All OspreyWatch Nests

Our neighbors put up this platform in Feb '19 to replace one destroyed by Hurricane Florence. Within two weeks of the reconstruction, the local osprey pair returned!

Mill Creek channel marker #4

Univ of DE campus between Cannon Building and Park Road.

Univ of DE - loop road around Marine Operations Building

Pilottown Road near monument

First observed pair on nest 03-12-13. May have been present since previous week. This pair has successfully nested here through 2018. The seem to be the first to arrive in the area. There is a nest cam here.

Directly across the street from Palm Bay Animal Clinic

Nesting platform mounted on pole lashed to existing pine tree. Installed approximately 10 years ago. Has been active for most if not all of its life.

Located in NE corner of North Bay. Nesting plat form installed 15 to 20 years ago. Platform is in poor condition. Bank has eroded to within 1' of base, structure may topple within a year or two. Platform has been productive for at least the past 6 years.

February 28, 2019 - both ospreys in nest. No previous sighting until this date. February 23, 2014 one osprey returned and noted in nest. 3/3/13 - One osprey noted sitting in nest. This platform typically has not been used as much as the one opposite from it

The nest is located in a tall pine tree behind 21 West Beach Lagoon in Sea Pines Plantation, Hilton Head.

West end of Irish Lake.

Chechessee Creek

This nest is located at Delta Park East, on top of a baseball light near the entrance off MLK Blvd. It has been active since at least 2017.

Lions Club park, next to North Beach Bar/Ivy Events. DB Lions Club placed New NJ design platform Feb. 2019 with intention for a webcam. The new platform, while much higher and not directly on water line is still in the exact same high risk location

This nest is located near the t box at hole number 4 at the Heron Golf Course in Sea Pines

Palmetto Dunes Water Tank - there is a web cam set up that can be monitored from a phone or tablet, but NOT from a computer (technical problems 2-2019)

Nest is on top of utility pole located behind TD Bank.

Nest is located on Lewis Pond; visable by kayak, Seagull Beach Road or private residences.

Osprey nest is on top of a communications tower at the Hilton Head Island office of Palmetto Electric Cooperative. The Co-op created a platform for the ospreys to nest. The platform is roughly 6.5' x 7' chain link fence with hardware cloth underneath. This nest has a web cam which is working for the 2019 season.

This nest is very graciously hosted, with an ospreycam, by the owners of Tax Reduction Services. The osprey pair is named George and Gracie.

Platform Built on the shoreline in September, 1991. Sticks added to platform in 1997. April, 1998 a pair of osprey check out perch and begin building nest—no chicks. In March of 1999 the osprey pair return and on May 26, two chicks hatch. The chicks fledge on July 20, 1999. Alas, after sixteen years, the original pair do not return in 2015. Their presumed offspring are attempting to make a home of Emory's Nest. Nest failed as a result of Hurricane Michael, October 2018.

(2018) New house constructed on island; osprey platform has been erected near where the natural nest used to be. (2017) Nest no longer there. Tree is still there. (2016) Very large natural nest, visible on island point, north side of channel bridge.

New platform placed Dec. 2018

On Barnstable Land Trust property at end of Bailey Road.

This nest stand is in need of repair before next season. One of the legs seems to be broken from the stand. Leaning slighly.

Latitude 32.243682 Longitude -80.919755 Sits on long extended branch at top of oak tree. Situated above green at 18th hole of Hampton Hall Golf Course, Bluffton SC

Old pole that was repaired in 2018.