HHI Osprey Watch
Description
Located behind #23 Cottonwood in Hilton Head Plantation. The nest was seen from Dolphin Head Golf Course between hole 10 and hole 18 (lagoon in between).
2 Monitoring Group Affiliations
2025 Season Data
Nest Status
active
Clutch Status
incubating
Young Status
unknown
Clutch history milestones
March 5, 2025
unknown
March 19, 2025
Brood history milestones
unknown
unknown
unknown
0
Activity log
| Date | Watcher | Adults | Eggs | Young | Observations | Photo | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 13 | HHI Osprey Watch | 0 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Carol M reports: been watching and no nest yet . It blew down during Helena in the fall and I have not seen any osprey yet. I hope they come back! | ||||||
| March 5 | HHI Osprey Watch | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Carol M reports; good news…The second osprey returned this afternoon. They are happily hanging out together hopefully discussing when to start the nest! | ||||||
| March 5 | HHI Osprey Watch | 1 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Carol M reports: I have one Osprey in the tree. No nest yet and the second one seems to have not arrived. | ||||||
| April 24 | HHI Osprey Watch | 2 | U | N | |||
| Note: | Carol M reports: Ok good news. The mother is in the nest. I can see her head popping up occasionally. The male is still around fishing and delivering dinner… waiting for babies I guess . NOTE: a date for incubation initiation has not yet been recorded as the assigned nest monitor has been away for a month. But based on this current observation, it looks like incubation is occurring. Will need to wait for hatching confirmation and can estimate an incubation date from that. | ||||||
| May 12 | HHI Osprey Watch | 2 | U | N | |||
| Note: | Carol M reports: have been seeing an Osprey in the nest but don’t have a great view since it is up so high . Today however, I have 2 very noisy Osprey in a tree in my backyard. I would assume the mother would not leave the nest?? I can’t see a bird in the nest today. I have seen a few other Osprey flying around the water behind my house the past few weeks. That is new this year. I have only seen 2 in the past. That is why I am a little confused on what is happening. I have not seen baby. They typically practice flying in my trees in the past. NOTE: this monitor was out of town for a month, so it’s challenging to know what might be occurring at this point. For now, it will be a “wait & see” situation-hopefully obtaining more definitive observational data. | ||||||
| May 21 | HHI Osprey Watch | 2 | U | N | |||
| Note: | Carol M reports: We have one baby. I think he has been around a little while as he is not as small as the babies I have seen past years. He is out practicing flying with his dad though now. They are not just practicing in the close up trees but flying freely over the water. He is also flying around alone but the parents are on watch. NOTE from Joanne V, the program co-coordinator. : There is much uncertainty about this nest. According to the assigned monitor (Carol M), 3/15 was when she first observed the nest was rebuilt. However, she went out of town shortly after that and there were no observations reported until 4/24. The fledgling she is describing on 5/21 could not have been the product of this nesting pair, as the dates/timelines are off. As the monitor has reported seeing other adults flying around this nest, it is possible that the fledgling described above is from another nearby nest. For now, incubation will be “guesstimated” for late March, but hatching is actually undetermined at this point. | ||||||
| June 4 | HHI Osprey Watch | 2 | U | N | |||
| Note: | Carol M reports: After much observation here is what I think is going on this year. I left March 29th and had a friend check the nest mid April before she went out of town She reported that there had a been a strong storm and that the nest looked to be in disarray. maybe lost some eggs??? I have been watching them all of May. I think there was one baby born which I previously reported seeing flying around with one of the parents. By the second week of May the female osprey was not staying in the nest consistently but close by. . I am still seeing this smaller osprey flying around the area daily mostly with one of the parents . They are still here fishing and hanging out on my backyard. This year one of the confusing things that happened is that there are other grown Osprey in the near area. The has not been the case in past years. Just my 2 “pets” in my yard. I am wondering if there is another nest between my house and the intercostal. That is the direction I see the adults flying most often. Note from Joanne V. It is still unclear if this pair produced a chick that has now fledge. For this reason, no hatching date has been recorded and the known timelines are inconsistent. A chick has not been directly observed in this nest by any monitor. It is certainly possible that one hatched and was in the nest during the absence of the assigned monitor, but there has not been a direct observation of that, only a young fledgling out and about near this nest. | ||||||
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