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.
Osprey Sightings Archive Search
Name: Mary Ann Leekley
Nest Name:
SAL-10 - Lunt Rock Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2025-07-26
08:30 AM to 08:45 AM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible:
Number of Nestlings Visible: 1
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 74f, windy, hazy clear, low tide
Other Activity: chick (?) on nest, preening. back to me so I couldn't be sure if chick. fully feathered
Observation Method: boat ramp
General Comments:
Name: Mary Ann Leekley
Nest Name:
SAL-09 - Blackwater Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2025-07-26
09:20 AM to 09:30 AM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 2
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 74f, windy, hazy clear, low tide
Other Activity: adult on perch. 2 feathered chicks in nest, 1 of them flapping.
Observation Method: Markey's Restaurant parking lot.
General Comments:
Name: Mary Ann Leekley
Nest Name:
SAL-08 - Shad Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2025-07-26
08:30 AM to 08:45 AM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 2
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 74f, windy, hazy clear, low tide
Other Activity: 1 adult on perch. 2 feathered chicks, one flapping
Observation Method: boat ramp
General Comments:
Name: Mary Ann Leekley
Nest Name:
SAL-04 - Salisbury Beach Reservation Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2025-07-26
08:30 AM to 08:45 AM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 2
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 74f, windy, hazy clear, low tide
Other Activity: adult on perch. chicks flapping
Observation Method: boat ramp
General Comments:
Name: Jerry Klima
Nest Name:
SAL-01 - Rings Island Platforms
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2025-07-26
08:00 AM to 08:15 AM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible: 1
Weather Conditions: 70 degrees, calm, sunny
Other Activity: The Ring's Island osprey has fledged!. The two adults and the fledgling are perched together on platform 1 by the river and no osprey is on the nest on Platform 2.
Observation Method: From bedroom window
General Comments: Sadly the body of the second young 2025 Ring's Island osprey is still hanging from the nest where one of its feet is entangled in a piece of netting.
Name: Linda Pivacek
Nest Name:
LYN-06 - Lynn Harbor Channel Marker #11
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2025-07-26
08:05 PM to 08:17 PM
at: Lynn
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 1
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 68 F, light wind, partly cloudy
Other Activity:
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
Name: Linda Pivacek
Nest Name:
LYN-06 - Lynn Harbor Channel Marker #11
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2025-07-26
07:00 PM to 07:12 PM
at: Lynn
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible: 1
Weather Conditions: 68F, light wind, partly cloudy
Other Activity:
Observation Method: car
General Comments:
Name: Linda Pivacek
Nest Name:
LYN-01 - Lynn Harbor Channel Marker G15
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2025-07-26
07:18 PM to 07:26 PM
at: Lynn
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 1
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 68F, light wind, partly cloudy
Other Activity:
Observation Method: vehicle
General Comments:
Name: Lesli Woodruff
Nest Name:
BEV-01 - Monument Bar Channel Marker G1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2025-07-26
05:55 PM to 06:20 PM
at: Beverly
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible: 2
Weather Conditions: Warm, very light breeze, a light fog in the air
Other Activity: One fledgling was in the nest while the 2 adults were doing "flight school". One was flying high with a fish then swooping down, probably teaching the behavior. The f (?) came back to the nest to check on the one still in there. They greeted, she brought food, then she flew off again to be with the others, and the one in the nest hunkered down.
Observation Method: On foot at Independence Park.
General Comments: There is a concert in Salem Willows so maybe that has the little one scared??
Name: Albert Levesque
Nest Name:
MAR-04 - Cloutman’s Point Dock Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2025-07-25
02:15 AM to 02:47 AM
at: Marblehead
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 1
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 95F, light wind, sunny turning to cloudy
Other Activity: Female remained perched, only saw a wing raised from the nest.
Observation Method: By scope from area of lighthouse on Winter Island
General Comments: