If this comment gets 200 likes, Emily will fully commit to nature commentary ASMR content for the duration of quarantine. (Note: Emily has not agreed to this.)
1,003% impressed that you went with scoring an original soundtrack of "American Robin" rather than being lazy and just using an unaltered "Rocking Robin"
It's autumn here in new zealand, and every time I go out to feed my chickens, there's a metric butt-load of house sparrows waiting in my neighbour's tree to peck at my chickens' leftovers. They're all so fat and fluffy at the moment, i love watching them hop around under my chickies' feets! More appreciation for clever little sparrows! they're doing their best!
I don't normally like birds, but this made me appreciate their uniqueness and beauty. Being home as a museum professional is hard, but you're doing great work! Thank you and keep it up!
House sparrows go by the nickname "Spuggies" here in Scotland, though usually bridwatchers (twitchers) refer to them and many other fairly non-descript birds as "LBJ's" or "little brown jobs", personally I love watching them, so much character. In the eves of my old house I had an almost totally albino female and her offspring over the years gradually got more and more brown as her genes got diluted. But she was special to me as she's often come down and feed beside me as I sat outside. Thanks for the little window into your garden, lovely to see. Hope you and yours are safe and more content like this would be lovely, thank you.
Goat Boy Sparrows, or ‚Spatzen‘, as we call them in Germany, are one of my favorite animals. I just love those greedy, boisterous little feather balls. In many places here, they will hop straight on the tables of cafes and try to steal people’s food. It’s hilarious, considering how tiny and fragile they are. But no one is ever annoyed about it, because they’re just so damn cute. And there’s nothing, like walking past a bush full of sparrows and listening to dozens of them chattering away at once. The noise they make 😄
The first time I saw a cardinal was a few months ago. I came out east for college and I was taking an organic chemistry exam when I looked out the window to see an absolutely stunning red bird standing out amongst the snow. I just watched him for a while until he flew away. One of my favorite moments.
I’ll never forget my first time seeing a male cardinal, either! I grew up in California, but went to grad school on the east coast. I was walking on a canal path during the winter, lost in thought. when I looked up, there was a cardinal a few feet away from me in a bush, and it took my breath away.
One of the (very few) benefits of the present situation is that I get to see more of my favorite UA-camrs "unplugged" from their usual subjects. I also can't argue with your taste in music if this is any example.
This is by far the best thing I've watched during the quarantine. Beautiful birds, fun facts, parodies AND Emily, too good to be true. I hope you're doing well!
Please do more of these. I love this. We got a bird feeder on our porch for our Christmas present to ourselves (we were pretty strapped for cash) and it is the best thing ever. We had juncos, pileated woodpeckers, downy AND hairy woodpeckers, and woodthrushes coming to our porch. It was the best. We've moved and now we don't have a good spot for our bird feeder. It's something I miss because we had a spot we'd put food out for birds at my house growing up and I got very good at identifying birds.
My favorite book in elementary school was called Backyard Birds. I checked that book out of my school library every single week for two years. This video brings back very good memories from that time. Although we didn't get to see my favorite bird in that book: the American Goldfinch.
Thanks for the appreciation of the underappreciated House Sparrow. They're the most reliable customers at my urban feeder, like lots of other bird lovers.
This was adorable! I love birds and love listening to you talk about anything, and tbh I'd love more chill cute educational and/or just fun calming content like this from you if you ever did it again! I love these cute bird watching vids (and I love your bird feeder set ups too!)
Your commentary sounds like a bit from the extremely talented standup comedian Maria Bamford. I mean that as the highest compliment, and a reflection of your own comedic delivery. This was great.
I don't why I thought American birds would be the same kinds of birds as European birds, but I did. So nice to see how different Chicago bird life is from UK bird life!
Hi Emily, I'm out doing research in remote northern Quebec now and it's been a tough time with the project and the language barrier. This episode gave me so much peace and happiness, it was strangely exactly what I needed. Thank you endlessly for all your inspiration in the work you do and bird feeder videos apparently.
We have coopers hawks nesting in our neighborhood! it's such a pleasure to see them, especially now that we aren't able to get outside as much as we would like.
Not having anything more than the standard and passing appreciation for wild birds, I normally would not watch a "watching" video..........but this brought some joy and amusement, as well as knowledge, to my day. Thank you for your effort and your contribution to alleviating some of the darkness of these days..........
I live in Southwest Missouri. I live in a big town (160,000 people), but I have a beautiful walking trail less than a mile from my home. Keeps me sane.
Such a great way to spend the quarantine!! You have SOOO many bird species, amazing!! Sooooo glad that you included the cat chase footage at the end!! Hilarious!!
Yep, I've been sitting in a Burger King and watched a little sparrow whatever hover near the sliding door soul detector until the doors open, flutter in and grab whatever hasn't been cleaned off tables yet, then do same manouvre to exit. Rinse repeat. Fascinating.
Emily, this totally made my day. I hope you decide to continue making these because it was really nice to hear from you and to see some nature when I'm stuck inside. Thanks for doing what you do!
This is charming and I would watch 15 hours of it! I love passively learning about birds and your commentary is exactly what my stressed brain wants to hear.
I love that the Red-winged Blackbird has that yellow bar goin' on! The first time I saw a cardinal was after I moved from Baltimore to East-River South Dakota, a male who thought his reflection in our front window was another bird and kept attacking it. House Sparrows have wonderful markings. They remind me of beagles. What would really be awesome is live web-cams on your bird feeders. LOL!
I like to put on cattv videos while playing games. My cat will just sit & watch it for ages & I get to listen to the nice nature sounds. It's a good thing I have 2 tablets otherwise I'd have to get my cat her own tablet.
I have a birdfeeder in my yard and I love watching all my cute little babies comes eat! I never thought to put a camera out there so I could see them up close, but I may have to do that. I live in NY, so we've got a lot of the same kinds of birds as you did. It was nice to know my guess that a lot of my visitors were sparrows was correct! I'm thinking my little yellow guys are finches; I didn't realize finches were a wild bird, I'd only ever seen them at pets.
It makes me smile just to see you pop up on my notifications, and I appreciate it. Thank you! I wonder if a nearby-to-you public facility (Morton Arboretum, Forest Preserve, FermiLabs' prairie restoration, a park...) would allow you or someone to set up a remote camera on a few bird feeders? They could be placed in more remote areas where you might see some more unique specie of visitors moving through as things warm and we are all locked indoors. 🤔
I work in a pharmacy in a grocery store, and bird was stuck in our store for a couple days a while back. We in the pharmacy named it Leonardo daFinchi, but now I know we probably should have named it Camille Pissparrow! :D
I did not expect to enjoy this video NEARLY as much as I did. Absolutely DELIGHTFUL. Would be happy to see way more of this content, even a side channel permanently of Emily’s Backyard adventures 😂💖🥰
House sparrows are making a comeback to the cities! When I was a child there were a lot of them, since farmers also came with horses on occasion. But there were like several years when you barely could see any, probably due to pigeons and crows and most of all - jays. But for a few years you can hear them and see in hedges all around the city. It makes me so happy, they're really resilient little birds.
I was always so surprised by the placid nature of Blue Jays in the hand while banding them. Counter to that was the small but incredibly pugnacious Tufted Titmouse. The first thing we'd do when we caught a titmouse was to give it a piece of paper. As long as it was biting the paper, we didn't have to worry about getting little V's nipped out of fingers by their surprisingly strong seed cracking bills!
Thanks for bringing this bit of nature to our homes! Usually this time of year I'd be out bird watching in the hills, but the trails and parks have been closed. I miss the migratory visitors, and counting goslings, and seeing the scraggly little sparrows and finches earning their wings. Though it appears a nesting pair of mourning doves have taken over the window box in the apartment next door, so that's kind of neat.
Ah :') This was such a soothing and educational video! Btw, could you do another one explaining or all those different bird-feeders? (like a bird-feeder tour), cause I've never seen ones like those you have and they look so cool!
If this comment gets 200 likes, Emily will fully commit to nature commentary ASMR content for the duration of quarantine.
(Note: Emily has not agreed to this.)
If I wasn't trying to finish our PBS series right now I would be ALL FOR THIS
@@thebrainscoop 200 is 200, Emilie.
We are halfway there! Come on people!!!! 90 more
Now this is an idea!
@@thebrainscoop Maybe not specifically ASMR but wildlife commentary on "everyday" things you film could be a great idea if you get time
This is the gold standard of commentary for birdwatching from now on!
I've had bird feeders for many years in North Carolina. Endless enjoyment. Thanks for sharing and singing.
1,003% impressed that you went with scoring an original soundtrack of "American Robin" rather than being lazy and just using an unaltered "Rocking Robin"
Emily, this is one of my favorite episodes in a long time. Maybe it’s just what I needed right now. I especially liked your song!
It's autumn here in new zealand, and every time I go out to feed my chickens, there's a metric butt-load of house sparrows waiting in my neighbour's tree to peck at my chickens' leftovers. They're all so fat and fluffy at the moment, i love watching them hop around under my chickies' feets! More appreciation for clever little sparrows! they're doing their best!
"Anyway, they let me in to grad-school, so i guess it all worked out" :D Thanks for sharing your lovely BIRBS.
5:30 "you might have a close encounter with a red-winged blackbird"
it's a close encounter of the bird kind!
🙂🖖
I don't normally like birds, but this made me appreciate their uniqueness and beauty. Being home as a museum professional is hard, but you're doing great work! Thank you and keep it up!
Birds are good, they eat a lot of pests and keep our crops growing, without them people would actualy starving in many parts of our world. :)
House sparrows go by the nickname "Spuggies" here in Scotland, though usually bridwatchers (twitchers) refer to them and many other fairly non-descript birds as "LBJ's" or "little brown jobs", personally I love watching them, so much character. In the eves of my old house I had an almost totally albino female and her offspring over the years gradually got more and more brown as her genes got diluted. But she was special to me as she's often come down and feed beside me as I sat outside.
Thanks for the little window into your garden, lovely to see.
Hope you and yours are safe and more content like this would be lovely, thank you.
Goat Boy
Sparrows, or ‚Spatzen‘, as we call them in Germany, are one of my favorite animals. I just love those greedy, boisterous little feather balls. In many places here, they will hop straight on the tables of cafes and try to steal people’s food. It’s hilarious, considering how tiny and fragile they are. But no one is ever annoyed about it, because they’re just so damn cute. And there’s nothing, like walking past a bush full of sparrows and listening to dozens of them chattering away at once. The noise they make 😄
Thank you Emily this is the good bird commentary we need in the world.
There's one house sparrow that breaks into the store and opens the bird seeds. That bird does it daily and I have learned to love it dearly
soulangel57 sneaky sneaky!!!
I'll be singing American Robin in the shower now
Jesse Cohen We get American Robins migrating here in SW Florida during the winter.
The first time I saw a cardinal was a few months ago. I came out east for college and I was taking an organic chemistry exam when I looked out the window to see an absolutely stunning red bird standing out amongst the snow. I just watched him for a while until he flew away. One of my favorite moments.
'American Robin' is really turning my quarantine around.
If this video were twelve hours long, I could still watch it. Emily is the best.
I’ll never forget my first time seeing a male cardinal, either! I grew up in California, but went to grad school on the east coast. I was walking on a canal path during the winter, lost in thought. when I looked up, there was a cardinal a few feet away from me in a bush, and it took my breath away.
One of the (very few) benefits of the present situation is that I get to see more of my favorite UA-camrs "unplugged" from their usual subjects. I also can't argue with your taste in music if this is any example.
That singing was unexpected, but a pleasant surprise. Also, I'm getting some vibes of "journey to the microcosmos", I love that 👍
Emily's bird-watch voiceover is giving me hope. More please!
You actually did it!! I would love more bird videos! I would totally have a bird feeder if I had a place to hang it.
It's super relaxing to hear you talk about the birds. Thank you!
This is by far the best thing I've watched during the quarantine. Beautiful birds, fun facts, parodies AND Emily, too good to be true. I hope you're doing well!
Please do more of these. I love this. We got a bird feeder on our porch for our Christmas present to ourselves (we were pretty strapped for cash) and it is the best thing ever. We had juncos, pileated woodpeckers, downy AND hairy woodpeckers, and woodthrushes coming to our porch. It was the best. We've moved and now we don't have a good spot for our bird feeder. It's something I miss because we had a spot we'd put food out for birds at my house growing up and I got very good at identifying birds.
2 mins in and I feel like I could easily watch 24 hrs of this
My favorite book in elementary school was called Backyard Birds. I checked that book out of my school library every single week for two years. This video brings back very good memories from that time. Although we didn't get to see my favorite bird in that book: the American Goldfinch.
Love this! I never understood why my mother-in-law had birdfeeders. With your narration, it is great. More please!
“American Robin” I can see it on the Billboard charts!
The bird poop anecdote was my favorite ❤️
Hope we get you to the museum soon, because you’re a national treasure. Thank you for this wholesome content!
Emily, you always bring a smile to my face.
Thanks for the appreciation of the underappreciated House Sparrow. They're the most reliable customers at my urban feeder, like lots of other bird lovers.
This was adorable! I love birds and love listening to you talk about anything, and tbh I'd love more chill cute educational and/or just fun calming content like this from you if you ever did it again! I love these cute bird watching vids (and I love your bird feeder set ups too!)
My name is Robin, the song made me smile, as did the footage and commentary. Glad you're keeping well
Your commentary sounds like a bit from the extremely talented standup comedian Maria Bamford. I mean that as the highest compliment, and a reflection of your own comedic delivery. This was great.
Ah this is great. It's exactly what I needed to unwind from a long day at work.
Sparrows, ravens and crows are my favourite birbs.
I don't why I thought American birds would be the same kinds of birds as European birds, but I did. So nice to see how different Chicago bird life is from UK bird life!
Hi Emily, I'm out doing research in remote northern Quebec now and it's been a tough time with the project and the language barrier. This episode gave me so much peace and happiness, it was strangely exactly what I needed. Thank you endlessly for all your inspiration in the work you do and bird feeder videos apparently.
Sooo... I’ll admit. I smiled.. fine! I giggled.... relaxing. Thank you!
This was such a nice thing to watch and enjoy and learn a little about the birds too! A perfect pick me up at the end of a long week
We have coopers hawks nesting in our neighborhood! it's such a pleasure to see them, especially now that we aren't able to get outside as much as we would like.
Not having anything more than the standard and passing appreciation for wild birds, I normally would not watch a "watching" video..........but this brought some joy and amusement, as well as knowledge, to my day. Thank you for your effort and your contribution to alleviating some of the darkness of these days..........
I live in Southwest Missouri. I live in a big town (160,000 people), but I have a beautiful walking trail less than a mile from my home. Keeps me sane.
You're such a goof ball! I love it. Never change, Emily.
Such a great way to spend the quarantine!! You have SOOO many bird species, amazing!! Sooooo glad that you included the cat chase footage at the end!! Hilarious!!
I love Red Winged Blackbirds and their bad attitudes. I imagine their call as "Hercules!" as sort of a war-cry.
I will never tire of " It still has brains on it"
Love the editing on this, great job! This is really nice content, would love to see more of this backyard science.
I am LOVING this.
the brain scoop: it still has birds on it!
no, I am not doing ok, but seeing your smile lifts my spirit alittle bit 🖐😉
Completely charming. Thank You.
Yep, I've been sitting in a Burger King and watched a little sparrow whatever hover near the sliding door soul detector until the doors open, flutter in and grab whatever hasn't been cleaned off tables yet, then do same manouvre to exit. Rinse repeat. Fascinating.
"Emily has lots of time to make adorable songs about birds" is a show i would watch, and just did.
That singing was cute as heck!
Not gonna lie, this is the most entertaining video I've seen this week. And not JUST because I'm a biologist.
Thank you for this! I miss seeing blue jays since I moved out west. We do have Steller's Jays, but it's not the same...
I'm almost crying, I loved this so much.
oh Emily! please do this again! This was so amazing! Thank you for the bird knowledge. As soon as I saw that Blue Jay, I knew this was gonna be good!
I've never seen a cardinal before, how beautiful.
This is totally adorable- and somehow reminded me of "Marcel the Shell". Cute!
Emily, this totally made my day. I hope you decide to continue making these because it was really nice to hear from you and to see some nature when I'm stuck inside. Thanks for doing what you do!
This is charming and I would watch 15 hours of it! I love passively learning about birds and your commentary is exactly what my stressed brain wants to hear.
bird borb bird borb. This is exactly what I needed. Thank you, Ehmee!
This was beautiful and relaxing, and I loved your commentary. Thank you for this!
I love that the Red-winged Blackbird has that yellow bar goin' on! The first time I saw a cardinal was after I moved from Baltimore to East-River South Dakota, a male who thought his reflection in our front window was another bird and kept attacking it. House Sparrows have wonderful markings. They remind me of beagles. What would really be awesome is live web-cams on your bird feeders. LOL!
Emily, you're a treasure. I thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you for spreading some joy to myself and others
this makes me so happy and relaxed
I like to put on cattv videos while playing games. My cat will just sit & watch it for ages & I get to listen to the nice nature sounds. It's a good thing I have 2 tablets otherwise I'd have to get my cat her own tablet.
This was delightfully wholesome! Thanks, Emily
I mean this 100% as a compliment, this video is exactly what I imagine my Grandmother being UA-camr would be like😆
Uh dorable! Thank you Emily
This was such a good way to spend part of a Friday! Thanks for the wonderful bird break. 🙂🐦
Love the impromptu singing!
This was wonderful. Birds are so cool, I just want them to be my friends
Amazing to see all these feathered avian therapod dinosaurs so active feeding on the offered foods you provide.
Who tf disliked this video- it’s a masterpiece
I have a birdfeeder in my yard and I love watching all my cute little babies comes eat! I never thought to put a camera out there so I could see them up close, but I may have to do that. I live in NY, so we've got a lot of the same kinds of birds as you did. It was nice to know my guess that a lot of my visitors were sparrows was correct! I'm thinking my little yellow guys are finches; I didn't realize finches were a wild bird, I'd only ever seen them at pets.
You have a remarkable singing voice,I'm not just saying that,you do,wishing you and all the birds the best luck,be strong.
Yay! I've been backyard birding too. It was cool to see Chicago birds, especially the ones that aren't in the Puget Sound.
It makes me smile just to see you pop up on my notifications, and I appreciate it. Thank you!
I wonder if a nearby-to-you public facility (Morton Arboretum, Forest Preserve, FermiLabs' prairie restoration, a park...) would allow you or someone to set up a remote camera on a few bird feeders? They could be placed in more remote areas where you might see some more unique specie of visitors moving through as things warm and we are all locked indoors. 🤔
I work in a pharmacy in a grocery store, and bird was stuck in our store for a couple days a while back. We in the pharmacy named it Leonardo daFinchi, but now I know we probably should have named it Camille Pissparrow! :D
Thank you for sharing your birds with us!
I did not expect to enjoy this video NEARLY as much as I did. Absolutely DELIGHTFUL. Would be happy to see way more of this content, even a side channel permanently of Emily’s Backyard adventures 😂💖🥰
You get some good diversity in your backyard!
House sparrows are making a comeback to the cities! When I was a child there were a lot of them, since farmers also came with horses on occasion. But there were like several years when you barely could see any, probably due to pigeons and crows and most of all - jays. But for a few years you can hear them and see in hedges all around the city. It makes me so happy, they're really resilient little birds.
I was always so surprised by the placid nature of Blue Jays in the hand while banding them.
Counter to that was the small but incredibly pugnacious Tufted Titmouse. The first thing we'd do when we caught a titmouse was to give it a piece of paper. As long as it was biting the paper, we didn't have to worry about getting little V's nipped out of fingers by their surprisingly strong seed cracking bills!
I'm pretty impressed by the lack of squirrels attacking your setups, Emily!
Loved this! Birds are so cute, little cute dinosaurs!
Thanks for bringing this bit of nature to our homes! Usually this time of year I'd be out bird watching in the hills, but the trails and parks have been closed. I miss the migratory visitors, and counting goslings, and seeing the scraggly little sparrows and finches earning their wings.
Though it appears a nesting pair of mourning doves have taken over the window box in the apartment next door, so that's kind of neat.
The cardinal didn't poop on you, he blessed you with his lucky dropping!
This is the start of your music career.
I'm impressed that you knew the Guess Who! The song was cute. This made me want some bird feeders to see who might show up. Thanks! 🙂🖖
So many cool birds! So very different from the birds in Europe!!
This was lovely and my cats were equally entertained by all the lovely birds.
Brought a smile to my face. Thanks.
so glad you are still uploading videos!
hopefully you can upload more
Ah :') This was such a soothing and educational video! Btw, could you do another one explaining or all those different bird-feeders? (like a bird-feeder tour), cause I've never seen ones like those you have and they look so cool!
My cat enjoyed this video very much. He actually came in from the porch where he was watching real birds and sat infront of the tv 😂