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Welcome to “Season Five” 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 2026 (“Season Five”)
View highlights from 2025 (“Season Four”)
View highlights from 2024 (“Season Three”)
View highlights from 2023 (“Season Two”)
View highlights from 2022 (“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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Glenn,
Is it possible to zoom in every once in a while to be able to view the chicks up close?
Thank you.
Also, if it is possible, maybe post a “close-up” viewing schedule? 😄
Using my phone to view, in the menu for this site, dots upper right corner, is a desktop option. When it is on, I can zoom in much closer. Maybe this will help you.
Thanks. Tried that with my iPhone and had no luck. ☹️
With the iPhone you can see close ups by using your fingers in the center of the photo and widening or tightening your fingers.
Thank you Sandy it worked! Why didn’t I think of that. Lol.
Glad it worked.
I wish the camera took clearer views. It seems to be too pixilated or whatever you call it. Hard to tell the chicks from the eggs until they move
Yes, they camouflage so well.
Agree Annie.
congrats rachel and carson!!
haven’t seen the new one yet
Welcome Foxtrot 😊 I still like Glenn’s choice of names. Using the NATO phonetic alphabet short words keeps this simple and an easy way to count chicks through the years.
Hi Karen, I totally agree with Foxtrot & Golf!…
Nice feeding at 1:05, just the 2 older ones. The newly hatched one is not yet ready to hold its head up, it looks like!
On names, I like how many of the eagle nests incorporate the nest site into it. So maybe WB here for Waquoit Bay. Then since the cam was only put up last year, they would be WB 1, 2 and 3. That would make this year’s group WB4, WB5, and now WB6. That would keep eveyone on track, and make sure whether we are talking about this group or lat year’s.
Spoke too soon…think she is feeding #3 now.
Why isn’t she feeding the one that just hatched?
Yes there are three!!!
Thought I saw a third chick at 12:29 when the female was standing but I’m not sure
# 3 just hatched!!!
Its very nice with only 2. Generally the upsetting behavior starts with 3.
At 10:53 Carson is feeding Rachel a fish. Love this couple.❤❤
still looks like 2 chicks and 2 eggs
Yes, I was wrong about #3. Wishful thinking.
i’m thinking by tomorrow we’ll see #3.
I distinctly saw 3 chicks at about 4:14 pm on 05/30/2023
from the comments, the 3rd chick hatched soon after i posted this. has the 4th chick hatched as well?
Aww, Carson is feeding Rachel this morning. 7:30 am
THAT’S WHAT IS CALLED LOVE AND CARING, SMILE JOAN
I can hear the chick protesting mom’s midnight nest arranging activities…!
Audio is back 👍🏼
Still adding to the nest
Egg #3 might be hatching.
Big wiggling fish 3:25 pm
No audio
We’ve lost the audio.
Still no audio.
Wow,,hang on there Rachel…. Sure is windy ‘up thar’ ’😉 wind ‘gusts’ today up near 33mph
Wow!! Two chicks today!!!
I think I see a chick.
Seems like both parents are leaving the nest together more this year. Parents were flying around for 2-3 minutes this morning.
9:24 took off again. When the parents are gone, you can get a good look at the chicks and 2 remaining eggs.
Fish delivery 8 am
Delta & Echo perfect names this Memorial Day Weekend….
Welcome to Memorial Day weekend on beautiful CapeCod Delta & Echo
Wonderful Cape Cod view!
Feeding time, both chicks, Delta and Echo?
Great photo. Cute tiny little heads in a neat row. Beautiful little family.
Oh there is #2 with the bobbing tiny sweet head!!
Oh so sweet! Rachel is feeding bits of fish to Chick #1 🙂 I don’t see #2…must be there camouflaged n all those sticks. Carson watching intently! YAY!
There are 2 chicks – check the feed at 13;51-54+ when you can see both – though one is moving less! Rachel flew off, then back, then off – Carson standing guard.
now there are 2
2nd is hatching.. tried to post a picture here but it doesn’t show…
As we wait for chick #2, using Glenn’s suggestion, let’s name chick #1 Delta, nickname D 😄 the fourth hatchling (3 last year 2022) in the life of Rachel & Carson. Okay with all of you observing these beautiful birds?
chick #2 has arrived!
👍🏼😊
5/27/23……Feeding at 11am. I only saw one chick.
How Exciting!! But iI missed the lst Hatching yesterday! And, I didn’t see the little Peep last night. Glad I read your comments this morning to bring me up to date! Thanks! What an exciting time we computer parents will have again this summer watching the daily happenings of the Rachel & Carson family!
Second egg hatch this morning? Just saw Rachel cleaning out an eggshell…. 😉
Happy Birthday to Rachel Carson, born May 27, 1907. Hope to see a chick hatch today!
Echo hatched today ❣️ Rachel & Carson’s birthday gift to her
Baby being fed at 7:35 on Saturday morning
Next egg should be hatching approx 5/28.