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: Robyn Lafata
Nest Name:
ESS-08 - Greenbelt Cox Reservation Platform #2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-18
6:30 AM to 6:55 AM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 60 degrees, sunny
Other Activity: As I was watching the female on the nest, I watched the male osprey dive idown to the water and come up with a fish. He was then pestered by a seagull trying to get the fish...brave bird and where was my camera when I needed it! LOL!
Observation Method: foot
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:
2022-05-18
1:15 PM to 1:30 PM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 64 degrees, sunny, strong NW wind.
Other Activity: Female on nest alone and as I approached in the creek she called in the male who arrived to check me out.
Observation Method: boat
General Comments:
Name: Shirley Singleton
Nest Name:
ESS-05 - Singleton Salt Marsh Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-18
3:30 PM to 4:00 PM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: Sunny mid 60s
Other Activity:
Observation Method: From back deck
General Comments: It has been a drama free couple of days. Bob brings in fish and patrols the marsh. Pauline is sitting in the nest- the top of her head is barely visible.
Name: Peter Dorsey
Nest Name:
ESS-01 - Greenbelt Cox Reservation Platform #1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
No Osprey visible on Nest
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-18
(1:20 PM) to (1:30 PM.)
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: (lo 60's, windy, clear, full moon tide)
Other Activity: No activity; no osprey.
Observation Method: On foot with binoculars.
General Comments: Nest unimproved. No change from last observation.
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:
2022-05-18
12:30 PM. to 1:10 PM.
at: Beverly
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: lo 60's, windy; clear sky; full moon tide
Other Activity: (After the male left the nest, he settled on a tuft of marsh grass approximately 100 yards from the nest in the direction of Hog Is.)
Observation Method: on foot with binoculars
General Comments: ( First, the male was nest sitting, and the female was perched on the nearby pole. The male left the nest, and the female took up nest duty.)
Name: Karyl Stoia
Nest Name:
SAU-04 - General Electric Platform #2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-17
11:30 AM to 11:50 AM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: sunny,70F,winy
Other Activity: one osprey in nest. One sitting in the marsh at the base of nest pole
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
Name: Mary Ann Leekley
Nest Name:
SAL-10 - Lunt Rock Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
No Osprey visible on Nest
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-17
10:00 AM to 10:15 AM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 68 f, clear, very windy, difficult flying weather
Other Activity: no nest
Observation Method: from boat ramp
General Comments:
Name: Mary Ann Leekley
Nest Name:
SAL-09 - Blackwater Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
No Osprey visible on Nest
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-17
10:20 to 10:25
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 68 f, clear, very windy, difficult flying weather
Other Activity: no bird observed. shallow nest
Observation Method: from NH 286 roadside
General Comments: FYI! 286 is hard to get to from I95 because of construction road closures.
Name: Jerry Klima
Nest Name:
SAL-07 - Town Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-17
8:30 AM to 8:45 AM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 54, clear, calm
Other Activity:
Observation Method: from rail trail
General Comments: The male osprey was perched on the perching post on the nest. The female has not been seen during the past 5 or 6 days, neither by me nor by a friend who walks the trail twice a day. The friend also has observed a great horned owl hooting at dusk in a woods close to the nest. Could be the reason she is missing.
Name: Mary Ann Leekley
Nest Name:
SAL-06 - Carr Island Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-17
10:40 to 10:50
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 68 f, clear, very windy, difficult flying weather
Other Activity: 1 in nest, 1 on perch
Observation Method: from North End Boat Club
General Comments: