As a little breather, here's some footage of birds, insects and rain :) In this video, you'll see house sparrows, starlings (including a brown juvenile), magpies, collared doves, and a robin near the end.
More than anything else, this video demonstrates the significant value of dense hedges, trees and an "overgrown" garden: they provide habitat, shelter and an abundance of insect life. I'm all for it. Thank you Simon.
right you are. That’s so important for people who live in the city or the suburbs and wonder what they can do to encourage wildlife to stay in their area.
Nice, relaxing video Simon. The rainy section was great to have playing in the background. Thanks for sharing the wild, overgrown, full-of-life backyard. I would guess the diversity of plant and animal life is so much more in your garden, compared to one with trimmed hedges and cut grass.
22:00 Cinnabar's are honestly one of my favourite insect in the UK, both in caterpillar and moth form. So vibrant and recognisable . Reminds me of holidays to Cornwall as a child, my dad showing me ragwort absolutely covered in them. Great footage.
This is a weird comment, but this feels like a reasonable time and place to leave one. To many (probably most) people, the wildlife in your own back garden is just mundane, and therefore, boring. I personally don't spend a lot of time looking at these things (though more than most probably), but I have had little experiences that make me want to ask a weird question. Several time, very mundane things have somehow triggered borderline spiritual...feelings. Entirely areligious and out of nowhere. Some are perhaps more "understandable" than others - like running in a pitch black field under a star-filled sky triggering a realisation of how staggeringly massive the universe is. Others are weirder; like seeing a tree blow in the wind when the light is "just right" causing some kind of "fresh sight" where it's like the blindfold covering the mundane is stripped away. I was wondering if that strikes a chord with Simon, and people who are perhaps on a similar wavelength when it comes to appreciating the nature that's all around us? There's depth in the mundane that can only be seen if you have the eyes to see it - or something like that. On a side note, I think that's what artists are supposed to do. Be the weirdos who see "it", and then be the ones to show it to those who can't see it by themselves. I think one of our greatest curses as humans is our brain's ability to map the new and turn it, instantly, into the old. Ramble over.
Top man Simon. Like you, ive left my garden grow wild this year, mainly at the behest of my 18 year old daughter.. So lovely to give wildlife a chance to thrive. You can keep theme parks, leisure parks, so says DD3 Alice👍👍
The ways you choose to explore life are very endearing Simon. It's often times fun to wander with you. Thank you for this brief respite as well. Cheers!
Thank you. We could trade place. The experience would be just like home. I have the same glider you have. I also have similar bird feeders. I thank you for inviting all of us into your lovely garden. I feel most at home there.
I really love when you use this kind of footage in your videos, and now you give us an entire video of that! Hecc yeah >:D Also I wanted to ask, is it ok if I use this footage for my visual work? (like visuals for my dj sets for example)
Lovely video. That's an interesting suet ball feeder and obviously a winner. Could someone please identify the large, greedy, dusky bird? Cheers from upstate New York.
4:50 👍 When the starling gets dive-bombed by another starling. If I made a 40 minute video of my feeders, it would just be 40 minutes of aggressive starling wrestling like that.
The doves feeding off the stuff on the ground seemed very skittish. I felt like I was almost able to startle them myself by moving. Then I saw the camera move a bit and I wondered if they were wary of you.
So at first i thought cool and quirky but whos going to watch even a fraction of this? Then i guess i just watched 20 minuets of it while painting and it was really relaxing. So that was kinda interesting
Regional song differences are used by female birds to differentiate local birds from outsiders, not your intention for this video but it plays in with the channel's theme. It was so restful to watch
Simon you have such a brilliant aesthetic. I love the visuals and tempo of your videos. Plus of course the content, which is smart and emotionally honest. I’m a big fan of yours and I wish you every success.
There is so much more to this video than birds, insects and rain. Well done. Although not educational, I do feel enlightened from having watched it. It’s a remedy for spending three minutes of my life watching TikTok and feeling stupider for watching it.
I live in coastal NE Scotland (Peterhead) so, along with the herring gulls (scurries) , which I also find fascinating to follow - I have a family who rebuild their nest in view from my window every year and hatched a baby a month ago which is just about ready to fly - I have mostly pigeons, sparrows (spurgies), starlings, crows & blackbirds, which I feed several times a day. Thanks for your lovely video. Your videos on every subject are absolutely wonderful.
I'm curious to ask you if anyone is working on an online translator for Anglo Saxon or Old English? Granted it probably wouldn't have millions of users, but it seemed fun to entertain the idea and ask.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Anglian_English - when you are back on it, wonder if addressing Anglian English would be good ?? It still seems incredible that across many linguistic spheres, people rarely talk about it - even with a train line and A roads going to the region now, the Fens drained, reducing it's insularity, it still seems almost invisible. Yet, this is understood to be the area in which 'English' first began to formulate and diverge from the continent ? Also, it's influence on to the south east of England from migration in the industrial era and so on. Is it not high time to do an in depth look at this fascinating root area of 'English' ? Did you know, up until the 40s, people still used the word 'Bearn' for chid for example ? Peter Trudgill is the Linguistic expert on Anglian, being from Norfolk and his name being dialect for: Threadgold, a name for a kind of threader in the weaving cottage industry.
