Chick flicks: Watch our videos to mark the 150th Ospreys hatched at Rutland Water

A pioneering project to re-introduce Ospreys back into the wild has seen its 150th chick hatch.

The Bird of Prey had been extinct in England for 150 years but now they're thriving again, and it is down to a project spanning more than two decades at Rutland Water.

Between 1996 and 2001 - 64 six week old Scottish Ospreys were released at the reservior. The project saw the first birds return to breed there in 2001.

Watch our report from 1996 on the launch of the project

This year three new chicks have hatched. They belong to Maya and her mate known only as 33 - they've been breeding at Manton bay on Rutland Water since 2015 and between them they've successfully reared 10 chicks.

There are now 25 of the fish-eating birds of prey here with eight breeding pairs in the area.

The chicks hatched this year will stay at Rutland until September when they'll migrate to West Africa. - there they'll stay until there around 2 years old.

Watch Emily Knight's report below.