Osprey Cam
The Ospreys are back and so is the Osprey Cam! Milford Point’s Ospreys arrived at the nest platform on March 18, 2025. Two months’ later, on May 20, the first signs of success: the male brought food and the parents fed at least one nestling. That was the first time confirming at least one has hatched. Two days later, on May 23, we got our first view of three hatchlings.
We’re all looking forward to watching them successfully raise a family! Click the video to enlarge it. If the video isn’t playing, refresh your browser.
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Ospreys are both a success story and a cautionary story. Their history over the last 75 years shows how devastating insecticides can be to birds, and also how, with time and human effort, bird populations can rebound. The lesson the Osprey story teaches is that preventing the disaster is better than reversing it.
Ospreys were among the species hardest hit by DDT in the middle of the 20th century. Widely sprayed to control mosquitoes, DDT accumulated in fish. Ospreys of course eat only fish. DDT interfered with the birds’ ability to lay eggs that had shells thick enough to withstand incubation. Eggs broke in the nest and didn’t hatch — an obvious recipe for population disaster.
When DDT was banned, in 1972, the number of Ospreys slowly rebounded. Ospreys are now common and familiar near the state’s coast, rivers, and lakes. In 2024, there were 726 active nests and 1,077 fledglings in the state.
Find out more about Connecticut Audubon's Osprey programs, including how to get involved.
As you’re watching the Osprey Cam, you can start to look for eggs in early April.
Ospreys lay 1 to 4 eggs. The ornithologist Arthur Cleveland Bent, writing almost 90 years ago, called them “. . . the handsomest of all the hawk’s eggs . . . considerable variation . . . coloring very rich,” according to the Cornell Lab Of Ornithology’s Birds of the World, which described the eggs as, “Ground color creamy white to pinkish cinnamon; usually heavily wreathed and spotted with reddish browns, especially larger end. Surface smooth but not glossy.”
The eggs begin to hatch after roughly 36 to 42 days, and it takes another 50 to 55 days for the birds to begin to leave the nest.
You can learn more about Connecticut Audubon’s Osprey Nation program here.
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They are getting big so fast!
So nice to see the three chicks. Good to see the little one looks closer in size to the big sibs than last year. Chick #3 was so adorable last year but I guess it failed to thrive? I know it went missing well before fledge.
This has been an exciting week. Seems like there are 3 chicks. We are excited to watch them grow.
May 22,2025 I spotted two baby heads pop up to be fed!!!!!
I feel bad for them out in the rain.
5/21/25, saw 2 nestlings this morning!
Love this site… My back yard is open to the Marsh ..
Friday, 21 June – Looked like all three chicks were there late morning. 3:15 PM – Don’t see chick #3, the smaller one. Mom just fed, but only fed the two larger chicks. Did anyone see what happened?
I’m really enjoying watching the Osprey cam. It looks like one of the babies is smaller than the others. I’m wondering if she will make it.
I can’t get over how tiny one of the chicks is compared to the other two! I wonder if it hatched later than his siblings? I really enjoy watching them have their 3 meals a day. The other day it looked like papa raided someone’s Koi pond for lunch – showed up with a white fish with a big red band around its belly
I am seeing a lot of osprey feet. I think the camera is pointed too low. Is it possible to adjust the camera little bit higher?
Can cam be adjusted? Ospreys heads are getting cut off now bu not sure you can move it. I see at least one baby has hatched. 🙂
Can’t see if there are any eggs in the nest.
Hooray
Thanks!
Where is Osprey cam please?
What’s wrong with the camera?
When will the Osprey Cam come back? Gone for at least two weeks. Miss it. Thank you
Hello! Is the cam not working now? Saw these Ospreys in person when we visited the Coastal Center last week. Thanks for streaming this nest!
Webcam is down. Please fix it!
About and hour ago 1:30 PM a second male tried to steal a fish the resident male brought for the female. He was not successful and the female got her snack of a small perch
How can one tell the male from the female?
pls reply via email. Maybe the female has more golden feathers on back of head? Just a guess. Or the other way around.
My email is the above, not an optonline.net one. Hopefully you can update so that I can sige in more easily!
Thanks!
Love seeing the Ospreys and the Eagle checking out the osprey nest.
Beautiful majestic Creature! Thank you for the cam. Does anyone know anything about her? How old is she or is she a returnibg visitor here? Is she pregnant? Etc. I’m new here so thank you!
The pair are back and both are on the nest and perch right now looking miserable in the chilly rain. Hoping for another successful year.
Hi. What type of camera is installed on this best? We have a camera on our nest in North Haven that will need replacing. I’m looking for options and recommendations.
Thank you,
Craig
Can’t wait to seeing all the ospreys!
They’re back!