OAK HARBOR - Officials have spotted what they say are the first osprey chicks hatched at a wildlife refuge in northwestern Ohio. Officials at the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge said the parents are two ospreys that showed up this year at the refuge along the shore of Lake Erie.

OAK HARBOR �Officials have spotted what they say are the first osprey chicks hatched at a wildlife refuge in northwestern Ohio.

Officials at the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge said the parents are two ospreys that showed up this year at the refuge along the shore of Lake Erie.

Refuge staff members had installed a nesting platform at the unit, which is closed to the public.

Refuge officials estimate that the three chicks hatched within a few days of one another about three weeks ago at the refuge�s Blausey Unit.

Wildlife officials say the chicks probably will begin flying in three weeks.