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Thankyou. Yes I loved watching that little chick ❤️😄

@@grimpeursdusud1533 No I think that was a Blacktailed or Bartailed Godwit-can’t quite remember now. Goldfinches move very quickly in groups so maybe they have those in Montenegro?

@@suebarnett-naturegazing Not much wildlife recently maybe 6 deer (2 Red 4 Fallow) cycling on Ashdown Forest. Madeira in 10 days lots of birds!

@ No not a lot about at Knepp when I went last week either. I saw one deer in the distance-a Tamworth, some longhorns and the Exmoor ponies! Not even one stork! I went on a Shoreham birdwatching group’s walk on Sunday and did see some owls though! Too far away and bad light for any decent photos though unfortunately. Lucky thing going to Madeira. Sounds fantastic!

@@suebarnett-naturegazing 8th time to Madeira always in the winter (cheap and warm!) Mostly Finches seen, did see a yellow wagtail once. Apparently there are wild rabbits but never seen one, they were introduced for hunting, no other native wild mammals.There's a fantastic short walk in the middle of the island to a balcony where you can see the highest peaks of the island above and the sea below. The finches are very tame and will feed out of your hands!

and of course whales! saw a Fin Whale on our first trip, the boat operators hadn't seen one before. Lots of Pilot whales 2 years ago. It's a great trip also quite cheap but only worth going if you see whales. They do post sightings each day so we know if it's worth it.

@@grimpeursdusud1533 Yes I love those badges. They are so accurate in their depictions of each bird. Wonder who designs them! As far as I can tell I think people saw two adults and two or three young kingfishers too. I’m just happy that I managed to actually see this one just for that few seconds! 😄

@@grimpeursdusud1533 Yes possibly. Little Egrets have a black beak and golden yellow legs and Great White Egrets are slightly larger with a long neck and yellow beak.

@@suebarnett-naturegazing They were in a tree on the mainland near the Albanian border. Didn't stay long as I wanted to do a bay stop on our yacht but the one we motored to was by a fish farm so was full of murk. Eventually got some wind in our sails down the East coast of Corfu and stopped at a small island near the inlet to Plataria where I had a good snorkel with loads of fish before an exhillarating sail back to port for our last night! can't wait to go back.

@@grimpeursdusud1533 You lucky thing! That sounds wonderful! ❤️ Could be either Little Egrets or Cattle Egrets I guess. You need to buy a camera! 😄

@@suebarnett-naturegazing I have a couple of very good cameras but don't usually get them out whilst sailing for obvious reasons. One day we were passed by The Black Pearl (not the Pirates of the Caribbean one), a huge superyacht with 3 masts which apparently is so efficient it can cross the Atlantic on 15 litres of Diesel! luckily someone else on out flotilla captured a photo of us under its shadow.

@@grimpeursdusud1533 😮 Some of those yachts are huge! Will see if there are any photos online! You can waterproof GoPros which might be interesting to use when you are sailing. You could dangle one underwater to get photos of fish!

@@QUEENminko66 I’m really sorry RUclips won’t translate your comment, I hope nothing upset you about the video.

@@lupin_pooter Yes I have taken a couple of videos watching the nest from the ground. I can’t remember whether I have posted them on here. I will have a look and let you know.

@@lupin_pooter Yes I have found two videos taken from the opposite side of the nest from ground level quite a long way away. The titles are “New Young Storks at Knepp” and “Stork Chicks and the Twig”. Hope you enjoy them 🙂

@@suebarnett-naturegazingthank you so much ❤

@@grimpeursdusud1533 They are beautiful aren’t they. I am lucky I found a little place where I can go and see some now. 🙂

@@suebarnett-naturegazing Planning a walk over the Downs to Worthing tomorrow Hopefully I'll see some!

@@grimpeursdusud1533 Look at the edges of farmers’ fields-that’s the best place to spot them. Or ears deep in cut corn! 🙂

@@suebarnett-naturegazing I certainly didn't see any today on my aborted walk to Worthing! went via Knepp where I saw 2 large pigs and 2 younger ones. Lost my way after climbing up Chanctonbury and ended up on the A24 North of Findon walked some way South and ended uo cowering under a tree waiting for a bus home!

@@grimpeursdusud1533 Oh dear! 😄. I did wonder whether you would actually walk at all today as the weather was so iffey. Good that you attempted it though! Sunday might be a better day weather wise. I haven’t been to Knepp for ages, must go again before mud makes it impassable! Apparently a group of approximately 80 storks were seen down in Cornwall this week-on their way to Africa already I guess.

@@minx267 Thankyou ❤️ I must have a look 🙂

@@АлалаАлалалалаева I am sorry I can’t translate your comment but I’m hoping it says you like my video and if so, thankyou 🙂

@@АлалаАлалалалаева Thankyou 🙂

@@jeffjames1743 Yes I really love seeing them-such beautiful creatures 🙂

@@grimpeursdusud1533 Yes I was wondering whether it was one of the young terns myself as the adults have definitely left apparently, but there was another lone adult tern there so it might be that one. Apparently the hides are so full of people waiting for the kingfisher now according to one post I saw where the person didn’t stay long as there were fifteen people in there! Coots are definitely peculiar little creatures to look at aren’t they! Thank goodness their mothers love them despite that! 😄

@@suebarnett-naturegazing went to Petworth today; very quiet for the 2nd weekend of the school holidays. Parked by the secret Upperton entrance. Most of the young deer were near there but didn't go too close just heard them making their tiny little cries. Came back via the "Stag Party" on the hill where all the males (bucks actually) are currently. Somewhere you might be interested in is Highdown Gardens near Goring, a wonderful (and free) place set in a former chalk pit, there are always new plants and flowers to see but no wildlife that I'm aware of. Make sure you get the right place there's also a garden centre and a vineyard of the same name. Also don't go when they have an art exhibition as you might come away with an expensive oil painting (like we did!)

@@grimpeursdusud1533 😂 Actually I visited there a couple of weeks ago, I used to go quite regularly before Covid. I have been the same with craft fairs-sometimes you’ve just got to have it if it strikes a cord! I hoped you still like the painting now you have got it home! 😉

@@suebarnett-naturegazing Yes the painting is wonderful! it's 3 yachts on a calm sea with a superb blue sky that blends into the sea. There was another one that had some little waves but it was sold. The artist took ours home and added the waves while we were out for lunch! It's a lovely reminder of our Greek sailing holidays.

@@grimpeursdusud1533 I can just imagine it-it does sound lovely. Lucky that it still looked good when they had painted the waves in-that could have changed the look of the whole painting. What was the name of the artist-I will see if I can look them up?

@@jeffjames1743 Thankyou 🙂

@@grimpeursdusud1533 How fantastic! I love hares. I would love to see a red squirrel too-something I have yet to see. I love moorhen chicks when they are tiny-they really scoot about! I hope the weather has been ok there in France. We have had rain all day today and it has been chilly-had to put the heating on yesterday and it’s July-usually our hottest month! Hope we get the sunshine back.

@@suebarnett-naturegazing Yes it was hot and a tailwind for days then rained most of yesterday. Spoke to some other cyclists waiting for the ferry back from Dieppe they said it had rained all the time in the North of Normandy. Have you never see a red squirrel? not even on the Isle of Wight or Brownsea Island (I have on both but admit they take some luck and patience). I've seen red squirrels 3 times now on bike rides in France. Sadly the fashion for introducing greys from North America also happened in Italy and they are decimating the red population and are now spreading through France. Not sure if they also carry squirrelpox like in the UK? There's always the British Wildlife Centre near Lingfield but they are more like pets there!

@@grimpeursdusud1533 Ah so the rain caught up with you. It has been sunny here this afternoon but rain expected again by Friday. The British Summer as usual! 🙄😄

It’s just that I have never actually visited anywhere that has them. I have been to the IOW but didn’t know they had them there. I see great photos of all the animals at the British Wildlife Centre but it isn’t really my scene. I prefer to have the luck of seeing animals in the wild doing amazing things! 🙂

@@suebarnett-naturegazing I don't think there are any greys on the IoW; certainly none on Brownsea Island. I've seen reds right next to the ferry terminal at Fishbourne twice. Completely agree about seeing wildlife in the wild rather than in zoos etc.Although with species like Iberian Lynx you have pretty much no chance of seeing them in the wild! they are hard enough to see in captivity

I think they are doing little flights down into the water now from what I have seen on the Warnham FB page. That Hobby is still up in the trees keeping watch though so I hope they will stay safe! Shame about no kingfisher. It's a young female apparently. Probably just turns up when it's sunny! I did photograph that group of ducklings last Wednesday when I was in the Attree Hide. I'm so glad they are still all there! The ducks were actually up on the pontoon the day I was there. Someone kept talking to me and distracting me while I was trying to film the terns and I thought I had filmed the young terns practicing jumping up and down flapping their wings ready to fly, but no sign of that video, must have forgotten to turn the camera on! 🙄 Nice to see some Moorhens, not many about, mostly Coots there. I'm hoping I have got my iMovie App working again now after I thought I had accidentally deleted all my latest videos! Luckily I found them again and managed to share two. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it stays working properly now!

@@suebarnett-naturegazing Moorhen chicks look similar to Coot ones at first but the heads are not as red just the bills. As they grow they lose the red but Coots have more white on the sides of the neck. Moorhens are mostly black with a few white feathers near the Plimsoll Line (to give it a nautical context!)

Yes, and don't forget the coot chicks are bald-headed to start with, with red bristly hairs surrounding the bald patch! Hence the saying "bald as a coot"! 😄The little black Moorhen chicks are really beautiful in comparison. They are both a lot greyer as they grow bigger. When I first saw an older juvenile moorhen I had no idea what it was! By the way, loads more photos of the kingfisher today-some photographers missed it but others said it hung around for quite some time. No idea what time of day though. @@grimpeursdusud1533

@@suebarnett-naturegazing I saw the Kingfisher! Having read your reply I cycled over at lunchtime. No luck but did see 3 reed warblers up close by the first hide (can't remember the name). As I was there someone saw the Kingfisher fly past but too quick for me. Went back after work and the same thing happened in the same hide! I went to the Heron hide and they mentioned it had flown past. Waited about 20 mins and someone pointed it out on the post where the Herons usually stand on the opposite side of the pond. Got a good view through binoculars but very soon after it flew straight towards us and stopped in a tree next to the hide! I could see it but not a good view of the plumage, they don't half fly fast! I stopped at the pond opposite the Coot pub on the way back. Happy to say all the young Moorhens are still there with the 2 adults although they have almost lost their red bill, not sure when they get them back? Knepp looks exciting so I expect I'll be back down tomorrow.

@@grimpeursdusud1533 I'm so pleased you got a sighting of it! I might try and visit on Thursday or Friday afternoon, but usually if I hope to see a kingfisher they just don't appear! I would still like to see the Purple Emperors at Knepp but I think it is likely to rain tomorrow so they won't be about. I discovered that I had got a photo of one of the young storks in the Sand School nest actually taking off. It happened very suddenly last Wednesday just as I was training my camera on the nest so I only got its feet, but I am wondering whether that was its first time fledging! I like to think so! 😄

I didn't realise they have all fledged now, that's good to know though. I never managed to see the ones in the Pond Field down on the ground that year. They were always just flying in to the nest from wherever they had been, which was wonderful to see too. That was the best year. I had such a fondness for those chicks. I loved the year after that too, although by then the parents weren't half as attentive! It was fantastic too seeing that new nest lower down the following year as the chicks could be clearly seen from a really young age. Some wonderful memories.

Great sightings of a juvenile kingfisher and a distant hobby eyeing up the young Terns today at Warnham NR! (Loads of photographs on the Warnham FB group). Not seen by me I hasten to add, I'm certain if I had been there there wouldn't have been any sightings at all! 😄

@@suebarnett-naturegazing Which FB group is it? I've tried Warnham NR and Friends but no recent Kingfisher photos! Think I'll go again after work then straight down to Knepp to look at all 3 Stork nests

@@grimpeursdusud1533 It''s called "Warnham Reedbed Online" no idea why it's not called "Warnham Nature Reserve"! Hoping the two juveniles in the Pond Field nest will be doing their preliminary jumping up and down when you visit this afternoon! It's too dull for my camera today unfortunately or I would have gone to see if the Purple Emperors were still about.

@@suebarnett-naturegazing No kingfisher this evening but did see a pair of chiffchaffs (I don't know what most birds are people in the hide tell me!) I walked in to Knepp from Shipley, saw a herd of Fallow deer (with 2 very young ones, wonder if it's this year's I suppose so if they rut in October) by the farm at the entrance to the hammer pond. No juveniles flying in any nests not even trying. Walked all the way round the white route saw more Fallow bucks (with some with very new short antlers) and rabbits, nothing going in in Pond Field. Finally saw one adult stork flying into a nest in that group of 3 trees which seem to account for half the 40 odd young! Then back the long way via the mill pond where I saw some Coot chicks quite grown now they have a lot of grey, which makes me think the ones at Warham might be moorhens? (There was definitely a moorhen chick with a parent by the Attree hide last night)

Hope you enjoyed the bike ride along the coast yesterday. Good that your injury has recovered enough to do that now! When I went the other day I definitely saw four young standing in the Sand School Nest-and the adult just literally flew away as I was taking a photo so only got its feet in the picture! 😄 How fantastic to see the juvenile flying in to the nest. All four were in there the other day even though one had then fledged. They were having great fun with a twig-or an argument, or practicing their nest building maybe! Luckily I think I can post that video now as my computer has allowed me to share it. Shame about the Purple Emperors. People in a group I know didn't see any today either but one of them photographed a Turtle Dove which was great. I think the butterflies do prefer to come out when it's sunny. Also, you have to look up to the tops of the trees to see them flying about and settling. They only come on the ground when someone baits them with a foul smelling liquid apparently! 🙄😄

@@suebarnett-naturegazing Yes fully recovered now after my op 200km yesterday! back to France next week. Interesting about the Emperors I was expecting to see them where the ribbons and purple posts are! Even with binoculars I find it hard to spot which are which when they are flying, not sure how big these juveniles are compared to the parents but the bill colour is a giveaway. I see the parents are both from Poland have they been at Knepp a while?

@@grimpeursdusud1533 Long bike journey! Apparently the parents have been given Polish names so I guess that is where they originated. Apparently they have been nesting and bred successfully there for two years before this year, so I had no idea why I had never ever set eyes on that nest before, but apparently was told by a photographer I met there a month or so ago that they had originally nested in another tree nearby which had blown down and this was their first year in this nest.

Yes, coincidentally I was talking to a photographer I met on the walk round yesterday about that very incident. That was a such a special moment wasn't it. That year was really magical I think. So different this year. I did watch a video excerpt from the live cam nest showing the first stork fledging. It was such a lovely sight-its siblings were standing there following its every move and then it sort of crash-landed back in the nest! Wonderful footage! They were all standing about back in the nest yesterday evening though.

I have been meaning to get up to Warnham NR myself before they fledge as I see they are getting their adult feathers. One fell in the millpond again yesterday but was back safe and sound by closing time! Yes they have said that one of the four storks has fledged and another one is close. All four in the nest again tonight though. I may go down for a short time tomorrow as I want to see if I can spot some Purple Emperor Butterflies. I got a really good photo on this day approx. three years ago! My computer is playing up at the moment-(too many videos!) , so I probably won't be able to post any more until I get it sorted out. Two are waiting to be posted! There is some sort of fault on the iMovie App that I use I think. Very frustrating. Went with a group to spot Nightjars at Pulborough Brooks on Sunday evening. We didn't see any but everyone could hear them except me! 🙄😄

Yes it seems impossible that they can swallow such large fish! It always amazes me when the Great Crested Grebe chicks do that too! I worry about the herons taking the chicks too as they sometimes use that floating platform to fish from themselves. The adult Terns are quite aggressive at anything that comes near, but they do sometimes both leave the platform at the same time. I think seeing the Kingfisher seems always to be a matter of luck, but it will be great when you do actually see one! I got a couple of my photos of the Tern chicks with their Mum in the Argus yesterday! 🙂

Actually I wonder whether I am thinking of a different Hammerpond as I had no idea there was a bird hide anywhere near the one I am thinking of which is turning right at the first bend of the White Route after going past the "Camera" nest? I haven't seen any Canada Goose goslings there this year, but there were some Egyptian Goose Goslings, might be them you are seeing if it is the same pond. But if so, where is the bird hide?! Those Wagtails must be just Yellow Wagtails. They Citrines have a completely yellow head and a sort of black collar at the back of their neck. But if they were Citrine Wagtails then they are rare visitors. Were they at the Hammerpond too. I must go and have a look! Good you could get a bus back-it can be very tiring walking round Knepp, especially if it is muddy!

@@suebarnett-naturegazing No the bird hide is on the Mill pond near the castle in the other half of Knepp. Yes the wagtails were just before the entrance into Knepp from the Shipley direction after the farm.

@@grimpeursdusud1533 I don't get up that way very often. I must go and check it all out! Would be amazing if they were Citrine Wagtails as there has been only one sighted in Sussex this year. (By me! 😄)

@@suebarnett-naturegazing I'm going to go down after work today; hopefully see the young flying from the camera nest!

@@grimpeursdusud1533 I'm going there today too, but probably a bit earlier on, although I am going to visit the Pond Field nest after seeing the "Camera" one and will walk back through the woods again, so might be at the "Camera" nest again later on in the day too.

Yes a lovely scene except for the poor dragonfly! 🙂

Thankyou. Yes, I think you are probably right.

They were still there but the chicks are a lot bigger! didn't see any feeding but one of the parents was flying around a lot chasing off other birds mostly gulls. Also saw an Egret in a tree across the pond, a black and white crested Grebe (if that's possible) and a regular one some Coots a Moorhen and I think a Cormorant! wonderful place I'll be going there a lot now!

That's brilliant. Yes hopefully they are still there-they are on the floating platform which can be seen from the Heron Hide-great to watch! How fantastic to see the fox and cub too. Enjoy seeing the terns!

@@grimpeursdusud1533 Just seen this after I posted my earlier reply. Glad they are still there, my video was from a week ago. There are so many predators that I think the adult terns have their hands full keeping those two chicks safe! Yes, there are a couple of Great Crested Grebes there, and Little Grebes too. Also Mandarin Ducks. Sometimes there is a lot about, other times it is very quiet. All the luck of the draw. I think there is only a male kingfisher there now as the female was apparently drowned in her nest when the waters rose from all the rain. But there are sometime some quite rare visiting birds such as the Great White Egret last year and a Blue Heron passing through this year. I love the Little Egrets too. It's nice just to sit in a hide and see what materialises! Also, a nice walk around the reserve too.

@@suebarnett-naturegazing is there a regular FB / etc that posts sightings? I only have yours to go on currently. PS I'm still not a birder yet!

@@suebarnett-naturegazing This is another place I never knew existed before Covid (like Knepp) Looking at the OS Map I can see that much like the bit South of the old London Road there was simply nowhere they could build more residential areas and roads because of the A264 where no junction was possible, river and in this case also the railway. They built another golf course which is fine but even that was stopped from going any further by the pond. I have been before and I think you can eventually walk out via a public gate North although that involves walking along the A264 to get anywhere which is not a good idea!

Sorry to har about your fall hope you are OK now! I'm also grounded this week after an eye op will try next week

Those chicks look like they have a way to go before they fledge; have they from any other nests?

😄 Thankyou 🙂

@@grimpeursdusud1533 I don't think any chicks have fledged yet, but it will be soon. There is a "live camera" on the nest linked to RUclips so I will check that out as I didn't go today. Will maybe go next week to see if they are practicing their flying by jumping up and down in the nest. I love seeing them do that! Hope they don't fledge before then! 🙂

How fantastic! So glad you got to see some. Not jealous at all! 😉😄

There were only about 6 as they close from evening until 0900 not that would have got there earlier! Saw a pair of Whooper swans today plus loads of other birds it's a birders paradise but we're not birders

@@grimpeursdusud1533 Sounds fantastic. Maybe it's time you did become birders by sounds of things! 😉 I'm not really a birder either. I think I like to see all sorts of wildlife really-it's just nice being out and seeing wonderful creatures!

@@suebarnett-naturegazing last day of the hire car today. To be fair we've gone about as far as possible each day given the need to go back to Reykjavik where we are staying. Saw a few more birds today I've never seen before. Just gonna chill in the capital for the next couple of days lots of free stuff to do and probably more birds! Would have been great to fly to Heimay for the day but silly money

A quiet day today in Reykjavik. Walked down to the Thorn (lake) where the Terns were going wild! Then a £10 beer whilst watching a couple of families of Eider Ducks with ducklings swimming around the unused whale watching boats (too windy, probably also for Puffins but We've seen them!) Don't think I've ever seen ducks in the sea before

Yes it took me a long time to recover from the surprise of it doing that! 🙂

Yes, I just couldn't believe it! It was all thanks to the goose who flew across the water to scare it away! (I was watching the geese and their goslings at the time).

The goose flew across the water to try and scare the fox because he thought the fox was after the baby goslings. The coot swam across to see what all the fuss was about! I think the goose and the coot were as surprised as I was when the fox caught the eel. I think maybe the eel wasn't alive because it would have probably been wriggling around to escape, but I don't know for sure as it was quite a long way away from where I was filming. I filmed it on very long zoom.

@@suebarnett-naturegazing I also think that the eel was already dead and its better that way 😅

@@terrak7609 😅

Thankyou 🙂 I'm not sure where Beggers Bush is, but I do know the Chanctonbury one, which I believe has newts in it! I walked to this one along the path from the Kithurst Hill carpark towards Chantry Hill carpark. Apparently it is nearer to Chantry than Kithurst but it was a sunny day so I fancied a bit of a walk. Yes I do go to Warnham once in a while although it is a bit of a drive. Also Pulborough Brooks RSPB from time to time, although very often there isn't a lot to see there-they do have Avocets from time to time though. I have never been to Rye Harbour as that is a long drive from here, but I would really love to see Spoonbills one day, so I guess I will have to make the effort when I am certain they will be there! 😄

@@suebarnett-naturegazing Yes, I know the one you mean. I grew up in West Chiltington and the part of the Downs around Chantry and Kithurst is where I spent a lot of time as a kid, although I have to admit I had forgotten about that one when I commented. Can I plead old age ? 😅 Beggers Bush is near Sompting. Do you know Lambley's Lane ? It's off the A27 between Lyons Farm and Titch Hill, the road that goes past Sompting Church over the Downs to Steyning. You can also reach it via the footpath that runs around and behind Sainsbury's supermarket at Lyons Farm. If you walk up Lambley's Lane, past the Barn and the horses at the top of the hill and down the other side, keeping to the left path toward Cissbury Ring, Beggers Bush is in the valley you come to. alternatively you can reach it from the little car park on Titch Hill. I'll try and post a link under this comment and hope YT doesn't delete it. Rye Harbour is most definitely worth a visit. I went with a friend by train from Worthing last Saturday. As well as the Terns and Avocets I mention above, yes there were Spoonbills.I was kicking myself because I had left my Nikon and long lenses at home, I didn't want to carry too much weight. The way it goes 🙄 Thank you for your videos, I always enjoy seeing them. ps. YT deleted my link 🤔

@@tonym480 Shame they deleted the link but I can look up Titch Hill. I have never been along that road but have heard of it. I had no idea you could actually get to Rye from Worthing! That is something I will look into. It seems to me that everything I spot is always just that little bit too far away to get decent sharp photos. I use a tripod as I have a Nikon P950 with 83x zoom, but it can be a bit shaky when full on! I saw a lovely baby hare today away in the distance. It was shadow-boxing a blackbird. No video, but a slightly misty photo as it was all happening too quickly to put the camera on the tripod! I'm really glad you enjoy my videos-it is great to get some feedback as I never really know what people will make of them. It's all very self-indulgent really because I really enjoy making them! 😄

@@suebarnett-naturegazing I know exactly what you mean by too far/slightly out of focus. It's the story of my life 😄 One of the ways digital wins over film, which was how I started, long long years ago, is that you can take a chance and see what you get without the expense of wasted film. I often find that the best picture is not the one you spend time setting up, but the one that happens by chance. I usually shoot 'hand held', although I am finding it harder now than I did when younger, especially with my 600mm telephoto lens. As well as wildlife, birds in particular, I like aeroplanes, and have lots of 'in flight' photos from various air shows that are all hand held shots, and for which I mostly use a 70 to 300 Zoom on my Nikon D 7100. I never really tried video. Probably I have a mind set formed in the days when I was using a 35mm SLR that I'm a taker of pictures, not video. I like your videos, for both the content, and the fact that they are all local, places I've known all my life. I hope you will not mind that I often share a link to some them to a e-newsletter distributed world wide, which is an offshoot of a Norwegian railway related YT channel that I'm subscribed to, in the hope of getting you more views. Worthing to Rye is indeed possible by train, but requires two changes. Worthing to Brighton > Brighton to Eastbourne > Eastbourne to Rye, on the service to Ashford International. I have not driven for many years now, and allowed my licence to lapse when I reached 70. The friend I went with has never driven, so train and bus is how we get around. It's surprising the places you can get too with a little planing. In 2019 I visited Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire when the seabirds were nesting. One of the most amazing things I have ever seen. I had hoped to return the next year, but so far have been unable to, for various reasons, not least the Covid thing. Take care Susan, as long as you are posting on YT you can be sure of a least one view. 😃

@@tonym480 😄 Haha thank you! 🙂It's nice to know that someone enjoys my videos! Yes, it's great that we get to take as many photos as we like with digital photography-the downside being far too much editing and too many photos not deleted! And of course there are so many editing apps available these days too which I'm sure make some photographers seem more skilled than they actually are. I very much appreciate you sharing my videos, that's really good of you. I wondered why my views had increased! 🙂 Well, the video of all videos escaped me today when I saw a hedgehog in my garden this morning carrying a huge wadge of grass in its mouth. It did this many times but I could only see its back view to get any photos. And don't hedgehogs move quickly! Then I decided to sit hidden in a flowerbed across the lawn to try and get it front view but of course I think it had decided to go for a nap by then. 😄 Still worth the long wait just in case-I would have loved to have caught that on camera. That was certainly an epic journey you and your friend made to Rye that day! I don't think I will be doing that any day soon by train! 😄 I have a yearning to get back to Bempton Cliffs too, I do wish it was within an hours drive there and back. then I would be there all the time at this time of year! And apparently there are wonderful sightings of a barn owl there too. Maybe next year....

Thankyou 🙂

😄 Yes in fact I baa-ly had time to get up on that bank at the side of the path! 😄

It certainly can! 😄

Just seen this notification and see that you already knew about the young storks being left on their own now. I can't wait to go and see how big they are, so it had better not rain tomorrow! Well, I guess you really have had the full Knepp experience now-especially now you have seen those cushions! 😉😄

Wow thankyou! Huge praise indeed! I am really glad you enjoyed it. I love to gaze at nature and to try to show the beauty of what I have seen. If one or two people understand what I am trying to say then I am truly happy. 🙂

Thankyou 🙂

Thankyou! And greetings to Romania 🙂

Actually they have now found out that it is the female hares boxing the males to fight them off when they are getting to amorous! Yes they live in shallow hollows in the ground called forms. I have never seen hares and rabbits together either-the hares are much bigger-maybe that is why! I didn't realise that there was a March Hare in Alice in Wonderland-just looked it up and saw a picture! 🙂

I did actually film three chicks the day we were both there, but I haven't had the chance to go back yet to see them again. Was hoping to go today but rain and Knepp don't mix!

The terns have only arrived there recently and a pair of them sit on that platform on and off for most of the day so I am guessing they have claimed it as their territory and that was why they were trying to drive the heron away-which they did in the end! The herons land there occasionally to fish.

I have since discovered that the terns are now incubating eggs there and that must have been the real reason I guess!

I guess not that many people like my films! 😄 I do know also that it is possible to watch RUclips videos without signing in and if people do that then they can't actually put a 👍 when they view a film. Also, my films have very little dramatic action-they are more about just watching nature-just nature gazing so maybe people only look for a few seconds and then move on to something else that interests them more?

​@susanbarnett2963 but drop us -stork camera watchers that you been, let us know. Your photos are much greener.Some of us live far away, so you are (for me a top up) can I "request "from you a vid - way walking to in Knepp, a display (of storks info) so I can read . Van with produce grown in Knepp garden ,left for sale.Tell us about it on the chat. Too much walking for me, so will not visit 😢so you could be my guide. Ps.ringing birds soon but for Project film we will have to wait for months !😢 yours brilliant from last year.

@@poziomkax5985 I will see what I can do, but it is raining again here at the moment so not good to visit-too muddy! Yes Knepp has a beautiful new cafe in an old barn and a huge gift shop now with very expensive but beautiful items for sale. Also they have made a market garden of vegetables but I haven't actually seen any for sale yet. They sell the organic meat from their deer and pigs and longhorn cattle in the shop.

I wish I had thought of that! 😄 Actually it did take me quite some time to choose some music which didn't clash too much with the skylark. Yes I really love seeing hares and it really was so lucky that the skylark was singing away in the background as I was filming as they all went very quiet just a few minutes later! It really is the most beautiful sound though isn't it.

Thankyou 🙂

we went back via Ashington and Thakeham; but not the A24 went via Countryman lane and the quiet lane to Spear Hill!

Sounds like you have had a really great day! I have actually seen photos of both those cygnets (swannets!) and the goslings at Tilgate Park-one of my FB friends is a frequent visitor. There seems to be a sort of 'zoo' there too! I must try and visit one day. I went to spot hares again today and managed to see one or two. The wild flowers are amazing at the moment! Yes that Knepp Cafe is big business-and in the shop you can buy a cushion that costs £150!!! (It is rather lovely though with a pair of storks on it!)😄 I have been there two or three times now. It is expensive, but probably not that much more than some garden centres and I had a wonderful piece of cake there last time I went! I just like sitting in that barn! They haven't charged for parking just yet but might well do in the summer as they did last year before the new cafe etc. was even built. But I guess a lot of it goes to the stork project and the upkeep of the land etc. But it is certainly big business! Probably lots of campers there this weekend too as it has been sunny. You chose a good morning for your ride around Knepp. I hope your club enjoyed it.

Thankyou 🙂 Yes they certainly are!

Thankyou very much 🙂

I am so pleased you enjoyed my video and the choice of music. I must confess that it did take me a long time to decide which was the best music to choose and this piece seemed to be the most beautiful, just like the little cygnets 🙂 Thanking you so much for your feedback.

Thankyou. I was wondering how you travelled to Ireland on your bike-was thinking you would have a long ride to the nearest ferry! You will have to get a little cart to tow your luggage behind next time! 😉 Actually you will be in for a double treat if you do get to Widewater next week as a second set of cygnets have just hatched out there-I literally was too early by half a day to get them on camera! Apparently they are from the same father which could prove to be a bit awkward-there was a bit of a stand off when the first set of cygnets came too near to the other nest yesterday-I thought the male was going to attack the other swan, but it turns out today that he is actually two-timing both females! 😄

@@suebarnett-naturegazing The usual way I do overseas bike rides is to put the bike in a cardboard box fly out one way discard the box and get the ferry back to UK, there's no ducking out I have to ride all the way with no other means of getting home. They have decided nobody wants to get the ferry and train any more so they don't connect! It was worth the diversion to Cork as I also did Cobh which has a stunning cathedral on the hill above the town. It was also the last port Titanic called at before she sank and 400 would be Irish emigrees perished ;( I'll definitely be going down next week, will also go to Brooklands as there are always swans there too!

@@grimpeursdusud1533 That sounds like a fantastic trip. I never knew you could actually put a bike in a box to travel by plane! Must have been a very long cycle ride back home though, but I guess you could take your time and stop off on the way. Sad news and brilliant news at Lancing Widewater Lagoon. The second set of cygnets perished yesterday at the hands, or should I say mouth, of a fox who has cubs there to feed. Very sad. The male swan was seen comforting his mistress yesterday. Had he been around I guess the two of them might have fought off the fox, but he was protecting the first set of cygnets who so far are all still there! The other news was that I have discovered that I photographed a very rare bird there last Wednesday which a couple pointed out to me and asked me to identify. I presumed it was a Yellow Wagtail in breeding plumage as it had a very bright yellow head, but when I posted photographs on Sussex Birders they all went berserk because it was in fact a very rare visitor to Sussex called a Citrine Wagtail! I felt quite gobsmacked. The funny thing is that I only took a photo of it to show the couple more closely! 😄 Pure luck! I have seldom been able to see any of the rare birds that other people see and now I appear to be the only one to have actually got a photo of this one! What a turn up for the books!

@@suebarnett-naturegazing I rode down today what a lovely day to be out on the bike! I went via Henfield and Woods Mill which only had a single drake by the pond! horrible main A road too. Eventually picked up my usual Downs Link route and crossed the cycle / pedestrian / cycle bridge in Shoreham. Stll a complete mess by the A27 hope they've sorted it out by August when I'm running another bike ride. Saw about 20 swans in Widewater but no cygnets ;-( do you have any foxes subscribed to your RUclips channel? maybe that's how they find out? I rode round the lake at Brooklands just a solitary swan but did see a pair of coots with 5 lovely little comical chicks! Rehydrated in Worthing (probably one too many for cycling!) and on the way back passed Widewater again and saw a pair of swans with a lady with a large telephoto lens, Your cygnets! sadly only 6 left now though but adorable!. Then wobbled back via the Downs Link. Ps we have a new Beau for our girl bunny picking him up after Iceland so excited!

The zoo at Tilgate is more of an animal centre. We last went 6 years ago they have various farm animals some guinea pigs (maybe rabbits too) birds maybe primates and Meerkhats! it used to be donation you put a few £ into the wooden animals at the entrance. About 20 years ago they also had red squirrels which could leave their enclosure and they had special feeders on the trees which the greys fell out of because they were too heavy so it encouraged the reds. They had all gone 6 years ago maybe Squirrelpox did for them? They still have them at the British Wildlife Centre near Lingfield but they are almost tame!