Birdwatching online

In 2009, somehow I came across an osprey nest cam situated in Lapland. Since then, evey year near April I return to check in on my favourite birds. (At the mo the ospreys are not back yet, so bookmark the site and keep returning.) That year I got my whole family hooked on animal webcams. We watched owls (that's when I learnt the name of 5 different kinda owls in English that I wouldn't be able to name in my mother tongue), squirrels, otters in a zoo, peregrin falcons and bald eagles. We had sites bookmarked for daytime watching and others from the other side of the world for nighttime watching. 

This is an older photo of the nest in Lapland. Source here.

Unfortunately, these sites are lost now as we have since replaced our old, broken PCs and never memorized the urls or the names of the wildlife organizations running the cams. But the number of nest cams and people watching birds and other animals online has since increased, so we have plenty to choose new favourites from. And I will! I decided that this year, besides keeping an eye on my beloved ospreys, I'll collect a few other sites, both for daytime and nighttime watching. Perhaps I'll even include a few species I've never paid attention to before. (Though, I guess I'll still stick with birds.)

At last, but not at least I would like to include here the links to Hungarian nest cams. They're all supposed to be running already. If not, keep checking. They're all worth watching.

The white-tailed eagles of our most famous national park, Hortobágy are here.

The saker falcon nest cam is here.

The black storks of Gemenc, another national park and special region, are here.

The world famous white storks of Nagyhalászi and Darány (on the roof of a school building) are here and here. (For Darány, you have to click on the image of the stork!)

Are you also a fan of nest cams? What birds do you follow? You follow nest cams from which countries? Let me know in the Comments below. (Mind you, I set all comments to moderate, so it may take a while to appear.)