyx WildImage caption EJ defended her nest against a pine marten earlier in the breeding season Three eggs laid by a Highlands nature reserve&#039;s most successful breeding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}