Right before you enter Palmetto Bay Marina, there is an apartment complex on the left called Palmetto Bay Marina Village. It is before you get to Sunrise Cafe. Enter the property and you will pass two lagoons; one on the left and one on the right. After you pass the two lagoons, take a left and you will come to a dead-end, where there is a tennis court. I have never seen anyone use this court. Also, no apartments around to bother people. It is on the other side of the tennis court but you can best see from the parking area.
The nest is located on Oyster Reef Golf Course in Hilton Head Plantation on hole #17. It is in a dead tree on the right hand side 3/4 way down the fairway across the lagoon. It’s close to the lagoon. Once you see it, you realize it’s fairly open to see with or without binoculars.
Nest is located next to the men's tee box on the 12th tee box at the Wexford golf course. There really is not a road or house address that it can be located by.
The tall pine tree this new nest was built on top of is behind the house in Moss Creek addressed at 53 Toppin Dr. This house is right on the corner of Victoria and Toppin Drive and towers over a pond.
In Leamington, located in first tall pine 20 ft
or so right (if you are facing the house) of the driveway of the house located at 95 Leamington Lane with a metal green roof. It is between the 3rd green and 4th tee in a pine tree.
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)
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 located at the top of a live tree behind 6 Cadogan Court on the fairway of hole #7 at the Country Club of Hilton Head. Very easy to view from the street in front of 6 Cadogan Ct.
Osprey nest is on CSA maintenance pole off Lawton Canal Road, right after turn into back entrance to Sea Pines Forest Preserve.
The best way to see the nest (on the skinny pole, not the water tower) is to go in the back gate, entering Forest Preserve on Lawton and park at first right hand turn under the tree before you get to the little gazebo with maps. Walk on the path to the gate and peer through. Walk a bit further and peer between trees. Very hard to see this nest as it is high up.
Sea Pines Rookery on Lake Mary (where there are no birds). You kind of walk back and then there is a blind with step and a nice look out over the water. If you look left as you face the lake, the fishing pier is just across the water on your left. The Osprey nest is on the left far away about mid-tree line.
In a tall pine tree on Queens Folly Road driving into Palmetto Dunes. Approx 100 yards east of the main bridge just to the right of the road and bike path. It is behind the 15th green of the George Fazio Course. 20yards or so past the tree on the road is a small sign identifying the George Fazio Course.
The nest is atop a pine tree close to the tower that was damaged from Hurricane Mathew. This nest is behind the Mellow Mushroom,the outside seating area, left of the Sea Pines Greenwood gate, front gate, to the right of Harris Teeter you get a perfect view from the Harris Teeter Mellow Mushroom side parking lot.
Main St. near HHP main entrance. Park in parking lot of first office buildings on RIGHT as you enter Main Street from the HHP circle heading toward the Coastal States Bank. Park in the lot and look across the street at the tower.
At the top of a very tall apparently dead tree located on the left side of the short cart path between golf holes Hills 4 and Hills 5 (between Fort Howell Drive and Fish Haul Road) on the right just past Caladium
Nest is located in the Kingston Cove area of Shipyard Plantation between house #31 Kingston and the green of Galleon golf course hole #9 32 deg 9'30" N 80 deg 45' 29" W
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