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: 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!!
Name: Jerry Klima
Nest Name:
SAL-01 - Rings Island Platforms
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-11
11:00 AM to 11:15 AM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 70 degrees, cloudy, light SE
Other Activity: The female is sitting on the nest and the male is perched on the perch above the nest.
Observation Method: from bedroom window
General Comments: The female has been sitting on eggs for a long time. The male is very attentive and often exchanges places with the female to give her a break. However there has been no sign of any chick-feeding activity. We are wondering if they are sitting on infertile eggs and just won't five up. Seems too long.
Name: Ronald Hamlin
Nest Name:
IPS-01 - Strawberry Hill Platforms
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Feeding Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-11
8:00 AM to 8:15 AM
at: Ipswich
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 2
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 64 degrees, no wind, slight overcast
Other Activity: Male perching on standoff post
Observation Method: Through scope from our dining room window
General Comments: The female has been sitting on eggs since the beginning of May. The eggs may have hatched a week to 10 days ago. Two nestlings now visible. Female feeding them regularly. Only heads of offspring visible. Seem to be covered with downy feathers, yet some sene of black eye stripe visible in certain light.
Name: Karen Rembert
Nest Name:
GLO-05 - Lobsta Land Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-11
04:24 PM to 04:24 PM
at: Gloucester
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 3
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: high clouds
Other Activity: I saw the 3rd chick in the nest. Annie was on the nest then flew off and tried to chase a duck away (in the pool near the "staging" pole).
Observation Method: computer
General Comments:
Name: Karen Rembert
Nest Name:
GLO-05 - Lobsta Land Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-11
10:52 AM to 11:00 AM
at: Gloucester
Number of Adults Visible:
Number of Nestlings Visible: 2
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: partly sunny
Other Activity: Squam in nest; only 2 chicks visible the entire time I watched. Squam was rooting around and moving some of the softer nest materials, but I still couldn't see the 3rd chick. Both of the visible ones looked strong.
Observation Method: computer
General Comments:
Name: Dave Rimmer
Nest Name:
SAL-07 - Town Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-10
7 AM to 7 AM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible:
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions:
Other Activity:
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General Comments: No OSPR on nest but 1 was flying near nest chasing away a blackbird.
Name: Amy Howell
Nest Name:
ROW-12 - Rough Meadows Sanctuary Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
No Osprey visible on Nest
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-10
!0:10 AM to 11:42 AM
at: Rowley
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 68 degrees, sunny, some clouds
Other Activity: No sign of Ospreys near or on the nest.
Observation Method: By car, before and after monitoring Sawyers Island.
General Comments:
Name: Amy Howell
Nest Name:
ROW-07 - Sawyers Island Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
No Osprey visible on Nest
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-06-10
10:15 AM to 11:36 AM
at: Rowley
Number of Adults Visible: 3
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 68 degrees, high tide, sunny, some clouds, breezy, buggy,
Other Activity: 10:25 AM - from the path to the marsh, there was one Osprey perched on the right side, bottom support of the nest. I did not see any Osprey in the nest, the nest look disheveled. I felt it was sad news for the nest. I went back up the trail, to the hill and down the other side to the marsh edge, David was there with his scope. Now the O at the bottom of the nest, perched on the middle support wood on the platform. We compared findings, thought maybe we saw an O in the nest, but concluded we were looking at space/sky between sticks. (2 young women from US Fish & Wildlife Service were there as well, ripping out pepper weed) David said he'd check on Sawyers again this weekend, & went on to the check another nest. I went back around to the marsh from the regular trail. At 11:10, I could clearly see 2 Ospreys sitting near each other, directly on the marsh. This was across the creek, way over to the left of the nest area. The one Osprey stayed at the bottom of the nest on the wood supports the whole time, so I did not walk to the nest to investigate the apparent loss of the nest.
Observation Method: on foot
General Comments: