Trav
Description
This nest will be a challenge since it is being built on a boat lift that is not currently in use, but it will be used in the near future. Beautiful marsh location on Coffin Creek.
1 Monitoring Group Affiliations
2025 Season Data
Nest Status
active
Clutch Status
hatched
Young Status
brooding
Clutch history milestones
unknown
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Brood history milestones
unknown
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Activity log
| Date | Watcher | Adults | Eggs | Young | Observations | Photo | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 16 | Trav | 1 | N | N | |||
| Note: | One adult had arrived and is busily guarding and gathering materials at the nest. | ||||||
| April 22 | Trav | 2 | U | N | incubation | ||
| April 25 | Trav | 2 | U | N | incubation | ||
| April 29 | Trav | 1 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | There seems some nest activity as the attending adult keeps looking forward and shuffling it’s position . | ||||||
| May 2 | Joey | 1 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | One Osprey up on side of nest looking in nest and calling. | ||||||
| May 3 | Joey | 1 | U | N | incubation | ||
| Note: | There could be a chick. Just can’t see a head but osprey on side of nest tending to something in nest. | ||||||
| May 7 | Joey | 2 | U | 1 | incubation, feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | I saw Osprey feeding at least one chick. Both parents were there. One on nest and one on pier head close by. That one brought in food. | ||||||
| May 9 | Joey | 2 | U | 1 | incubation, young laying down | ||
| May 15 | Joey | 1 | N | 1 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Osprey parent standing on edge of nest. Saw 1 head of a chick. | ||||||
| June 7 | Joey | 0 | N | N | |||
| Note: | On Tuesday, June 3 there was drama at the Mitchell nest. My neighbor witnessed four big black birds which I believe were black vultures sitting close to the Mitchell nest. There were no ospreys around. And on one huge swoop they descended on the nest. About that time an osprey parent came in and the vultures left. The parent was then, seen frantically trying to throw something out of the nest. There were two chicks in the nest before this. When I arrived, there were black vultures flying in the sky in the vicinity of the nest but flying away. Later, I could see one chick head and a parent was seen feeding the one remaining chick. Things seemed OK Wednesday, Thursday till Friday. Friday morning one Osprey on nest. Then Friday afternoon and evening no ospreys and I could not see a chick head. Saturday morning, June 7 no ospreys and no sign of a chick in the nest. Saturday noon one Osprey came back sitting close to the nest, but not on it. I could hear the osprey calling from my back porch. After lunch, I checked the nest again. There were two osprey and they were doing a fly over in the sky, moving farther and farther away from the nest as if to say farewell. A little later I saw one Osprey sitting close to the nest, but not on it. It took flight and disappeared in the trees across coffin creek. My thoughts are that the parents did not realize that one chick was deceased, but the vultures smelled it and came in. Maybe the remaining chick was still alive, but traumatized and died a few days later?? As of now the nest is abandoned and my heart goes out to these two us parents. I hope they will return and try to raise osprey babies again. The first season they were here 2023 they raised one chick on top of a boat hoist motor Last season 2024 they raised two chicks. I checked at sundown today Saturday 6/7 there were no ospreys to be seen near nest or flying around. | ||||||
This nest has 11 reference photos. View Photos
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