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Welcome to “Season Three” of our osprey cam! Get ready for another exciting season of osprey viewing at the Waquoit Bay Reserve, brought to you by the Friends of Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge
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We are thrilled to offer this live stream of an active pair of Osprey at their nest at Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The pair are appropriately named Rachel and Carson, after the famed environmentalist.
This opportunity for a bird’s eye view of a beloved bird’s habitat is the result of a collaboration between The Friends of Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge, which helped plan and locate the site for this unique “nest cam,” the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, one of the Refuge partners, and Comcast, which generously provided the equipment, installation and broadband connectivity to power this viewing experience.
One of our goals as a community-based nonprofit is to give the public opportunities to enjoy and interact with nature and wildlife. Thanks to Comcast, the live streaming of this osprey nest will broaden our reach to all of Cape Cod and beyond. We are grateful for the opportunity to use the live nest cam for observation, research and education purposes.
View highlights from 2024 (“Season Three”)
View highlights from 2023 (“Season Two”)
View highlights from last year (“Season One”) – mating, egg laying and hatching, feeding and more!
Please feel free to comment below with your observations or any questions you may have. We welcome your comments and questions! If you’d like to see a list of questions other viewers have asked, please see our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Ospreys and the Nest Cam. You may also want to read this article to learn more about ospreys on Cape Cod.
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Tufted titmouse (titmice. titmouses?) visited the nest Saturday (2/15) morning around 7:51:50 for a few minutes.
Good spotting, Annie!
Glen, I found a dead red tailed hawk along a bog located inside the Willowbend property. What should I do (notify IFAW and Willowbend, just do nothing or what)? There appeared to be no sign of injury from my vantage point. That hawk had been a regular and I heard their squawk regularly 🙁
I just learned from the bird report this morning on WCAI that this is the great horned owl mating season. I’m thinking this visiting owl could be the male trying to impress wherever the female is nesting with his “catches of the day”!
Thanks for the info, Merc. And maybe that’s why it hoots so much
That is so interesting! Thanks.
owl in the snow 05:26 to 05:34 with a good sized meal it didn’t eat.
I saw that too. This looked like something bigger than a rodent. I was unable to get a slow/paused look cause my device kept freezing.
Looks like a rabbit.
owl loves the attention. back early friday evening 2/7. there from 19:15 to 20:10, eating something at 20:08
Thanks to everyone for tracking the activity of Mr. Owl (or is it Mrs?)! Here’s a shot from this morning of the owl with its prey.A chipmonk maybe? What do you think?
Great shot…thanks Glen! Definitely is some kind of rodent
My guess would be a mouse or a small rat
Lois – I thought the same thing – a small rodent (mouse or rat)!
Glen – you are right – I just typed “Mr”! I am going to have to google how to differentiate between male and female owls 🙂
I checked in 2/7/25 at 5:00am and Mr. Owl was there again. He arrived at 03:56:30am. I have been catching up on previous comments and find it very interesting that this owl is becoming a regular visitor. He left at 5:07:20
I can’t wait for Rachel and Carson next month! I have been caught up watching “Kassie and Wilko” hatch and fledge at the Port Lincoln Osprey nest in Australia.
5:01 and he’s back
quick owl 2/5/25 04:52 – 04″58
owl made a few visits 2/3/25 20:10 – 20:18, 20:55 – 21:38 , and then 2/4/25 03:44 – past 05:30, this time eating something around 5:26. True Bird & Breakfast.in the Air
Hawk sitting there for long time this morning, I noticed at least for an hour! Perhaps all are using as a winter Air B&B as the spring/summer residents are out of town….lol
Great catch Tania! I hope these temporary tenants leave before the ospreys return in another 6 weeks or so. I added a short video clip to the highlights, where you can get a good view of the red tail.
Owl was back at 04:26, eating something at 04:48 and 05:18 and good view of remains at 05:44. Still there at 05:47
Owl was on nest at 20:52
Owl spent three long stretches in nest between 18:02 and 23:17, just hanging out.
Owl back again this morning
arrived 1/29/25 at 02:24 with something to eat. left at 4:08
Did it ever eat what it caught?
It arrived with something in its beak and eventually dropped it into the nest and appeared to be eating for a bit but most of the time its back was to the camera so couldn’t see. Just before it left it was using beak to dig around nest and it did not leave with what it brought so it either finished it or buried it.
Thanks for the info
Owl just left nest 5:15
owl was back and forth (not sure where forth is) with nest time from 01:05-01:38, 04:56-05:14and 05:25-06:07. just hanging out, lots of whooo-ing
Yes! I took the screen shot but was unable to send it
Looking forward to seeing new life!