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Updated Activity for Nest #5362 SAU-01 Upper Saugus River, Saugus, MA about 4 yearsUpdated Activity for Nest #4627 SAL-02 Black Rock Creek Platform, Salisbury about 4 yearsUpdated Activity for Nest #4616 ROW-04 Nelson Island Creek Platform, Rowley about 4 yearsUpdated Activity for Nest #6600 NEW-05 Chaces Island Platform, Newbury about 4 yearsUpdated Activity for Nest #7557 NEW-03A Plum Island River Platform, Newburyport about 4 yearsUpdated Activity for Nest #4621 NEW-02 Upper Parker River Platform, Newbury about 4 yearsUpdated Activity for Nest #7561 IPS-16 Paine Creek Camp #2, Ipswich about 4 yearsUpdated Activity for Nest #7559 IPS-15 Rogers Island Platform, Ipswich about 4 years
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Dave R's nests
| This nest was first reported in 2018 but according to the property owner had been in place for 2-3 years. Same as nest #7198 Little River Lynn MA by TedMc. | |
| Substrate | Other (Specify) |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| Located on a utility pole on Danvers River. First nest (2012) seemed a trial run. Nest successful in 2013. | |
| Substrate | Utility Pole |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 4 |
| Nest discovered in 2017 atop large dead white pine tree. In 2018, tree with nest snapped off in Jan, nest gone. | |
| Substrate | Dead Tree |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| This platform installed by Sean Riley of MADCR on the Belle Isle Marsh Reservation in East Boston in 2018. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| Installed by Greenbelt and DCR in April 2017 | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| New nest discovered in 2017 | |
| Substrate | Channel Marker |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| 2018 - Property owned by David Babson. New nest found on an old wood stove which washed out of the camp after a storm in Jan 2018. Nest observed with one egg on 6/14/18. Nest failed. A platform was put up on Babson land in March 2019 to attract th... | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| New platform installed April 2018 to replace damaged camp with nest on roof (IPS-11) | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| New nest discovered in April 2019. | |
| Substrate | Other (Specify) |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| New platforms installed April 2018 to replace old blind with nest on it (IPS-04). | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| Nest discovered on 5-5-2018 on a stack of wood on side of camp. Observed with 3 eggs May 12, 2018. In April 2019 a new platform was installed near camp and the 2018 nest site removed. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| Installed April 2018 on Greenbelt's Williams Salt Marsh. New platform near old hunting blind (NEW-03) that was active in 2015. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| At the end of Raddin St on private property. | |
| Substrate | Other (Specify) |
| Last activity | over 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| New platform installed privately in March 2016 | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| Platform added by landowner in 2015 to an existing decommissioned utility pole. | |
| Substrate | Utility Pole |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| New platform installed by Greenbelt Sep 2015 | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| New platform installed by Greenbelt in 2016. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| New platform installed by Greenbelt with construction by Michael galli as an Eagle Scout project in March 2016. Replaces older platform along edge of salt marsh. No evidence of any nesting activity on older platform in 2012 or earlier. Older platf... | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| New platform installed by Greenbelt March 2016 | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| New platform installed by Greenbelt 2015. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| New platform installed April 2016 by Greenbelt | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | over 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| New platform installed in April 2016 by Greenbelt. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| Active in 2011. Assumed to be same pair from 2010 that nested on Rogers Island on blind, which is now gone. | |
| Substrate | Duck Blind |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Looking at Ram Island from Stone Pier, nest is between the two islands to the left of Ram Island. Flat platform, installed by KEA in Dec, 2007. Not active 2008. 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. Nest collapsed in July 2015, new platform installed in S... | |
| Substrate | Dead Tree |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 3 |
| New platform installed by Greenbelt and Wheelabrator technologies April 2016 | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 3 |
| Nest installed by GE in 2013-14 | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Nest is on platform, most likely installed by GE in 2013-14. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Located on the utility pole along route 107. | |
| Substrate | Utility Pole |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Substrate | Channel Marker |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 3 |
| nest is on roof of small hunting camp. brought to Greenbelt's attention in 2015. | |
| Substrate | Other (Specify) |
| Last activity | over 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Nest on a utility pole near a seasonal cottage near salt marsh. nest appears to have been active for a few years but only came to Greenbelt's attention late in the 2015 season. | |
| Substrate | Utility Pole |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| Platform installed privately on private property; unknown installation date but after 2005. Has been occupied for at least four years. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 4 |
| New nest platform install March 2014 | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| new platform installed in 2014. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 3 |
| New platform installed 2015 | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| Nest active in 2009 on duck blind. Blind fell down in 2011. New platform installed 2015. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | over 7 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| installed in 2015 | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| New nest observed in May 2015 on light tower in old Wonderland Park parking lot | |
| Substrate | Other (Specify) |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Substrate | Utility Pole |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Nesting on metal walkway that surrounds the smoke stack and is over 250 feet above ground. | |
| Substrate | Other (Specify) |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| This platform was installed by Bob Brophy, Essex resident, in the 1980s and was the first known active OSPR nest in Essex County in the mid 1980s. In the early years Bob thought productivity was low due to Great-horned owl predation on chicks but ... | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Nest on an old rebuilt duck blind on woodbridge island . | |
| Substrate | Duck Blind |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Nest found on 6/8/14 on old wooden dock on Woodbridge Island. | |
| Substrate | Other (Specify) |
| Last activity | over 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| Nest on a channel marker at the mouth of Beverly Harbor. First year active we think. | |
| Substrate | Channel Marker |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| Nest is located along the Saugus River on an inactive utility pole. | |
| Substrate | Utility Pole |
| Last activity | about 2 months |
| Followers | 2 |
| This platform is located on MA DCR land and was likely installed by DCR. It was visited by Greenbelt in April 2014 and an Osprey was observed on the nest. And it was apparent that it was an old nest that had been in use for multiple years. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 1 |
| Older platform...probably installed by MA DFW 10+ years ago. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Platform installed in 2008 by Greenbelt on Cox Reservation salt marsh along Eben Creek. Url http://www.ecga.org/what_we_do/osprey_program | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 4 |
| This is a tripod platform installed by the PRNWR c. mid-1990s and located at the western end of the Cross Farm Hill. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 4 |
| These three platforms were built over 10 years ago on abandoned utility poles. Only one has been active; the one furtherest to the north or on the left in the photo. It was active in 2008, 2009 and 2010. | |
| Substrate | Utility Pole |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Nest located on navigational marker in Salem Harbor. | |
| Substrate | Channel Marker |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 4 |
| Discovered in 2013 on a day marker outside Salem harbor. May have been active in previous years. | |
| Substrate | Channel Marker |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 3 |
| Discovered in 2013 on day marker for Dion channel. May have been active in previous years. | |
| Substrate | Channel Marker |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 3 |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Platform installed by Greenbelt and MassWildlife in 1980's. Has been active for more than 5 years. Rebuilt by Greenbelt in March 2010. The 2013 adult male was previously banded in Duxbury, MA in 1998. One of the 2013 fledglings and the adult male ... | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 3 |
| Platform installed by Greenbelt in March 2010. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Installed in 1980's by TTOR and MassWildlife. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| New platform installed in March 2012. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Two older platforms. Installation date unknown. No signs of activity. Neither platform appears very stable. In 2013 nesting material was placed on lower eastern most platform. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | over 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Older platform near end of Green Point Rd out on saltmarsh. Active for 5-8 years in 2000s. April 2011, 2012, 2013 - inactive but was observed with fresh nesting material on it on 6/6/13. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Newer platform privately installed in 2011. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Substrate | Duck Blind |
| Last activity | over 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| New platform installed by Essex County Greenbelt on Greenbelt salt marsh in 2011. Near where a pair of OSPR have nested on a duck blind for the past 3-4 years. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| This platform was installed by the PRNWR staff c. mid-1990s. It is located off the southern end of the dike infront of the Bill Forward Pool and west of the Old Pines. This is nest with second pole next to it. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 3 |
| Installed in March 2012 by Greenbelt. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Installed March 2013. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 3 |
| Substrate | Other (Specify) |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Substrate | Duck Blind |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| New nest in 2010. Blind gone in 2011. Pair likely moved to ROW-02 in 2011. | |
| Substrate | Duck Blind |
| Last activity | over 9 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| This platform was one of the first installed in Plum Island Sound by the USFWS and it was one of the first active nests in the area. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | over 4 years |
| Followers | 3 |
| This is a privately installed platform, installation date unknown but around 2005. It has been active for several years. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Platform first noticed by DWR in Aug 2010. Just south of Nelsons Island Creek. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Substrate | Duck Blind |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Platform installed by Essex County Greenbelt in 2011. | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Substrate | Duck Blind |
| Last activity | over 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| New platform in 2013 | |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
| Substrate | Osprey Nest Platform |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 3 |
| Osprey nested on this hunting blind in 2010 as confirmed by staff at the PRNWR. No nesting activity in 2011, 2012, 2013 | |
| Substrate | Duck Blind |
| Last activity | about 4 years |
| Followers | 2 |
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