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Welcome to “Season Four” of our osprey cam! Carson arrived on March 20th, 2025. 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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Thank you in advance!
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 2025 (“Season Four”)
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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I’m seeing only 3 chicks too. I wonder what happened to little Kilo.
Sweet!
oh no- i’ve been out since early this a.m. what’s happening?
Anyone on the osprey project Falmouth Facebook? Thought I post concern but don’t do Facebook,
Spoke with the Falmouth Osprey project, they gave me a phone number to call another person who may be able to go take a look, left a detailed voice message
I really thought I saw all four this morning…do you think Kilo fell off nest
I agree, I saw all 4 being fed at around 7:30am today. Everyone looked great!
Thanks Kim for letting us know this…
Getting big!
I think you’re right. Clearly only 3 where there were 4 earlier this morning. 🙁
I only see 3 too!!
I only see 3 Chicks
same here but Dena saw all 4 🙏🤞
💕💕💕
I second that!
Carson looks so pleased, all at peace
Todays lesson, feed yourselves 😀
Wow Carson eating 1/2 fish feeding chicks while a whole fish lays to the right. Rachel takes a break & flies off. Amazing!
Can you see all 4?
Yes, they all ate real well with no fighting
Carson has been doing an exceptional job feeding the family! I keep watching to see 4 chicks because one of the 2 older chicks is very aggressive to the others. I’ve seen some neck biting on one of the 2 younger chicks. It’s hard to watch sometimes. I tried to get pics but my pics do not convey situations.
Morning I’ve been watching Rachel & Carson’s nest for three yrs, seen some very disturbing behavior especially Alpha beating up Charlie each day with or without fish. Amazing he overcame all the physical abuse & survived. Carson was not a good provider that yr. So far with the quantity of fish chicks are not trying to actually kill each other for food. So when I see the older chicks going at it I feel it’s like our children getting rough with each other…it’s just nature way of teaching survival skills .
All 4 in front
Lots of fish today and Carson feeding the chicks several times that I’ve seen. Nice to see him participate in the feeding process 😍
love watching them, they are so cute
Sunday brunch
Wow – they are all getting so big!
Rachel feeds chicks, they get their fill, Rachel finishes the rest @ 6:20am
6:28pm. Carson just showed up with a small fish. He ate most of it, and then flew off.
One of the babies was picking up dropped food from the nest. Seems early to be doing that?
Carson helps out with feeding 💕
Hungry chicks
Yay! breakfast is served
Anyone seen Carson with breakfast this morning? I was on at 5-7, did not see him, just Rachel gathering fresh leaves for nest…
Wow – the 2 older chicks (Hotel and Indigo) were just going at it! I hope they don’t continue this type of aggression – ughhh.
Normal osprey behavior. Usually one tries to dominate all the others, especially the littlest one, but maybe if the two big ones keep after each other, they will leave the 2 little ones alone.
Evolution creates such amazing camouflage. The nest looks empty.
Kilo up front getting lots of fish
Way to go Carson, another fish!
Good catch…Was that just a fly by? Hoping Glenn will post…fyi your screen shots are only capturing the date not time so with time included will be helpful for Glenn to locate event 😉
Thanks for posting time, hopefully Glenn will post.
Bird looks huge
I’m away until Monday night but will definitely look for that one when I get back. Thanks for posting the timestamp A2Z.
Sorry A2Z, with all the commotion about Kilo, I never got back to you on this. Here’s another pic. It certainly has a wide wingspan and put Rachel on high alert, but given its white underbelly, I don’t think it’s an eagle. Probably another osprey but hard to tell for sure.
Here’s the pic.
That looks like a wide wingspan too!
Hows the lil ospelet doing? Has he/she been getting many bites? Wish this cam had a dvr attached
Breakfast!
Another helping of fish, chicks are very vocal
Fish still flopping around
Bedtime snack
Say good night 😴
6:03 PM Thursday. Dinner is here.