Live Webcams in Riga

Riga, the capital of Latvia, is a city that stops where the forest starts, and the live webcams in Riga look into that forest rather than at the Art Nouveau façades: nests high in the old trees of the pine and spruce outside the city, where one of Europe's shyest birds, the black stork, raises its young unseen by anyone on the ground. Rīga keeps Eastern European Time, UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer, and the nest has its own calendar: the storks return from Africa in late March or April, the eggs hatch in May, and the young fly by August, with the parents busiest in the early morning, from about 03:00 UTC. Latvia counts only some 85 to 140 breeding pairs, which puts the species on the national red list. April to July is the season to watch.