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Access the bugling with new Elk Cam

Access the bugling with new Elk Cam

By Pennsylvania Game Commission

Each September, thousands of visitors visit Pennsylvania's elk country to experience the wonder of the bugling season. While there's nothing like seeing a giant bull or feeling your rib cage resonate as it lets loose an ear-splitting bugle, visitors can now hear a bull elk’s ear-splitting bugle without leaving home.

The Game Commission has installed a camera on State Game Lands 311 in Elk County, in a field that typically is a hub of elk activity as the bugling season heats up. The camera was installed with help from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ Bureau of Forestry and the Northcentral Regional Planning and Development Commission.

Video and sound from the camera are being live streamed on the Game Commission’s website. To see it live click here.

Some good-sized bull elk, not to mention turkeys, deer and other wildlife, already have made appearances.

The live stream runs until the end of the bugling season sometime in mid October. The top time to see elk on camera has been late afternoon.

Even if elk can’t be seen on screen, bulls can be heard bugling, calves and cows send sounds back and forth, turkeys talk, birds sing – you name it.

The live stream is provided by the Game Commission’s partner, HDOnTap. It is the latest in a string of real time wildlife-watching opportunities the Commission offers, including the popular EagleCam which has attracted millions of viewers.

“People are fascinated with elk and, in Pennsylvania, they prove it year after by making the elk range a destination and applying in stunning numbers for their chance to live the dream of hunting a Pennsylvania elk,” according to Commission Executive Director R. Matthew Hough.

“This camera is just one more thing to get them excited. And while I’d recommend a visit to elk range to anybody, those bugles coming through your computer speakers are the next best thing to being there.”

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