The webcam has had 78,000 people tune in within the four weeks since it went live. With 15,000 of those viewers coming in its first two weeks, it seems the popularity of this webcam is exploding!

Lugnut appears to have just woken up. Yes -- that's a yawn.

Webcams and black bears giving birth seems to be a popular combination recently. We report last month on the pregnant black bear Jewel. On 22 January, she successfully gave birth to a litter of at least two cubs. You can see footage of the birth here.

Lugnut’s webcam will stay live until spring arrives, when the two cubs will start to venture outside the den.

You can check out Lugnut’s den webcam on the Wildlife Research Foundation website.

Mila, an Icelandic telecommunications company, maintains 13 different webcams, all showing fantastic views from Iceland. If you are thinking of starting your own webcam, take note! The high-quality streams and the scenic landscapes are great examples of what you can do with a webcam.

With so many great webcams, I had trouble selecting one to show!

Regular Camscape readers might remember Mila’s New Years Eve webcam in Reykjavik that we featured last year. Over the holiday period, that webcam had over 200,000 visitors eager to see the fireworks.

At the time of writing, the cold and snowy weather is making Mila’s webcams even more picturesque! I particularly recommend the Blue Lagoon webcam and the Gullfoss webcam.

You can check out a full list of the Icelandic webcams here.

The Sun reported on Saturday how people that tuned into a webcam at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church to watch Mass were initially met with a 30-second advert from Durex showing six different women in the throes of orgasm!

The Catholic viewers got a very different type of spiritual sustenence!

The advert selling a “pleasure enhancing” gel was only one of a number of unsuitable adverts shown to the Catholic viewers. There were also commercials promoting a gambling website and providing assistance for women who want to get pregnant.

You can check out the St. Patrick’s webcam here. If you get shown an unsuitable advert, be sure to leave a comment and let us know!

While the substance can be broken easily with a hammer, the experiment shows the pitch dripping down from a funnel into a beaker. It took eight years for first drop of pitch to hit the beaker. 80 years later, the ninth drop is only now starting to form.

An interesting fact about the experiment is that in the 80 years it has run, nobody has actually seen one of the drips hit the beaker. This webcam is sure to change this!

That drop is going to hit the beaker any year now!

You can check out the webcam on this webpage. You need to scroll down a little to see the webcam.

A couple of residents from Elroy, a small community near the track, are enthusiastic about the new F1 circuit, and therefore recently decided to set up a webcam to show its construction. They have called the webcam the Speed City Cam. It sits on top of a 40 foot tower, and pans to show several different sections of the track every few seconds.

In a few months time, this land will be teeming with F1 cars!

The new circuit was first proposed in 2010, and will be the first circuit in the US purposely built for F1. With F1 having stiff competition in the US from the likes of NASCAR, it is hoped that the webcam will get other Americans interested in F1. The webcam has already had over 5000 views since it launched a few weeks ago.

You can check out the webcam here.

The two gerbils’ names when translated from Dutch mean milk and dark chocolate. I’m guessing the owner of this webcam is a milk chocolate fan!

One of the gerbils decends towards the green wheel. Exercise time!

You can be assured that the two of them are well looked after, with a nice home, a green wheel to run in if they want some exercise, and of course lots of fresh sawdust. Puur in particular does enjoy using the green wheel.

You can check out the two gerbils here. They aren’t always visible on the webcam, so if you’re having no luck, you can also check out the GerbilCam YouTube channel.

Here is a webcam showing the Mountain Top at the Grand Geneva Resort, a ski and snowboarding destination. It features 18 downhill slopes and a whopping 10 kilometers of beautiful, meandering cross-country trails. That should be enough to whet the appetite of any skiing enthusiast!

A stunning webcam view of Mountain Top.

Another webcam shows the Riviera Lakefront Facility, located on the shore of Geneva Lake. It is a beautiful building, and the snow and the half frozen lake will adds to the view. If I was going to take a holiday in the area, I think the Riviera is where I would want to stay!

You can see the attractive Riviera Lakefront Facility on Lake Geneva here and here. You can also see the Mountain Top ski hill here.

Manatees, also known as sea cows, are aquatic mammals, measuring up to 4 metres long and weighing as much is 590 kg. Currently, all three species of manatee are considered to be endangered, largely due to human activity.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission released figures suggesting that 453 manatees died in 2011, which includes 88 that got hit by a boat and 112 that died from the cold. This is a high figure when you consider that in Florida there are thought to be around 5000 manatees overall.

One manatee is enjoying swimming next to some stairs. And no, I'm not sure why they put those stairs there.

They have installed all manner of webcams, both above and below water, giving anyone the opportunity to see these rare mammals up-close in their natural habitat. It is hoped the webcams will raise public awareness about their plight, and thereby help protect the manatee from extinction.

You can check out the live manatee webcams here. You can also check recorded footage from the webcam here.