Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch

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

Friday, June 26, 2026

Doing so well….

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  I stopped today to check again on the female who is raising a chick on her own after mating with a polygynous male…..his other mate has on...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Success!

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  Oh this is a happy one…..I checked this nest yesterday….and was so happy to see two chicks and then….#3 popped up under mom’s tail!!!! Th...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

Rescue

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  What a roller coaster ride it’s been the last few days…..on Thursday I learned about a heroic rescue of an osprey that was caught in fishi...

New nest, new monitor!

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 I have had a busy week….and on Friday I managed to carve out a day to visit a new nest, meet one of our new volunteer monitors and make a b...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

And then there was one….

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  Some more sad news about the female who was raising chicks on her own after she mated with a polygynous male. Last Friday I saw that male ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Turning in to a good mom….

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 Interesting to watch a feeding at the Arb this afternoon….first thing I noticed is that the chicks heads are much less wobbly now….that mak...
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

What’s a crop?

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  I have been looking at ospreys for 33 years so I notice so many small things that others may not…..especially those who are just watching ...
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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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