HHI Osprey Watch
Description
There is a road that circles the entire May River HS campus, and goes around the baseball field. As you enter the main campus from New Riverside Road, take the first left and proceed until it curves around campus at the baseball field. It is on a double-row flood light.
2 Monitoring Group Affiliations
2025 Season Data
Nest Status
active
Clutch Status
hatched
Young Status
brooding
Clutch history milestones
March 1, 2025
unknown
unknown
Brood history milestones
May 11, 2025
unknown
unknown
3
Activity log
| Date | Watcher | Adults | Eggs | Young | Observations | Photo | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 29 | HHI Osprey Watch | 0 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Diane H: January 29, 10:00 am to 10:10 am. Still no osprey sighting. No nest-building activity noted since last season, although a large portion of the bottom appears intact. | ||||||
| March 1 | HHI Osprey Watch | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Diane H: March 1: 9:40 am to 9:55 am. Found MO sitting tall on the side of the nest. She eventually spread her wings from that position, and pulled them back in as I noticed PO flying in from the nearby trees. PO circled the nest and flew in close, then returned to the trees. MO then joined him, and I could see them flying together in the distance. | ||||||
| March 8 | HHI Osprey Watch | 1 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Diane H: I visited this nest today (3/8/25, 9:20am -9:30 am), and saw one of the pair standing and preening on the edge of the nest. Looks like the nest may still be under construction, as there were at least 3 large branches jutting out below, added since my last visit. Also, the top sides of the nest do not appear to be as high as last year, as I could see the entire bird from its perching location. | ||||||
| April 5 | HHI Osprey Watch | 2 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Diane H: I'm excited to report activity by my nest today: 4/5/25 from 10:00 am to 10:20 am. First noticed that the nest seemed empty when I arrived. I was admiring its construction (including what looked like a long kite tail flapping in the breeze from it), when I spotted one adult (MO) perched nearby on another floodlight pole. She was pecking at something between her feet (feeding?), but there was no nest at this perch. I then spotted PO flying in from a distance. I was watching to see if he would fly to their nest or to MO's new perch. He flew off without stopping, but a mid-sized bird (about half the size of MO) flew in and perched beside MO. I couldn't determine what kind of bird, but then 3 more of the same size flew in and joined them on the perch! I watched MO pass something from her beak/mouth to bird #1. After less than a minute, all 4 visitors flew off to another nearby floodlight perch. MO remained on her new perch, and did not appear to be disturbed by the visitors. I was so excited, thinking that these were osprey fledglings, but now I am not so sure. I didn't notice white heads. It also seems kind of early. What do you think? Do ospreys hang out with other bird species? Or might these 4 perch visitors be fledglings? | ||||||
| April 13 | HHI Osprey Watch | 0 | N | N | |||
| Note: | Diane H: Observation on 4/13 from 10:15 am to 10:45 am. No activity at the nest. No sighting of adult ospreys. ☹️I'll continue to monitor, in hopes that the nest will remain active. | ||||||
| May 18 | HHI Osprey Watch | 2 | N | 3 | feeding, young standing | ||
| Note: | Diane H: 5/18/25 at 10:00 am: Both MO and PO present in the nest, with one of them actively feeding 3 fledglings! The babies were big enough for their heads and necks to be completely exposed while they were being fed. So cool! | ||||||
| June 1 | HHI Osprey Watch | 1 | N | 2 | young standing | ||
| Note: | Diane H: One adult osprey present, and initially one fledgling sitting beside it. After a couple of minutes, another fledgling appeared that had apparently been snuggling against the adult, but then crawled over to the other side of the nest and moved out of sight. So, even though there were 3 fledglings on my last visit, I only saw 2 today, but the nest is very high up, and also deep. | ||||||
This nest has 8 reference photos. View Photos
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