Known as the “fish hawk,” ospreys are mid-sized raptors, or birds of prey, that live near water. Ospreys stay with the same mate for life and often return to the same nest every year. Each year, their nests grow larger as they continue to add sticks and other materials. Ospreys live in the Mid-Atlantic region from March to August, which is their breeding season. At the end of the summer, they fly to Central and South America for the winter.

In previous years, a pair of ospreys built a nest in the tree on the shoreline here every year but the nest is currently no longer there after a storm destroyed it. Ospreys are resilient, relocating and rebuilding their nests when nature takes its course. Perhaps they will return to this spot in the future, or build a new nest nearby!

Meet these magnificent birds in our Earth Is Blue video below!