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Programs, Field Trips, Summer Camps, and Pavilion Rentals
Marshy Point Nature Center offers a variety of nature programs for visitors of all ages. Activities include audiovisual presentations by natural resource professionals and noted naturalists, Monday Pre-K drop-ins, bird walks, canoeing, boat trips, night hikes, and many family-friendly seasonal programs. Special events include the Spring Festival, Fall Festival, and Holiday Celebration.
Please visit the Baltimore County Recreation & Parks website for more information and to register for programs, field trips, summer camps and pavilion rentals at Marshy Point Park and Nature Center.
Get a “bird’s eye view” atop an osprey platform on Dundee Creek near Marshy Point!
(You can also see it larger on our YouTube channel.)
Started in March 2016, Marshy Point’s solar-powered camera offers a 24-7 view from the platform. Shortly after the camera was installed, an osprey pair built a nest on the site, laid eggs, and raised an osprey chick.
In late March 2017, another osprey pair made a nest and raised two osprey chicks.
In March 2018, an osprey pair returned, made a nest, and laid three eggs. One was later removed by the female. (Osprey are known to do that if the egg becomes unviable.) The other eggs hatched, and both osprey chicks fledged the nest in late July.
An osprey pair returned in 2019 and built a nest. While there was a variety of activity on the platform—including a duck laying an egg in the nest—the osprey pair did not lay any eggs during the 2019 season.
An osprey pair successfully hatched and reared three osprey chicks in both 2020 and 2021.
It will soon be time to see if an osprey pair builds a nest on the platform this year as well. Check back for updates!
The Dundee Creek Osprey Cam was awarded the Alliance of Natural Resource Outreach and Service Programs Volunteer Project of the Year for 2019. Special thanks to MPNCC volunteer ‘Osprey Dave’ Oshman for helping get this project off the ground and maintaining it through the years.
