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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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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
2:18 am …… chick is exercising his wings a lot.
And saw something fly over the nest.
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The chicks are huge and walking around!
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You bet. I will have my cousin and family from Connecticut go to this link and comment since their 19 year old son completely loves watching Rachel and Carson and appreciates learning about osprey and other raptor birds!
Thanks Merc! I’m always happy to hear of people watching from other areas. Thanks for spreading the word!
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Lineup
What a beautiful photo! Thanks, Sandy! Glenn, this is worthy of making the highlights!
Aww, so sweet!!
what’s with this osprey???
is that a necklace around neck indicating a female?
makes the most sense I guess
I just posted some of this morning’s action. Thanks to everyone for posting the great shots!
thanx glenn
6:45 am Carson brought fish.
And flew off with it.
rachel and chicks had just finished a large fish.
Wow good pics, I miss all the excitement! Don’t mess with mama
👏💪🦸♀️🦹🙅♀️
she’s the best
but where was carson?
mama wins
btw this was around 5:37 if glen wants to post video
Dianne – wow – nice action shots! I bummed I missed this. I hope Glenn will post video – 🤞
thanx me too.
The nerve-
Rachel is not having any of it
interloper coming in for landing
rambo rachel wins
This actually was first pic
Interesting to watch the babies exercising their wings! How old are they when they learn to fly and leave the next. At times mom seems very nervous about them leaving the nest.
WOW! Outstanding picture! Thanks so much. Happy 4th!
Breakfast has arrived….
..actually it was just a stick this time
Gorgeous photo Barry. The back lighting of the tail is amazing.
Outstanding pic! Love it 🥰
Chicks are feeding & noticed chicks starting to feed on their own…06-29 17:35ish
Hoping Glenn will post
Just posted a clip of this. Thanks Dena!
Hi Glenn, thanks for post…I went back to last season & on 06/30/22 you posted chicks self feeding so we are certainly at the exact point this year as last year. Very cool! This season has been a bit easier to watch. Last season was real difficult watching Charlie struggle to survive each day. Such determination, I hope he is thriving!
“Chicks self feeding 6-30-22 (The oldest chick picks away at the tail of a fish, then a few minutes later, the second claims it for itself. Rachel watched patiently, then later had some and fed the two younger ones.)”
THANK U GLENN AND EVERYONE, YOUR SPECIAL
Rachel has her wings spread over chicks to keep them cool – happy family! 👍
We’re working on the issue. Hope to have it back up within the hour.
Oddly enough I can see the cam on my iPhone just fine but unable to see it on my iPad.
Ok – correction – I can see on my iPhone but video freezes.
That was happening to me too, which was strange, but fortunately, a reset of the modem took care of the issue. All good now!
ITS 9 AM SCREEN STILL BLACK, IM VERY CONCERNED, HOPE THEY ARE SAFE, THEY HAVE BECOME MY FAMILY, I WATCH THEM SEVERAL TIMES A DAY….
Here is a local alternative while this cam is down.
https://ccmnh.org/attractions/osprey-cam
Thank you for sharing this link!
You are welcome…..interesting to note last year this nest fledged 3 chicks and did so well ahead of Mashpee. This year, as one can see, this nest is way behind Mashpee. The nest is at least a foot taller than last year and it was very difficult to see what exactly was going on. These two chicks are at least 5 days apart in age and the female has long since given up on incubating the third egg.
8:34 a.m. 6/29/23 , screen will not open. totally black.
Same here.
I CANNOT OPEN, SCREEN ALL BLACK, WHY SINCE 5;30.
Can’t open the screen either
All together now, Carson just delivered a fish
Hi Sandy, when I posted pic only saw the one fish…good size. One chick was eating the other preening its feather’s & didn’t seem interested…from your pic this look’s to be the same fish I saw Carson deliver.
There’s a nice looking fish in the nest after they ate. Did Dad bring more than one?
Fish….or what’s left of one?
Leftovers 😆 midnight snack