Whet your appetite with some up-close views of the country's speciality species! Fantastic, up-to-date web cam images can now be viewed on visitscotland.com/wildlife.

Click on the links below to see the spectacles witnessed in the Firth of Forth from the superb Scottish Seabird Centre at North Berwick.

Scottish Seabird Centre Bass Cam The Bass Rock, three miles from North Berwick, is the largest single island gannet colony in the world and is regarded by David Attenborough as one of the 'Twelve Wildlife Wonders of the World' . Although almost exclusively the domain of over 100,000 gannets, the lower ledges of the Bass are home to shags, guillemots and razorbills, with seals hauling up on the rocks below. Several puffins also nest within the ruins of the old fortifications. From January, the gannets return to the island to find their mate and their old nest. The gannets spend most of the year on the Bass, until the end of October when the juveniles set out on their long journey down to the West Coast of Africa.

Scottish Seabird Centre May Cam A single webcam transmits live images, switching between the two cameras sited on the Isle of May. The first camera is located at Pilgrims' Haven, overlooking the cliffs, with thousands of nesting seabirds on the rocky cliffs, puffins on the grassy slopes. A large grey seal colony can also be clearly observed in winter, when they haul up on the beach to pup. The second is an underwater camera located in the bay at Pilgrim's Haven. One and a half kilometres long, the Isle of May, a National Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest, is managed by Scottish Natural Heritage. Home to 200,000 nesting seabirds (including an estimated 100,000 puffins) it is also the largest grey seal colony on the East Coast of Britain. This island, often referred to as the Jewel of the Forth, offers a wide variety of other seabirds including shags, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes and terns.

Scottish Wildlife Trust - Loch of the Lowes Osprey Cam The Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve is one of Scotland's most popular sites for watching ospreys. Their traditional eyrie is situated within 200 metres of the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Observation Hide, allowing osprey family life to be observed through telescopes and on a monitor in the Visitor Centre. The reserve covers 98 hectares, nine tenths of which is open water, fringed with semi-natural deciduous woodland and sheltered bays. It is situated 16 miles north of Perth and 2 miles north-east of Dunkeld just off (signposted) the A923 Dunkeld to Blairgowrie road.

Forestry Commission Scotland - Tweed Valley Osprey Cam Scotland's Border Country is now home to some of its finest osprey watching opportunities. Live images from a nest located within Forestry Commission Scotland's Tweed Valley Forest Park are streamed to two viewing centres in the area throughout the summer. At both Glentress Forest and Kailzie Gardens near Peebles, facilties have been set up to give visitors the closest possible view of these beautiful and fascinating birds, without the possibility of disturbing the nest. See the 'Watching Wildlife' page for more details.

RSPB Abernethy Forest Osprey Cam Loch Garten, within the RSPB's Abernethy Forest Reserve, witnessed the return of the first osprey to Scotland after an extended period of absence. Year after year, ospreys have continued to make Abernethy their summer home. Thousands of nature lovers annually follow them to the original osprey nesting site, the first of over 160 now found in Scotland. When you reach the RSPB page, click on the 'Webcam viewer' link for a choice of images. For more information on Abernethy Forest, go to the 'Watching Wildlife' page.

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