Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch

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

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

September 29!

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  I stopped to check on one of my favorite nests on my way to the pottery studio….found the chick there this morning, and on my way home in ...
Monday, September 28, 2026

Another great male….

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  Still here….the dad with the two chicks. Dad was on his same cell tower perch when I arrived, and the male chick was on the lightpole the ...
Saturday, September 26, 2026

Two more chicks that are still here…

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  Another gray, rainy day….but those can be good days to find ospreys. I only checked a few nests. I went to the nest of the orphans sibling...
Thursday, September 24, 2026

Still here!

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  I have been out checking nests the last two days as have several of the monitors also! Reports are still coming in! I visited 20 nests yes...
Saturday, September 19, 2026

A few more….

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  I visited a few more nests today, on this cloudy drizzly day. The first stop was the nest where the orphans bio -dad lives….and the chick ...
Friday, September 18, 2026

Not all gone yet!

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  They aren’t all gone yet! Sometimes a miserable day like this is a good time to look for them…..cold, rainy, gray. I stopped on my way to ...
Saturday, September 12, 2026

Gone with the Wind…

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  I woke up very early to the sound of strong winds….but by the time I got up it had calmed down a bit. I headed over to check on the orphan...
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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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