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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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Clearly saw the two chicks! Makes me so happy!
I don’t see any comments waiting for approval. And yours should be automatically be approved since you’re a regular commenter. Maybe if you included a link, that was blocked. I have no issues with posts about other nests.
Found it. It was in spam for some reason, which I don’t usually check. I just released it.
Oxford MA – feeding chick, unfortunately grass obstructing view
India has arrived
❤️
Osprey chick Hotel
on 5/20 at 8:26:32 doing a lot of housekeeping and you can see easily see both chicks.
Oh that is awesome news!
Just posted a few highlight clips from the past few days. And yes, there are now two chicks!
6:53 AM two babies, one screaming for food
Welcome to your world Hotel 🥰
😊❤️
Dad brought fish! Baby being fed. I actually got to see her feeding the baby!
Sorry I haven’t had a chance to post video clips – will get to it tomorrow. Exciting to see the first chick! This would be “Hotel” (then “India” “Juliet” and “Kilo”).
No worries 😉. Thanks Glenn!
I see one hatchling.
Carson brought part of a fish about 5- 10mins ago ( before the time stamp) and she got off the eggs to eat a little and could see the baby, in general it’s in the area that’s circled and clearly visible moving while she was off the eggs. Maybe Glenn can find that? Sorry to have missed the Osprey talk!
She was off completely at around 3:20 or so and the little one was clearly visible.
Wow! Looks like a pretty windy day up there too, she’s sitting pretty tight on that nest. Did anyone get a picture? Also what are the next names up for this year?
Yes🐥👍
12:46pm. We have a baby!!!!!!!!!
Awesome!!!! Bummed that I missed it but 1 down 3 to go!!!
Hi. this is the pic I took when I first saw hotel. The baby is to the left of the egg when looking at pic but it’s not very clear
looks like eggs haven’t hatched yet but has to be soon 🤞
Rachel keeps getting up and looking at the eggs. Anytime now! Thank you Glenn, for the interesting and informative talk yesterday at Osterville Library. I did not realize that Rachel and Carson were named for Rachel Carson who wrote Silent Spring!
Glad for close up of wildlife. Many thanks.
Terrific talk yesterday!
Learned so much – thank you Glenn.
OMG! Carson is feeding Rachel – seems she can’t get off of eggs since hatching is imminent. I am so impressed!
Awwww! I hope that gets clipped, even if the video is a bit blurry.
That is so beautiful…. Glad you caught this. Thanks for the picture ! 👍🏼🤗
Fish delivery & take off…looks like 4 eggs…
I think I see a chick starting to hatch at 12:45 PM
11:45am. Carson just returned with lunch. Rachel grabbed it & flew off. Carson took over nesting duties
countdown to hatch watch! but what on earth? is that cardboard in the nest?
Just got a great view of the eggs!
I’m unable to respond to your post below (about May 18th at Osterville Village Library), but thank you for letting us know. I did sign up for your June 13th talk at the Mashpee Senior Center! Maybe I’ll go to both 🙂
If anyone is interested, I’ll be giving a talk about ospreys and the nest cam this Saturday, May 18th at 1pm at the Osterville Village Library. It will also be available via Zoom. See the library’s website for more information. Hope to see some of you there!
Hi Glenn, Will this get recorded? I would love to hear it but have a commitment already.
Yes! I just found out that the library posts recorded programs to their YouTube channel @ostervillevillagelibrary1218
Awesome! Thanks
Hi Glenn, Do we need to sign up in advance?
It is open to all. No prior registration is needed.
Should make it a zoom meeting for those who can’t do in person.
See the library’s website for the Zoom link.
Happy Mother’s Day, Rachel!
Is there an issue with this transmission? I’ve not been able to view or see anything in. Few days. Just wondrin’…I’ve closed out the page to re do and have used the refresh pg link. 🤷🏼♀️
Janet, somehow you need to delete your browser/Safari/IE website data. Once you do that you should be able to view again. I had it happen to me and since I use an Apple device I go to Settings/Safari/Clear History and Website Data. Good luck and hope it works.
Great . Thank you. I do clear my history/safari browser each night…but I noticed the setting was only on ‘for the last hour’. I changed it. this helped. Thank you again Merc 👌🏼
I’m sort of new to this nest, my 2nd year, but has Rachel ever had 4 eggs before?
Hi Andrea. Welcome back! There were also 4 eggs last year and all 4 hatched, however only 2 chicks survived several days of cold and wet weather in early June. In 2022 (our first year with the camera), there were also 4 eggs, but only 3 hatched. All survived to fledge that season.
Thanks Glenn. I’m excited to watch the progression. The Annie (of the Gloucester couple Annie & Squam) laid her first egg on 4/26. It appears the birthing cycle for the “south” cape couple is a full week ahead of the “north” cape nest.
Perhaps it is just my timing, but Rachel seems to be readjusting the eggs more for the past few days. Does this signify something?
Close to hatch time the chicks start to make peeping noises that the adults can hear, so maybe that why Rachel is moving them around more🤷♀️
Fish delivery at 7:15AM. And Carson takes the nesting duties.
More mating 😱. It must be celebration of Cinco de Mayo or post “May The Fourth Be With You”!
Oh my! 😵💫🥴
The first egg was laid on April 11th. With an incubation time of 37-39 days, if I’m doing the match right, that would bring us to around May 18th. They should hatch in the order they were laid, each a few days apart.
Just witnessed Carson bringing a fish to Rachel! He handed the fish off to her and nestled on the eggs while Rachel flew off to eat the fish. Four eggs clearly in the nest.
Donna, unable to reply to your post a couple hours ago, but thank you for posting and I’ll be sure to look for “Season of the Osprey” on YouTube!
I just searched and found Season 40, Episode 2 (Season of the Osprey) air dates on PBS (WGBH2) Sunday 5/5 @8pm, Monday 5/6 @12am and Monday 5/6 @8am.
Amazing film! You can also stream it. Try this link:
https://www.pbs.org/video/season-of-the-osprey-x3rygm/
A beautiful film about the osprey. Thank you for sharing the link. Thoroughly enjoyed it 😊
I watched “Season of the Osprey” on Nature/PBS yesterday. Fascinating to learn about the lifecycle, it’s on YouTube.
Really great video. Thank you for sharing!
Looks like Rachel is fast asleep!
Hello! I have recently found this osprey cam and I love it.
Watching from over in Boise, Idaho. We have beautiful birds over here in the west, but these two birds are so lovely. Excited for the little babies to pop out.
Thank you for your efforts for the wildlife 🙂