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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.
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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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Carson keeps bringing back fish multiple times a day and the whole family are eating like kings and queens!
There was so much food today that Carson and Rachel were feeding each other instead of the chicks
Is it fairly certain that the other 2 eggs are not going to hatch at this point? Carson is doing his part on feeding the 2 little chicks an afternoon fish snack.
I am hoping the last two eggs should hatch by tomorrow – fingers crossed 🤞.
There were 3 days between when eggs 2 & 3 were laid and another 3 days between eggs 3 & 4. So they could hatch that far apart as well. My guess is for the 3rd chick to hatch tomorrow and the fourth a couple of days later. There’s no need for concern at this point – it’s typical for ospreys eggs to hatch staggered like this.
2:51pm – Carson just arrived with another fish.
1pm – Carson just delivered lunch.
Thank you Glenn for posting the videos 😀 really nice to watch. Rachel and Carson are building a fort 😄 room for four 🙏🤞
This is my 1st year watching this wonderful cam. I have learned so much reading the comments & watching Rachel & Carson. What a gift this is. Thank you!!
Carson brings a nice fish to the nest (herring maybe?).
Wow! Thanksgiving feast in May!
Amazing catch, both you & Carson
😀
More feeding
Nice. This is the second feeding cause they got an early morning snack around 5am 🙂
Chicks being fed
Love that pic.
Feeding time
I just caught the end of a morning feeding at 7:35. Looked like both got equal shares!
OMG. I had forgotten how tinyand vulnerable chicks are at this stage!
Some serious interior decorating for the hatchlings starting at 3:57-4:03 plus this afternoon. Both very engaged!
I noticed the nest upgrades as well. It was cute to see them both rearranging twigs, which gave a great shot of the two chicks.
That’s one big fish Carson brought…….
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!