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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!
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Feeding time.
10:00p to 10:30p a fish was flown in and quickly dropped off by an osprey that might not have been Carson, if that is possible. Rachel ate for a few minutes like she was starving then only fed one chick. The other chick neither chirped nor acted interested.
Sweet!
Snack before bedtime at 22:05 (10:05pm) 6/13
6/13/2023: About 10:05 p.m. Rachel is eating/feeding the chicks!
where is warrior Carson? no supper tonight?
Is it me or does it seem like Carson has been spending much less time at the nest in the last week or so?
afternoon snack at 3:30 PM
It’s amazing how fast those little guys grow!
Holy crap – Delta or Echo just walked way too close to the edge of the nest! But Mom came back in time to put them in their place!
I hope Mom told them to stay away from the edge of the nest while she was gone!
A lesson from Mom in nest making. Very cute.
Pelting rain at night. Rachel is doing an amazing job shielding the chicks. Great umbrella!
Awe! Thanks for sharing, Glenn.
Calling madly for fish. Good job!
What happened to the other 2 chicks? I missed a few days and now only see 2.
the 2 littlest ones didn’t make it thru that wet, cold, windy weather we had a few days ago.
Thank you. so sad poor babies…
Oh. That makes me sad.
Carson removed them from the nest
oh so sad, poor little babies…
So it seems one chick is darker than the other. Which is Delta and which is Echo?
surprised to see the chicks left alone in the nest.
they are being left alone a lot this year, sometimes for several minutes.
I hate it LOL – we might need to call MA DCS on them for leaving their children home alone LOL
Another fish delivery at 6:59AM
Carson is a warrior this morning, breakfast served around 5;10,,fresh fish of course,,,
CARSON FISHES AS GOOD AS OUR TRIBAL FISERMEN DO. GOOD SIZE ONES THAT I WANT TO PUT IN MY OVEN OF FRYING PAN, HIS A WONDERFUL FATHER I WOULD SAY, SMILE
Brunch served at approximately 11:30 AM Sunday
Yes, a massive fish feast
Yay! Little guy got a big piece finally!
One of the chicks is sitting on it.
Can you tell them apart? Who is riding the fish 🥴?
Little guy 🙂
👍☺️
Biggest fish I’ve ever seen on this nest!
So sad only 2 chicks left. 😢
Thanx all
Great fish!
Still eating or eating again.
Plenty of fish this morning!
everyone is full.
It is normal when to catch fresh fish!
Carson brought an intact fish for breakfast at 5:18. After 2 min of ripping into the fish, you could see the tail flapping. I don’t fish. Is this normal?
A few days ago the same thing happened except Echo was climbing on the fish to get fed and went flying across the nest when it flapped!
Diane – I saw the same thing. Talk about a fresh breakfast! Even after the head was eaten, the fish still has some life and flapped a bit. I could not believe it! But what Barry said was classic. I can’t wait for Glenn to get back from vacation and post that into the 2023 season hilights!
Oh – and right after breakfast “she put them down for a nap!” 😂
One big family PLUS fish.
I haven’t seen Carlson all day .Did I miss him
Lunch is served. 12:50 PM
1:00pm Rachel feeding the chicks lunch 🙂
The younger one seems to drop more than it swallows
10:56am she is back without a fish.
10:50am Rachel left the chicks alone.
two