osprey

July 19, 2024
Resident Canada goose incubates a clutch on an osprey nest within the lower Chesapeake Bay. The goose population has grown rapidly and their interaction with osprey is rising sharply in the Bay. Photo by Bryan Watts.

Resident Canada geese and osprey

By Bryan Watts7/17/24 Historically, the Canada goose was a migratory species throughout most of the United States arriving in November to most wintering grounds and leaving […]
July 18, 2024
Lizzie Arthur, an undergraduate student intern from W&M, working with the CCB osprey team during 2024 uses an extendable mirror pole to check the contents of a nest in the Chesapeake Bay. Photo by Bryan Watts.

The 2024 Osprey Field Season

By Bryan Watts7/13/24 Like blue crabs and salt marshes, the osprey is interwoven into the fabric of the Chesapeake Bay culture.  Many generations of Bay residents […]
March 30, 2024

Become an OspreyWatcher – It’s fun and easy

By: Bryan Watts4/2/24  CCB is thrilled to announce the launch of OspreyWatch 2.0.  With support from conservationists Briscoe and Kenan White and innovative programmer Jim Verhagen […]
March 30, 2024

Four generations of W&M graduate students collaborate on osprey paper

By: Bryan Watts4/1/24 The Biology Department within William & Mary has been a center for osprey work for more than 50 years.  Over that time, the […]
January 11, 2024

Moving Osprey

By: Bryan Watts1/4/2024 We put in on Hoskins Creek in Tappahannock and ran out to the open Rappahannock River.  Mitchell Byrd was at the helm of […]
July 14, 2023
Osprey with menhaden

The Center for Conservation Biology documents unprecedented osprey nest failures within the lower Chesapeake Bay

For release: July 14, 2023 Williamsburg, VA – In 2023, The Center for Conservation Biology has documented the highest rate of osprey nest failure ever recorded […]
July 8, 2023
Osprey brood on the upper James River near Hopewell, Virginia.

A tale of two bays: Osprey fortunes diverge

By: Bryan Watts7/5/2023 Over the past few years, I have received questions from homeowners, watermen and keen observers around the lower Chesapeake Bay about osprey.  Waterfront […]
July 7, 2022
Jan Reese talking osprey and other species over lunch

The osprey man of Tilghman

By: Bryan Watts7/7/2022 It is impossible to think about osprey in the upper Chesapeake Bay, particularly around the area of the Choptank River and Eastern Bay, […]
August 26, 2009

Azalea on Little Wicomico River

This satellite map covers a wide time range through the early morning August 24 so that you can see better how Azalea (HH) has wandered first to […]