Ben Wurst
Description
New nest on utility pole by apartments. Produced one fledgling in 2025.
1 Monitoring Group Affiliations
2026 Season Data
Nest Status
active
Clutch Status
hatched
Young Status
brooding
Clutch history milestones
unknown
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unknown
Brood history milestones
unknown
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unknown
3
Activity log
| Date | Watcher | Adults | Eggs | Young | Observations | Photo | Edit |
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| May 11 | Ben Wurst | 1 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | Observation by Freda. | ||||||
| May 14 | Randi V. | 1 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | Osprey is very low in nest, may be difficult to spot! | ||||||
| May 26 | cmspina | 2 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | Witnessed shift change around 7:50 pm. | ||||||
| June 10 | cmspina | 2 | U | N | |||
| Note: | Fish delivery. Looked like osprey was self feeding rather than feeding young. Nest is deep and did not see any bobble heads. | ||||||
| June 16 | cmspina | 1 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Osprey up on edge of nest for a while, then hopped in. Heard some calls but no other osprey around. | ||||||
| June 21 | cmspina | 2 | N | 3 | feeding, young laying down |
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| Note: | Female screamed her little head off while mate was within view and over on Avon water tower eating a fluke. He eventually flew to nest and began feeding while she flew off. He fed two of the chicks while a third was seen stretching wings. | ||||||
| June 25 | Randi V. | 1 | N | 2 | young laying down | ||
| Note: | Observed female near edge of nest, shading nestlings. Hard to get a count as they are laying low, but I was able to see two distinct heads poke up. There may be a third, but unable to confirm. | ||||||
| July 5 | cmspina | 1 | N | 3 | |||
| Note: | Two standing under mom, one laying down. | ||||||
| July 10 | water dragon | 1 | N | 2 | young standing | ||
| July 10 | water dragon | 1 | N | 2 | |||
| Note: | Confirmed with scope | ||||||
| July 23 | cmspina | 0 | N | 3 | feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | 1 young self feeding, 1 standing, 1 laying down. | ||||||
| July 25 | cmspina | 0 | N | 3 | young laying down |
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| Note: | One male feeding on tree across the street. Kids calling for food. | ||||||
| July 25 | water dragon | 0 | N | 1 | |||
| Note: | July 25, 2026 – confirmed one giant osprey chick; standing, spreading its wings and lifting about one inch off the nest several times while I observed. | ||||||
This nest has 2 reference photos. View Photos
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