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Oh my, I'm SO GLAD someone with your background is appreciative of this! I hope you have found the older compilations, there is an entire play list of them, going back about two years. Here is the link - ruclips.net/p/PLZvHnJFhc_cpEN2ayJu8kxd0TnN8WE0Ez I'm sure I have plenty of birds misidentified, too, sometimes I just can't see them well, and I still have to look up many in my book or online. Sadly it seems I didn't get near the number of species at migration that I did last year :( I'm thrilled every time I catch something new, of course. Thank you so much for the IDs - I usually try to figure them out, but if I feel that my guess is likely to be wrong, I'd rather leave it as a question mark. The location is SW Creek county, so not exactly in Tulsa, but not that far away :) And you'll find LOTS more species in the older videos, I think you'll like it :) :)

@@focused-on-nature I didn't seen any misidentifications at all except for the crow/grackle mix up!! You're good!!! The Yellow Billed Cuckoo up on the log-loved that behavior-I've never seen them act like that. SW Creek County, huh? Wow. Just total wow! Is it a rural area? I'm so curious, because there's such a great variety of species! I'll definitely check out your other videos, and again, thanks for posting this. I need to see some beauty more than usual these days. :( Do you mind if I share with other bird loving friends? Leslie

@@snlself The Yellow-billed Cuckoos are such cool birds, a couple of years ago I was chasing them around the property to catch them with my better camera, and they were always hiding in the treetops :D Then I'd see one fly across the yard/ pasture and I could never catch them in flight. Love 'em! :D They always crack me up when they're at the creek, they're so weird :D You'll find more of them in the videos that are from the hottest part of the summer(s). Don't forget to check out the nighttime compilation of Chuck-Will's-Widows, I'm not sure it's on that bird playlist. I noticed there were some others missing from that list, and I need to check it sometime so everything that belongs there gets put on that list. And yes, it's rural, just cow pastures around us. Also yes, please, share with everyone who you think might enjoy seeing the videos - not enough people remember to appreciate the gift that is nature and wildlife around us! Thank you for watching! :)

@@focused-on-nature oh man, I SAW your Chuck-Will's video!!!!! It's amazing!!! They're almost impossible to get on camera, for obvious reasons, and yours is a beautiful example of how they hunt/function at night. And I agree; it was a juvenile with parent!!! Squeeeee!!! I adore all of the nightjars, but man, having them in rehab is super challenging. Getting an adult to eat is almost impossible; they're so hard-wired to catch insects on the wing (same as Chimney Swifts) that they absolutely will NOT grab moving insects in a bowl placed right in front of them. Nor will the babies I've had. :( So it's all about force feeding, which is super stressful for not only the bird, but for the rehabber. I had a lot of fun going through your videos last night, and will keep watching them-your Winter footage is so, so beautiful. All of them are just really well done. How many cameras do you typically put up? I'm SO glad you're doing this; the only way we might stand a chance of protecting the wild things is to educate people about how very lucky we are to live among such beauty.

Oh, on the Yellow Billed Cuckoos-are they not a fabulous species?????? I've had a lot of babies in rehab, and omg, the sounds they make when begging for food!!! Deep in their throat, wings fluttering....just fabulous!!! But something I've noticed about Cuckoos over the years; they seem especially prone to hitting windows and low fencing. :( I mean, I get in a lot of window strike birds...but more Cuckoos than any other. Not sure if it's a vision thing, or if they weigh so much they can't divert in time to avoid, or what. But oh, they're such gorgeous birds. The inside of their mouths has little suction cups to help them hold on to caterpillars! Soooo cool.

I'm glad you got to see it! Videos are hard even with a good camera with which you can set the shutterspeed lower than the framerate. I guess it could work up north with very bright Auroras, but it's a different story here at lower latitudes, it's just so faint.

Thank You! for watching! :)

I'm sure it varies, but I've seen it three times now in 2024, and I've caught it more times than that because even if you can't see it, a camera can :) So I guess the answer is - more often than you'd expect :D The key to it is awareness and checking the possibilities often enough to know what's going on :)

@@focused-on-nature Seeing the Aurora Borealis in Oklahoma is considered very rare, only occurring during strong geomagnetic storms, which happen infrequently, meaning you might only see it a few times in a decade, if at all; most Oklahomans would likely never see it in their lifetime due to its southern location relative to the aurora's typical viewing area.

@@larryskylar3394 That's correct. The display in May was fabulous here, and I expect to see it again tonight, apart from seeing it already once this week. The one Monday night was very faint, but still visible if you knew to look for it. I do have big hopes for tonight.

Most of the flying stuff were airplanes and satellites, though :D I think I saw two meteors, but I didn't check if they were caught in the time lapse :)

Haha, they're so pretty!! :D

Yeah, hawks are pretty big, and some hawks are even bigger than others! :D

You're most welcome :)

Most are local birds that you see all the time, so those are easy. During migration, though, we sometimes get birds that only travel through, and I have to look up what they are. It's fun to see new ones and learn about them :)

Heads up! There is a G4 Solar storm watch in effect, everyone might get to see them! Go here for info - www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-storm-watch-10-11-october

@@focused-on-naturethanks for the link! 😃

Thank you! :)

I'm glad you enjoyed it! :) The coyote is coming up on four years since she got hurt - but she has family that help her :) So she's OK. Right now she comes to get persimmons from my back yard at night. The apple crop was horribly bad this year, so no apples for her :(

@@focused-on-nature That is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing :) Hopefully there will be apples next year!

@@HareMoose I hope so, too! The wildlife sure love to have them! :)

Thanks for watching! :)

Yes! That's why I love the sounds because you can tell the other animals are warning everyone about the predator! Same thing in the Barred owl video where the Blue Jays get deafeningly loud! I had to adjust the volume a bunch on that one.

No, I haven't :( The cloud would need to be pretty far away where you could see the top of it, and then catching the moment it happens - a time lapse might miss it because there are pauses, and if it's faint it may not show on long exposure. Would be the coolest thing ever, though!

Thanks, Wendy :)

Thank you! :)

Most of the time the coyotes don't mind the cameras, but I know they can see the red glow at night (or whatever color it is to them) - but sometimes it startles them. The cameras also make a faint click when they start recording, and I'm sure they can hear it. In general, coyotes are much more wary of their surroundings than all the other animals, and react to odd things more.

Yeah, I have the time/ temp strip turned off because I don't like it. Sorry about that :(

She's awesome :) The other day I gave her the ring that's on the milk jug bottle cap, and she went nuts with it! It was like you installed a turbo charger in her :D

I've been hearing them after dark almost every day now after getting that video, it makes me happy that they're around. Such cool birds! :)

Thank you!! And yes, Roadrunners are pretty cool birds - brutal, but still cool. Thank you for watching :)

We're pretty rural, nothing big close by, except the interstate is a few miles away and when the wind is just right you can hear it pretty loud. Outside of that, airplanes, trains and lawnmowers make the most part of human created noise. Thanks for watching! :)

I hope we find out sometime soon! :)

She's a beauty isn't she? :)

Yes, and it's beautiful in so many ways! :)

Isn't he adorable? :D

Thank you for watching :)

There are some tiny fish here and there - it's so shallow for most part that there's not even enough water for a tiny fish to swim through. The "deepest" spots might be 10-12 inches, and they're all very small areas. There's a waterfall (water only goes over it after it rains hard enough, otherwise it's just a dry rock), and beneath it is a deeper pool, maybe 3ish feet, not quite sure, but it has some bigger fish. When it rains hard the smaller ones get washed down to the small "deep" spots.

The most unexpected catch, but very welcome at the same time! :D

@@focused-on-nature no kidding! People in Texas were seeing it, too.

Thank you for watching! :)

Yeah, the jumpers that have the little tufts are all on my fave list, they make them look so adorable! :)

Now I need to catch him chasing the coyotes :P

@@focused-on-nature I'm confident you will sooner or later.

@@oapster7963 Ha, Thanks! :D

Yeah I didn't expect that at all. When I saw the Roadie enter the scene, I kinda thought the crows would chase him away. Not so!

Thank you! :) There are quite a few more of the older ones, if you like watching birds :)

You're too kind! :) And yet - any ideas on how to get out of this low spot? :D

​​@@focused-on-nature Maybe more eye catching thumbnails for the videos? Just an idea you can maybe do Nature ASMR and upload over here and only the audio on Spotify, I've heard people use nature sounds to sleep/study. Also I'm not sure what the channel name means.

​@@focused-on-nature Im not social media expert but i think posting frequently and posting across multiple social media platforms and cross linking them should help You can actually search on how to improve engagement to your channel. There are some good and bad advice out there.

@@salmanasifs Yahh... I don't do other social media than reddit - so that's definitely a fail right there :| I"ve looked around for advice for improving engagement, but I haven't found what works for me yet.

@@focused-on-nature it's fine 🥺 but important thing is to have fun and enjoy this stuff 😊. You got some loyal subscribers already

The injured coyote (the one hopping on three legs) was caught in a trap three years ago, and she lost the toes / paw off that foot. One of my trailcams caught her hopping by with the trap on her foot, dragging the chains behind. Then a couple of days later she came by without the trap, now just without her paw :( She's been doing OK since then, though, with the help of her companions.