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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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Still no Rachel…chicks calling.
No Rachel all night.
10:50 Chicks are calm, but no Rachel in sight. Hope she’s on the camera…. hope she is alright.
July 10, 10:18 pm. Both chicks now standing, grooming and flapping wings. My last post for tonight.
July 10, 10:10 pm. Chicks Delta and Echo have been alone now for one hour. They are nestled together in the nest. Sleeping, occasional grooming and stretching their wings. (not flapping them)
Wonder if Rachel is there but sitting on top of camera??? Chicks seem peaceful & not crying out for her
9:35 pm This is highly unusual to have the chicks alone at night.
Hope Rachel is ok?
I am thinking the same thing
I’m thinking Carson…chicks alone again!
9:11 pm chicks are alone.
I thought it was Carson on the nest looking all around forRachel perhaps?
Yes, I think that could very well be.
July 10 at 9:10 p.m. Rachel just left the nest.
Is that Carson?
july 10, 8:55 p.m. Rachel in nest. Is there a malfunction with the camera? Seeing something odd at the bottom of the screen since it changed over to night vision. I think someone else posted a similar comment.
I think it’s a spiders web
Looking at the live view this morning, I can see the sun glinting off of silk from a spiders web so that’s most likely what is causing the disturbance on the camera at night not mist or fog. Though sometimes you do see that too. As I remember that happened last year with webs 🤔
Checked in over an hour ago & no Rachel…still no Rachel. I did see her this morning.
Has anyone seen her since morning?
She was there an hour ago
I wonder if she is looking for Carson 🤷♀️
Here is a pic of Charlie coming in for a landing with a piece of fish
Aww what a great photo of dear Charlie!
Hope he is doing well!
I’ve been comparing this season to last & have noticed a similar time frame…last season between 07/15-07/21 Alpha & Bravo fledged…our favorite “Charlie” fledged last.
Does anyone remember how long after they started doing the wing flapping that they actually took off and flew?
My word! Where is mama???
She leaves for awhile at a time now 🤷♀️
And the chicks are almost as big as Rachel!
It’s amazing how much they’ve grown in approx 43 days! Hatched 5/26 and 5/27.
Everybody grooming…
All together! 07/09 6am
I just checked in at 11pm. Does anyone know what appears to be swarming around the bottom of the screen? Haven’t seen that before. The birds don’t seem to notice.
I’m pretty sure that’s fog/mist blowing past the camera
One chick trying to prevent the other from wing exercising. Jumping on his back and biting his back.
See wing flapping highlight. Thanks Glenn!
I saw that too…damn kids!
Just posted some of the recent activity. Thanks for providing the times!
Too cute 🦅
mom and the kids were having a talk with another unseen osprey ( maybe Carson?) maybe calling for breakfast. So Rachel takes off and then one of the kids starts flapping away- around 6:43am- if Glenn can post- the chick was at it for some time, but didn’t get airborne
happened again at 08:01:09-ish. They sure want to take off and fly with mom!
Watching Rachel doing homework …I think maybe getting ready for babies flying lessons
An amusing moment: I tuned in at 17:31 on 7/7 and Rachel was ‘singing.’ Then the kids sang the chorus!
Missed it…maybe Glenn will post so all can watch
Poor Rachel must be so hot sitting in the sun, shading Delta and Echo all day. That sun has been scorching in Boston for days. I hope it’s a bit cooler on the Cape.
07/07/2023 11/39 am one chick feeding itself and occasionally a bit from mom. hhmm can only see1 chick
ooops there it is hiding behind mom. So big now I didn’t thin that was possible lol
Rachel fell asleep while eating, look closely you can see her clutching fish
Lol
All 3 are screeching at once for breakfast! A cacophany!
It’s a riot!
I just turned in for the first time in a couple of days and it seems the chicks have found their voices and are sounding more like the adult birds!?
I think I posted this last year, from Hawkwatch website .
How ironic……I posted the pic from this article last year during what I think was a heated debate over sexing juvenile osprey
Interesting!
Do you follow the Brewster nest cam?
I’ve looked in a few times.
I see we have another Sandy spelled Sandi.
so I am changing to Sandyoriginal.
They are practicing for flight 😀
No video or audio 7/4 2:25 pm
It’s back.
Why does Carson bring dinner so late? They are hungry!
Rachel agrees with you lol.
I would imagine that weather conditions has an impact on the success rate of catching fish. The of Osprey has to see their target before they can strike. They have adapted to the proper angle of attack to enter the water and strike but first they have to locate their prey. When their are waves or poor idea light conditions it makes it harder to be successful.
Of course the fish have to be running (located) in the body of water they are fishing in.
Great points thank you!
Enjoying this so much with my grandsons, ages 4 and 6. We are trying to find out the chicks names. We know one is Delta, what is the other chicks name?
The younger chick is Echo. We’re following the “NATO phonetic alphabet” (also aviation and many other uses). Last year’s chicks were Alpha, Bravo and Charlie.
July 3, 2023 4:03 pm, Mom and her chicks working on repairing the nest.
Hi Glenn, my husband just got a cape & islands license plate, so I thought I’ll get an Osprey plate but not in MA, RI has. (Special cause plates) Audubon RI benefits from sale of plates. wondering why MA does not have an Osprey plate like the whales & white shark.
Awesome plate Dena! I am jealous!😊
6:31 Carson zooms in with quick breakfast drop off. Seeing a pair of large birds on the ground on the driveway by where it splits hard to tell but looks like might be turkeys……. Anyone else see that and are possibly viewing on a larger screen to make a determination? They moved onto grass and out of camera range by 6:36. 🤔
Turkeys for sure. Here’s Carson delivering the fish with the turkeys in the background. The chicks look nearly full-grown!
Thanks Glenn! And yes the chicks look huge! I still can’t tell them apart……🤷♀️
👍😂🤷♀️🥴
ONE IS OLDERTHAN THE OTHER, I BELIEVE THEY ARE BOTH GIRLS , BECAUSE OF BROWN FEATHERS ON CHEST LIKE MOTHERS, CARSON CHEST IS ALL WHITE AS I SEE IT.,THANK U. JOAN