One immersive view
See birds fly between perches, squirrels run the ground, visitors approach cautiously and the whole habitat change through the day.
Live from Connecticut
A place to watch
wildlife be wildlife.
Highwood Park is a wide-open, carefully curated backyard habitat built for natural movement, everyday discovery and a calmer way to spend time with birds and wildlife.
Daily live wildlife • 4K habitat view • Southington, Connecticut
The Highwood Park approach
Not just another feeder camera.
The main view is intentionally breathable. Instead of filling the frame with infrastructure or splitting the screen into multiple tiny feeds, Highwood Park gives the habitat room to tell the story.
Real scene, real imagery
Our thumbnails and educational materials are grounded in the actual Highwood Park environment—not a stylized substitute for what viewers will see.
Curated, not artificial
Feeders, water, logs, branches and plantings are designed to feel like they belong in the landscape and support real wildlife behavior.
Watch live
Your window into the habitat.
Highwood Park streams daily on YouTube. Keep it on in the background, check in on your favorite visitors, or settle in and watch the rhythms of the habitat unfold.
Open the Live StreamYouTube: @HighwoodParkLive
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Watch the real Highwood Park habitat
How it works
A small habitat with a lot happening inside it.
Food, water, cover and natural staging points work together. The goal is not simply to attract wildlife—it is to create a space where visitors can move, pause, feed, bathe and retreat naturally.
Meet the visitors
Familiar faces. Surprise guests.
Highwood Park attracts a rotating cast of songbirds and backyard wildlife. Some are everyday regulars; others appear just long enough to change the whole mood of the habitat.
Blue JayNorthern CardinalBlack-capped Chickadee
Tufted TitmouseAmerican GoldfinchDowny Woodpecker
Red-bellied WoodpeckerWhite-breasted NuthatchMourning Dove
House FinchEastern Gray SquirrelEastern Chipmunk
RaccoonHawks & RaptorsOccasional Black Bear
Learn with Highwood Park
Notice more every time you watch.
Highwood Park is building a light educational layer around the live experience—useful enough to teach you something, quiet enough to keep the birds at the center.
Bird of the Day
Short profiles that help newer viewers recognize common visitors and the behaviors that make each species distinctive.
Daily facts & polls
Simple questions, seasonal observations and wildlife facts that give the community something new to discover together.
Habitat notes
Learn why the water moves, why different feeder styles matter, and how cover and natural perches change wildlife behavior.
Free download
Highwood Park Field Guide
A beginner-friendly companion to the stream featuring common visitors, behavior notes and a seasonal spotting challenge.
About Highwood Park
Built slowly. Learned daily.
The current habitat was not designed all at once. It evolved through observation, experimentation and dozens of small decisions about what wildlife actually used and what made the scene feel more natural to viewers.
That process continues. Highwood Park is a long-term experiment in what can happen when you show up consistently, improve the habitat thoughtfully and let the audience grow around a real place.
Contact
Say hello to Highwood Park.
Questions about the habitat, wildlife, partnerships or the project itself? Send a note. We read every message.