Tish S reports: I believe the Osprey chick in nest 4175 has fledged. This nest is located to the north side of the bride between Hilton Head Island and Bluffton which my husband and I cross 2-3 times every week in both directions - for a total of 4-6 viewings of the nest each week. We have watch a single chick head get bigger and bigger over the month+ that we have been monitoring the nest. On Friday May 31st we commented how large the chick had gotten - we were able to get a longer view of the chick because the heavy traffic had slowed our driving speed. We brought a camera with us on Monday June 3rd with the intent to get a picture. Unfortunately, there was no chick on Monday. We have not seen the chick in the nest all week with 4 trips to Bluffton and back (8 viewings total). We have seen the adult Ospreys sitting on the cross braces but not at the nest. Unfortunately the nest is not at a location that allows it to be monitored for more that a minute at a time. Only 1 chick head was ever seen in this nest. While the time for each viewing was just moments at a time, given the angle of view and the total number of views of the nest if there had been 2 chicks we would have observed a 2nd head at some time.
Tish S reports: On Friday, May 17th I observed an adult Osprey feeding chick. I have not been able to determine whether there is just 1 or if there's more chicks in the nest. They have reached the point where both adults will leave the nest at times.
Tish S reports: The nest is active and appears to have youngsters in it. Our date for hatching is purely a guess since we were not monitoring this nest.
NOTE: This is data posted by someone else on this nest between 2013-2018. It is copied from their posts. It did not appear that this person was monitoring the nest any longer so the Hilton Head group has added it to our monitoring list. Here is the info from a previous person: Ospreys did not return to nesting site in 2014. Nest was blown away during 2013-2014 winter storm. In spring of 2015, a male and female osprey returned to site and rebuilt nest. In Jan/Feb, there were no remnants of the previous nest probably due to Hurricane Matthew passing through. But on March 3, 2017, I spotted a female osprey perched on the tower. She stayed for a long time until we walked away. There was one big tree limb lying across the screen on top of the tower. (I think the screen was secured there by humans for a nest base a long time ago at the time the tower was abandoned.) Mar 6: Nest is growing! One female perched on tower. April 23, 2017 nest viable with one female sitting low in nest as if incubating eggs and raising head now and then to look all around. Male appeared flying overhead squealing as we approached the tower. He dropped a piece of fish into the nest. Two chicks' heads were seen (from the bridge) in the nest on June 18, 2017. April 18, 2018 male and female ospreys observed on the nest.
(UNKNOWN observer)
This nest is viable. Female osprey observed sitting low in the nest on top of the tower. Male observed flying over nest squealing as we approached. Later he flew over and dropped a piece of fish into nest.
Final report for breeding season 2015: On 11/15/2015 the nest was empty. The nest had been occupied by male and female during the breeding season. At least one fledgling was in the nest.
Nest was destroyed in winter storm 2013-2014. In spring of 2015, a new nest was observed in the same spot. Female was observed low in the nest, and male was observed perched close by.
This had been an active nest with at least one fledgling every summer for several years. But the nest was blown away in a bad winter storm in early 2014. The male and female Ospreys returned to the nest in February 2014 and made an attempt to restore the nest. But they gave up and did not return to the site.
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