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Winter Feeding Deer: What Helps and What Hurts

WildWatch Weekly Winter Feeding Deer: What Helps and What Hurts Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube A Familiar Winter Scene Snow on the ground. Bare trees standing quiet against a gray sky. A backyard that feels still, until a deer steps into view. It’s a moment many of us recognize. Whether you’re watching through a kitchen window or spotting tracks along a wooded trail, seeing deer in winter often stirs something in us. They look fragile against the cold. The landscape feels...

Count What You See: Join the Great Backyard Bird Count This Weekend

WildWatch Weekly Count What You See: Join the Great Backyard Bird Count This Weekend Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube From Your Window to the World Whether you’re sipping coffee by the kitchen window, refilling a feeder on a cold morning, or pausing to listen for birdsong outside, these small moments of watching connect us to something much bigger. It often starts quietly, a flash of wings, a familiar visitor, maybe an unexpected guest, but each glance becomes part of a shared...

A Winter Surprise at the Feeder: Could an Evening Grosbeak Visit You?

WildWatch Weekly A Winter Surprise at the Feeder: Could an Evening Grosbeak Visit You? Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube The Unexpected Moment Winter feeder watching often settles into a familiar rhythm. The same regulars arrive at roughly the same times, following patterns you come to recognize without thinking about them. You glance out the window or check the camera feed expecting what you usually see, until suddenly, something feels different. Maybe it’s a flash of bold yellow...

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tiny Tree-Climber

WildWatch Weekly Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tiny Tree-Climber Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube Hidden in Plain Sight Most of us walk past trees every day without really seeing them. We notice the path beneath our feet, the sky overhead, or the sound of traffic in the distance, but the rough bark of a tree trunk rarely asks for our attention. And yet, that’s exactly where one of Pennsylvania’s most familiar birds is quietly going about its day. The Brown Creeper isn’t rare,...

The Eastern Coyote: Bigger, Bolder, and Closer Than You Think

WildWatch Weekly The Eastern Coyote: Bigger, Bolder, and Closer Than You Think Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube Why Coyotes Are in the Spotlight Right Now If it feels like coyotes are suddenly everywhere, you’re not imagining it. In recent weeks, social media posts, neighborhood forums, and local conversations have been buzzing with reports of coyotes spotted in backyards, along tree lines, and moving through residential streets. Along with those sightings often comes concern,...

From Collapse to Comeback: The Team Behind Pittsburgh’s New Bald Eagle Cam

WildWatch Weekly From Collapse to Comeback: The Team Behind Pittsburgh’s New Bald Eagle Cam Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube A Long Wait, Worth Every Moment For more than a year, Pittsburgh’s eagle watchers have been waiting. Waiting for a familiar pair to return. Waiting for a new nest to take shape along the river. Waiting for the moment when the quiet hum of a live camera would once again connect us to one of the region’s most beloved wildlife families. But this story was...

Snow Bunting: Winter’s Snowflake with Wings

WildWatch Weekly Snow Bunting: Winter’s Snowflake with Wings Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube A Bird That Belongs to Winter When winter tightens its grip, when fields fall silent, winds sweep across frozen ground, and snow blurs the line between earth and sky, most birds are already gone. Feeders grow quieter. Familiar flashes of color disappear south. And then, sometimes, a small white bird appears where you least expect it, lifting off the snow as if it were part of the storm...

New Year, New Neighbors: Who’s Visiting Your Feeders Now?

WildWatch Weekly New Year, New Neighbors: Who’s Visiting Your Feeders Now? Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube A Quiet Reset in the Backyard The calendar has flipped, fireworks have faded, and the rush of the holidays has finally given way to quieter days. Out in the backyard, though, there’s been no real pause at all. Winter life has been unfolding steadily wings arriving at dawn, soft landings at feeders, familiar shapes moving through the cold with purpose and routine. As our own...

Jingle Birds & Tally Sheets: It’s Christmas Bird Count Week!

WildWatch Weekly Jingle Birds & Tally Sheets: It’s Christmas Bird Count Week! Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube Jingle Birds & Holiday Cheer Jingle birds, jingle birds, jingle all the way… If there’s one thing that makes winter mornings brighter, it’s the cheerful flutter of feathers outside the window. As snow dusts the branches and steam curls up from mugs of hot cocoa, our backyards come alive with cardinals, chickadees, juncos, and woodpeckers stopping by for a winter feast....

Tiny but Mighty: Meet Pennsylvania’s Wrens

WildWatch Weekly Tiny but Mighty: Meet Pennsylvania’s Wrens Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube Carolina Wren Small Birds, Big Personalities If you’ve ever heard a burst of rapid, bubbling song pouring out of a hedge, woodpile, or marsh only to spot a tiny brown bird bouncing through the shadows, chances are you’ve just encountered a wren. Wrens are some of Pennsylvania’s most energetic, vocal, and surprisingly diverse songbirds, yet they often go unnoticed. Their modest colors help...