Live Osprey Cam: North Carolina Wildlife Federation

Travis Cockerham _{on Google}

Jun 27th, 2021

For more than a decade, NCWF has worked with local NCWF affiliate chapters like Lake Norman Wildlife Conservationists and Gaston County PAWS to protect crucial habitats for aquatic life through community education and habitat enhancement programs, like the osprey nesting platform that appears on the NCWF Live Stream Nest Cam, below. To date, more than 7 dozen platforms have been installed, providing homes for ospreys and their broods.
Protective measures, such as the ban of chemicals like DDT that compromised the reproductive success of many water-dependent birds in the past and the installation of nesting platforms in safe areas have allowed osprey populations to rebound.
The osprey family that inhabits the nest on our live stream cam returns each spring to lay eggs and tend the brood. The ospreys continue using the nest as a home in the fall before migrating to warmer climes for the winter, though they spend less time there since there are no eggs or baby birds to keep warm.