Category WildWatch Weekly

The Wild Weather Watch: How Storms Affect Wildlife

WildWatch Weekly The Wild Weather Watch: How Storms Affect Wildlife Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube Wildlife Behavior on Our Live Cameras During Extreme Weather It’s been a turbulent start to July across much of the country, with headlines filled with flash flood warnings, powerful thunderstorms, and record-breaking rainfall. Here in Pennsylvania, sudden downpours and overflowing creeks have created hazardous conditions for both people and wildlife. These extreme summer weather...

Tuning Into Nature: Bioacoustics and the Modern Birdwatcher

WildWatch Weekly Tuning Into Nature: Bioacoustics and the Modern Birdwatcher Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube The Sound of Nature: How Bioacoustics is Changing the Way We Identify Birds In the quiet corners of forests, fields, and backyards, a revolution is taking place, not one you can see, but one you can hear. Bioacoustics, the science of recording and analyzing sounds in nature, is giving birders, researchers, and conservationists a powerful new way to study birds. Instead of...

Hummingbirds in the Heat: How You Can Help During Extreme Temps

WildWatch Weekly Hummingbirds in the Heat: How You Can Help During Extreme Temps Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube Helping Hummingbirds Beat the Heat As temperatures soared across the Eastern U.S. this past week, the heat wasn’t just tough on us, it also took a toll on our smallest feathered friends. Hummingbirds, with their lightning-fast wings and sky-high metabolisms, are especially vulnerable during extreme heat events. When the mercury rises, their need for hydration and...

Juvenile Helpers: Cooperative Breeding in Bluebirds

WildWatch Weekly Juvenile Helpers: Cooperative Breeding in Bluebirds Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube Nature's Helping Hands: Cooperative Breeding Not all birds fly the nest and leave family life behind. In a remarkable natural behavior known as cooperative breeding, some juvenile birds actually stick around to help raise their younger siblings. That’s exactly what we’ve seen recently at one of our PixCams neighbors nest cameras a young bluebird from an earlier brood lending a...

Born to Fly: Our Bat Cam Captures a Live Birth!

WildWatch Weekly Born to Fly: Our Bat Cam Captures a Live Birth! Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube 26 New Born Big Brown Bat Pups on June 9th at the WLT Schwarz Barn A Breakthrough Moment: First-Ever Live Birth of a Wild Bat Captured on Camera After months of careful planning and preparation, PixCams and the Westmoreland Land Trust have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in wildlife observation—capturing the live birth of a big brown bat on camera. This extraordinary moment...

Almost Ready to Soar: Bald Eagle Eaglets on the Brink of Fledging

WildWatch Weekly Almost Ready to Soar: Bald Eagle Eaglets on the Brink of Fledging Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube LMC Bald Eagles Nest Eaglets Fledging Soon It’s an exciting time of year at PixCams.com as we watch the final stages of development unfold for the bald eagle eaglets at our three live-streaming nest cameras. Across these nests, we’re seeing incredible growth, independence, and the first signs of flight. Soon, these young eagles will take the leap—literally—and...

Eyes on the Colony: A Wild Bat Birth May Soon Make History at the Schwarz Barn

WildWatch Weekly Eyes on the Colony: A Wild Bat Birth May Soon Make History at the Schwarz Barn Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube The Sisterhood of the Schwarz Barn: Why the Bat Colony Is All Female If you’ve tuned into the bat cameras at the Westmoreland Land Trust's Schwarz Barn located in Greensburg, PA, link here: https://pixcams.com/wlt-schwartz-barn-bat-colony-cameras/, you may have noticed something fascinating — every bat in the colony is female. That’s not by accident....

Feathers in Flight: Barn Swallows Nesting at Schwarz Barn

WildWatch Weekly Feathers in Flight: Barn Swallows Nesting at Schwarz Barn Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube Barn Swallow in Nest at Schwarz Barn Barn Swallows Nesting at the Schwarz Barn If you’ve ever watched a barn swallow dart and dive through the summer sky, you know just how agile and graceful these birds can be. Now, thanks to our newest live streaming camera at the historic Schwarz Barn on the Westmoreland Land Trust property, you can watch a pair of barn swallows up close...

The Secret Life of Bats: Watch the Schwarz Barn Colony Live

WildWatch Weekly The Secret Life of Bats: Watch the Schwartz Barn Colony Live Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube Big Brown Bat Colony Roost in WLT Schwartz Barn Barn Bats Live: Streaming the Secret World of Big Brown Bats We’re excited to introduce a brand-new window into the nighttime world of one of Pennsylvania’s most important native mammals—the big brown bat! Thanks to a partnership between PixCams and the Westmoreland Land Trust (WLT), we’ve installed live streaming cameras...

Swift Skies: Live from the New Chimney Swift Towers at Stormy Oaks

WildWatch Weekly Swift Skies: Live from the New Chimney Swift Towers at Stormy Oaks Live Cams Latest Posts Store Facebook YouTube Swift Towers Take Flight: Live from Stormy Oaks Nature Conservancy We're excited to introduce a brand-new addition to the PixCams live camera lineup — the Chimney Swift Tower Camera at Stormy Oaks Nature Conservancy in Washington County, Pennsylvania! This unique live stream features a specially designed structure consisting of four chimney swift towers, created to...