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 barn at Wat Tyler. People visiting us there will have the ability to use the remote control to pan, zoom and tilt the lens. Everything that they see you will see as well!

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: .

If you are birdwatching from the Hide at Wat Tyler and see a nice bird and we are in the barn that day, try calling us on 01268 559158 and we will try to get our camera on it to share with everyone. It would be superb to get a stunning Iceland Gull in the camera!

Click here to see a selection of our captured photographs

Unfortunately with the new development at Wat Tyler, our CCTV camera cable has had to be cut to enable it to be removed from a building that is being developed. The sewage system is being updated as part of the new development here, which means we have an opportunity now to have the cable buried under the road and routed to the existing council offices which we will be moving into spring/summer next year. Unfortunately this means that the webcam will be down until then, our other option was to keep it running until then, but that would have meant digging the road up again, which is just not viable. We apologise for the inconvenience and hope that you can bear with us during this period of change.

We will, of course, let you know as soon as we are back on air.

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

Click on the image for a remote window. Note that the images are transmitted between 06:00 and 21:00 daily

You can use the button below to open the present image and the images below in a new browser window and then just select 'save as' in the normal way from the top file menu

Pictures Captured Over The Last Few Minutes

Click here to see a selection of our captured photographs

Camera supplied and installed by Outersight.

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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For the latest Wallasea information and webcams, visit http://www.abpmer.net/wallasea/.

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