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: Joanne Lund
Nest Name:
BEV-01 - Monument Bar Channel Marker G1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2020-07-09
10:30 to 10:45
at: Beverly
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 2
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 81°. Broken clouds. NNW @7 mph
Other Activity: Observed one adult with 2 chicks in the nest.
Observation Method: Boat
General Comments: Nest looking worn
Name: Karyl Stoia
Nest Name:
SAU-04A - General Electric Platform #1
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2020-07-08
11:30 AM to 12 PM
at: Saugus
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 3
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 82 and mostly cloudy, humid and breezy
Other Activity: one adult is perched on a stick in the marsh near the nest pole and the other adult is in the nest feeding 3 nestlings
Observation Method: foot
General Comments: some wing stretching is going on
Name: Mary Ann Leekley
Nest Name:
SAL-04 - Salisbury Beach Reservation Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Feeding Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2020-07-08
11:10 AM to 11:30 AM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 4
Number of Nestlings Visible: 2
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 81 F, overcast, breeze
Other Activity: adult flying around with fish in talons, screeching at 2 other adult ospreys that were flying around the platform. Those 2 left; adult with fish went to nest.
Observation Method: from boat ramp.
General Comments:
Name: Mary Ann Leekley
Nest Name:
SAL-02 - Black Rock Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2020-07-08
11:10 AM to 11:30 AM
at: Salisbury
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 81 F, overcast, breeze
Other Activity: These 2 ospreys did not take part in the kerfuffle going on over at Salisbury Reservation Platform.
Observation Method: from boat ramp.
General Comments:
Name: Stan Franzeen
Nest Name:
SLM-02 - Danvers River Transmission Tower
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Other (specify below)
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2020-07-08
3:15 PM to 3:30 PM
at: Salem
Number of Adults Visible: 0
Number of Nestlings Visible: 3
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 73F, winds from South at 7 MPH, 85% humid, muggy, cloudy/hazy
Other Activity: the 3 chicks were sitting and stretching; definitely 3 (not 2)
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
Name: Mary Ann Leekley
Nest Name:
NEW-05 - Chaces Island Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Feeding Chicks
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2020-07-08
10:30 AM to 10:40 AM
at: Newbury
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 2
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 80 f, overcast, breeze, green heads
Other Activity:
Observation Method: from turnout by bridge on PI turnpike
General Comments:
Name: James Roy
Nest Name:
NEW-04 - Pine Island Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2020-07-08
07:30 AM to 01:45 PM
at: Newbury
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: sunny, warm
Other Activity:
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
Name: Mary Ann Leekley
Nest Name:
NEW-03A - Plum Island River Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
No Osprey visible on Nest
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2020-07-08
10:30 AM to 10:40 AM
at: Newbury
Number of Adults Visible: 1
Number of Nestlings Visible: 0
Number of Fledglings Visible: 0
Weather Conditions: 80F, overcast, breeze, green heads!
Other Activity: 1 osprey perched on snag near nest. Nest appears much larger to me than the last time I saw it. I could not see any birds in/on nest
Observation Method: from PI turnpike turnout by bridge
General Comments:
Name: Gail Smith
Nest Name:
MAR-01 - Forest River Park Channel Marker R2
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Choose Activity Observed
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2020-07-08
11:30 to 11:45
at: Marblehead
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 2
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 80, cloudy
Other Activity: male perched below, female perched on nest. 2 heads of the nestlings were visible for a short while but it must have been naptime.
Observation Method: foot
General Comments:
Name: Betsy Ridge Madsen
Nest Name:
ESS-06 - Soginese Creek Platform
Adult Osprey Activity Observed:
Osprey Perched
Location, Date & Time of Observation:
2020-07-08
3:15 to 3:30
at: Essex
Number of Adults Visible: 2
Number of Nestlings Visible: 1
Number of Fledglings Visible:
Weather Conditions: 82' F, hazy sun, high tide
Other Activity:
Observation Method: Spotting scope from hilltop
General Comments: