Osprey Monitoring & Sightings
Where are Osprey Nesting?
For more than 15 years, Greenbelt has been dedicated to Osprey conservation through the construction and maintenance of nesting platforms, data collection, public education, and collaborative research efforts aimed at protecting this once endangered species. Volunteers submit their sightings online, and the most recent sightings are displayed in real-time.
Osprey Sighting Form
Help track Osprey behavior north of Boston by submitting your observations using our easy-to-use online reporting form.
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Name: Lynette Leka
Nest Name:
NEW-03A - Plum Island River Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Feeding Self
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-09-03
08:10 AM to 08:25 AM
at: Newbury
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 3
Weather Conditions: 62 degF, moderate wind from NNW, 10% cloud cover
Other Activity: one juv at nest feeding self, then flew to old duck blind; one juv on driftwood by old duck blind feeding self; one juv flew in and landed on post perch
Observation Method: on foot
General Comments:
Name: Lynette Leka
Nest Name:
NEW-01 - Graf Salt Marsh Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-09-03
08:10 AM to 08:25 AM
at: Newbury
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 1
Weather Conditions: 62 degF, moderate wind from NNW, 10% cloud cover
Other Activity: one juv on post perch
Observation Method: on foot
General Comments:
Name: Lynette Leka
Nest Name:
IPS-06 - Plum Island #1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Feeding Self
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-09-03
08:50 AM to 09:05 AM
at: Ipswich
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 1
Weather Conditions: 63 degF, no wind, 10% cloud cover
Other Activity: one juv at nest, calling and calling; adult flew in, quickly delivered a fish and flew away; juv then flew to post perch and fed self
Observation Method: on foot
General Comments:
Name: Mary Ann Leekley
Nest Name:
NEW-05 - Chaces Island Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-09-01
12:55 to 1:00 PM
at: Newbury
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible: 2
Weather Conditions: 74 F, starting to rain
Other Activity:
Observation Method: from PI bridge
General Comments:
Name: Mary Ann Leekley
Nest Name:
NEW-03A - Plum Island River Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-09-01
12:55 to 1 PM
at: Newbury
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 1
Weather Conditions: 74 F, starting to rain
Other Activity:
Observation Method: from PI bridge
General Comments:
Name: SHIRLEY SINGLETON
Nest Name:
ESS-05 - Singleton Salt Marsh Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Choose Activity Observed
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-09-01
10:00 AM to 10:30 AM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible:
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible: 1
Weather Conditions: RAIN THEN BREEZY WITH SOME SUN
Other Activity: JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT JAKE WAS GONE FOR GOOD..... JAKE SUDDENLY REAPPEARED. HE HAS BEEN SITTING ON HIS NEST FOR THE PAST TWO DAYS.
Observation Method: FROM THE BACK DECK
General Comments:
Name: Shirley Singleton
Nest Name:
ESS-05 - Singleton Salt Marsh Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
No Osprey visible on Nest
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-08-30
12:30 PM to 12:45 PM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: Humid
Other Activity: I believe that Jake has left to go south. I have not seen him for several days.
Observation Method: From back deck
General Comments:
Name: Nicole Cross
Nest Name:
MAR-01 - Forest River Park Channel Marker R2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Feeding Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-08-28
18:25 to 18:349
at: Salem
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 1
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: Cloudy; low winds
Other Activity: Circling fisherman
Observation Method: On foot
General Comments:
Name: David Powell
Nest Name:
ROW-07 - Sawyers Island Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-08-28
5:25 PM to 5:40 PM
at: Rowley
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions:
Other Activity: No osprey present. Only a very few sticks remaining on the platform. On my way to island I had seen what looked like the beginnings of a osprey nest on a power pole on the roadside about a quarter of a mile from the road end and island parking. I was not there on my last visit. In talking to a neighbor who lives close by, another attempt to building on the same pole had been removed by "Audubon" some two months earlier. Was it the Sawyer's pair looking for a "safer" site ??
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
Name: Albert Levesque
Nest Name:
SAU-05 - Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary Platform #1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-08-25
06:30 AM to 07:00 AM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 2
Weather Conditions: 73F, wind calm, sunny
Other Activity: The largest and the mid sized juveniles were perched. The largest left, the mid sized flapped wildly but got no elevation. A few minutes later it lifted off and left the nest. It made a circle around the nest and returned. The largest also returned to the nest.
Observation Method: on foot by scope
General Comments: