These birds are going to become parents any day now. Watch them hatch on ‘Osprey cam’

A couple in Gainesville is expecting triplets any day now. But their baby shower registry calls for fish, not diapers.

The University of Florida has a live cam pointed at an osprey nest on campus. The appropriately named ‘Osprey Cam’ is trained on Stella and Talon, a mated pair perched on a 100-pound nest of moss and twigs atop a light pole near the campus softball fields.

The UF osprey cam was born in 2017, but after it was struck by lightning in 2018 the camera went offline for a few years. By 2022, it was back up and running, and viewers voted to name the osprey pair Stella and Talon, the two chicks they raised Windy and Breezy, and dubbed the nest overlooking the softball fields “The Cheep Seats” or “Home Plate.”

In 2022, the live cam of their nest got over 70,000 viewers.

Last year, Stella and Talon built a new nest, and this is their second year in it. Stella laid three eggs in February, which are set to hatch “any day now,” according to a news release from the university.

Watch the live cam here: https://wec.ifas.ufl.edu/extension/ospreycam/