LincolnDarkASRI
Description
1 Monitoring Group Affiliations
2025 Season Data
This nest was marked as lost on July 3, 2025. Nest destroyed during storm
Nest Status
lost
Clutch Status
hatched
Young Status
brooding
Clutch history milestones
unknown
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Brood history milestones
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Activity log
| Date | Watcher | Adults | Eggs | Young | Observations | Photo | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 21 | Riverside eyes | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | At 7:07 pm female on nest . Male on the rail under nest to the right. Nest still under construction, not completed. Ospreys observed eating, nest building and mating today. | ||||||
| April 26 | Riverside eyes | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | At 1:30pm the male Osprey was circling over the bluff in front of my home. I watched as he chose a large stick, twice his length at least, and picked it up. He flew low over the water to take it back to the nest site. . Then, I watched through my telescope as he landed and presented it to the female on the nest. For five minutes they both worked it into the nest. Then, both stood on the nest grooming themselves. As I stop watching now both are preening on top of nest in a light rain. | ||||||
| May 3 | Riverside eyes | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Female deep in nest. Observed male beside her holding wings her in what looked like sheltering her from the sun, not mating. Then male flew off and brought a large stick back. Male on rail underneath the nest preening. 11:55, only F observed deep in nest. Can only see the top of her head. 12:50 pm, male back on right side rail below nest, preening. F deep down in nest. | ||||||
| May 13 | Riverside eyes | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Nest was empty when I first checked. It became obvious why. Two men had tied up to the structure that the nest is on and we’re fishing directly below it. Both Ospreys were flying large circles around the nest site. Female hovered above the nest and then landed. 9:16am: Female down deep in nest. Possibly sitting on eggs? Male out of sight, boat still below. 9:44am: male still avoiding the site. Men still fishing below. Female on nest. 11:34am: boat gone, female down in nest. Male away. | ||||||
| May 17 | 2 | N | N | Add Photo | Edit | ||
| Note: | On May 17 at 4:20 pm I observed both ospreys on the nest. The white head was the only part of the female that I could see, as she was deep down in the nest. The male was preening on the right side of the rail underneath the nest. Later he flew up to sit on the right side of the nest. 5:07 pm female alone in nest, only head showing… | ||||||
| May 19 | Riverside eyes | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | At 2:15pm I checked the nest site. Both Female and male were on the nest standing as another Osprey was hovering close over the nest. The male chased off the third Osprey. The female seemed to rearrange the nest a bit and then sat down deep in it again. Pretty sure she is laying eggs or sitting on some as she has been deep in nest for days. 2:35pm female in nest. Another Osprey on rail under nest to the left. Resident male, not intruder. | ||||||
| June 2 | Riverside eyes | 1 | N | N | |||
| Note: | I only see one Osprey this morning. It is way down in the nest and at first I could only see the top of its head. Then the entire head. This year the front of the nest toward me is built up higher than last year, so harder for me to observe what is happening inside the nest. A bird has been observed down in the nest for weeks now and I am pretty sure eggs and possibly young are here but can’t confirm yet. Very quiet this morning. | ||||||
| June 2 | 2 | N | N | Add Photo | Edit | ||
| June 2 | Riverside eyes | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | At 9am male returns to site and eats fish on the right rail below the nest. Then flies over the beach in front of my home, picks up a large stick, returns to nest and deposits it near female in nest. Sits above her by the stick. When checked at 10 am, only top of female’s head deep in nest visible on nest site | ||||||
| June 7 | Riverside eyes | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | 11:20 am: two birds on nest, one deep in nest only head showing, and the other on the top right of the nest. 11:25 am: bird on top of nest flies off . Bird in nest more active, moving around but still low in nest. 11:35am: bird who left returns. Both birds are now perching on top of the nest. One returns to sit deep in nest, the other preens and chirps beside the nest . 11 :40 am: bird on top leaves, the other bird is deep in the nest, only the top of its head can be seen. 12:40 pm, no change. | ||||||
| June 18 | 1 | N | N | Add Photo | Edit | ||
| Note: | One adult bird down in nest. Fidgets in nest, head bobbing up and down. Pretty sure some nestlings are there but have not seen heads yet. Only the white head of the bird in the nest is visible now. | ||||||
| June 19 | Riverside eyes | 2 | N | N | |||
| June 19 | Riverside eyes | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | One adult on the left corner of the rail just below the nest, holding a fish against the rail with talons and pecking at it . The other adult on the nest , occasionally spreading wings over the nest site. Maybe shading eggs or nestlings? Full sun and hot today. A bit of a breeze over the water though. I hear them chirping. Adult on rail leaves site. Male returns to nest with a fish. Female comes out of nest and preens.Male returns to left corner of rail and eats this fish too. Female facing me up on top of back of nest. (I can see her”bib “ now so I can tell which is M/F). Female returns to inside of nest. I can only see her head now. Female chirps for about a minute. Male answers. Male leaves rail to chase off two other Ospreys hovering over the nest. It looks to me like he holds on to the fish as he does this?, Male returns to rail with fish. Female- wings spread over nest and chirping. | ||||||
| June 21 | Riverside eyes | 1 | N | Y | |||
| June 22 | Riverside eyes | 2 | N | 2 | feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | M on left corner of rail below the nest. I know it is the M because he is facing North and I can see the large white epaulet on his right shoulder which the F does not have. F on the nest feeding two nestlings. The male flies up to the nest and observes, then down to the right corner of the rail below the nest.M stays on rail as F flies off, returns later with a fish and lands on the nest. Resumes eating and feeding. M flies to nest and takes a few bites. Then flies off. Male returns and stays on the right corner of the rail facing north. F resting on top left of nest facing west. | ||||||
| June 28 | Riverside eyes | 1 | N | 2 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Female on right top of nest preening. Two heads observed on opposite side of nest down in nest. No feeding. Female flies off leaving nest unguarded. Returns about 15 seconds later to same spot on nest. Although I thought the nestlings were standing erect last observation, I realise today I can’t really say that for sure just based on the fact that their heads are out of the nest . But today I see two nestlings moving toward the adult and flapping wings, so are standing and much larger than I expected! Nestlings disappear down in nest, Female continues to preen. At 2 pm, F still on right side, young in nest not visible. No sign of Male. | ||||||
| July 3 | Riverside eyes | 2 | N | 2 | young standing | ||
| Note: | One adult below nest on the rail preening. Two nestlings alone in nest. Another adult arrives with a stick and arranges it in the nest. Bird on rail flies off. Bird on nest arranging sticks. Two nestlings heads and wings now visible occasionally. Bird on nest resting and arranging sticks. Nestlings down in nest. Other adult has not returned yet. | ||||||
| July 3 | Riverside eyes | 0 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Horrible storm. When I looked through the telescope at the nest site, the nest was gone! There are lots of sticks on the platform below the nest, but no sign of any nest or birds. I don’t see how the two nestlings could have survived the storm, but maybe someone from Audubon could check the platform? So sad. | ||||||
| July 20 | Riverside eyes | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | I have not reported since the nest was destroyed by a storm. But I have been observing the nest site and thought I should report that the M and F adult Osprey returned to the site after the storm, and have been spending a large part of every day at the site. I have observed them bring a few sticks, copulate, fish, eat , and preen on the structure that previously had the nest on top. But no real attempt to rebuild. Right now both birds are sitting on the right rail below the previous nest’s spot, eating and preening. I will continue to watch to see when they depart to migrate South. | ||||||
| August 6 | 2 | N | N | Add Photo | Edit | ||
| Note: | I have been observing the two adults at the nest site over the last few weeks, even though the nest was destroyed and the nestlings lost in the storm over July 4. The nest seems to have partially landed down on its side on the platform below where the nest was built last year and this year. It is lodged up against a steel sign by the rail and comes up to the left side of the rail where the Osprey often perch. The male seems to be interested in using this spot to build the next nest, rather than the old spot. He has been sitting atop it and bringing sticks to it. Just now he brought a large stick twice his size. The female has just been eating a fish on the left rail nearby. It seems like the spot on the platform up against the sign and rail, might be more secure. It will be interesting to see if they decide to build on the platform next year instead of the higher, narrower site. Meanwhile, they are still very dedicated to the site and stay there often, in spite of their loss. | ||||||
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