Midwinter Nature Walk and Nature Journal in the Woods
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- Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024
- I'm at Holyford Woods for the last time, taking in the midwinter sights. Great range of birds in this video, plus a reading from my nature journal at the end.
I've been walking this woodland (Holyford Woods, East Devon, UK) once a month throughout the year. Check out the changes in the woodland videos so far here:
January: • Relaxing Winter Woodla...
February: • What to Look For in Sp...
March: • On an Orchid Hunt | Ma...
April: • April Spring Wildflowe...
May: • Springtime! May Nature...
June: • June Nature Walk in an...
July: • July Nature Journaling...
August: • August in the Ancient ...
September: • A September Woodland W...
October: • October Nature Journal...
November: • A November Nature Walk...
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Cold, quiet, beautiful, thanks for all the birds.
Amazing nature🌿🍃🌿🍃 wonderful morning nature🌿🍃 like 1st,
Interesting to follow one place in detail , also to hear about Wrens. Lovely to see Redwings.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Thank you, Alex for all these informativ video's. It was a wunderfull journey of journalling through the year with you by my side as a companion.
You're so welcome, happy new year! 😊
@@AlexBoonArt happy new year to you, too.
Such beautiful countryside and woods. Thanks for sharing!
I've loved this monthly woodland series and learnt a lot about the plants and birds that live there. Thanks for taking us along 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Dear Alex, thank you so much for this monthly walk in your woods. It was a wonderful experience to see and learn about this place and observe the changes.
In my neighborhood in California, just south of San Francisco it is quite a different feeling. Yesterday I took my. vIsiting daughter, her friend and their two dogs on my walk and we admired the structure of bare trees, but we were in single sweater and no gloves mode. On Christmas morning my granddaughter will take me to Pacific Grove where the Monarch butterflies are overwintering on pines and cypress trees. It will probably be a little chillier, but still, no frost, no snow.
I wish you a peaceful, cozy holiday season and hope you keep nature journaling next year.
That sounds wonderful, you make me imagine a lovely cosy image! I will be here throughout 2023, working on my new nature journaling project, which I look forward to announcing soon! Happy New Year to you 😊
Have really enjoyed your monthly walks in the woods this year. Especially then when you follow up with Journalling what you have seen. It makes watching you create your pages that much more pertinent as to how you go about working out what goes on the page. Thanks for all your videos this year.
Thank you, so glad you have enjoyed them. Much more to come in 2023, including much more of the full process from inspiration to finished page. Happy New Year! 😊
Aloha Alex, That was FUN and INTERESTING. I liked the fact about the Wrens getting together to keep warm. Mahalo!
I certainly don't miss that cold weather! Thank you for watching 😊
Lovely Always enjoy these
Thank you 😊
Wonderful! Feel like I’m right there. Cardinals are my favorite winter bird (New England, USA).
Thank you 😊
A lovely walk through your woods, thank you for taking us along. It's the busy mixed flocks of birds that say winter to me. Though I have been having more and more close encounters with wrens lately as well. I have a place I like to sit under a holly and that has meant lots of things dropping from higher up and showering me with tree bits as the American Robin's gobblemthe abundant berries. I loved the bit with the Redwings and the Holly in your video. One winter many years ago, not long after I had started birding a Redwing showed up in a nearby neighborhood, a very rare bird to the northwest US! It was quite the crowd pleaser, as it found the local Hawthorne, crabapple and Holly's to forage from.
Wow, must have been amazing for you to see the unlikely redwing! That's very cool 😊 Glad you enjoyed the video!
Exquisite scenery and beautiful prose. I live in a very hot desert so there isn’t much change in either fauna or flora throughout the year. Your channel provides me with a chance to escape into amazing landscapes. Thank you.
Greetings to you Susan from another hot part of the world...summer in Western Australia.. wouldn't you just love to step into Alex's shoes for a short while and cool off? I know I would. Merry Christmas to you :)
@@jennyc1846 What a tempting thought. However, in all honesty, this little Arizona desert rat probably wouldn’t last long in the cold. Maybe just watching Alex is my best bet. Nevertheless, this is a handy video to cool off with when our temperatures soar! Loved your comment. Cheers
Thank you both, amazing you both live in such a different environment. I appreciate that you enjoy seeing that difference on the channel, thank you both for commenting 😊
@@AlexBoonArt thats what I love about channels like yours Alex or Vanessa's on The Mindful Narrowboat..they bring people together from all over the world and show us all how beautiful the world around us is no matter where we live. You just have to get out and look around, or just stop, look and listen to what is around you. Just when you think its quiet you will notice you are surrounded by colour and sounds you never noticed. Happy New Year everyone...just pause for a moment or lay down on a rock or bench like Alex does and just 'be'.🙏
@@jennyc1846 Great advice, a moment of peace in nature is healing 🙏
Really enjoyed the video. Beautiful woods you have there. I think he in the eastern US the Dark-eyed Junco is the bird I associate with midwinter.
Looking forward to your complete journal video.
Thank you.
Thank you! Complete nature journal will be the next video on the channel 😊
Love your woodland walk and the birds in winter, Alex. Thanks for sharing with us. My favorite birds at Christmas time are native NZ Tui, whose song is lyrical and differs, depending on what the Tui has heard. They drink nectar from our flax flowers and also bird of paradise as it is summer at Christmas in NZ. Merry Christmas to you and yours. Love your videos!
They sound wonderful, I find it so hard to imagine a summer Christmas! Hope you had a beautiful time 😊
Chickadees are my winter bird here in southeast Michigan.
Wonderful, I have only ever seen them in photos, perhaps might see some in my America trip this year!
Junco’s make me think of Christmas because they are here in N W Oregon during that time. Love your walks. Thx and Merry Christmas.
You're welcome, thank you 😊
Alex, Thanks for the walks, throughout the year. It's very enlightening to see the changes. I hope you continue to film and share your outings. The art and journaling videos are extremely helpful and inspirational, and the walks provide a great context. We can all adopt a spot near us where we can continue to monitor nature and the seasonal changes as the year unfolds.
I also enjoy the music and video Interludes you've added to your studio work.
I am curious about the video production of the walks. Whenever you are facing the camera, the sound is crystal clear. When you are walking with the camera facing forward, the sound is less clear. I was wondering if it is because you are using only an in-camera microphone while walking.
Thanks and keep up the great work and sharing spirit.
Cheers,
Steven
Thanks, Steven, for the lovely comment. I'm taking a different approach this year to filming the outings as they are going to be part of my new project vlog and so will be mixed in with some of the work that comes out of the walks too. Hopefully you'll like the new format 😊
I agree, I had trouble with audio, not noticing that I should have switched the mic setting (from front mic to back mic) on the GoPro every time I turned the camera around. I didn't do that, and should have noticed! I have learnt a lot about improving audio in the editing stage for my next video, and will be taking a different approach this year anyway so I think that I should be able to manage decent consistent audio in the new videos 😁
Greetings from Western Australia Alex. Long time since I have visited as we come closer to Christmas and get busier with each day. I have also started volunteering at our local Community Garden so that takes up another 4 hours a week.
But I'm here now and wanted to say how much I enjoyed your multi layered ramble through the woods, you need some finger and toe warmers to make things more comfortable for you, can you buy them in the UK?
I love how the robins are camouflaged amongst the Beech leaves so gloriously golden. I didn't realise they stayed around all year long. They don't seem to do that here, and I love the image of whole families huddled together. In Tasmania the robins were gone as summer approached and here in WA I haven't seen a robin red breast for a while now, we do have the orange ones in the area but not sure they are around here, I think they are more coastal. I do hear the odd twitter of the blue wrens but rarely see them now either. We have the 'all blue' wrens - totally iridescent blue from head to foot with touches of teal on their wings (in Tassie they just had blue heads) but its rare to see them in the gardens as we are now well into our summer and mid 30's heat. The wrens are one of my favourite birds but I also love the family chaos of our New Holland honey eaters. Also the colourful and shy Bronze Winged Pigeons which are mostly all we see now. Our birds do not like the heat. Even the parrots and magpies have disappeared as have the ducks and their families, despite having ponds and a park at our back fence. We have had the pleasure of some rare red tailed black cockatoo's which has been wonderful.
Alex I thank you for the many episodes I have enjoyed this year. I thank you for the very informative videos, the fantastic photography and I know I have much to catch up on before you head into the New Year.
So I take this time to wish you and yours a very safe and warm Christmas and a very happy new year. May 2023 bring only good things your way. If I could send you some warmth I would. If I could borrow some of your gorgeous cooler weather I would do so in a magic minute. I do not like summers in WA, especially as we are now in the thick of our bushfire season, last year one came very close to town and we all had to evacuate. I am probably the only person here hoping winter comes quickly ha ha. Take care, stay well and best of wishes to you :)
Thank you for your lovely comment and Happy New Year to you! I don't have any specific finger or toe warmers, I just use gloves/socks! The different birds that you have down there sound so interesting, complete contrast to our lovely birds. I am so happy to hear how much you have enjoyed watching this year. Lots of exciting things planned for 2023, including a new nature journaling project in a totally new way, very excited about that! Will announce more soon, but need to get the 2022 journal polished off first 😊
@@AlexBoonArt Alex in Australia you can buy finger and toe or foot and hand warmers (cyclists and runners etc use them) from a pharmacy (chemist) they arent expensive but no doubt you would only want to keep them for emergencies or extra chilly days maybe to ward off frostbite or chillblains. If you had an email address (as I dont use social media) I could get your address and would happily send you some to try. Or maybe you can source them on the internet. All the best for your new 2023 project.
@@jennyc1846 Hi, I think I have seen those things, I am not sure what they are made of but I'm happy enough with just gloves and socks, very kind of you to offer though! Thank you 🙂
I just love what you focus your camera on and how you create your pages. What a lovely channel! Cheers from USA 🤗🇺🇲
Thanks so much! 😊