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: Deborah Mccomiskey
Nest Name:
GLO-01 - KEA Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-05-01
04:11 PM to 04:30 PM
at: Gloucester
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 58, windy, overcast
Other Activity: one osprey perched on the adjacent dead branch, flew off past Long Wharf chirping and then up the river but then returned shortly after.
Observation Method: vehicle
General Comments:
Name: Peter Dorsey
Nest Name:
ESS-08 - Greenbelt Cox Reservation Platform #2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-05-01
5:15 PM. to 5:45 PM.
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 61 F, 15 mph S wind, sunny, mid tide going out
Other Activity: Female's head just barely visible at top of deep nest. Probably sitting on eggs.
Observation Method: On foot with binoculars.
General Comments: Male on separate perch pole; then he moved to the nest perch.
Name: Betsy Ridge
Nest Name:
ESS-06 - Soginese Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-05-01
3:15 PM to 3:45 PM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 55degrees, partly cloudy
Other Activity:
Observation Method: on foot
General Comments:
Name: Jackie Hutchinson
Nest Name:
BOX-01 - Carter Fields-Pine Tree
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-05-01
11:00 AM to 12:40 PM
at: Boxford
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: Windy in the 60s, partly sunny
Other Activity: Did two 20 minute observations (explored the property in between) The first was just one osprey in the nest cup the entire time The second was the same except that the male flew around the wetland and landed low in some dead tree debris out of my line of sight
Observation Method: On foot
General Comments:
Name: Melissa Root
Nest Name:
NEW-08 - Upper Parker River/Middle Road Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-04-30
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
at: Newbury
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: Rain, tide coming in
Other Activity: 2 Osprey seen again :) both are circling and hunting No action on the platform
Observation Method:
General Comments:
Name: Linda Pogson
Nest Name:
SAU-08 - DCR Rumney Marsh Platform #2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-04-29
2:15 PM to 2:30 PM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 50 cloudy
Other Activity:
Observation Method: Vehicle from Belair St.
General Comments: There was one osprey on the perch that is on the platform. A nest appeared a couple of weeks ago!
Name: Karyl Stoia
Nest Name:
SAU-04A - General Electric Platform #1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Choose Activity Observed
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-04-29
11:30 AM to 11:50 AM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: mostly sunny, 57F
Other Activity: one osprey in Nest, the other in marsh grass
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
Name: Linda Pogson
Nest Name:
LYN-03 - Lower Saugus River Channel Marker-Walsh
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
No Osprey visible on Nest
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-04-29
1:55 PM to 2:10 PM
at: Lynn
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 50 cloudy
Other Activity:
Observation Method: Vehicle from Raddin St.
General Comments: There was no osprey visible on the nest although the nest is deep and she could have been incubating. One osprey was flying around the area.
Name: Joan O'Connor
Nest Name:
GLO-08 - Magnolia Woods Tree Nest
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-04-29
1:50 PM to 2:18 PM
at: Gloucester
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: Cloudy, windy,cold
Other Activity:
Observation Method: On foot
General Comments:
Name: Lesli Woodruff
Nest Name:
BEV-01 - Monument Bar Channel Marker G1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2023-04-29
1:20 PM to 1:40 PM
at: Beverly
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: Windy, damp, 50ish
Other Activity: She must be incubating... she is low in the nest but looking over the edge, waiting for lunch delivery. Then he comes bac (no lunch) and they do some preening of each other. He scratches around in the nest and settles in beside her... probably to get out of the wind. They were both on the nest when I left.
Observation Method: On foot from Independence Park
General Comments: