Wildlife
Ospreys: 3 Live Cameras — Maine, Montana, Chesapeake
Three nests in the United States: an island in Maine, Chesapeake Bay, and a Montana pasture. Ospreys eat almost nothing but fish.
What you can see
Three osprey nests. Ospreys eat almost nothing but fish, which is why they are treated as an indicator of how healthy the water around them is.
Hog Island (Bremen, Maine) looks out from a boathouse roof across the island that holds the Audubon bird camp. More than 200 species live there, and this nest has a long-resident osprey named Skiff. Whether he and a new mate can bring off young on this rough stretch of Maine coast is the thing to watch.
Chesapeake Bay (Kent Island, Maryland) watches a pair called Tom and Audrey from close in. This bird is used as a measure of the health of the whole bay.
Charlo (Montana) sits very near a tree where a family of great horned owls lives. A pair called Charlie and Lolo have built up an artificial nest platform high over open pasture. It is run by the Owl Research Institute.
Cameras you can watch now: 3
All 3 are live video. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Live video
Hog Island osprey nest (boat house)
Maine, Bremen · Wildlife · Sea
From a camera on the boat house roof, out over the Audubon ornithology camp on Hog Island, where more than two hundred species of bird live. The nest belongs to Skiff, a long-time resident. The question each season is whether he and his new mate can raise a brood on this rugged stretch of the Maine coast.
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Live video
Chesapeake Bay osprey (Kent Island)
Maryland, Kent Island · Wildlife · Sea
A close look at the daily life of Tom and Audrey, an osprey pair on Kent Island, Maryland. Because osprey eat almost nothing but fish, they are treated as an indicator species for the health of Chesapeake Bay as a whole.
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Live video
Osprey nest at Charlo
Montana, Charlo · Wildlife
Near the treetop home of Charlo's great horned owl family, an osprey pair called Charlie and Lola have built a nest on a raised platform overlooking an open field. The camera follows them through the season. Run by the Owl Research Institute.
When to watch
None of the three providers names a season. These are nest cameras and the picture changes completely through the year, but we are not going to invent a date for it here.
Maine and Maryland are 13 hours behind Japan on daylight saving time. 6am there is 7pm in Japan, noon there is 1am the next day, and 6pm there is 7am the next day. Montana is 15 hours behind, two hours later. In winter all three shift an hour later.
So Japanese night through the following morning is daylight at all three.
Ospreys take fish by diving feet-first into the water. These are nest cameras, so the dive itself is off screen — but the adult coming back holding a fish is not.
If it isn't showing
All three also appear on the United States page. Living subjects are collected under Wildlife, and coastal cameras under Sea.
For other raptor nests there are Bald Eagles, Peregrine Falcons and Owls.
On choosing what time to open one, see Which cameras are in daylight now.
Where to find Ospreys
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- explore.org (Deep links and embeds OK, no image reuse) — Official site
The footage belongs to each agency. This site is an unofficial guide, and each sample frame was copied once per camera under that agency's terms of use.