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: Dorothy Rocklin
Nest Name:
SAU-06 - DCR Rumney Marsh Platform #1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-05-24
11:15 AM to 11:35 AM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 65, sunny, light breeze
Other Activity: When arrived, osprey perched on low stone near nest. Kept flying low around marsh and landing on ground and flying back to stone. Finally landed on perch above nest and went onto nest. Too far to see if it had picked up grasses for nest. Don't know what it was doing, couldn't tell if anything in its beak.
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
Name: Karyl Stoia
Nest Name:
SAU-04A - General Electric Platform #1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-05-24
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, cool breezy and 63F
Other Activity: male sitting in marsh then flies up to nest holding very long stick in his talons. He gets up to nest, where female is and female seems to rebuff him because he drops it and it falls to the ground
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
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:
2021-05-24
10:53 AM to 11:08 AM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 1
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 65, sunny, light breeze
Other Activity: One chick visible, next to adult. could have been more chicks in nest. In sunlight and from that distance--Rumney Marsh to 107--the chick looked reddish beige
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
Name: James C Roy
Nest Name:
NEW-04 - Pine Island Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-05-24
08:00 AM to 04:00 PM
at: Newbury
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: sunny, windy
Other Activity:
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
Name: Stan Franzeen
Nest Name:
BEV-01 - Monument Bar Channel Marker G1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-05-24
11:30 AM to 11:45 AM
at: Beverly
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 54F, partly cloudy, 5MPH wind, high tide
Other Activity: one OSPR was incubating; after 10 mins of observation, a 2nd OSPR landed on nest; both OSPR puttered around for a few mins before the 1st OSPR flew away and the 2nd OSPR took over as an incubator
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
Name: Jerry Klima
Nest Name:
SAL-07 - Town Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-05-23
09:00 AM to 09:15 AM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 3
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 70 degrees, clear, light W
Other Activity: The resident female was perched on the perching post on the platform and making warning calls. Another female and the resident male were circling nearby with the male somewhat higher in altitude that the intruding female. After a few circles the male drifted off to the east and the intruder continued to circle in the vicinity while the resident female continued to make warning cries. Evenually the intruding female flew toward the Merrimack River to the south and the resident female quieted down. It is interesting that there continues to be no sign of nest-building even though the pair is together and defending the platform. This must be a young housekeeping pair as the male is not bringing nesting material or being very assertive in defending the territory. I have not observed any mating activity either
Observation Method: from bike on rail trail
General Comments: We had a housekeeping pair in the first year after the platforms were erected at Ring's Island, but the pair were very active in nest-building and built nests on three different platforms by the end of the summer. They also mated frequently. The Town Creek pair is behaving very differently.
Name: Albert Levesque
Nest Name:
SLM-01 - Salem Harbor Channel Marker G3
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-05-23
12:20 PM to 02:15 PM
at: Salem
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 82F, NW 10mph, mostly cloudy
Other Activity: One squatted down on nest, the other on nearby piling. The one on the piling left for about an hour, returned empty handed to the nest and replaced the one on the nest for incubating. The one that was on the nest moved to the piling.
Observation Method: on foot by scope
General Comments: Couldn't tell which was the male or female. At no point did either eat anything on site.
Name: Robyn Lafata
Nest Name:
GLO-04A - Annisquam River Platform #2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-05-23
8:43 AM to 9:00 AM
at: Gloucester
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 75 degrees, sunny, light wind.
Other Activity: female snuggled into the nest, male perch on nest.
Observation Method: vehicle
General Comments:
Name: Robyn Lafata
Nest Name:
GLO-04 - Annisquam River Platform #1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-05-23
8:43 AM to 9:00 AM
at: Gloucester
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 75 degrees, light wind, sunny.
Other Activity:
Observation Method: vehicle
General Comments: When I first got there, two osprey were on the nest. Not sure if one is going from one nest to the other?
Name: Robyn Lafata
Nest Name:
GLO-01 - KEA Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2021-05-23
9:15 AM to 9:30 AM
at: Gloucester
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 75 degrees, sunny , light wind
Other Activity: two on nest, one flew off....assuming that the female is incubating eggs?
Observation Method: vehicle
General Comments: