What you can see on the Sierra de Andújar webcams
One camera looks across a clearing of rounded granite boulders to woods of stone pine and holm oak and a wide view beyond; the other watches a water trough on a slope of holm oaks, scrub and dry grass. Both are fixed on places the lynxes use, so for long spells they show only the landscape, with deer, wild boar and birds passing through, until a lynx walks into view.
Lynx watch on a granite clearing in the Sierra de Andújar
Directo Natura's camera 36 stands on Gato Clavo, a private estate inside the Sierra de Andújar natural park, and looks across a sandy clearing edged with rounded granite boulders, the kind of open ground where a lynx crosses or sits to survey its territory. Beyond the rocks, dark green woods of stone pine and holm oak roll away to a wide plain and a line of distant mountains on the horizon.
The camera is fixed and streams live around the clock, with the date and time printed in the corner, so it is worth leaving it open in a tab: lynxes, deer and wild boar walk through without warning. Directo Natura says its cameras are placed so as not to disturb the animals.
A water trough for the lynx in Sierra Morena
The second lynx camera on the Gato Clavo estate, camera 40 of Directo Natura, looks down a hillside of holm oaks, olive-green scrub and dry grass to a water trough half hidden among the bushes, with the tops of stone pines in the foreground. In a land of long, dry summers, water draws the wildlife, and lynxes, deer, wild boar and birds come here to drink.
It is a closer, wilder view than the granite clearing, with deep shade under the trees and bright patches of sun on the grass, so the softer light of morning and evening suits it best. Both cameras stream live at the same time, so switching between them doubles the chances of seeing a lynx.
The lynx of Sierra Morena
The Iberian lynx lives only in Spain and Portugal. Hunting, the loss of its woodland and the collapse of the rabbit, which makes up about three quarters of its diet, brought it to the edge of extinction: in 2002 only 94 were left, in two small populations in Andalusia, one here in Sierra Morena and the other in the marshes of Doñana. Captive breeding, releases and the recovery of rabbit habitat turned that around, and in 2024 the IUCN moved the species from Endangered to Vulnerable. The natural park, declared in 1989, covers about 74,700 hectares (288 sq mi) of holm oak and cork oak woodland, the largest in Sierra Morena, and is also home to red deer, mouflon, the black vulture and the Spanish imperial eagle.
When to watch the lynx webcams
Spain is one hour ahead of the UK and Ireland. Patience is part of the deal with wildlife cameras: a lynx may appear several times in a day or not at all. In the heat of a summer afternoon most animals stay in the shade, so the cooler hours of morning and evening are the likeliest for movement.
Around the Sierra de Andújar
At the heart of the park, on a rocky hill, stands the sanctuary of the Virgen de la Cabeza, whose pilgrimage in April draws people from all over Spain. Andújar itself lies on the Guadalquivir among olive groves, and the Renaissance towns of Úbeda and Baeza, a joint World Heritage Site, are about an hour's drive to the east.
Getting to the Sierra de Andújar
Andújar is on the A-4 motorway between Córdoba and Madrid, and a winding road climbs north from the town into the park. Málaga airport, with the most flights from the UK and Ireland, is about 100 miles (160 km) away as the crow flies and Seville about 110 miles (176 km); Granada airport is closer, about 60 miles (98 km).
