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: Janet Grover
Nest Name:
IPS-05 - Laws Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-02
12 noon to 2
at: Ipswich
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 53 degrees F Winds E 6-7 mph 100% cloud cover
Other Activity:
Observation Method: Boat
General Comments:
Name: Janet Grover
Nest Name:
IPS-04A - Six Goose Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-02
1 to 2 PM
at: Ipswich
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 53 degrees F Winds E 6-7 mph 100% cloud cover
Other Activity: One bird in nest, flew. Other flew from marsh. 2 eggs in the nest.
Observation Method: Boat
General Comments:
Name: Dianne Sampson
Nest Name:
GLO-09 - Ten Pound Island Daymarker R2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Actively Building Nest
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-02
10:30 AM to 10:45
at: Gloucester
Number of Adults Visible: Two adults
Number of Nestlings Visible: Both adults on nest with one going in & out
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: Part sun & clouds. Light east wind
Other Activity: Active site with both adults leaving the nest. No longer bringing branches for nest
Observation Method: Deck,3rd floor, overlooking Ten Pound Island
General Comments:
Name: Karen Rembert
Nest Name:
GLO-05 - Lobsta Land Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-02
09:55 AM to 10:15 AM
at: Gloucester
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: clear
Other Activity: At first both on nest and looking skyward and chirping as if there was an intruder around. I can't see if there is another egg -- large piece of plastic seeming to annoy Annie. She tries to move it, but is standing on it, so she's not very successful. Eventually she moves it from one side of the nest to the other. This year it seems (to me) that the nest isn't as tidy as usual and it seems that Annie isn't comfortable -- she keeps rooting in it and rearranging materials.
Observation Method: via home computer
General Comments:
Name: Peter Dorsey
Nest Name:
ESS-08 - Greenbelt Cox Reservation Platform #2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-02
6:10 PM. to 6:40 PM.
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: (52 f, light wind, low cloud ceiling, light rain, low tide)
Other Activity: ( Originally female on the pole perch; then on the nest. Male joined her there for less than a minute. Then he sat on the marsh grass 50 yards away, and she perched on the nest perch.)
Observation Method: ( On foot.)
General Comments: ( Nest is looking like more material is there.)
Name: Dorothy Rocklin
Nest Name:
SAU-08 - DCR Rumney Marsh Platform #2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Choose Activity Observed
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-01
2:27 PM to 2:33 PM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 62, breezy, sunny
Other Activity:
Observation Method: foot
General Comments: not even a stick! Red-winged blackbird landed on edge of platform and left
Name: Linda Pogson
Nest Name:
SAU-08 - DCR Rumney Marsh Platform #2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
No Osprey visible on Nest
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-01
1:50 PM to Again at 2:50 PM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: Sunny - 60
Other Activity:
Observation Method: On foot from the Rumney Marsh Trail
General Comments: No sign of a nest but there was a small black bird on the platform.
Name: Dorothy Rocklin
Nest Name:
SAU-06 - DCR Rumney Marsh Platform #1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-01
2:56 PM to 3:08
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 62, breezy, sunny
Other Activity: one perched on nest--incubating??--2nd osprey landed stayed a min. or 2 and left again. Feeding her while she incubates?
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
Name: Linda Pogson
Nest Name:
SAU-06 - DCR Rumney Marsh Platform #1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-01
2:05 PM to 2:10 PM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: Sunny - 60
Other Activity:
Observation Method: On foot from the model airplane field at the end of the Rumney Marsh Trail
General Comments: It was hard to see as the nest is quite far away but it appeared that there was one osprey on the perch that is on the nest platform.
Name: Dorothy Rocklin
Nest Name:
SAU-03 - Route 107 Utility Pole
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-05-01
2:42 PM to 2:54 PM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 62, breezy, sunny
Other Activity:
Observation Method: foot
General Comments: think she's incubating. Lying on nest whole time and again as I passed on the way back about 20 minutes later.