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: Rick Pierce
Nest Name:
ESS-10 - Lufkin Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-13
10:15 AM to 10:25 AM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 72 degrees, partly cloudy
Other Activity: Both osprey were in the nest and got vocal as I approached but did not fly away
Observation Method: Boat
General Comments:
Name: Rick Pierce
Nest Name:
ESS-08 - Greenbelt Cox Reservation Platform #2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-13
10:00 AM to 10:05 AM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 72 degrees, partly cloudy
Other Activity: One osprey in nest
Observation Method: Boat
General Comments:
Name: Rick Pierce
Nest Name:
ESS-06 - Soginese Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-13
10:40 AM to 10:50 AM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 72 degrees, partly cloudy
Other Activity: The one osprey took off as I approached and had a long piece of something like a reed attached to it’s talon. As I left it immediately returned to the nest with the reed.
Observation Method: Boat
General Comments:
Name: Rick Pierce
Nest Name:
ESS-03 - Great Bank Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-13
11:20 AM to 11:30 AM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 72 degrees, partly cloudy
Other Activity: One osprey incubating and the other in nearby marsh.
Observation Method: Boat
General Comments:
Name: Rick Pierce
Nest Name:
ESS-02 - Brophy Salt Marsh Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-13
11:00 AM to 11:10 AM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 72 degrees
Other Activity: Both osprey were perched on the nest .
Observation Method: Boat
General Comments:
Name: Colleen Clancey
Nest Name:
SAL-09 - Blackwater Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Choose Activity Observed
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-12
2:40 PM to 2:45 PM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 74°, slightly windy, sunny
Other Activity: There was one on the perch on the nest, then they flew away after about five minutes. The other one wasn’t to be found.
Observation Method: On foot
General Comments:
Name: Joan O'Connor
Nest Name:
GLO-08 - Magnolia Woods Tree Nest
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-12
05 PM to 05/46 PM
at: Gloucester
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: Light clouds,mild
Other Activity: 2nd week in a row that only one osprey was sighted and she (presumably she) was incubating. Stayed for 45 minutes in hopes to see her mate, but no luck.
Observation Method: On foot
General Comments:
Name: Dorothy Rocklin
Nest Name:
SAU-08 - DCR Rumney Marsh Platform #2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-11
2:09 PM to 2:11 PM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 77, WSW at 12mph, mostly cloudy
Other Activity: platform appears to be unused
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
Name: Dorothy Rocklin
Nest Name:
SAU-06 - DCR Rumney Marsh Platform #1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-11
2:39 PM to 2:52 PM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 77, WSW at 12mph
Other Activity: When arrived, one perched on perch very close to nest. Landed on nest, then took off and flew low and near and chased a gull away from a nearby pond and circled back to perch, not nest.
Observation Method:
General Comments:
Name: Dorothy Rocklin
Nest Name:
SAU-03 - Route 107 Utility Pole
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-11
2:20 PM to 2:34 PM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 1
Number of Fledglings Visible: 1
Weather Conditions: 77, WSW at 12mph, mosltly cloudy
Other Activity: Arrived, no osprey on nest. Came in and landed , stayed about 2 min, flew off, circled around and landed again. Another osprey flew by and circled but did not land. Later a mockingbird was harassing it on the nest! Osprey was standing not sitting the whole time it was on the nest,
Observation Method: foot
General Comments: The birds on this nest are getting harassed by everything!!