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: David Rimmer
Nest Name:
ROW-11 - Hog Island Point
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
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Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-14
1000 to 1015
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
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General Comments: basically no nest material on this small platform - former floor of duck blind only a foot off the marsh. Female was sitting as though incubating but when she stood up, no egg under her. However there was a single egg and some egg shell fragments on the wood platform next to where the female was sitting. Very strange,
Name: Rick Pierce
Nest Name:
ESS-10 - Lufkin Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-14
9:15 AM to 9:25 AM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 72 degrees, sunny, slight breeze
Other Activity: One bird in incubating position and 2nd bird on nearby perch. Both lifted off to check me out as I approached and then immediately returned to the nest.
Observation Method: boat
General Comments:
Name: David Rimmer
Nest Name:
ESS-10 - Lufkin Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-14
1000 to 1015
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 1
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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:
2022-05-14
(6:10 PM.) to (6:35 PM.)
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: (80 f, 10 mph E wind; cloudy; distant rain & lightning in Ipswich; 2 hours past low tide)
Other Activity: (Male brought the female a fish, and then took off again.)
Observation Method: (On foot with binoculars on the marsh-side deck.)
General Comments: (Female sitting quietly on the nest. Ate the fish she was brought.)
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:
2022-05-14
9:00 AM to 9:10 AM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 72 degrees, sunny, slight breeze
Other Activity: Both birds flew off the nest as a fisherman walked across the nearby marsh. Both birds returned to the nest.
Observation Method: boat
General Comments:
Name: Rick Pierce
Nest Name:
ESS-06 - Soginese Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-14
9:30 AM to 9:40 AM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 72 degrees, sunny, slight breeze
Other Activity: One bird in incubating position and one bird on nest perch.
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:
2022-05-14
10:30 AM to 10:45 AM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 73 degrees, sunny, slight breeze
Other Activity: Both osprey were in the nest with an extremely high tide surrounding the platform.
Observation Method: boat
General Comments:
Name: Rick Pierce
Nest Name:
ESS-02 - Brophy Salt Marsh Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-14
10:10 AM to 10:20 AM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 74 degrees, sunny, calm
Other Activity: One bird in nest and one bird on the ground in marsh nearby.
Observation Method: boat
General Comments: I believe there used to be a perch in the nearby marsh in previous years but I did not see it today.
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:
2022-05-14
1:15 PM to 1:35 PM
at: Boxford
Number of Adults Visible: 2
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Weather Conditions: Very warm, sunny
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Observation Method: On foot
General Comments:
Name: Jerry Klima
Nest Name:
SAL-07 - Town Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-13
8:30 AM to 8:45 AM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 55 degrees, clear, calm
Other Activity: Female perched standing on the nest platform and male perched on the perching post of the platform. I passed by 2 hours later and no ospreys were present. Makes me think that there are no eggs in the nest.
Observation Method: from rail trail
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