Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch

  Our first chicks have hatched! We watched those early signs that something was happening on Thursday and were finally able to confirm a f...

  Third egg laid on the Arb cam nest…..shortly after 4 a.m. They did incubate thru the nite again so we will see what the outcome is. This e...

  The Arb ospreys finally incubated thru the night last night. Time will tell if these eggs hatch. While we wait for that….believe it or no...

  Well, I see that the Arboretum cam ospreys left the two eggs unincubated for nearly four hours last night, when the temps were quite cool ...

  And it was a cool, rainy night. While this may be evidence of this behavioral strategy called delayed incubation….we have never seen this ...

  hmmmmm. One of the nest monitors pointed out to me that the ospreys at the Arb were off their new egg a lot overnight last night…..see pho...

  Well there was an egg laid at the Arboretum cam nest today….which baffles me as I have seen the female refuse copulation SO many times. Bu...