thank you for this kind and loving gift. I hope and pray we may protect the wildlife of the UK in improved habitat, so that the future world may cherish them.
0:31 Great vlog, Liam, showcasing various wildlife. Particularly enjoyed seeing the great spotted woodpecker and the badgers! Didn't know that badgers also preyed on hedgehogs, or that tawny owls disliked flying over water! Thanks for sharing. Nice one! 😊 👍
Badgers are well equipped to deal with hedgehog. They can pry them apart in a second with one powerful pull using the long claws on their front legs then eat the soft flesh. I saw a poor hedgehog in the local park split in just such a way, mostly skin and bones left behind.
Thanks once again, Liam. You always bring such joy into my sitting room along with education on species I know little of. I've just returned from my first walk with my four dogs and was delighted to have spotted the largest Roe Deer herd to date. There was 14 in total that included five young all happily grazing in the distance from the woods. I was delighted that they were two fields away from the dogs and myself, otherwise the chase would have been on! After spotting the roe deer, it was the usual suspects - the wood pigeon and goodness knows how many Blue-tit.There are fox who dwell in the woods, though seldom seen, however, one of my dogs, the Irish Setter, likes to roll in what the fox deposit! Not very pleasant! Upon exiting the woods I heard two Blackbirds chatting to one another and spotted the Robin who appears whenever it hears us opening the metal gate. So, all in all, quite a colourful morning. Roll on their pre-teatime roam. Wonder what will be spotted then? At least I stand a pretty good chance in identifying certain species, thanks to Liam!
Hello Liam. I have just returned from six weeks in the UK visiting my daughter and her family. Unfortunately the badger I saw had been run over. A fallow deer I believe jumped in front of the car as we were travelling down a narrow lane. Too quick for me to photograph. I saw a beautiful yellow butterfly, lots of grey squirrels, robins,starlings, a black bird and lots of Kites. England has such a diverse range of wildlife and flora, I loved walking through the woodlands and paddocks with my daughter, seeing and touching all I could. I love your videos. Take care. ❤❤
How fantastic. I am glad to hear that you got to see so much wildlife whilst you were here, and sorry that the badger was unfortunately dead. Thanks for always watching and commenting on my videos, I really appreciate it.
We live next to a partially wooded cemetary in a town. We regulary see all of these animals except badgers, deer and toads. We have every year Green woodpeckers nesting in the tree at the front of our house and great spotted woodpecker in the tree at the back. Sparrowhawks nest most years about 100yds away as do a pair of tawny owls. Foxes, woodpigeons and squirrels are a nuisance though. I was fortunate to have a badger run along side me one morning when I was going to work on my motorbike about 36 years ago. Some things you never forget. Another great video. How about urban wildlife.
Thank you. I have done a few school things and some do use my videos. I recently found out that a prison was also using my videos to educate inmates on UK wildlife, which is pretty cool!
Great video! I do love woodlands. I'd love to see some old man-made habitats that have been taken back by wildlife such as gravel pits and mines. There are a few in the Midlands, some with restricted access that have some rarer birds. (Whitemoor Haye near Lichfield as an example).
I appreciate all your posts and descriptions of animals in our vicinity, a good way to make us pay attention and behave carefully in nature so they get the respect they need. we look forward to spring! 🌞👍🏼
Deciduous woodland perfect choice for this video. That woodlouse was cute , didn’t realise more related to the lobster 🦞and not an insect. Every day is a school day for me when watching your videos Liam!🥴 thanks for a great video 👍
I put up nest boxes in our local primary school ground, where, there is a small copse. A Great Spotted Woodpecker made a hole in a tree about 4m off the ground, and just 2m from the road. I’d like to think my nest boxes helped their choice of potential prey sources helped sway them. I’ll go have a look soon if any boxes were drilled, and make some more nest boxes for different species to add to the collection. I almost ran over a Red Deer doe this morning. She darted across the road just in front of me, crossing from woodland split by the road. It’s not the first time I’ve encountered them on that same route. I also see them in the fields behind my house.
Fantastic video! Very well put together with just the right amount of facts about each animal to give a good introduction and then moving on to the next. As a Swede I especially appreciate the little labels you put up with the Latin name which makes it easy to look up if I'm unsure about the Swedish name.
This was a most enjoyable and informative video. You have the great ability to show things in a simple, clear way. Congratulations. May I suggest you stay in the woodlands and go into greater depth with those animals and birds you've covered. Keep up the good work.
Brilliant! Any habitat would be fine by me but towns would be interesting. I live in a fairly large Oxfordshire town, yet often encounter creatures such as herons, deer and squirrels during my morning walk to work.
Last time I saw a tawny owl it was flying fast along the Thames on a sunny morning. I can only assume he had been disturbed at his roost just before, as there is housing development on the wooded island just along from there.
Thank you. I guess they must fly over water sometimes, unless they have been in the UK since we were attached to the continent. but if they only do it rarely, the chance of 2 crossing to Ireland and finding eachother whilst there is very low.
Great! Thanks Liam. Especially with woodland species, the camouflage they've evolved, thus enabling them to still be around, is what presents the challenge to the wildlife photographer. But the tech, including thermal imaging is improving all the time. Stoats, weasels and as you say badgers can be so very hard to see, partly as they're v good indeed at sitting still. Endless patience required, as you well know!! More woodland films would be good, as there's SO much to see. Nice one Liam! 🌟👍
Thanks Liam. I shall wander off to the long narrow woodland two minutes down the road from me in north London (Parkland Walk) tomorrow if the weather is ok. There's all sorts down there. It's good to see you still making videos given that you are now a dad (or soon will be, I forget). I do hope that you can find a way to continue using your own footage once your sprog is past the stage where it needs both parents most of the time.
Nice overview of wildlife we might expect to find in woodlands. Plenty of that in my area, though green woodpeckers are far more common here than spotted ones, and roe deer are the only local deer species but can often be seen grazing in fields next to busy roads in broad daylight.
How lucky to see one in your garden! There are quite a few around the area I have just moved to, and I think I am going to see a lot of them in the warmer months. Fingers crossed!
Hi Liam Just watching this one about the woodland. I only subscribed to your channel last week. This is my favorite one so far. It’s like that where I live near stoke on Trent . Last week we had 2 oyster catchers on our lake island. The week before I had a male Siskin visit my garden. Great channel Liam.👍
Thank you and welcome to the channel! The next video I will be releasing at the end of this week is about farmland species so stay tuned for that. I get a lot of comments so wont always have the time to reply to each and every person, but thanks for commenting. It really does help the channel to reach more people and I do read and appreciate every single one. Cheers!
Great video, we really enjoyed learning about other creatures. Thank you. We quite fancy learning about the wildlife of a lakeside habitat, as we live quite near one, on the NE coast. 😊
Really enjoyed this video, no surprise there then! As for what next, what about the times of the day? Dawn/dusk daytime nighttime as different animals are seen and hunt
Thanks Liam, like the new format and loved the clever segues from one animal to the next. As you’re Norfolk based, how about wetlands, or heathland for your next one.
Thank you! Wetlands are coming, but broken into a couple of different habitats and I hadn't thought of heathlands until now, thanks for that suggestion- I will add it to my list.
Coastal habitats will be coming for sure. I will probably break that down to beaches and dunes, mudflats and estuaries and perhaps another habitat if I can think of one. Thanks for the suggestion.
Great video Liam! I occasionally get the red/black woodpecker on my bird feeders, and once I even saw a sparrow hawk momentarily sitting on the edge of the birdbath!! Considering I have 4 cats, I still get loads of birds visiting my garden👍👍
Thank you. I do plan on doing an urban wildlife video soon, although I cant guarantee it will completely match your description but there will definitely be some crossover between the species that you see and I feature. Cheers!
Hi.Liam, Hope your wife is keeping well. I live in Cheltenham and have a biggish garden for a town. This video could have been made just for me. Foxes, hedgehogs, toads, finches, sparrows, woodlouse , bat's, crows, seagulls, blackbirds, robins Bees, butterfly's, And a beautiful female sparrow hawk. My garden is their picnic table I think. And living near the cotswold hills and country parks ,I've seen various deer and badgers. And heard woodpeckers but only seen them and the owls flying at treetop level. Unfortunately badgers seem to like roads where they get injured or killed but have seen a few that made a safe escape.😢 Do toads return to their spawning pond ever year or is that my imagination.?
Hi Paul. Yes, she is all good, just over 2 months to go until baby arrives! How great that you get so much wildlife in your garden, glad this video was useful to you. Yes, toads usually return to the same pond every year and take a long time to colonise new ponds because of this. All the best!
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Yes, Yes and potentially yes. The first 2 suggestions are on their way, I am not sure about hedgerows as there will be quite a bit of crossover between others but I will see what I can do. Thank you :)
Unfortunately I think that is a little bit too far out of my knowledge zone for now. One day I would love to travel around and film the different habitats of the world but for now I am sticking to Europe and the UK.
plants are the way to see if it is ancient or new woodland. bluebell are one, though garden waste tipping has altered that, solomans seal is another. this has bought back a uni field trip to the forrest of dean, the old forrest over the new one
These clips are from woodlands all over, but it is meant to be an overview of common deciduous woodland wildlife rather than indicative of one single place.
Despite all the fox hunting and badger culling in the UK, I found a webshop where you can by food for said animals, special food for them, I heard there's still a small number of nightingales around and many people help and protect the wildlife, making people aware and also encourage them to help out actively. I, unfortunately, live in Switzerland, where we have like the opposite situation. If you happen across an injured or sick wild animal here, there's only one option: the hunter with the pistol. And that in a country where you can't travel half a mile without somebody living there, houses EVERYWHERE. The forests are getting smaller and smaller every week and immigrated wolves (the whole pack) getting shot "preventively" for protection.... because you can't expect from people to build fences around their live stock - that would be too intrusive. But talking about fences: if somebody discovers a dug out passage under a fence or wall (badgers make those pass ways to get from garden to garden or park) - it gets fenced up the next way so deeply and elaborate that no animal can ever cross there ever again. Veterinarians are by law forbidden to help wildlife. The hunter with the pistol is in charge (and he gets calls..). If the hunter finds out somehow you are placing e.g. nuts and apples deliberately in your own garden for the animals foraging at night - you get 1 warning, if he suspects you again (or a neighbour rats you out): you get contacted by the local government, the police and himself of course and you'll pay, a lot, prison down the line if you refuse to stop placing nuts and fruit under your tree. The foxes here are so extremely terrified, if you have a night vision wildlife cam in your garden, the fox would NEVER eat anything in the radius of the camera, leave alone walk through that (for us invisible) infrared circle of the cam. The foxes sneak around at night like on eggshells, you feel their terror, they know that they are just doomed and surrounded by enemies that want them dead.
Wow! Never knew any of that. It sounds terrible and very narrow minded and short sighted of the powers that be! It makes me realise that things could indeed be much worse than they are over here in the UK.
Foxes and badgers in the UK really don't seem to need extra help, there are loads of them everywhere. More good news, according to the woodland trust, the amount of woodland in the UK is gradually increasing, which is great 😊 - certainly not all doom and gloom over here. Hope it gets better in Switzerland, you have some fantastic landscapes.
Wow, that is a surprise to hear. I thought Switzerland would be very environmentally focussed. I cant believe it is so strict there and people are not allowed to help wildlife. I am aware that in the UK, we spend the highest amount on wild bird food compared to any other country (I believe) and as a general rule, we are a country of nature lovers. Thanks for watching my videos.
@@AShotOfWildlifeWell, the attitude towards wildlife is very much the same like in the comment above: plenty of foxes and badgers, so, they must be ok, they are a nuisance at best. I love them and I'd rather give them apples and nuts than they dig in the trash cans to feed their babies and themselves (baby season is upon us btw, totally excited 😍😍) Btw during the winter I spent about double the money amount for bird food than for food for myself. And for preparing the habitat for the amphibians that will arrive soon, too 😍😍😍.
It occurs to me that a description of the wildlife to be found in an environment is very much dependent on the region. A coastal area in a place like Tiree would be very different to one in Kent.
thank you for this kind and loving gift. I hope and pray we may protect the wildlife of the UK in improved habitat, so that the future world may cherish them.
Loved that ! Please feel free to cover all the other habitats that you mentioned as well. All your videos are interesting and informative.
Thank you! I am working on the next habitat which will either be released next weekend or the weekend after. Cheers
Really good video.
You speak at a perfect speed for my English students. :)
Thanks Liam..... Very enjoyable and informative. Thank you.
Fantastic and beautiful videos, thank 😊👏👏👍🆗️
Thank you!
@@AShotOfWildlife happy day 🤗🆗️👍
A really wonderful video 😊
Living on the edge of the Peak District, I'd love a video like this about the high uplands!
I've added it to the list, great suggestion!
0:31 Great vlog, Liam, showcasing various wildlife. Particularly enjoyed seeing the great spotted woodpecker and the badgers! Didn't know that badgers also preyed on hedgehogs, or that tawny owls disliked flying over water! Thanks for sharing. Nice one! 😊 👍
Badgers are well equipped to deal with hedgehog. They can pry them apart in a second with one powerful pull using the long claws on their front legs then eat the soft flesh. I saw a poor hedgehog in the local park split in just such a way, mostly skin and bones left behind.
It’s a great spotted woodpecker.
@@PaIaeoCIive1684Thanks for this info.
@@stevendavis2122Hi, thanks. Meant to say, great! Was probably thinking about the "grey" squirrel!
Thank u ....nice to see the creatures and the trees of green
Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed it!
Toads can live that long - news to me!! Lots of new info in this video - thanks very much Liam!!
Thanks once again, Liam. You always bring such joy into my sitting room along with education on species I know little of. I've just returned from my first walk with my four dogs and was delighted to have spotted the largest Roe Deer herd to date. There was 14 in total that included five young all happily grazing in the distance from the woods. I was delighted that they were two fields away from the dogs and myself, otherwise the chase would have been on! After spotting the roe deer, it was the usual suspects - the wood pigeon and goodness knows how many Blue-tit.There are fox who dwell in the woods, though seldom seen, however, one of my dogs, the Irish Setter, likes to roll in what the fox deposit! Not very pleasant! Upon exiting the woods I heard two Blackbirds chatting to one another and spotted the Robin who appears whenever it hears us opening the metal gate. So, all in all, quite a colourful morning. Roll on their pre-teatime roam. Wonder what will be spotted then? At least I stand a pretty good chance in identifying certain species, thanks to Liam!
Hello Liam. I have just returned from six weeks in the UK visiting my daughter and her family. Unfortunately the badger I saw had been run over. A fallow deer I believe jumped in front of the car as we were travelling down a narrow lane. Too quick for me to photograph. I saw a beautiful yellow butterfly, lots of grey squirrels, robins,starlings, a black bird and lots of Kites. England has such a diverse range of wildlife and flora, I loved walking through the woodlands and paddocks with my daughter, seeing and touching all I could. I love your videos. Take care. ❤❤
How fantastic. I am glad to hear that you got to see so much wildlife whilst you were here, and sorry that the badger was unfortunately dead. Thanks for always watching and commenting on my videos, I really appreciate it.
Great video. New to the channel and am slowly going through all your content. I would like you to detail the wildlife of Snowdonia please.
We live next to a partially wooded cemetary in a town. We regulary see all of these animals except badgers, deer and toads. We have every year Green woodpeckers nesting in the tree at the front of our house and great spotted woodpecker in the tree at the back. Sparrowhawks nest most years about 100yds away as do a pair of tawny owls. Foxes, woodpigeons and squirrels are a nuisance though. I was fortunate to have a badger run along side me one morning when I was going to work on my motorbike about 36 years ago. Some things you never forget. Another great video. How about urban wildlife.
Great vid, well filmed.........keep up the good work....!
Thank you!
Awesome bro, well shot and presented as always! See ya tomorrow! JP
Nice one Liam.
Your vids should be shown in schools
That's a great idea.
Thank you. I have done a few school things and some do use my videos. I recently found out that a prison was also using my videos to educate inmates on UK wildlife, which is pretty cool!
Great video! I do love woodlands. I'd love to see some old man-made habitats that have been taken back by wildlife such as gravel pits and mines. There are a few in the Midlands, some with restricted access that have some rarer birds. (Whitemoor Haye near Lichfield as an example).
Great variety of life in the UK forests! Enjoying your home and your passion for life around you! Be well and safe travels and God bless!
Love the chiff chaff in the background
Its a great noise, they have recently started singing near me and its a reminder that summer is round the corner!
I appreciate all your posts and descriptions of animals in our vicinity, a good way to make us pay attention and behave carefully in nature so they get the respect they need. we look forward to spring! 🌞👍🏼
Deciduous woodland perfect choice for this video. That woodlouse was cute , didn’t realise more related to the lobster 🦞and not an insect. Every day is a school day for me when watching your videos Liam!🥴 thanks for a great video 👍
I put up nest boxes in our local primary school ground, where, there is a small copse. A Great Spotted Woodpecker made a hole in a tree about 4m off the ground, and just 2m from the road. I’d like to think my nest boxes helped their choice of potential prey sources helped sway them. I’ll go have a look soon if any boxes were drilled, and make some more nest boxes for different species to add to the collection.
I almost ran over a Red Deer doe this morning. She darted across the road just in front of me, crossing from woodland split by the road. It’s not the first time I’ve encountered them on that same route. I also see them in the fields behind my house.
Holmfirth. West Yorkshire. Thank you. I am new to the UK and your UA-cam ideas have gone a long way to help me know the wildlife🙏
I always enjoy your videos. They are very informative and well produced. Could you do a video on farmland birds and wildlife
Thank you! Farmland is the next habitat I am going to tackle, so stay tuned for that (probably next weekend)
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Fantastic video! Very well put together with just the right amount of facts about each animal to give a good introduction and then moving on to the next. As a Swede I especially appreciate the little labels you put up with the Latin name which makes it easy to look up if I'm unsure about the Swedish name.
Good segues. Any environment you choose will be an interesting video.
Definitely
Thank you! I tried to add those connections to make it flow a bit better.
Liam. Great informative video. Well filmed nice to see woodland. Creatures maybe. Water next ? Keep up good work
Cheers Paul! I am going to break water into several habitats: Ponds, rivers and lakes (perhaps others too).
@@AShotOfWildlifebe great to see what type of wildlife we have in sand dune areas too! Great videos. Thanks for sharing them.
@@OldManRunning-dj7qi sand dunes are on my hitlist. Next will be reedbeds :)
Deciduous woodlands are my favourite habitat, thanks for posting.
This was a most enjoyable and informative video. You have the great ability to show things in a simple, clear way. Congratulations. May I suggest you stay in the woodlands and go into greater depth with those animals and birds you've covered. Keep up the good work.
Thank you. I am definitely going to revisit woodlands at some point but I will introduce a few other habitats first. Cheers!
Brilliant! Any habitat would be fine by me but towns would be interesting. I live in a fairly large Oxfordshire town, yet often encounter creatures such as herons, deer and squirrels during my morning walk to work.
Your videos are a real pleasure to watch. God Bless you my friend.
Thank you so much! All the best :)
Strange about the tawny owl not flying over water - a lovely video again. Thank you.
Yes I wonder why they don't introduce them to Ireland.
Last time I saw a tawny owl it was flying fast along the Thames on a sunny morning. I can only assume he had been disturbed at his roost just before, as there is housing development on the wooded island just along from there.
Thank you. I guess they must fly over water sometimes, unless they have been in the UK since we were attached to the continent. but if they only do it rarely, the chance of 2 crossing to Ireland and finding eachother whilst there is very low.
Enjoyed the video . I struggle with the sound on lots of UA-cam videos , but your sound is loud and clear ..... Great stuff 👍 .
Brilliant, I am glad to hear that (no pun intended)
Really enjoyed this video. More woodland info, please.
Great! Thanks Liam. Especially with woodland species, the camouflage they've evolved, thus enabling them to still be around, is what presents the challenge to the wildlife photographer. But the tech, including thermal imaging is improving all the time. Stoats, weasels and as you say badgers can be so very hard to see, partly as they're v good indeed at sitting still. Endless patience required, as you well know!!
More woodland films would be good, as there's SO much to see. Nice one Liam! 🌟👍
Thanks Liam. I shall wander off to the long narrow woodland two minutes down the road from me in north London (Parkland Walk) tomorrow if the weather is ok. There's all sorts down there. It's good to see you still making videos given that you are now a dad (or soon will be, I forget). I do hope that you can find a way to continue using your own footage once your sprog is past the stage where it needs both parents most of the time.
Nice overview of wildlife we might expect to find in woodlands. Plenty of that in my area, though green woodpeckers are far more common here than spotted ones, and roe deer are the only local deer species but can often be seen grazing in fields next to busy roads in broad daylight.
❤ Thank you so much from Broxbourne
Thank ou!
Great video thank you.
Thank you for watching!
Thanks Liam, great video. I saw a bager - just the once - in my back garden, beautiful creature.
How lucky to see one in your garden! There are quite a few around the area I have just moved to, and I think I am going to see a lot of them in the warmer months. Fingers crossed!
Brilliant video
Would love to watch a similar video on the UK's rivers & waterways.
Nice one Liam, always enjoy your videos with something interesting to learn 😁
Thank you! I always learn so much when I make these videos so I am glad to share that knowledge with everyone who watches :)
Great video, thanks
Thanks for watching!
Hi Liam
Just watching this one about the woodland.
I only subscribed to your channel last week.
This is my favorite one so far.
It’s like that where I live near stoke on Trent .
Last week we had 2 oyster catchers on our lake island.
The week before I had a male Siskin visit my garden.
Great channel Liam.👍
Thank you and welcome to the channel! The next video I will be releasing at the end of this week is about farmland species so stay tuned for that. I get a lot of comments so wont always have the time to reply to each and every person, but thanks for commenting. It really does help the channel to reach more people and I do read and appreciate every single one. Cheers!
Great video, we really enjoyed learning about other creatures. Thank you. We quite fancy learning about the wildlife of a lakeside habitat, as we live quite near one, on the NE coast. 😊
Thanks, I really enjoyed that 👍
Thank you so much!
Really enjoyed this video, no surprise there then! As for what next, what about the times of the day? Dawn/dusk daytime nighttime as different animals are seen and hunt
I didn't know tawny owls don't like flying over water. Great video.
I loved this, thank you Liam.
Thank you!
Nice videos. Can u make a video about pine martin
Thank you. Pine Marten are on my list, I dont have enough footage of them yet to do a full video but I am working on it. Cheers!
Try to show where moor forest pine and river intersect below mountain range to give the warrior cat books perspective since it’s based in England
Thanks Liam, like the new format and loved the clever segues from one animal to the next. As you’re Norfolk based, how about wetlands, or heathland for your next one.
Thank you! Wetlands are coming, but broken into a couple of different habitats and I hadn't thought of heathlands until now, thanks for that suggestion- I will add it to my list.
All habitats are welcome. Great video Liam, thanks.
Thank you! I will get cracking then, I have a lot to cover!
Excellent work Liam thank you for sharing this 👍
Thank you for watching!
Great vid! Request for coastal habitat pls
Coastal habitats will be coming for sure. I will probably break that down to beaches and dunes, mudflats and estuaries and perhaps another habitat if I can think of one. Thanks for the suggestion.
Great video Liam! I occasionally get the red/black woodpecker on my bird feeders, and once I even saw a sparrow hawk momentarily sitting on the edge of the birdbath!! Considering I have 4 cats, I still get loads of birds visiting my garden👍👍
Thanks! Ian
Thank you!
Awesome bud urban 👍🏻
Urban is on the list, its one that I look forward to making as its one of the most interesting for how wildlife and people coexist.
Awesome video again!
Thank you!
Brilliant very informative well done ❤
Thank you!
Lovely. Thanks. How about a video on a suburb or city Park?
Another great video.
Thank you!
Excellent!
Thank you!
5:53 I was surprised at how gracefully that woodlouse was stepping along, almost like crustacean dressage 🐎
Lovely video thanks very much 💜💜💜
Youre welcome! Thank you for watching :)
@@AShotOfWildlifeI subscribed too, I'm hooked 💜💜💜
@@menopausalbarbie7467 brilliant! Thank you
Love your vids. Could you please do urban housing estates that are within a mile of woodland and open grassland please?
Thank you. I do plan on doing an urban wildlife video soon, although I cant guarantee it will completely match your description but there will definitely be some crossover between the species that you see and I feature. Cheers!
Excellent video about badgers and hedgehogs
Thank you!
wow great video thank u
Thanks for watching!
great video, some lovely images! What kit do you use to capture the different animals?
Hi.Liam,
Hope your wife is keeping well.
I live in Cheltenham and have a biggish garden for a town.
This video could have been made just for me.
Foxes, hedgehogs, toads, finches, sparrows, woodlouse , bat's, crows, seagulls, blackbirds, robins
Bees, butterfly's,
And a beautiful female sparrow hawk.
My garden is their picnic table I think.
And living near the cotswold hills and country parks ,I've seen various deer and badgers.
And heard woodpeckers but only seen them and the owls flying at treetop level.
Unfortunately badgers seem to like roads where they get injured or killed but have seen a few that made a safe escape.😢
Do toads return to their spawning pond ever year or is that my imagination.?
Hi Paul. Yes, she is all good, just over 2 months to go until baby arrives! How great that you get so much wildlife in your garden, glad this video was useful to you. Yes, toads usually return to the same pond every year and take a long time to colonise new ponds because of this. All the best!
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Thanks.
Glad to hear your wife is doing well.
Wonderful video, thank you Liam! I went to RSPB Minsmere recently based on your video of it, would a marsh/wetland video be a possibility?
Thanks
Thank you so much!
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Haha, thanks Ciara!
I like this video, it is very interesting. Do badgers really eat hedgehogs (2:04)? 😮
... have you ever thought of doing a video about bird and animal tracks, prints, and markings ?? Alan
Cheers Alan! Thats a great suggestion and one that I will add to me list. Thank you!
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Nice
Thank you!
Very informative. I didn't know that toads can't chew. Takes away the enjoyment in eating!
Thank you! It would certainly speed things up a little.
Lovely
Hi Liam, can we have one on river animals please, and if I'm not being too greedy, one on open farmland with hedgerows as well please.
Yes, Yes and potentially yes. The first 2 suggestions are on their way, I am not sure about hedgerows as there will be quite a bit of crossover between others but I will see what I can do. Thank you :)
Saw a sparrowhawk catch a pigeon this morning... In the car park where I work. 😂
Oh wow. I have only seen a sparrow hawk catch something once, when I was too young to understand what I was witnessing.
Urban gardens, please. (Can you include the dawn chorus?)
Urban wildlife is definitely one I am going to do very soon, I will see what I can do about the dawn chorus. Cheers.
At my school I saw a sparrow hawk hunting above the field and when I said to everyone there predators they thought it would kill them 😂
Would you cover the Argentine habitat Liam
Unfortunately I think that is a little bit too far out of my knowledge zone for now. One day I would love to travel around and film the different habitats of the world but for now I am sticking to Europe and the UK.
plants are the way to see if it is ancient or new woodland. bluebell are one, though garden waste tipping has altered that, solomans seal is another. this has bought back a uni field trip to the forrest of dean, the old forrest over the new one
What woodlands are these? Where in the UK are they located?
These clips are from woodlands all over, but it is meant to be an overview of common deciduous woodland wildlife rather than indicative of one single place.
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Despite all the fox hunting and badger culling in the UK, I found a webshop where you can by food for said animals, special food for them, I heard there's still a small number of nightingales around and many people help and protect the wildlife, making people aware and also encourage them to help out actively.
I, unfortunately, live in Switzerland, where we have like the opposite situation.
If you happen across an injured or sick wild animal here, there's only one option: the hunter with the pistol.
And that in a country where you can't travel half a mile without somebody living there, houses EVERYWHERE. The forests are getting smaller and smaller every week and immigrated wolves (the whole pack) getting shot "preventively" for protection.... because you can't expect from people to build fences around their live stock - that would be too intrusive.
But talking about fences: if somebody discovers a dug out passage under a fence or wall (badgers make those pass ways to get from garden to garden or park) - it gets fenced up the next way so deeply and elaborate that no animal can ever cross there ever again.
Veterinarians are by law forbidden to help wildlife. The hunter with the pistol is in charge (and he gets calls..). If the hunter finds out somehow you are placing e.g. nuts and apples deliberately in your own garden for the animals foraging at night - you get 1 warning, if he suspects you again (or a neighbour rats you out): you get contacted by the local government, the police and himself of course and you'll pay, a lot, prison down the line if you refuse to stop placing nuts and fruit under your tree.
The foxes here are so extremely terrified, if you have a night vision wildlife cam in your garden, the fox would NEVER eat anything in the radius of the camera, leave alone walk through that (for us invisible) infrared circle of the cam.
The foxes sneak around at night like on eggshells, you feel their terror, they know that they are just doomed and surrounded by enemies that want them dead.
Wow! Never knew any of that. It sounds terrible and very narrow minded and short sighted of the powers that be!
It makes me realise that things could indeed be much worse than they are over here in the UK.
Foxes and badgers in the UK really don't seem to need extra help, there are loads of them everywhere.
More good news, according to the woodland trust, the amount of woodland in the UK is gradually increasing, which is great 😊 - certainly not all doom and gloom over here. Hope it gets better in Switzerland, you have some fantastic landscapes.
Wow, that is a surprise to hear. I thought Switzerland would be very environmentally focussed. I cant believe it is so strict there and people are not allowed to help wildlife. I am aware that in the UK, we spend the highest amount on wild bird food compared to any other country (I believe) and as a general rule, we are a country of nature lovers. Thanks for watching my videos.
@@AShotOfWildlifeWell, the attitude towards wildlife is very much the same like in the comment above: plenty of foxes and badgers, so, they must be ok, they are a nuisance at best.
I love them and I'd rather give them apples and nuts than they dig in the trash cans to feed their babies and themselves (baby season is upon us btw, totally excited 😍😍)
Btw during the winter I spent about double the money amount for bird food than for food for myself. And for preparing the habitat for the amphibians that will arrive soon, too 😍😍😍.
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1:56 like torn open cows being found hung from trees?
In areas where local landowners are going into the tourism business.... also, can you share a link of that happening in the UK?
Oh no! Not ET mutilating cows again!
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It occurs to me that a description of the wildlife to be found in an environment is very much dependent on the region. A coastal area in a place like Tiree would be very different to one in Kent.
you didnt even mention the Goshawk! Ghost king and queens of the forest ..... 😉
Tawny owls are built for speed not distance thats why they can't fly over seas
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Was ist den Rehen Damhirschen und Wildschweine sowie Uhus die leben doch auch in Wäldern