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According to the blog, the first chick hatched out at 3.18 this afternoon!
There are photos up on the website . I can see the empty egg but not the chick......

I've just seen the tiny chick as Lassie stood up before resettling down;

Hi Elle, Doglet and everyone,

The second osprey chick had started cracking its shell - it might take him a few hours to break out the shell - apparently 12 hours for chick number 1 - seems like hard work for such a small bird!

Elle, Laddie has brought in a salmon (I think) and I watched Lassie feeding herself and her tiny chatty little chick - simply marvellous !

I don't think it would have been a salmon, pigale - wrong time of year (I think!) Trout, perhaps?

Salmon come up our rivers in October/November to spawn; they then die, so wouldn't still be around. (However I stand to be corrected.)

Hi, Pigale!
My timing is abysmal! I have been checking regularly since I came in about teatime.....nothing was happening whenever I looked!
I am so sorry and disappointed to have missed that!
The up- to- date photos on the blog are good!

Chris, I would say that you are very probably right ! All I know for sure is that the flesh reddish, but perhaps that applies to many types of fish; it was rather big though, well it appeared so to me who likes going fishing along our local river and canal - apart from carps, there are no big fish there.

Just had a really good look at the chick, and it being fed. I wonder why the old shell hasn't been removed by the parents?

~Don't know Rosalind - true enough that most birds remove the shells of their offsprings; that's what mummy tit in the nest box did recently; both parents are now very busy feeding 8 young ones and keeping the nest clean at all times.

I've just been reading the latest update on the osprey blog, and, yes, it WAS a salmon that Laddie brought to Lassie and the baby chick ! There is a wonderful photograph shown there of Lassie feeding her new offspring!