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: Peter Dorsey
Nest Name:
ESS-08 - Greenbelt Cox Reservation Platform #2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-04-23
6:00 PM. to 6:40 PM.
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 52 f, overcast, light wind
Other Activity:
Observation Method: On foot and then sitting; with binoculars. First from the nearest wooden bench and then from the Cox, marsh-side viewing platform bench.
General Comments: Male perched on the pole perch, and then on the nest perch; female not visible during this time at all.
Name: Amy Howell
Nest Name:
ESS-07 - Babson Salt Marsh Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
No Osprey visible on Nest
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-04-23
3:47 PM to 4:18 PM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 55 degrees, sunny w/some clouds, light wind, high tide @ 5:57 PM, visibility clear, beautiful day
Other Activity: no osprey observed on the nest or in the area
Observation Method: on foot, observed nest, while monitoring Brophy's
General Comments:
Name: Amy Howell
Nest Name:
ESS-06 - Soginese Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-04-23
2:18 PM to 3:33 PM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 55 degrees, sunny w/some clouds, light wind, high tide at 5:57 PM, visibility clear, beautiful day
Other Activity: 2nd Osprey arrived at the nest at 3 PM, coming and going a few times. Incubating Osprey stayed on the nest. Great to see them both. Had a very nice visit with a very nice friend!! (Bald Eagles close by, this past week)
Observation Method: on foot, down the grassy, rocky road, on the marsh
General Comments:
Name: Shirley Singleton
Nest Name:
ESS-05 - Singleton Salt Marsh Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Feeding Self
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-04-23
7:00 AM to 8:00 AM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: Sunny mid 40s
Other Activity: After five straight days of rogue osprey attacks, the pair resorted to eating their fish in the nest together.
Observation Method: Back deck
General Comments:
Name: Amy Howell
Nest Name:
ESS-02 - Brophy Salt Marsh Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Incubating Eggs or Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-04-23
3:47 PM to 4:18 PM
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 55 degrees, sunny w/some clouds, light wind, high tide at 5:57 PM, visibility clear, beautiful day!
Other Activity: The first Osprey stayed incubating on the nest. A second Osprey was sitting on the marsh - far right of the nest. A clammer was off-loading bags of clams from his boat, upon my arrival. He said he saw the Osprey on the nest as he went by, and had just seen 2 Bald Eagles soaring over the "big island." (right of the nest area)
Observation Method: on foot, across the marsh, out to the edge of the creek
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:
2022-04-22
2:30 PM to 2:45 PM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 63 - sunny
Other Activity:
Observation Method: On foot from the rail trail in N. Revere
General Comments: The platform is quite far away from the trail but I could see one osprey perched on the nest.
Name: Albert Levesque
Nest Name:
MAR-02 - Great Aquivitae Daymarker
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-04-22
02:00 PM to 02:28 PM
at: Salem
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 62F, NW at 18mph, partly cloudy
Other Activity: Osprey was probably squatted. It was deep into the nest and only the head was visible. Mate was not seen. Nest has been built up above the winter damage.
Observation Method: on foot by scope
General Comments:
Name: David Powell
Nest Name:
ROW-07 - Sawyers Island Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-04-22
5:15 PM to 5:30
at: Rowley
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible:
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 60, gusty 15-20 mph, sunshine w few puffy clouds
Other Activity: More r nesting material now on platform
Observation Method: Foot
General Comments:
Name: Albert Levesque
Nest Name:
REV-02 - Wonderland Park Light Tower
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-04-22
01:00 PM to 01:20 PM
at: Revere
Number of Adults Visible: 3
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 62F, NW at 18mph, partly cloudy
Other Activity: Female was squatted on the nest, male was below on tower cross bar feeding. At one point another osprey intruded above the nest and the female rose and opened her wings and the intruder left. After feeding, the male stayed perched but eventually left.
Observation Method: on foot by scope
General Comments:
Name: Lynette Leka
Nest Name:
NPT-05 - Woodbridge Island Platform #3
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2022-04-22
09:45 AM to 10:00 AM
at: Newburyport
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 58 degF, strong, gusty wind from NW, 90% cloud cover
Other Activity: one bird perched on nest
Observation Method: on foot
General Comments: