The Eagle and the Squirrel: A story about about wildlife photography and friendship 

March, 2024, since finding this channel, catching up on several of your videos a day and this one I think must go back towards the beginning of what has become an incredible journey. Northern Sweden is so beautiful, the cliche of "Winter Wonderland". The resident creatures beautiful, and the photography beautiful. I think it is wonderful to be able to have such a dream and make a career following that dream, and helping the creatures we share this planet with as well. Hope you are successful in saving Squirrel Wood".

I has seen 2 of Your videos, this one and that of three 4 young squirrels, I love both, the nature the animals, and the tranquillity of You, the nature and of Conny. As a Swede my self, from the southern parts, It is always a joy to see these great areas of forest, without interupption from human activity, I will start to subscribe on Your channel. THANK YOU!

Thank you Dani. Och tack Conny! I grew up in Stockholm, then Göteborg, then UK where I have stayed. The Sweden you talk about is the wild Sweden i really miss. Your photography is photography at its best, ie when photography itself comes a distant second after the subject of nature and the experience of being immersed in it. Beautiful and inspiring.

I like your saying: "I saw more squrirrels than people ..."

What a great video Dani! Real friendships are not bound together by age but by a common interest. The more experienced friend is a library with open doors to the other friend. When time runs out for the library, the doors will close for ever. My best friend is 45 years younger than me & most people just don't get it but that's their problem.

Man, this video sure did put a smile on my face.

There is something about your video and the presentation, it transports me to that place at that time. Being a nature lover, and a landscape photographer I can understand how much planning and hard work went behind it. Keep it up Dani.

Awesome cinematography, excellent video. Thanks, Dani.

I have watched thousands of videos on YT... Occasionally you come across something really really special.......This is one of those occasions.... Beautifully filmed and edited... Thank you from your newest admirer :-))) xx

Beautiful video, I've been to Finnish Lapland before and been in awe of its beauty, so I can only imagine what it must have been like to live there for a while.

Having a really good friend much older than you is a wonderful thing.

So sweet, i love the snow ❤

Also,The way the eagle swoops in.!WHAT A SHOT!i also feel the time needed for you and Conny to get the footage.

Beautiful work

Nice film Dani, i myself have been to Conny,s..He,s a great guy, and his set up is second to none..Keep up the good work.

I love the quiet in the background...hate the cold all around😁

What a wonderful friendship you have🤗 Love your videos x x

*Fabulous!*

I am so happy for you to be able to experience this wonderful experience. The two of you with a vast difference in age, yet able to learn and share. I’m 71y.o., lucky to experience lots, however in the last year discovered wildlife photograph, now my life has slowed, when I hike it is no longer a quest to get from point a to b, now it’s a journey to discover and appreciate as much as I can along the way. Nature is a tough survival for every plant and animal, each is only trying to survive and reproduce.

Such a beautiful video! Can't stop watching it...and those eagles, wow!

Wow what a friend makes you hope that one day i will find a good friend again its hard to trust people but a few things have given me hope that nice people are out there exspecially since ive started volunteering. Really like your videos

Nice to hear the Swedish language! I understand most of it. Being Danish helps because the languages are extremely similar. The funny thing is that most Danes only understand about 22% of spoken Swedish, and Swedes only understand about 11% of spoken Danish, so when we interact we tend to resort to English. The reason I understand more is because I've sung a lot of Swedish songs, by Bellman, Wennerberg, Sjöberg, Adolphson and others. I've seen a Kongeørn only once: 6 April 2017. Unfortunately I was at work and had no time to photograph it.

Fantastic pics Dani Connor and friend !!1 🥝

Mesmerising content 👍☃️ very happy finding your channel

Ein selten schöner Kanal.

Love this animal so cute :)

Amazing video! Truly! ❤

fantastic...incredible...so glad I found this

Hi Dani , Andrew here in Ottawa Canada, good to see another video from you. A superb video and I sense you have a wonderful future ahead of you. Never give up and follow your passion. Look forward to more content from you. Cheers Andrew

This is wonderful. Educational, breathtaking, and mesmerizing, calming. Living in a winter wonderland tracking wonderful creatures makes enduring the conditions so much nicer than slogging to and from the city dodging cars on slippery highways and roads.

You are blessed to have a great mentor. I prefer eagles and squirrels over people too. Your subjects are not your quarry but your friends.

It is amazing how a relationship can build between human and the wild, but it is at least as amazing what happens when Young and Old(ish...;- ) meet each other, with kindness and mutual respect of each other's qualities....

Amazing beautiful film and photography what an amazing photographer

Nature is the best

Brilliant film.

Great. Lovely. Greetings from Chicago & Wisconsin U.S.A.

What a wonderful video. Great story and stunning photos. Love this channel.😊

Amazing beautiful film 🎥 ❤ 😍 thanks for sharing 👍

Thank you for sharing this. I have not been to Sweden for 40 years, and you have reminded me of how lovely it is in the north. One day, I must visit again. (also, thanks for getting the calendars out before the holidays. My coworkers keep trying to steal the one I brought to work)

what are the chances, kalvträsk of all places! think i can see vitberget in one of the winter shots with the eagles! lovely place.

I really enjoy your videos. You do a great job with them. It makes me wanna go out with you and take some pictures again.

beautiful

Your Videos are so amazing! Squirrels are my favourite animals! Really makes me go out and take pics now :)

Thanks for sharing this Dani, it’s very special 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This one is maybe my favorite video. Maybe bacause of the eagle or maybe because of the story, or maybe because of them both, i'm not sure:)

Klaus be like: "WHAAAAAT!!! YOU HAVENT HEARD ABOUT THE EAGLE AND THE SQUIRREL?" "Well now I'm going to have to tell you that story in order to understand this one"

The world is so beautiful 🥹

Wonderful moment of calm to watch this, helping to put aside the stormy news surrounding us all.

Beautiful, really beautiful.

Absolutely stunning! I've been a wildlife videographer / photographer / camera trapper for years and I'm so inspired by Dani's channel. Can you teach an old Dog new tricks ? I'm living proof. Love the tutorials on kit and composition. Never been one for social media sharing unless I've had a few, but maybe it's time this old fart tried to share some of his amazing experiences too. Dani's channel is going to go mainstream one day, 15k to millions of subscribers, it will be well deserved. Best of luck Dani.

Fantastic video. A pleasure following you so that you can get the ultimate shot. The snow looks beautiful but must be cold there. How many degrees?

Wow what a dream to be living!❤️

Great video!

Wonderful video! Enthralling.

so nice

What a wonderful video!

That’s the pure love

Very peaceful video, love it 🙂

Thank you for sharing ...loved this video ... new to your channel

❤❤

Beautiful video and your laughs together are just wonderful. Have you photographed Grey Squirrels in London and are Red Squirrels at the place where you filmed this?

Nice video, Like n.101 and Greetings from Italy :)

Amazing videos, I think I'm in love

Subscribed only just found your channel awesome !👍😍

Loved this piece! Learned a lot. Fascinating...

Die BESTEN DARSTELLER in der ganzen Szene🤗😂

😻❤️😎❤️🎄👍❤️

Just out of curiosity how did you fund your trip to Sweden and equipment, do you do professional photography as you started or work a side job?

@12:19 final shot of horror indie movie's protagonist being pulled into stranger's truck under a white blanket.

Дани, А где твои фотографии посмотреть

I have elderly friends and I find absolutely nothing wrong or strange about it (~:

I'd be the wierd one to go for the finches, well i also like the nuthatches flying around (assuming that's what i keep seeing flicker by the screen in your vids)

Swedish really sounds like a German having a stroke.

You two should have children

After watching a first vid last night I was happy to see another one showing up. I totally can relate to why you love what you are doing, and its so beautiful and inspiring to observe 🌎💚🌞

After watching another video here, (breaking my heart) the current trend to kill adult Otters, steal the babies, and the flourishing market to sell them as 'pets', (wrong!! doesn't even cover it, words just can't) .... your video's are mending my heart. This is exactly how we should respect wildlife, and interact with them, as the Red's did with you guys, by choice, patience and love. Thank you. I subscribed to you Dani, can't wait to see more of your work.

Dani, you have the right attitude to become a really, really good and extraordinary wildlife photographer. I'll cheer you on as much as I can, and await what else you will manage to come up with in the years to come. Patience is a virtue, and you have loads of it!

Intressting. My name is also Conny. Im a wildlife photograper and my favorit objects is squirrels and eagles but Wite tailed eagles 👌🏻

Gorgeous video, amazing footage wonderful mood (the music, the snow conni talking Swedish), the hides, Squirrels, the eagles , and finally so cool to see conni and you Interacting - I could have watched it for way longer :)

Great video tyvm...I feel like I need another blanket for some reason....from Knoxville , Tennessee

Finally got around to watching this and it was beautiful to see. You and Conny have such a great friendship and you both learn lots from each other 🙂

This is a lovely story with some gorgeous photography. Well done. H

Wonderful!!!🧡🧡😍

You are amazing talent Dani !

yes, special indeed, thank you for a pleasant rest from my day ❤

You're a very good visual story teller. I saw your viral young Red Squirrel video on Twitter last year, and you follow me, but I'd not checked out your RU-vid channel before, until watching your Red Squirrel video yesterday.

Such a nice film and so much fun you have. It makes me happy. Found the video on Conny's site, but of course it must have been Dani who made it. 😀😀😀

Amazing film! loved this so much!

These are really cool films Dani.As always a great love for subject is so integral to the spirit of the filmmaking.And you express it beautifully.

You really make me want to photograph those eagles.... Super Video, very lovely story, fantastic animals and two very cool people. That's some good inspiration and motivation! 😊

Truyện thơ Đường xưa mây trắng trọn bộ chúc mọi người nghe hạnh phúc cảm ơn nhiều. Thi Văn sấm giảng trọn bộ chúc mọi người nghe hạnh phúc cảm ơn nhiều..1987..

Incredible story nice place to hunt wild fotograph, Aku pengagummu dari twitter Semua ceritamu sungguh keren dani

mostly birds Small creatures are afraid. This is a big surprise. it's a wonderful friendship

What a simply delightful relaxing video. Very touching and simply beautiful surroundings.

Dani ! Good content about your gear and relation to Conny, but who are you ? How do you make a living on your work ? What bakground do you have and how is you daily life when you dont work as an "poet" in the forest.? You named something about a work at the Nature Museum in London .... why not tell us, "admirers" 😉

When people say that animals do not have emotions - I don't think that they understand that animals are capable of great emotions, but unlike us they don't have the luxury of acting on that emotion. Try and condense animal behaviour only to instinct, to urges and fight or flight responses is not very only demeaning, but also very shortsighted. We see emotion in domestic animals the most as they are under our protection, and are less under pressure to survive than wild animals. Do animals feel disappointment? You can see it clearly when you have the dog in the car and you end up at the vet and not the park. But if you look at penguins - if they drop their egg during the transfer from male to female, the disappointment is so great that they never look at each other again and never mate again. Or when an old matriarch brings her herd to a watering hole but finds it dry. She leads them on elsewhere as they don't have the luxury of wallowing in that disappointment. Never forget that we are still animals

I don’t bait I take images of wildlife in their natural environment an capture their natural behavior, maybe that’s ok where you’re from

So…. I have to admit I came into this video hoping to see an Eagle that was like, ‘yo squirrel, you my dawg’

Beautiful Video, inspiring and enjoyable. Many thanks for sharing.

wonderfull pictures and a wonderfull friendship you found.