Welcome to our Bay/nest cam. In 2016, we installed this 35-foot high penthouse overlooking the Bay and our Philip Merrill Environmental Center—CBF’s headquarters in Annapolis, Maryland—in hopes of attracting an osprey couple. Over the years it has housed osprey and more frequently geese!

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Often called the “osprey garden,” the Chesapeake Bay has the most concentrated population of osprey in the world. Every spring, these quintessential Chesapeake birds travel thousands of miles to return to the same nests, where they reunite with their mate, breed, and fish for menhaden and other food.

Visit our osprey page to learn more about these quintessential Chesapeake birds that call the Bay region home.

Video Highlights

Goslings Jump from Nest (April 2022)

Goslings Jump from Osprey Platform (April 2020)

Goslings Jump from Nest (April 2019)

Baby Osprey’s First Flight (August 2018)

Baby Osprey Feasting on Menhaden (July 2018)

Goslings Jump from Platform (May 2018)

Goslings Depart Unusually High Nest (May 2017)

Osprey Eggs Destroyed (May 2016)

Please remember that this is no Disney film! Nature can be a cruel place, but it is our policy not to interfere with anything that goes on in the nest. We also will use our discretion to turn off the cameras at any time should we choose.