I am a naturalist. Nature heals and invigorates me. I’ve recently made friends with a deer. Her name is Honey, named so for her love of eating my honeysuckle. She comes daily to my yard and I graciously feed her sourdough bread, apples, biscuits, and oatmeal pancakes. I sit on the ground and let her come to me. I hand feed her and pet her nose. One time she got so close I could’ve kissed her. I feel so very connected to her.
This is a masterpiece. Everything about it is perfect: the scenery, the cinematography, the narrative, the music, and of course your wonderful way of conveying the majesty of the natural world. I smiled all the way through! Thank you for all you are doing, and kudos for your ever-improving skills. I'm happy for your well-deserved success.
I agree. Dani's videos are extremely good now aren't they? Who is picking the music and where is it sourced from? I used to offer constructive criticism and tips when she started but this is amazing.
In one short phrase: I love this video so much - watched it three times in a row. The balcony door is open and outside it's raining - what a coincidence... Thank you for doing what you LOVE and for sharing it with us. BIG INSPIRATION !
Gorgeous how your footages are synced with piano music, adding to the magic of the scenery🎹💖 Just like you oscillate in harmony with our wonderful nature💓💚 Thank you Dani for interesting insights, with love, passion and a good sense of humour ⛈😊
@DaniConnorWild Thank you to RU-vid for suggesting your sight. I don't know what I clicked on that your sight suggested, but I am forever grateful. All of your work that I have watched to date (only a few so far) has been speechless. The quality of your productions, the angelic tone in your voice, and the beauty of both you and nature as you capture it are beyond any words one can imagine. Thank you for sharing the beauty of nature and the blessings of your life as nature is viewed through you. I, too, consider myself to be a naturalist. Many blessings to you in 24'.
I just went on a whale watch out of Boston two weeks ago and we were so lucky to have a naturalist on board our ship. She was incredibly knowledgeable and made our journey the best it could've been! We saw almost twenty-five Humpback whales that day and because of her we learned about their groups, their habitat within the ocean sanctuary and even their ages and names. I highly recommend seeking out a naturalist on your next nature journey!
@@j.b.4340 I'm familiar wiuth the tour that @NYWildflower was referencing. Yes, they may know what is "in the books" BUT these are people that are from NOAA and other wildlife foundations. Since the whales are not on a "Schedule" these naturalists also must go by their own EXPERIENCES from their own research, etc. that they have gone through to be considered a Nature Guide. These guides will ALSO talk about other species (whales, dolphins, sea birds, etc) that are seen and are very in-tune to anything that they may see out there.
The fog was epic! Amazing! I moved from southern Europe to the North of Sweden in February and I can't wait to see more of it! I watch your channel because you live in Sweden now and I'm so happy that you are showing more of it! 🌲🦌🔥
Just beautiful. The quality of your photograpy whether it is raining or misty is always awesome. That with your obvious pleasure in what you do makes your videos a pleasure to watch !
I have been a hunter for many years, something I am very proud and grateful of, I absolutely love this channel. If you ever need help getting nearer to the animals let me know. As a hunter people don’t realise how much we not only understand nature but how much we respect it. Pick some clothes that you are happy with, take in consideration the area you are going to, when you shower in the morning don’t use scented soap, and no perfume, don’t was the clothes until end of season. Then use unscented cleaner. Always approach so the wind is in your face never the other way
Do you show your respect killing the animals for fun? When the human race will understand we can be part of nature without the need to dominate it, it will always be too late. Try going in the wood without your rifle; perhaps you'll see that you don't need it to have a reason to be there.
I always loved being in the wild, hiking and camping. Later on in life became a hunter and found out your senses sharpens when hunting, it’s like pulling of filters and opening up. You’re more aware of your surroundings, it’s like connecting to older instincts from the time we lived of the land. I could just sit and taking everything that was happening around me. I had been joining a friend hunting but not carrying a gun, so not actively hunting myself but that hadn’t triggered the heightened senses. It was later on as I passed my hunter license tests and actively hunted that this occurred. Hunted mostly seabirds and occasionally deer. Shot very few birds and no deer at all because there where not many sea birds worth of hunting (as food) and never had a clean shot om deer (I only shoot when I know I will make a killing shot). I stopped hunting because I don’t like killing animals if I don’t need the meat (I don’t) but I do understand why some people hunt. It like something old and basic awakens in you, your senses suddenly heightens and you are in the now, focused like you never been before. Now I rather hunt with a camera, or just walk thru a forest listening to the sounds and taking in all the different scents. Some people look down on hunters and call them killers. Some are, they only hunt for the kill and trophy. But some do it because that’s what we where and still are: hunters & collectors. It’s in our genes. Humanity wouldn’t had existed without those skills.
@@Hiznogood "Now I rather hunt with a camera" This. I fully understand what you are saying but the rush of " the heightened senses" doesn't entitle us to take the life of animals, as we don't do it with other humans. Nor our genes can justify us. You could say the same for war, sexual predation, rape, incest... yet, humanity has evolved and has new moral standards. Animals should be included in these standards. We are not entitled. We are not superior. We share a planet, that's all.
@@Hiznogood very true in what you say, listening to everything is so important love it the amount of times in summer I would get in a hide hunt, listen so relaxing too I would fall asleep
FINALLY!!! A new video 🥳 I just love the calmness of these videos. They're literally the peak of my day, don't ever stop making them please!! Edit: Between 13:02 and right before 13:07 there is someone walking in the fog/mist further away from the camera slightly in front of her at head level
She isn't out in the deep forest, the light poles can be seen. My guess it's a floodlit trail. Wikipedia: "An floodlit trail (Norwegian: Lysløype) (Swedish: Elljusspår) is an electrically illuminated trail, often completely or partly in a forest." A bit peculiar that someone else was up at that time walking it but the location wasn't strange.
@funkyribs the 13:02 - 13:07 figure is Dani as well, somehow she has been copied or ghosted or mirrored into the background. I don't think it's another person. Unless it's an actual ghost ..
I have just found your channel and I am loving it. I live in Portland, Oregon ? I forage whenever I can. I Tell me appreciate what you’re doing and that you’re teaching it in such a nice, gentle natural manner. Thank you for taking your time to do this.
That last tip is very true. I see so many foreigners be afraid of coming to Australia, of being in the bush. The biggest danger to you in Australia is yourself. It's probably different with big cats or things that actively hunt humans, but snakes and spiders? You can literally walk away.
I was just thinking this 1 hour ago, after I watched a 'bear eats man' video, and I was going to post something along the lines of what you said. We don't have anything that will rip the door off your campervan and crush your skull and eat you, which is what this bear did to this man. No joke - "Bear Rips Camper Door Off And Eats Young Logger". I'll stay in Australia, thank you!
A wonderfully serene video, lovely to see your pure joy being immersed in nature! Well said, there's always something to observe and learn in nature. It's nice to see and hear the Swedish environment. It reminds me of when I step into a new habitat, the soundscape such as birdsongs are welcoming, yet new and excitingly unfamiliar initially. Warm greetings from Australia!
Thank you Dani for sharing your new amazing video, how do you manage to create such great videos again and again, thank you very much and take care of you 🐿 ❤️
I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes thunderstorms. I love you videos, as a country boy it always pleases me to see others enjoying our scenery and wildlife.
When I was very young I was outdoors way more than inside, not unusual for farm boys of my generation. Looking and being amazed is where it started. Then I got hooked on the golden guides and the field guides. I could not tolerate snakes but everything else, plant or animal I wanted to name. Birds especially excited me, first the local birds but then the other birds in the field guides. It was my luck that in their fifties my parents and I spent about three weeks a year camping out west and down south. In college I decided on biology and became attached to the main entomologist there. So here I am retired and back at what I did as a boy this time with one eye on the wonder of it all and the other eye on trying to learn and expand on what is known about the creatures around . Unfortunately my young legs are gone and I am stuck here most of the time. The internet has opened up worlds to me that I could have hardly guessed would exist and I have started to work as a Wikipedia contributor.
Hello Dani, I started following you just a week ago, I enjoy your videos, photographs, music, scene and your own story. I hope to go back for years and watch all the videos you have. I feel I have “discovered” you. I don’t actually follow anyone specifically, I follow animals and nature, regreening, rewilding, regeneration. Those are my main interests. Love how you speak about your squirrels. I think your videos are so different because you present yourself in an honest way, when you are excited, tired or other. I also admire your attitude which feeds my dreams and make them look more real. How big is the gofundme land? I feel inspired by you.
Wow! Thank you for sharing this gift with us. Stunning! I agree that this is a masterpiece! Beautiful! You are sharing something we can all learn from. I’m going to share this with others. Thank you!
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Awesome video, everything was so perfect and beautiful. Thanks for putting so much effort in it❤
trekking in thr RMK Estonian forest , setting up camp in a clearing , the moss was two feet thick and as comfortable as a foam mattress .....unforgettable
Hello Dani, we humans are part of nature and need nature. But we want to control them and thereby distance ourselves from nature. That's the wrong way. Nature is stronger than us humans and will simply get us out of the way if we "disrupt". And this is where you come in. You show us what nature looks like and how it works. Especially your last tip about not fearing nature is a prerequisite. You explain very well what can happen when meeting different animals and how we should interpret their behavior. This is something we should all know if we weren't so far removed from nature. For my part, I love the walks through nature and the animals and plants that I can observe and of course also photograph. It is important to be careful and not to destroy or disturb anything. Thank you for these wonderful videos and the hard work behind them. Hopefully, with your help, mankind will be able to live in harmony with nature again. I wish you a lot of fun and success in your work. Greetings from Germany
You, yes you, are just a smidge more gorgeous than work, videography, etc.. that you put out! I’m a big fan!! I was married to a South African for 12+ years, so the accent mesmerizes me. Yours is so simply smooth and so softly attractive!
Great video Dani. You learning always new things and every time I watch your videos it inspire me to get outside and learn new things. Keep doing what you do. Absolutely amazing!
Love it!! This video made me leave my bed and go out in the forest today! Looked for squirrels, but didn’t see any. But it still was so wonderful just to walk and look, listen and observe! 💚 And. I love your accent! Lovely to listen to!
As an autistic I have always had great difficulty adjusting to life in general. When my parents were still alive we used to have a house in the city and a house off grid, where would would spend half our time and also the only place I was at peace and could be myself. My mother was very soft spoken, your videos remind me of all these beautiful moments, thank you.
HI Dani a long time ago when I was about 25yrs old I was playing golf but not well and I hit my ball into a large stone dove cot it was about 20ft high and and about 8ft wide circular to get in there was a little arch close to 3ft high anyway I got in and picked up my ball then I. heard this noise like scratching then I saw this absolutely incredible sight it was two butterflies and I think they were mating. I felt very privileged so as silently as I could I left them to their amorous enjoyment I have never seen anything like it since and now I am 78yrs old I hope they had a fruit barring and happy life.
I’ve often heard people say: “I want to get back to Nature”. I respond by saying, We Are Nature! The Natural of Mother Earth is reality, not 9-5! Nature never lies and is always true, real and balanced. It is why people flock to natural and beautiful places on holiday or just to get away from it all even for a little. We are all part of Creation and Creation is Us, the human family. The Life Force, Spirit, Essence the Soul. Kind Thanks and Many Blessings with the True Balance and Loving Arms of our Mother The Earth! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Great to see that you have all these opportunities to experience many wonderful things in nature. The information and the video are well presented and look forward to watching your many other videos. In Canada we think we have nature covered, but you prove it is all over the world., of course. Love the fog shots as well at 3 in the morning.
What a wonderful Video. Very good tips, beautyful pictures and such a charmig you. Thank you for that. Especiall for your final Statement, that nature will never try to hurt us when we respect its rules.
Always a pleasure to watch your videos. They are so beautifull, filled with your calm, and of course with many things to learn Thanks vcery much for your great job
Gosh these Mossy forests you showcase here are all over Sweden, especially near Gothenburg. These forests make Sweden so special, these are the soul and heart of the country. Mossy grounds can be up to 50 cm or more on thickness, they hold so much water and life, they are the most amazing forests you will ever see. Sadly you can find one of the most enchanted Swedish forests and will never see them back because they will get cut down and scrapped by machines everywhere. I lost some of my favourite forests in Sweden to clearcut forestry in recent years.
I couldn’t agree more! Thank you for bringing the subject of deforestation up. The destruction of these forests must stop at once! It’s a travesty that a modern and progressive country like Sweden still allow for this kind of barbarism. I live in Sweden and every time I visit nature I’m met with yet another destroyed forest. On an average it take about 500 years for a forest to grow back into what a real forest is around here. I’m not talking about the pine or spruce plantations that the industry is managing. I’m talking about a REAL forest. It is absolutely heartbreaking to be witnessing this devastation!
@@DragonsFan. Yes, that video is an eye-opener on what’s really going on and how the industry is not caring one bit about the impact on the environment their activities have. In that video we are also informed how little the forestry industry actually contribute to the overall Swedish economy. It is minuscule in comparison to all other values the nation is generating. And yet we are constantly bombarded with the same arguments that our forest industry is the foundation for Swedish economy. In the video “More of everything” we get the real numbers and it becomes clear that the Swedish forest industry is bringing destruction to the environment on a massive scale without bringing much in the form of revenue back to the economy. It make me furious every time I think about it!
@@freetibet1000 I personally saw forestry machines in the forests and workers strangly look at me back as I pass them. Clearcutting of these magical forests is like a fucking nightmare that is real. And now I have this bad feeling when walking into the Swedish forests wonder when will they clear-cut this area. Could happen any moment. They clear-cut the magical old-natural forest's but the worthless plantation next to it is left standing, this is the worst system ever, and it is very smartly thought out and they know exactly what they doing.
@@DragonsFan. Thank you for your comment. I totally share your sentiments. The thing is that so much else dies when these old trees are cut down too. The whole ecological structure involving thousands of plant, animal and insect life dies with it. Spices that will never have a chance to return again. As I said earlier it takes at-least 500 years for such an environment to regain something near what was lost in a days work with the chainsaw. I ask myself, what have made us humans so insensitive to the consequences of our own actions? Why do we allow for such destruction? Why do we even allow for destruction on this scale to be part of the cynical profit calculations that is struck in boardrooms far away from reality? It is this type of absolute madness that have made me loose all respect for the leadership of this country and all countries that act in similar ways. It’s a crime against all coming generations of human beings and all sorts of life on this planet! The level of hypocrisy that is shown every time a representative from the corporate and political establishment is trying to justify this willfully destruction is astounding! It is so shameful to witness this relentless justification of a practice that future generation people are going to find utterly barbaric and egoistic.
Awesome vid and point of view. I spend so much time in nature, most of the time, busy taking care of the land, chores, building, repairing. However, there is always a time in the day or night where I go in the forest to take a 10 minute walk, which turns out into 1 hour, sometimes 2! Even in -20C, I've stopped during a night hike and took a 10 min nap on a dead tree with 30cm snow on it. It was just surreal. Been doing this for 20 years and never tired of it. I'm a ''go fast'' person all the time person, except for when I walk in the woods. It is my meditation time, walking so slow and contemplating my forest which I've seen so many times. But it changes and there is always something new, different or evolving. Like you say, watch for the tracks. There are so many and it's nice to think about how the inhabitants roam here when you see those tracks.
Wow. Those fog scenes. Add some scary music, make the crow a bit more disctinct and you got a chilling horror movie. Especially that road looked haunted.
Great video, Dani! Thank you so, so much for all these wonderful scenes from the forest and all your shared thoughts about nature! Greetings from the Austrian forest
completely subscribe to this, wish many more would open their eyes, actually see and enjoy the nature nearby, and perhaps learn to respect it more. wonderful photography and voice, this is elite youtube work.
Once again a beautiful vlog Dani. Loved the monkeys eating the leaves and getting drunk. Can I ask what trees the leaves are from……….. Asking for a friend 😉😁
I live in the same way as you here in Sweden out on the country side So we see the same wild animals in our forrests.. My dog you can see here and she really love to follow out in the nature on fishing trips or just hiking Take care and go on with this videos from our country..☺👍 Greetings...John We call it Troll forrest where you made this movie.. Where no machine have destroyed the land or forrest..😀👍
Hi 👋, Great naturalist, you soon will have a program on television I am resume if not already, do you live in a beautiful part of the world with amazing scenery, you are very privileged, I have been watching a couple who live in Canada. They are building a log cabin on the side of a mountain, and they quite often have chipmunks that come and see them, and they’ve even got to a point where they can feed them by using their hands, I live in the Correze region, I quite often see various different types of deer, I’ve seen pine martens, loads of red squirrels like you’ve got, and some amazing butterflies. Damselflies dragonflies., even to the point where they come and sit on my arms or fly and layby me.. I’ve even had a photograph taken with one sitting on my head, and back in 20013/4 came into the property that we had purchased an old Mill, and there was a large dragonfly stuck in a cobweb in the window, very carefully open the window, and I managed to take all of it and released it outside, this was in the morning, a very strange occurrence happened later in the day I was in the garden and loads of dragonflies came and hovered around me, this was very spooky as if to say thank you, I used to have a very good camera, but I had to sell it a few years ago. How do I say needs must , But I have been given a very very large pair of binoculars , I believe they made in Germany and the only way you can use them. They have to be mounted on a large tripod, they are great for looking at the moon, I can see craters very easily, I sometimes go outside with them and look up at forest line. And see Kites sitting in the trees, I find your territorial very interesting, Phil from the moulin France.
Beautiful video! I am only happy when in nature. I understand animal behavior and I love them very much. I have a blind possum as a pet who is amazing and such a great pet! Also 2 bunnies and 2 large dogs. And about 20 squirrels who come for food daily.
Wonderful video. There is a national park in Sweden called Tresticklan. It’s one of the largest untouched old forest areas in Sweden, 560 square miles. I can recommend it.
