The best wildlife webcams to watch in the UK and Ireland

Although you may not be able to see much wildlife from your home during the coronavirus pandemic, you can still watch a variety of species thanks to these animal webcams.

Some of these cameras are seasonal, for example they may only be active during the nesting season. However we have decided to include them here anyway, and will endeavour to regularly update which cameras are online or offline.

To see more wildlife webcams from around the world, including bald eagles, hummingbirds, manatees and elephants, check out this list on the BBC Wildlife website.

Mammals

Soprano pipistrelle bats

• Hanningfield Reservoir visitor centre, England, UK – Essex Wildlife Trust (currently offline)

Small mammals

• Lichfield, England, UK – WildlifeKate

Foxes

• Surrey, England, UK – Wildlife Aid Foundation (rescue centre)

Badgers

• Glen Rothay Hotel, England, UK – Cumbria Wildlife Trust
• Essex, England, UK – Essex Wildlife Trust (currently offline)
• Surrey, England, UK – Wildlife Aid Foundation (rescue centre)

Water voles

• Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome, Essex, UK – WildlifeKate 

Seals

• South Walney Nature Reserve, England, UK – Cumbria Wildlife Trust

Birds

RSPB

Organisations such as the RSPB offers the latest comings and goings at some of their feeders and reserves, with a wide variety of webcams watching birds of prey and other wildlife.

Rutland Water is home to the first ospreys to breed in England for more 150 years after a translocation programme. The Wildlife Trust observes them from their arrival from Africa in spring, through to their autumn migration, and you can watch the ospreys nesting live daily and check the news area of the site for the latest developments around the reserve.

See the full list of bird webcams below.

Blue tits

• Lichfield, England, UK – WildlifeKate
• Surrey, England, UK – Wildlife Aid Foundation

Jackdaws

• Lichfield, England, UK – WildlifeKate

Ospreys

• Poole Harbour, England, UK – Birds of Poole Harbour
• Rutland Water, England, UK – Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust
• Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve, England, UK – Cumbria Wildlife Trust
• Cors Dyfi, Wales, UK – Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust
• Gwynedd, England, UK – Bywyd Gwyllt Glaslyn Wildlife
• Loch of the Lowes, Scotland, UK – Scottish Wildlife Trust

Peregrine falcons

• Leamington Spa Town Hall, England, UK – Warwickshire Wildlife Trust (currently offline)
• Nottingham Trent University, England, UK – Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
• Sussex Heights, Brighton, England, UK – Sussex Ornithological Society

Barn owls

• Lorton Meadows, England, UK – Dorset Wildlife Trust
• Blue House Farm, England, UK – Essex Wildlife Trust (currently offline)

White-tailed eagles

• Garnish Island, County Cork, Ireland – National Parks and Wildlife Service

Kittiwakes

• Gateshead Quayside, England, UK – Durham Wildlife Trust

Puffins

• Alderney – Alderney Wildlife Trust

Mixed birds

• Brownsea Lagoon, Dorset, England, UK – Dorset Wildlife Trust, Birds of Poole Harbour, National Trust & Sandbanks Hotel
• Brownsea Lagoon, Dorset, England, UK (elevated hide) – Dorset Wildlife Trust, Birds of Poole Harbour, National Trust & Sandbanks Hotel
• Holton Lee, Dorset, England, UK – Birds of Poole Harbour & Livability Holton Lee
• Plumgarths wildlife garden, England, UK – Cumbria Wildlife Trust
• Gloucestershire, England, UK – Simon King Wildlife

• Lichfield, England, UK (garden feeding station) – WildlifeKate
• Lichfield, England, UK (feeders) – WildlifeKate
• Wigan, UK – Dave Jones

Mixed wildlife

• Skomer Island, Wales, UK – Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales
• Aigas Field Centre, Scotland, UK – WildlifeKate

Main image: Water vole. © WildlifeKate