All OspreyWatch Nests

Nest on top of lighthouse

Each year the ospreys shift the telephone pole they nest on. Last year they tried to build a nest immediately across the road from my driveway right beside the substation driveway but the hydro guys took it down because it was a functioning hydro pole.

this nest is located on a high light pole in the centre of a sports field park (soccer, football, etc). The nest has been there for several years and is active every year. Usually, 2-3 fledglings survive each year. The park is very busy during the spring, summer and fall but this does not seem to deter the Osprey family.

In wetland on South side of Clear Lake Road, Humphrey Township

Platform at Buell's Creek Conservation Area aka. the Back Pond, just north of the city.

Nest on shore of Smith Mountain Lake, on state park land, monitored by state park workers and visitors. Video camera installed at nest in 2012.

Power pole overhead baseball field lighting fixture, quiet, isolated about .75 from large peat mining marsh mitigation site and series of shallow wetlands, .85 miles from river, and 1.6 miles from reservoir.

In the Piankatank River off Harcum Rd., bottom of the hill at Bland's Wharf (around the corner from the public boat landing at Deep Pt.) The nest sits on an osprey platform duck blind and they nest on it (or the duck platform next to it) every year and I think fairly successfully. We are also now seeing a pair of bald eagles fly over the house regularly. We know it's at least two because we saw them fly together one time. Not sure where the nest is though.