Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch

Please report new Osprey nests to Vanessa Greene at Osprey.mn@gmail.com Volunteer to monitor a nest!

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

First egg at the Arb

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 We have the first egg at the Arboretum Cam nest! It was laid shortly before 5 am this morning, April 28. Ospreys typically lay their eggs a...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Females at the Arb…..

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  So these are the photos of the female ospreys I have seen at the Arboretum cam nest….first I will post the female I saw early in 2026….I d...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The Arboretum cam nest history…

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 I have been doing a bit of a deep dive on the Arboretum Cam nest history recently. As I may have mentioned, I helped put up that nest pole ...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Which is which?

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  So many stories and so little time to write them! I have been checking 15-30 nests a day….I will catch up on the storytelling sometime soo...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Oh my….

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 I have so many stories I could tell….Here is one. Čšoday I was headed to my pottery class….so I stopped at a nest on my way. Both ospreys th...
Saturday, April 11, 2026

17 nests in the rain….

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  I visited 17 nests on this rainy, gray, cool day. Sometimes these days are good for getting info….I read three bands. Ialso sadly discover...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

31 nests!

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  I visited 31 nests today! Many were occupied by a pair….a few had just a single osprey but the partner may have been out fishing, and a fe...
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Vanessa Greene
I started the Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch program in 2008 after 15 years of working on the Twin Cites Osprey Reintroduction. I am monitoring all nests in the metro area, training and supervising volunteers who assist with this fieldwork and writing annual reports documenting data collected. We are looking at a variety of areas of research including an accurate productivity study, investigating behaviors such as extra pair copulation and mate fidelity, recruitement of young birds into the breeding population, establishment of new territories, age of first breeding, longevity of pair bonds, movement between nesting territories, etc. I have recieved no financial support, other than donations from supporters of the project, and am driven by passion and a committment to the wellbeing and survival of this species of Raptor. I always need help, so contact me if you would like to become involved with the monitoring or have questions about Ospreys. See full profile for list of publications.
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