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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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great shot 👏. kids are so big-they’ll soon be flapping around trying to fly 🦅🦅🦅
Nice family pic! Carson was hanging around nest for a bit longer than usual!
Wow, not much fortification!
Oxford Greenbriar chicks (3) don’t have much of a nest, looks like they could just roll off…🫣
Wow, that does look a little unsafe!
morning wing exercises with breakfish 🐟
I see three chicks. Why is anyone talking about a missing one
There were 4 chicks that hatched. The last hatched was a lot smaller than these three.
But that was a long time ago.
True. In the previous years the 4th did not survive. Kilo lived longer they they did. We were all routing for the youngest to survive this year to grow up and fly away. It was not meant to be and we miss little Kilo.
Glenn, knowing Kilo’s last minutes of life and burial must have been devasting to watch, would you be okay with posting a video for us? Kind of a closure thing. And gives more insight to the life of being an Osprey parent.
There wasn’t really much to see. The chicks were crowding around for a feeding, first 4 then there were 3 and little Kilo never came back into view. Rachel was busy tearing up a fish and didn’t seem to even notice. Being an Osprey parent means feeding the hungry chicks.No time to take a head count I suppose.
Thank you. I read a male Osprey can tell if they are not the natural parent of an egg or a chick and will remove the one in question from the nest. Out of sight, out of mind.
Is anyone trying to figure out males or females? I see one female, maybe Juliet? The last chick dining with Mom about 13:50 today. I do believe I saw a necklace.
I’m not sure that’s an option. What comment(s) did you want to delete? I may be able to do it for you.
Hi this is my first time writing in. Did something happen to one of the chicks? I only see 2.
Hello Carson!
Cape Cod Osprey Watch is great for photos and tracking!!
Breakfast delivery!
Amazing picture Glenn!
Wow great shot
Whoa! That’s a big one! Nice job Carson!
Wow what a catch! Enough for Rachel also. Beautiful picture Glenn.
Whoa! These chicks are eating great!
6:15 pm Papa brought a big fish.
All is restored and beautiful. First hatch is five weeks now! How soon to fledge?
Yes
yes
Does anyone else have this image and unable to see osprey nest?
Yes I’m seeing it as well
I’ve contacted our hosting support, but I’m not sure they’ll respond over the weekend. Hopefully will be back live soon.
Only one chick at CCMNH nest. Parents arrived later than Waquoit ospreys.
——–chicks are getting so big!!!
Haven’t read the link yet, but there is a nest at the Falmouth Walmart parking lot. When I was there yesterday didn’t see any activity at the nest at all. Noticed the same a few weeks ago as well. Has anyone that knows of the nest seen anything? It was active last year.
I am pretty sure they were there the beginning of the nesting season, but I haven’t noticed them recently.
I have noticed that it has been quiet this year but I can’t figure it out. I was there earlier today and one osprey was in the nest and another flying over the parking lot.
Looks like the kids are learning to groom themselves
It always amazes me how their innate navigation system works! I’m looking at a dense fog and Rachel is off taking a break somewhere yet some how always comes back to the nest – let alone come back to the same nest from some 2000 miles away after their South American migration.
I was watching Rachel feeding today teaching the chicks how to feed. She would offer them a piece of fish but then hold it and let them tear it out of her mouth. Then she drop a couple pieces and encourage them to eat it out of the nest.
Just amazing !
Ooops!! 😂🥴
Incoming! Carson brings breakfish 🐟
Me too! Who’s who??? Nice to see chicks being so well fed they leave each other alone…😉
The chicks are getting so big it’s getting harder for Mom to shade them all. Thankfully, Rachel manages to do her job no matter what.
Another pogie at 6:12 All you can eat breakfast buffet this am!
All 3 with a great breakfast this am starting around 5:21. No bonking and all ate!
Now the kids are interested
Rachel having a snack, looks to be a good size fish, can see fish’s tail to the left of her…
😂
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Cheers to Carson! Such a good Osprey Dad, Enjoying watching him this season, keep the fish coming 🥰
Dena, nice picture of Rachel and Carson❣️
Same here, to Carson!
😄 If he only knew, probably catch a real big fish, and fly to his “fish cave” to eat all by himself in peace.
Thank you Glenn !! The rewind feature is great.
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Thank you so much! I was feeling pretty dumb when I couldn’t figure it out.
To rewind the video feed, tap or click near the bottom of the video and slide the bar (it may appear red or white) to any point in the approximately 10-hours of recordings that are available. The display varies a bit depending on whether you’re on a computer or mobile device and whether you’re in full-screen or window mode, but hopefully it should be easy to operate. Be sure to click the “Go Live” option to return to live viewing.
Rachel showing the chicks how to use their wings.
Boy the kids are getting big and closer to the edge😱🙅♀️