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: Lore Chapman
Nest Name:
BEV-01 - Monument Bar Channel Marker G1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-07-01
245 PM to 330 PM
at: Beverly
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: Windy, Fog rolling in over water with cool temperatures even though it was close to 80 degrees away from beach and sunny
Other Activity: There was a lot of boat activity, noise, music from boats. The adult Osprey did not move from his/her spot
Observation Method: On beach with binoculars and through viewers at Independence park.
General Comments: .
Name: SALLY MCMURRY
Nest Name:
SLM-04 - National Grid Transmission Tower
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-06-30
7:08 PM to 8:11 PM
at: Salem
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 1
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: light breeze 70 mostly sunny high tide 9:30 pm
Other Activity: 7:08 he lands at top of pylon. She tends young 7:15 ish he leaves, she still bobbing 7:23 Still bobbing 7:38 I definitely saw one little head pop up and down Now she's just perching 7:51 she takes off and lights on a wire Then flies around a minute or two, back to pylon but not on nest. She does this again one or two times. At 8:01 she was still on wire. 8:09 second osprey arrives, lands on wire. I couldn't tell if it had food. It soon left. Female still on wire at 8:11
Observation Method: binoculars from bench across the cove
General Comments:
Name: John Lund
Nest Name:
SLM-03 - Little Haste Daymarker
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-06-30
09:55 AM to 10:15 AM
at: Salem
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 1
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: Temp 73°F NNE@ 3 mph
Other Activity:
Observation Method: Boat
General Comments: 2 adult and one nestling visible in nest.
Name: Albert Levesque
Nest Name:
SLM-01 - Salem Harbor Channel Marker G3
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-06-30
02:39 PM to 03:18 PM
at: Salem
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 77F, sunny, moderate breeze
Other Activity: Spread her wings briefly as if to shade nestling(s), otherwise remained perched.
Observation Method: on foot by scope
General Comments: Also saw 2 Ospreys on the number 2 channel marker with nesting material in place. They left almost as soon as we arrived and didn't return. I will send an email to explain.
Name: Albert Levesque
Nest Name:
MAR-02 - Great Aquivitae Daymarker
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-06-30
01:23 PM to 02:18 PM
at: Salem
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 77F, sunny, moderate breeze, however, changed to heavy fog when we left.
Other Activity: Osprey rose a couple of times and resettled. After fog came in the other arrived, the incubator rose for a while, then the arrived one left and the original one resettled in the nest.
Observation Method: on foot by scope
General Comments:
Name: Emerson Dahmen
Nest Name:
ROW-09 - ClubHead Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-06-30
9 to 11 AM
at: Rowley
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 2
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 75,se6,40%
Other Activity:
Observation Method: boat
General Comments: youngish chicks, also 1 egg. not optimistic about egg because chicks look at least a week old
Name: Emerson Dahmen
Nest Name:
ROW-04 - Nelson Island Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-06-30
9 to 11
at: Rowley
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 75,40%,se6
Other Activity:
Observation Method: boat
General Comments:
Name: Emerson Dahmen
Nest Name:
ROW-04 - Nelson Island Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-06-30
9 to 11
at: Rowley
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 75,40%,se6
Other Activity:
Observation Method: boat
General Comments:
Name: Mary Ann Glennon
Nest Name:
MER-01 - East Meadow Brook Tree Nest
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-06-30
02:45 PM to 03:15 PM
at: Merrimac
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 2
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 80 degrees sunny
Other Activity:
Observation Method: on foot
General Comments:
Name: GAIL SMITH
Nest Name:
MAR-01 - Forest River Park Channel Marker R2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-06-30
3:05 PM to 3:20 PM
at: Marblehead
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 75, BREEZY, SUNNY
Other Activity: The female was standing in the nest but periodically looking beneath her. The male was perched below.
Observation Method: ON FOOT BINOCULARS
General Comments: