| Back to Eagle/Osprey Index 2013 Osprey Information |
Last Updated November 11, 2014
| Notes | Adult Arrival | Eggs Laid | Hatchings | Fledgings |
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Alberta Calgary Zoo Link |
Look for return in mid to late April and eggs in early to mid May The first two eggs may be compromised because of a major snowstorm May 3rd, with over 25 cm/10 in of snow; the parents did a great job keeping the nest cup protected - but it was very cold, and it's very hard to keep out all the snow. Update - all three eggs hatched - and on the same day (though we can't be positive the third hatched before midnight, but hatching was underway at dusk); and they all left before a large early snowstorm arrived on September 8th - a short season for nesting! An osprey that might have been Dad was seen on one of Dad's favorite perches on Sept 14, eating a fish, but no osprey were seen in the nest after the 7th. |
cam on female male |
May 1 May 3 May 7 |
Jun 11 Jun 11 Jun 11 |
Aug 6 Aug 6 Aug 7 |
3 chicks confirmed 2 chicks confirmed Mom, Dad & at least one chick Dad & chick |
Alberta FortisAlberta |
Look for return ?? and eggs in mid to late May "Biggun" 2014 is our first year watching this cam. The nest is on the Bow River, and the cam was shut down last year as a result of the same flood that took the Calgary cam offline. The youngest chick died due to a shortage of food. Cam was down for few days before a local observer visited the site so first fledge might have been earlier; she saw a couple of short flights, but couldn't be sure if it was the same chick each time; the nest was empty for a while on August 20, so we're sure both had fledged by then. |
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3 eggs by May 28 |
Jun 23 Jun 25 Jun 27 |
by Aug 17 by Aug 20 |
don't know when Mom left both chicks Dad & 1 chick (probably C2) still there when cam turned off |
British Columbia Creston Osprey Cam |
Look for eggs in early-mid May no cam for 2014 |
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British Columbia Nelson Hydro Osprey Cam |
Look for eggs in early-mid May adults Nelson & Nellie N1/Nel Dad Nelson flew into a high tension line while leaving the nest after a feeding at dawn on June 20; no food was brought for a couple of days, then Mom Nellie began leaving to get fish on June 23; sadly that was too late for the youngest chick, and he/she died June 24; Nellie brought in several good fish, and either late June 25 or early June 26 Nelson Hydro got permission to set up a platform with a pulley that could be raised and lowered so they could provide fish to the family. That worked for a while, and both chicks were fed well through the evening of July 1, but Nellie stopped taking fish from the tray after that; she left the nest several times but never returned with fish, and it didn't appear that she had eaten either. Both chicks were exploring the nest the evening of July 2, and N2/Tag apparently got stuck near the edge and couldn't return to the nest for brooding; he died about 1:30 am from exposure. On July 3, the second full day without food, folks from O.W.L. contacted Nelson Hydro and local authorities to get the permits to rescue the remaining chick, and N1/Nel was removed from the nest about 6:30 am July 4; an observer noted that he was fed twice, and ate eagerly. Keeping fingers crossed. July 31 update - Nel is doing well at OWL, self-feeding on pieces of fish, and watching an adult female osprey who is there being treated, and who is serving as a role model; Nel's development is behind his/her actual age because of the period of little or no food, but she otherwise seems fine; she was just moved from a small cage with towels to sit on to a little nest in the corner of a larger area, and will soon join her foster mother in the flight pen with the trout pond, where she will learn to fish before being returned to the Nelson area for release. Folks at OWL are hopeful that she'll be ready for release in time to migrate; if not, she'll be kept until spring. Nel and her foster mom were moved to a large flight cage with a trout pond on August 24 - and she was observed flying the length of the pen on August 26 - which I think qualifies as a fledge, though she needs some more practice at flying and fishing before she's ready for release. Success! - Nel was released September 12 at Kokanee Glacier Park, just outside of Nelson, in an area where 18 other fledgling osprey had been seen practicing their flying and hunting skills, with an abundance of Kokanee fish in the surrounding waters. |
May 3 May 6 May 9 |
June 12 June 13 June 15 |
Aug 26 released |
Sept 12 ~13 weeks |
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Connecticut CT Audubon |
Look for return in mid to late March and eggs in mid April Capt. Kidd & Lola First egg hatched 43 days after it was laid - possibly a record! (Need to check weather the week the eggs were laid to see if it was especially cold as all were a bit later than I'd expect.) And the first three eggs hatched the same day - possibly another record. Keeping my fingers crossed for 3-day-younger #4 - but these are excellent parents in an area that's always had lots of fish, so if ever a little one had a good chance, it's here. Update - unfortunately there were a couple of days of bad weather and less fish, and little #4 fell too far behind to compete; he died on June 13, at 16 days old. Rest in peace, little one. All was going well as of August 8 - at which point most of us who watch this nest were distracted for a week or so. When we began watching again on August 14, one chick was reported on the nest and we assumed the others were around, though it seemed likely that Lola had left. On August 16, we observed a pair that was not Kidd and Lola on the nest, perhaps trying to take it over. A chick was seen defending the nest the morning of August 16 (chicks were 83 days old - almost 12 weeks - and had been flying for about 4 weeks then), and that was the last sighting of any of the chicks - we're hoping they all migrated safely; Kidd was seen on the nest a couple of times with a fish, as if waiting for a chick, but no one ever came. As of August 30, Kidd is still visiting the nest, and the intruder female has been seen from time to time, though so far Kidd has been creatively chasing her off by flapping wings in her face. |
cam on Kidd Lola |
Apr 12 Apr 15 Apr 18 Apr 21 |
May 25 May 25 May 25 May 28 |
July 20 July 20 July 23 |
Lola 1 chick Kidd was still visiting the nest and perch as of Sept 12-14 cam down |
Look for eggs in early to mid March adults named Pinella (F) and Stirling (M) Piper Hard to see in the nest bowl, but observers thought 3 eggs were laid; one may have broken Mar 27 - it looked as if there was a piece of shell on the nest; there was no indication that the remaining egg hatched. |
cam on both seen |
Mar 1 Mar 4 Mar 7 |
Apr 10 (day 37 if 2nd egg) |
June 7 (58 days) |
Piper in area no one seen near nest for a couple of days as of |
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Florida Ocean's Reach Osprey Cam |
Look for eggs in late December The pair visited and did some work on the nest, but did not lay any eggs; their website reports that the female left in mid-February |
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Look for return in mid-March and eggs in the first half of April A great horned owl pair took over the nest in 2013; |
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Look for return in early April, eggs in late April adults named Rachel and Steve Poole Chicks were banded on July 15
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cam on year round Steve Rachel |
Apr 27 Apr 30 May 3 |
June 5 June 6 June 9 |
Aug 1 July 31 Aug 7 |
Rachel Pan & Poole Steve Pia |
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Maine Sasanoa River no cam |
Look for return in early April, eggs in late April these are osprey I observe; dates will be approximate as I only visit once or twice a week, but are useful for my reference; my observation point is a high bridge, about 1/10 of a mile from the nest (I suspect the second chick fledged quite a bit earlier than I could confirm a fledge by seeing both in flight; they were flying well on the 31st, and soaring together in graceful circles) |
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by May 29 by June 1 |
~July 17 by |
all gone by Sept 4 |
Maine Taste of Maine Restaurant |
Look for return in early April and eggs in mid to late April The pair laid there first egg April 18, then the cam went down; people working at the restaurant said they abandoned the egg a few days later, perhaps because it was a dark orange rather than the lighter ones they usually lay. The cam continued to be offline, but we visited the site occasionally and saw them visiting the nest and flying together and mating. I wondered if the reason they stopped incubating had to do with either an intruder or a late-returning member of the pair reclaiming his/her nest - but without the cam, it was hard to tell. When we visited the restaurant on May 10, after several tries, and completely replacing the underground cable from the nest pole to the restaurant, they had the cam streaming in the lobby - and an adult was sitting on an egg! Last seen date for Mom is a guess - I saw an adult stay with the chick when I was there on August 24, and have only seen the chick alone or very fast deliveries after that. |
~Apr 4 |
Apr 18 May 9 May 12 May 15 |
only one hatched June 21 |
Aug 14 morning (54 days) |
Mom chick |
Maryland Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge |
Look for return in mid to late March and eggs in mid to late April The third chick was weak from the start, and died after a couple of days. Friends of Blackwater reported that the believe a predator (possibly eagle or great horned owl) took the remaining two chicks from the nest late June 23 or early June 24; the chicks were about 3 weeks old. |
cam on 1 adult both |
Apr 23 Apr 26 Apr 29 |
Jun 1 Jun 3 Jun 4 |
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Maryland Chesapeake Conservancy |
Look for return in mid to late March and eggs in mid to late April adults named Tom and Audrey Breezy |
1 seen |
Apr 15 Apr 18 Apr 21 one didn't hatch |
May 24 May 27 both |
July 17 July 27 |
Audrey & Breezy Tom Spitz |
Look for return late March/early April and eggs in mid-April adults named Allyn and Ethel Flow This may be a record - their only chick hatched overnight June 7-8, and folks observing on Facebook thought it was after midnight - which is 45 days after the 4th egg was laid. Tagged by Dr. Rob Bierregaard August 11 (Ethel was also banded that day) |
one seen both |
Apr 16 Apr 18-19 Apr 21 Apr 24 |
first 3 didn't hatch seen |
July 26 (48 days) |
Flow Ethel Allyn |
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Look for return mid to late March, eggs mid to late April There was some very unusual behavior here this year - beginning July 7 (a couple of days after a major hurricane went through the area, which may or may not be related), the female began attacking the 5-1/2-week-old chicks, with the sort of attacks one sees in serious sibling rivalry. The attacks continued on and off until the female left in late August. There were also attacks on the resident fledglings by an intruder fledgling shortly after all were flying, and fights on the nest between various fledglings (hard to tell which involved the intruder and which were between siblings); the youngest chick died about 10 days after fledging, likely from starvation, perhaps because it was not able to return to the nest to eat, and not adept enough or assertive enough to be fed elsewhere. Osprey had not nested here since 2010, and that was an unsuccessful year, with intruder issues, and a female who laid eggs but didn't incubate them, though the male did. Not sure if either or both adults are the same as in previous years - the nest produced 1 chick in 2007, 3 in 2008, and 2 in 2009. I suppose this should count as a success - all three chicks fledged successfully, and two survived to migrate - |
two by Mar 28 (first morning, second afternoon) |
Apr 19 Apr 22 Apr 25 |
May 28 May 29 May 30 |
July 25 July 27 July 30 |
F3 Mom F2 Dad F1 |
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Look for eggs in early May adults named Ozzie and Harriet Lunar The youngest chick died June 20 at 24 days old, probably because the rain and cold weather made it hard for Ozzie to fish. Ozzie was last seen August 18, at 5:53 pm; his body was found August 22; we haven't seen the results of a necropsy, but the folks at Dunrovin think he may have died in a fight with an eagle. |
Harriet Ozzie |
Apr 15 Apr 18 Apr 21 |
May 24 May 24 May 27 |
July 20 July 23 |
Lunar Sol Harriet seen |
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Look for return in early to mid April and eggs in late April to early May adults Iris (named for unusual pattern in eye) & Stanley C1/Montana (not sure of order of fledging - Erick Greene from the Osprey Cams Project thought C3 fledged first; and I was quite certain I saw a second one take flight on August 6 at 8:07 pm, just after the first fledgling returned - but I wasn't recording, and no one else saw that - so the good news is that all three fledged successfully, within a few days of each other) |
Iris Stanley |
May 5 May 8 May 11 |
Jun 11 Jun 13 Jun 16 |
Aug 6 Aug 8 Aug 10 |
Zephyr Iris & Caboose Stan & Montana |
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Look for return in early April and eggs in late April
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female male |
Apr 29 (probably more - hard to see into nestbowl) |
seen Jun 10 6:20 am (~39 days if #2) |
Aug 2 10:16 am (53 days) |
Mom Dad chick |
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Nova Scotia NS Power and the Museum of Natural History |
adults named Ethel and Oscar
Look for eggs in mid May (It's likely that Oscar stopped by the nest early on September 24 as C3 had a full crop that morning.) |
cam on both adults seen soon afterwards |
May 7 May 10 May 13? |
Jun 15 Jun 16 Jun 18 |
Aug 6 Aug 6 Aug 8 |
Ethel C1 C2 Oscar C3 |
Look for return in mid February and eggs in late March Bea and Jasper BK One egg lost to crow March 24 - it's possible that they left the nest untended to chase one or more intruders; based on hatch dates, it was likely the first egg that was lost. |
Mar 7 Mar 10 Mar 13 |
Apr 19 Apr 20 |
June 16 June 16 |
all 4 still in the area July 21 when end-of-season blog published |
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Look for return in early April, eggs in late April A second chick appeared close to fledging on July 25, but none of us checked again until August 2nd. It's a lovely location, but only has a refresh cam, which makes it less interesting with all the high def PTZ cams out there these days - so there are only a few observers that I've found. |
both reported back Apr 4 |
Apr 21 Apr 24 Apr 27 |
May 31 May 31 reported |
one by all by |
life got busy and none of us checked for a while, so no "last seen" date here |
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Finland Osprey Cam 1 Hailuoto, Finland |
Look for return mid-late April and eggs in early May
Pansy replaced Black Pearl as female in 2013; Pansy has band M-53049, she was banded 8.7.2010 in Pedersöre, Finland, she will be 4 years old, and this year will be her second nesting season. Pansy returned April 30 (identified by her band) and was seen around the nest for a couple of days, but starting May 4 or 5, only Kemo has been seen (as of May 11). Late afternoon May 15, Kemo was sitting alone on his nest, with a fish - and an unbanded female arrived! They mated (or at least bonded) within 10 minutes of her arrival, and she ate the fish he provided. It looked as if they were going to nest - he brought lots of fish and they mated frequently - but she was alone on the nest for a while the evening of the 16th, with no fish brought - and the afternoon of the 17th, Kemo was on the nest with a different female, with a band on her right leg. The new female was named Maila on the Finnish forum, for May 17th's nameday |
cam Kemo female? Pansy Malia |
no sightings reported since July 10 |
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Finland Osprey Cam 2 Seili/Nauvo, Finland |
Look for return in early-mid April and eggs early to mid May |
both |
Apr 23 by Apr 27 Apr 29 |
June 1 June 2 June 3 |
two by third |
at least in the area on Aug 22 |
Scotland Loch Garten |
Look for return in late March and eggs mid to late April EJ (F) & Odin (new male 2009); (EJ is 14 in 2012) Banded, 2 tagged, and named June 28 Seasca crossed the English Channel, flew over the tip of France but didn't stop and continued out across the Bay of Biscay; sadly it was too long a flight for the young osprey. Millie spent a day resting in France, then successfully flew over the Bay of Biscay; as of early November, she's exploring Mauritania, near the Senegal border. |
EJ Odin |
Apr 11 Apr 14 Apr 17 |
May 17 May 19 May 22 |
July 12 July 15 July 17 |
EJ Seasca Millie Druie Odin |
Scotland Loch of the Lowes |
Look for return in late March/early April and eggs in mid April the Lady of the Loch (F) & "Laddie" (M) the Lady is the oldest recorded breeding female in the UK (or possibly the world); as of the end of 2013, she had laid 68 eggs and reared 50 chicks The pair lost one of their eggs to a crow on May 7; the male was on duty and left briefly to give chase to an intruder, and the crow took advantage of his absence; fortunately the female returned before the crow could start on a second egg. |
male the Lady |
Apr 13 Apr 16 Apr 18 |
none hatched |
Lady male |
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Wales Dyfi |
Look for return in early-mid April and eggs early to mid May Monty (M) & Glesni (F) banded July 15 There was a bit of excitement this year as a new pair Dai Dot (M) and Blue24 (F) arrived in Dyfi before the resident pair, and seemed to be settling in. When Monty returned, he quickly chased off Dai Dot - and began mating with Blue24. And when Glesni returned, she challenged Blue24 - but Blue24 appeared to win the first two rounds. However, Glesni was persistant, and by April 16, she was again the resident female, though Blue24 continued to put in an appearance from time to time, even after the first egg was laid. Hopefully she's found a new place to be by now. |
Monty Glesni |
May 2 May 6 |
June 8 June 11 |
July 27 Aug 1 |
Glesni Gwynant Deri Monty |
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