Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch

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

Sunday, August 24, 2025

The winds change….

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  I was out again yesterday checking nests, trying to get final outcomes, read bands etc….and things have suddenly changed. The weather made...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Wild fledging adventures….

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  Burning the candle at both ends these days….its been one stressful situation after another. Some young ospreys fledge so gracefully, witho...
Saturday, August 2, 2025

Fence sitting…

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  Another 12 hour day in the field….i have been so busy trying to watch over chicks that were potentially in trouble. Sometimes it takes an ...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Success!

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  Well it’s that exciting and tragic time of year…. Many of you may remember the situation I wrote about earlier with a female who had a “tw...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Almost!

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 Some  fun videos…..this is one of the first chicks to hatch in the metro and he is very close to fledging. Still  needs to get a little mor...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Losses and thanks!

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The past week has been trying….we have found three chicks dead on the ground. The first two may have blown out in storms, and the most recen...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

After the storm….

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  We had a wild night here in Minnesota, with a big storm going thru in the wee hours of the morning. I have been working so hard to get chi...
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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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