Chesapeake Bay’s Osprey Population Is Falling. Is Its Food Supply a Factor?

For 20 years, Roberta Kellam, a retired lawyer and longtime birder, has watched ospreys return to their nests and raise chicks from her home on Nassawadox Creek, on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.  She’s been monitoring around two dozen nests near her house. Kellam has also surveyed osprey populations with Bryan Watts, a longtime researcher at William […]