Live Webcams in Missoula

Missoula, Montana, is the university town where five valleys meet on the Clark Fork River, and the live webcams in Missoula watch the river's most attentive residents: the ospreys on their nest platforms above the water, from the first stick in April to the last fledgling in September. Osprey nests along the river, a metre across, are the subject, with the water below and the mountains behind. Missoula keeps Mountain Time, UTC−7, UTC−6 in summer; the birds fish in daylight, so a European evening is a Montana morning delivery of trout, and the chicks hatch in June and fly by August. The valley was once the floor of Glacial Lake Missoula, an ice-age lake some 600 metres deep, whose shorelines still ring the hills above the town. Come from May to September; the platform is empty all winter.