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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 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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Every time I check in I have to marvel at the chicks’ camouflage. It’s perfect!
It is amazing how they blend!
Theres always a dominant one that was probably the first born that is teaching the other two that he/she eats first. All 3 have been getting plenty of food.
I’ll call that the pecking order!
8:30 am. Little one is next to her staying away from the others. She fed the two then turned her attention to the little one. It was like she got the two out of the way so little one did not have to fight and get attacked.
It is there, just out of sight, and not being fed.
I only see 2 chicks, both being fed. I hope the third one is there, just out of sight.
The biggest chick is a bully. Needs to be taught a lesson. Next time he is looking over the edge. Someone should give him a push. Little one never gets enuff food Bully keeps pecking at him
Little ones seem to be alone a lot lately. Is just one parent around?
At least 3 fish today and all 3 chicks have full crops!
Thanks for the update Bob. I was getting concerned by some of the comments.
Interesting to see the 13:01 feeding and Oscar getting most of it and chasing away Papa and Quebec when they wanted to nudge in. Oscar fed for almost 17 minutes before others got a share.
4:30 One of the chicks has a “hangover!” they like looking over the nest and down!
Has anyone seen Dad since yesterday afternoon?
He is there right now, June 10 @ 1:35pm
Great! I’ve been worried something happened to him, thank you!
You’re welcome
Carson slacking a bit! Only one fish yesterday and one today and its 11am. Lack of fish is getting the siblings fighting again.
Has anyone seen Carson this morning (June 10)?
Correction: Dad finally showed up with 1/2 a fish at 16:40.
Mom needs to take a chance and leave the chicks unattended to bring back a fish.
Dad is nowhere to be found today, and none have eaten all day.
I have had the live feed on for a few hours while working and have not seen Carson. I feel Rachel’s angst
Where’s Dad?
Haven’t seen any fish deliveries today.
I haven’t seen any either. Rachel keeps flying away and coming back quickly. I wonder how long she would wait before going fishing herself?
At 6:10 this morning, Rachel flew out of the nest for a quick moment and brought back a rather large branch with leaves. It was placed/dropped on the right side of the nest. Then at 6:50 we had a brief interloper, in what appears to have chased Rachel into nest!
Momma and Dad were out. So the kids just hanging around looking over the edge of the nest. Momma came back a few minutes later
Precious picture!
Totally agree!
So cute ! they are really growing. Hope they’ve been good to each other 🙏🤞👍
I JUST figured out what these chicks look like to me…. they look like someone glued chicken wings onto a quail! : )
Watching them earlier in the year it looked like redecorating. Carson would bring a twig and Rachael would place it somewhere. Then she would say no I don’t like it there and turn it over. And move it again until it was just right. But it’s really an amazing bit of engineering. Hope there all safe.
Wow must be windy down there tonight. Osprey are all hunkered down low. The whole nest is shaking! It is amazing how they can make a nest so strong and secure using only tiny twigs wound together. I wonder what would happen if we tried to do that.
Chick’s look hot – panting. Probably normal cooling response
Can you see the biggest on (bottom left hand side of the picture). With his head hanging over the edge of the nest. He is taking in the sights.
Oh wow! He is definitely rubber-necking trying to check out things down there!!
I think they all look healthy enuff to survive this season. Nest is gonna be a bit tight with these guys or gals getting so big
All the ospelets can eat buffet this am!
Yes, they all ate well. Wonderful to see.
Parent back 6:21!
mom left! 6:20 pm
all three chicks alert!
Seems like there is peace among siblings only when there are 2.
6/2 8:19 one of the larger chicks is attacking the little one.
Momma just reprimanded the bigger one. Play nice now
I saw the biggest one go after the other two the other day. They were both hunkered down to avoid the biggest one.
The little one woke up quickly as soon as dad arrived with lunch.
Wow the two biggest are craning their necks to see out of the nest. The little one is asleep in front of MOMMA
6/1 10:30 am. Breakfast is served. They have grown so much already! All three look good, even the youngest.
Yay! The sound is back. I realize I like the sounds almost as much as I like watching the Osprey thank you to whoever got that back up and running!
he/she is eating when not getting beat up by the big one!
Little one not eating…yet?
The little one has been getting some good bites in this am
I see 3 chicks looking healthy! Phew!
No sound on the camera today.
Rachel is working hard to keep the chicks protected in this wind. Brutal!