12/08/08	News release of osprey delisting & 2008 record breeding season. MORE INFO HERE
09/20/08	Ospreys officially removed from state's Endangered and Threatened List.
08/16/08	Good year for ospreys in the seacoast.  A total of 32 young fledged from 16 active nests for an average of 2.000 fledged per active nest.  4 chicks have fledged at Colby Marsh; 3 at Dame Road, Great Bog, Landing Road, Strafford Co. Farm, Stubbs Pond, WSA#3, & WSA#4; 2 at Lubberland Creek & Brookside Sanctuary; 1 at Blackwater River, Brackett Brook & Hampton River Duck Blind and 0 at Jeffs Hill, Squamscott River & Willey Pond.
08/10/08	Retrieved the dead osprey reported by Bill Murray last night.  It's a juvenile hanging by its talons from the insulator of utility pole 41R opposite the WSA east fence.  It's likely a bird fledged from the nearby WSA#4 nest, but a head count of the WSA nests was inconclusive.   Follow up:  PSNH removed the osprey from the pole on 08/11.  It had been electrocuted & had burn marks on both feet.  It is currently in the refuge freezer awaiting a trip to the taxidermist & then on to Parker River NWR, where it will be used as part of an educational display at refuge headquarters.
07/17/08	The duck blind in Hampton Marsh is active and has a single chick.
07/14/08	Steve Mirick found yet another duck blind osprey nest in the Hunt's Island portion of Seabrook Marsh about NE of Seabrook Station.  It looks to be a starter nest, with birds getting together & making plans for next year.
07/11/08	A new osprey nest was found on a duck blind in the north end of Hampton Marsh by Steve Mirick.  It's not known yet whether it's an active nest or a pair getting a jump start on next season.
07/01/08	With the success of ospreys in NH, officials are planning to remove the osprey from the threatened list and propose additional changes to the state's Endangered and Threatened species list. MORE INFO HERE          AND HERE
06/18/08	15th seacoast area osprey nest discovered by Chris Martin in Greenland near the Stratham town line behind the old NH Vocation Tech fields on Rte 33.
06/13/08	4th chick seen & photographed  in the Colby Marsh nest.
05/23/08	2 osprey seen on the Exeter River in Brentwood.  Nest was looked for, but none found.
05/21/08	Thanks to Scott Standley for reporting osprey activity in wetlands off South Road in North Hampton.  They've been seen for the past week or two.  It doesn't appear that they've set up a permanent occupation of a large nest used by Great Blue Herons in 2007.  Could be a young pair getting acquainted with each other.  If they decide to nest here this year or nest it contains what appears to be a well made 'starter home' for them.
05/11/08	Near Bunker Creek, a pair of Osprey circling, one clutching a branch.
05/08/08	JO  found a dead osprey just north of the end of Depot Rd in Hampton Falls.  05/09 JO & DH examined it & found it a little 'fragrant'.  It was a male with an obviously broken neck & was missing about 9 inches of its left wing.  There were no other signs of trauma and no leg bands.  The carcass was only a few feet west of the power lines coming from Seabrook Station.  He must have flown into the power lines.  Bird was not from either the Landing Rd or the Blackwater nest sites as they had a full complement of birds, plus one rather aggressive bird harassing the F in the Landing Rd site.  Carcass was delivered to PEA ornithology lab.
05/03/08	Jeffs Hill ospreys are trying their luck at yet another tree in the Jeffs Hill wetlands.  This time in the SW corner of the pond.
04/23/08	The nest on the power poles at the PSNH Ocean Road substation on Great Bog is now an active nest site.
04/15/08	During the winter the original nest tree at  Willey Pond the lost the nest's supporting branch .  The birds have taken over a nearby heron nest very close to the original and are redecorating it for their own use.
04//08	In late January 2008 a nest platform was erected in a live pine on the Mallago Brook that feeds the NW side of Bellamy Reservoir in Madbury
04//08	Between 04/02 & 04/05 the Blackwater River 'duck blind' nest in Seabrook acquired new 'digs'.  Immediately NW of the duck blind a platform has been erected on a 10 - 12 foot pole and the ospreys have been observed using it.  For more information and photos: MORE INFO