The best wildlife webcams to watch in the UK and Ireland

Technology is a wonderful thing. Thanks to the marvel of livestreaming, it's possible you can still watch a variety of species, including owls, seals, badgers and bats, 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 even more global 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

• Lichfield, England, UK - WildlifeKate

Badgers

• Glen Rothay Hotel, England, UK – Cumbria Wildlife Trust
• Essex, England, UK – Essex Wildlife Trust

Seals

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

Birds

Blue tits

• Lichfield, England, UK – WildlifeKate (currently offline)
• Surrey, England, UK – Wildlife Aid Foundation (currently offline)

Jackdaws

• Lichfield, England, UK - WildlifeKate (currently offline)

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, Wales, UK – Bywyd Gwyllt Glaslyn Wildlife
• Loch of the Lowes, Scotland, UK – Scottish Wildlife Trust
• Loch Arkaig, Scotland, UK – Woodland 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
• Somerset, England, UK – Somerset Wildlife Trust
• Yorkshire, England, UK – Robert E Fuller

Tawny owls

• Lichfield, England, UK – WildlifeKate
• Yorkshire, England, UK – Robert E Fuller

Common kestrel

• Stow Maries Aerodrome, Essex, England, UK – WildlifeKate
• Yorkshire, England, UK – Robert E Fuller
• Oxfordshire, England, UK (inside camera) – UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
• Oxfordshire, England, UK (outside camera) – UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

White-tailed eagles

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

Kittiwakes

• Gateshead Quayside, England, UK – Durham Wildlife Trust (currently offline)

Puffins

• Alderney – Alderney Wildlife Trust (currently offline)

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
• Arne Nature Reserve, Dorset, England, UK (Middlebere Channel, and bird feeder) – RSPB

• Lichfield, England, UK (garden feeding station) – WildlifeKate
• Lichfield, England, UK (feeders 1) – WildlifeKate
• Lichfield, England, UK (feeders 2) - WildlifeKate
• Lichfield, England, UK (window feeders) - WildlifeKate
• Wigan, UK – Dave Jones

Mixed wildlife

• Skomer Island, Wales, UK - Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales (currently offline)
• Aigas Field Centre, Scotland, UK – WildlifeKate
• Lichfield, England, UK (waterhole) - WildlifeKate

Main image: A juvenile white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) fends off a crow in the snowy winter./Credit: Getty images