Welcome to our live webcam. A state-of-the-art Closed Circuit Television and webcam has been installed at Wat Tyler Country Park in Basildon. The CCTV camera is perched on one of the islands in a shallow lagoon known as the scrape on the neighbouring Pitsea landfill site owned by Veolia Environmental Services (UK) plc. The webcam will be showing different views a lot of the time as the controls for the camera are in our visitor centre at Wat Tyler and it is in constant use.

Ideal for work! Are you sitting at your desk but would rather be birdwatching? Click on the main webcam image to open a remote window that you could leave running in a corner of your desktop while you work. Obviously we are not watching our webcam all day, if you happen to be viewing and see a really good scene that would be worth capturing and one that we could then share with our visitors, please download the image by right-clicking and saving to your own hard disk and then posting it to us at the following address: .

Note that we have a number of cameras that will be feeding images to our webcam. One is trained on a nest box that we are really hoping that peregrines will find attractive and also pans over Canvey Wick another, is placed on the Wat Tyler Scrape and others can return various views of our nest boxes. As visitors to our new RSPB centre at Wat Tyler move and activate these cameras their images will be reflected below. Click here to see the position of our camera on the Wat Tyler scrape.

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To capture any of the images, right-click on the image and select 'Save Picture As' (assumes right-handed mouse).

If you click on the main image this will open up a second smaller window which you could then keep on view in a quiet corner of your desktop. Those of you that are using a customised igoogle page in your browser can download a webcam gadget by clicking here. Once installed just access 'edit' from the gadget menu and put the address of this web page in the 'cam homepage' field and in the 'cam image URL' field paste: http://www.southendrspb.co.uk/serspbcam/camera0.jpg. Click here to see a selection of our past captured photographs

Live pictures over the last few minutes

Click here to see a selection of our past captured photographs

With grateful thanks to the help and co-operation of Veolia Environmental Services (UK) plc for allowing us to place the camera on their scrape, Basildon District Council's Countryside Services staff and also to the RSPB South Essex Project Team for making it possible.

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