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Hi Liam brilliant video love the pike I have come across them when fishing in the river Waveny love the part with the cuckoo I have heard them in the farm land at the bottom of my garden in Beccles keep up the great work and videos looking forward to your next video Bernard
Heard and saw my first male cuckoo two weeks ago in the attractive fields near unattractive Hersham, Surrey. I'd hoped to see the kingfisher on the river (not about today) but instead heard the call and saw the cuckoo in flight soon after moving between stands of trees.
Great video, thank you Liam. I got some footage of a Green Woodpecker foraging the other day that I've still to upload. Still trying to catch the nesting pair of Jays that I keep spotting.Lovely day for that walk around the lake 😊
1:05 I saw 2 of these at Trent Lock a few weeks ago. I had no idea what they were and they were not in my bird id books. Thankyou for solving a mystery for me.
The way you deployed that underwater camera without disturbing the pike is amazing, absolutely brilliant footage of the small roach shoals and the pike.
So glad you got your cuckoo - and that pike footage was amazing! As I've not seen either for myself I found this a very interesting video. And yes, would love to see a video of cuckoo facts, please!!
We were down there the other day and there were two Cuckoos about the one you filmed and one further up Whitlingham Lane towards Trowse. Incidentally I have hear and seen more Cuckoos this year than I have for many years. I often put a camera underwater and have done for many years, filmed lots of Pike and seen them lunge for many small fish, but yet to actually see them catch one. I usually put a bit of groundbait in with the camera as it makes things happen quickly. You may have been there but Horstead Mill makes a great place to film underwater as it is often pretty clear. I set my camera on the bottom on the end of the extension stick and then pop the other end through a brick with a hole in and let things develop. I often can’t see a think until I get home and download, which makes it exciting…Several Cuckoos at Woodbastwick and Upton on the marshes…
As you discovered, _hearing_ a cuckoo and actually spotting it are *not* the same thing, haha ! 😊 Glad you managed it in the end because it's been years since I saw one myself. Loved the underwater footage too.
What a cracking video, the horseshoe shaped scar is typical of a larger Pike having a go, any Pike above 10lb is going to be a female and sometimes a smaller male ends up as lunch and not a lover, I've not seen a Cuckoo since I was 16 nearly 50 years ago, I thought it was a Sparrow Hawk at first till it called, this was on a reclaimed Colliery site next to a very nasty chemical works of all places, Great Stuff 👏👏🍺
Thanks Liam for sharing this interesting walk around the lake! I was surprised that the Pike didn't disappear when you stuck your camera underwater. Greetings and have a nice day! // Bertil.
It's interesting to see that the largest pike behaved a bit differently. It seemed more confident with how it turned towards the camera instead of swimming away.
Yes, I suppose, as I dont think many if any people fish for them there, it doesnt have much to fear from people (or pretty much anything else for that matter).
Stunning footage of pike! I fish for and release pike and have never got within 30 feet before they shoot off. Great variety and presentation. Thanks again.
Wow ,plenty of wildlife in that video.I’ve never seen a live pike that closeup,so that was good to see. Cuckoos always seen to be a bigger bird than I expect,and the males generally come to investigate if you make there call.
Looks like you had a great day Liam. So lucky to hear and see a cuckoo, another year we’ve had none around these parts. And what a great view of that Whitethroat. I never can see them even when they sound like they are only a couple of metres away in the hedge.
Thanks. This year seems to have been a really good year for cuckoo's over this way, I was watching three just yesterday. I was very lucky with the whitethroat, but it does help having a decent zoom on my camera. Next video should be out this evening.
Thank you. I'm so glad i got it, I have tried to film them quite a few times with little or no success so I was chuffed to get them on film this time round!
Well done! Good Pike footage! * I live in Thailand and have 'water monitor lizards ' in the klong (canal) behind me! The can get to six or seven foot longer--they are very shy normally! They have been scraping holes alongside my walls to try and lay eggs! Bit of a pest actually!
The 'monster' pike in our local flooded gravel pit in Molesey, Surrey, around 30 years ago made the front page of the Sun: 'girl bitten by shark' or similar (The Sun's reporting accurate as ever). She'd been swimming with friends and her flailing foot got nipped, drawing blood. I caught sight of the likely culprit near the surface a few days later and it was a whopper similar to the three-footer in Liam's video. On the other side of Molesey at a millpond on the Ember I've seen several new born pike lurking in the shallows. Perhaps the 'lake monster' was born here?
Great content. This was nice to stumble across, looking to learn a little more about British wildlife. The Egyptian Geese are as hardy as they are noisy - you'll find them shouting at one another and other animals in African rivers shared with crocodiles, hippos and other large neighbours.
As someone who's been lucky enough to visit a lot of the places you have filmed I'd love to see some of the resident fungi, even if you're not great at identifying them! I've found all sorts, from scarlet witches ears to chicken of the woods and much less common things.
Happy that you had such a nice day. Pike are a very misunderstood species of fish. Thankfully most people's attitudes towards them have improved. I wouldn't take too much notice of the bitten swimmers reports 😉😉😉.
Concerning the goodies drifting in the water, is it Algae or Daphnea? They are just not clear enough on the footage for me to see. Thanx for some nice facts about wildlife.
Definately interested to see a video focusing on cuckoos! I've never seen one and know little about them. Good footage here cheers! Awesome shots of the pikes, massive fish.
Thanks for another great walk. Have you tried calling Cuckoos to you. I learned to make the noise with cupped hands when I was a child. It works pretty much every time, but you have to hide well so they don't spot you, they're very sharp eyed.
Full marks Liam for sharing a fabulous day with us .Wow you had success all round .Re the cuckoo .Only once have I heard and seen but it was great .( tell that to any whose nests it uses ) Terrific encounters and lots of fun.The pike had me amazed . Liked and have to say .Keep filming .Love your style :)👏🏻 Helena
Thanks + I have an old Olympus TG4 that I've used used underwater and understand under water photography/videography is challenging for the reasons you describe. I also saw my first ever swarm of bees this (and I might be twice your age). Apparently, at least in Warwickshire swarms have been much more frequent than usual.
That's great footage of everything. Don't worry about a little shaking or underwater particles. We all know there's an abundance of commenters who love to criticize people's audio or video work. Those were great shots. Loved the pike. Thanks alot.
I heard a Cuckoo a couple of weeks ago in central Hackney, East London. I also heard it last year but didn't believe it at the time as it woke me up and I thought I'd mistakenly heard a wood pigeon in my sleep. This time I was wide awake and it was very distinct.
Definitely a yes from us for the cuckoo fact file. While I've got you, Now is a good time to visit NWT at Hickling for the Swallowtails. We also saw a female Hobby and a massive female Marsh Harrier yesterday.
@@AShotOfWildlife 1st of May and our morning walk on Bodmin moor with our 2 labs and my wife says "the Cuckoo's should be here now, I said I have never seen one in real life, 2 minutes later walking under a tree the Cuckoo sang and I was right below it, made my year.
Definitely a fact file on the cuckoo please. There's so much in this film that there's not enough room in 1 comment. Pike, as with anything that swims or flies, changes in its aqua/aerodynamic weight priority as it gets larger, so you can tell a large from a small one at distance by the lowered head posture as the skull gets proportionally heavier the larger the fish. That 3ft one was a BEAST, and I too have seen a bite on a human's leg. Ouch. The great crested grebe is indeed great, I've watched these myself for ages at a time, thier courtship dance is charming and similar to that of cygnus olor, (mute swan), except that when you have a large population, you get all the others round in a circle beholding the lovers doing thier tango.. I have seen this several times and it's magical. The Egyptian geese also I'm v familiar with; they are cantankerous and naughty by nature it seems. If they have a go, then wagging your finger and saying "naughty bird!" usually does the trick but people are incautious and, I'm afraid, sadly ignorant of how to behave around wild birds. Avian flu would be less bad if only they'd refrain from feeding the birds, esp 'en masse' and on bread etc, but what can you do? If you say anything you get branded as "nasty bird hater".. Anyway, what a beautiful wildlife habitat you have there Liam, and, as the olde English song goes; Summer is icumen in, Loudly sing cuckoo.. Nice one Liam! 🎶🌟👍
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Hi Liam brilliant video love the pike I have come across them when fishing in the river Waveny love the part with the cuckoo I have heard them in the farm land at the bottom of my garden in Beccles keep up the great work and videos looking forward to your next video Bernard
Loving it! Another fascinating vid. Many thanks.
Had to leave a comment Liam, these videos are fabulous, big thank you and keep up the good work. People like you give hope to the future of humanity.
This is such a great channel.
Great shots of the pike!
Thank you for taking me on a lovely walk today! It was wonderful. Blessings to you 🙏
Thotoughly enjoyed this. Thank you for being patient and capturing for us!
Great video, always good to see Pike, only seen a couple myself and never managed a photo or video!
Brilliant Liam 👏🏻🎥 love the pike footage !! Keep these posts coming!! Fantastic! Thumbs up 300 !
Absolutely amazing; superb footage of pike and a cuckoo. Thanks for all your effort.
Thank you Tony. I appreciate your support!
Another great video, thanks Liam.
Hearing the cuckoo is good enough for me! He’s delightful! Thank you!
Thanks Rose!
Great video. Lovely to see the underwater footage. only heard one cuckoo this year. Ten years ago ,I'd have heard dozens here in southern Scotland
Heard and saw my first male cuckoo two weeks ago in the attractive fields near unattractive Hersham, Surrey. I'd hoped to see the kingfisher on the river (not about today) but instead heard the call and saw the cuckoo in flight soon after moving between stands of trees.
Yes please I'd love to know more about the Cuckoo.❤
🙂 A cracking video, thank you!
I learnt many things I did not know, especially about the Cuckoo. And you got some great footage.
Great video, thank you Liam. I got some footage of a Green Woodpecker foraging the other day that I've still to upload. Still trying to catch the nesting pair of Jays that I keep spotting.Lovely day for that walk around the lake 😊
It would be lovely to see a video on the cuckoo. Really enjoyed this, thank you.
Really good video, love these nature reserve ones❤
Love your enthusiasm mate. I've learned a lot from your videos. Thanks.
excellent video. this is down and dirty REAL wildlife reporting! Love it!
Yes, please. I’d love more on the cuckoo.
I second that! A cuckoo vid please!
Yes a factfile on the Cuckoo would be nice. Without regurgitated information would be wonderful! I look forward to your own footage!👍
Yes please to a cuckoo vid
Heard the cuckoo for the first time yesterday morning in Doon, Limerick, Ireland.
Great video Liam, I really enjoy your narration on these walks. 👍
1:05 I saw 2 of these at Trent Lock a few weeks ago. I had no idea what they were and they were not in my bird id books. Thankyou for solving a mystery for me.
The way you deployed that underwater camera without disturbing the pike is amazing, absolutely brilliant footage of the small roach shoals and the pike.
Aw that was the best so far for me,very interesting!
Wow loved the your footage especially the Cockoo and Pike FAB
So glad you got your cuckoo - and that pike footage was amazing! As I've not seen either for myself I found this a very interesting video. And yes, would love to see a video of cuckoo facts, please!!
We were down there the other day and there were two Cuckoos about the one you filmed and one further up Whitlingham Lane towards Trowse. Incidentally I have hear and seen more Cuckoos this year than I have for many years. I often put a camera underwater and have done for many years, filmed lots of Pike and seen them lunge for many small fish, but yet to actually see them catch one. I usually put a bit of groundbait in with the camera as it makes things happen quickly. You may have been there but Horstead Mill makes a great place to film underwater as it is often pretty clear. I set my camera on the bottom on the end of the extension stick and then pop the other end through a brick with a hole in and let things develop. I often can’t see a think until I get home and download, which makes it exciting…Several Cuckoos at Woodbastwick and Upton on the marshes…
Another cracking video and some really good footage of the Grebes, cuckoo and Pike.
I love this kind of video, full of fantastic wildlife. Your perseverance paid off, what a great day you had.
As you discovered, _hearing_ a cuckoo and actually spotting it are *not* the same thing, haha ! 😊
Glad you managed it in the end because it's been years since I saw one myself. Loved the underwater footage too.
Beautiful ,brilliant piece of work
Thank you!
Yet another great video Liam. Love the outtakes at the end. Always makes us smile ☺. A cookoo video would be great to. Thank you.
what an awesome adventure. great work Liam, and your outtakes always make me chuckle!
I haven't seen or heard a cuckoo for years yes do a video on one please
Fantastic video thank you for sharing your passion for British wildlife 👍🏻
I'd like to see a cuckoo fun fact file! 👍
Fantastic! 🙂
Love the production value on this. Superb shots and editing is right up there. Pleasure to watch. Thank you
Terrific video Liam. Awesome Pike footage mate. 👍👍👍
LOVE this video - so exciting to see the excellent pike footage and awesome to see your personality shining through more and more :)
What a cracking video, the horseshoe shaped scar is typical of a larger Pike having a go, any Pike above 10lb is going to be a female and sometimes a smaller male ends up as lunch and not a lover, I've not seen a Cuckoo since I was 16 nearly 50 years ago, I thought it was a Sparrow Hawk at first till it called, this was on a reclaimed Colliery site next to a very nasty chemical works of all places, Great Stuff 👏👏🍺
Great video and loved the underwater shots of the numerous Pike. ATB MMMD
Great video keep it up
Love your videos thank you
Thank you!
Thank you for this brilliant entertainment. Peace be unto you.
Thanks Liam for sharing this interesting walk around the lake! I was surprised that the Pike didn't disappear when you stuck your camera underwater. Greetings and have a nice day! // Bertil.
I can imagine you had a really nice day 🙂
Thanks for sharing, great video!
My brother lives in trowse and I’ve enjoyed many walks around whitlingham, the last walk I saw my first ever kingfisher there so very exciting!
That was superb! Thank you!
Love your videos, even Attenborough or Packham couldn't do any better.
Thanks 👍
another great video, love the behind the scenes 😂
It's interesting to see that the largest pike behaved a bit differently. It seemed more confident with how it turned towards the camera instead of swimming away.
Yes, I suppose, as I dont think many if any people fish for them there, it doesnt have much to fear from people (or pretty much anything else for that matter).
Good job, I really enjoyed watching this video
Great stuff as usual!
Stunning footage of pike! I fish for and release pike and have never got within 30 feet before they shoot off.
Great variety and presentation. Thanks again.
Lovely as always ; anything with fish or herps , way better than those feathered things hehe
Pike's are like buses wait forever for one, getting close to walking, then half a dozen arrive together and they're all carrying no passengers......🫤
3:40 woah! Great Crested Grebe display! AND Duel!!!!
Well done again Liam! Please keep making these videos.
Great footage of the pike
Thanks!
Wow ,plenty of wildlife in that video.I’ve never seen a live pike that closeup,so that was good to see.
Cuckoos always seen to be a bigger bird than I expect,and the males generally come to investigate if you make there call.
Looks like you had a great day Liam. So lucky to hear and see a cuckoo, another year we’ve had none around these parts. And what a great view of that Whitethroat. I never can see them even when they sound like they are only a couple of metres away in the hedge.
Thanks. This year seems to have been a really good year for cuckoo's over this way, I was watching three just yesterday. I was very lucky with the whitethroat, but it does help having a decent zoom on my camera.
Next video should be out this evening.
Thanks liam, wow , what an outstanding dsy❤
Brilliant pike footage
Thank you. I'm so glad i got it, I have tried to film them quite a few times with little or no success so I was chuffed to get them on film this time round!
That is epic footage mate. I've watched a big ol' pike on the little jetty on the north side of that lake.
Great footage of the Pike ❤
Great work, love your content.
Thank you!
Well done! Good Pike footage! * I live in Thailand and have 'water monitor lizards ' in the klong (canal) behind me! The can get to six or seven foot longer--they are very shy normally! They have been scraping holes alongside my walls to try and lay eggs! Bit of a pest actually!
Brilliant video
Thank you!
Keep the videos coming very good!
The 'monster' pike in our local flooded gravel pit in Molesey, Surrey, around 30 years ago made the front page of the Sun: 'girl bitten by shark' or similar (The Sun's reporting accurate as ever). She'd been swimming with friends and her flailing foot got nipped, drawing blood. I caught sight of the likely culprit near the surface a few days later and it was a whopper similar to the three-footer in Liam's video. On the other side of Molesey at a millpond on the Ember I've seen several new born pike lurking in the shallows. Perhaps the 'lake monster' was born here?
Hes
Female Northern pike are the ones that get really big 🙂 nice footage i have one in my garden 👍
Thanks. I should have included how theres quite a size difference between adult males and females!
Great content. This was nice to stumble across, looking to learn a little more about British wildlife. The Egyptian Geese are as hardy as they are noisy - you'll find them shouting at one another and other animals in African rivers shared with crocodiles, hippos and other large neighbours.
Thanks for this! Well done with the cuckoo but it was lovely to see the pike. Beautiful fish!
Love this video, & would be really keen to see one focused on the cuckoo
As someone who's been lucky enough to visit a lot of the places you have filmed I'd love to see some of the resident fungi, even if you're not great at identifying them! I've found all sorts, from scarlet witches ears to chicken of the woods and much less common things.
Happy that you had such a nice day. Pike are a very misunderstood species of fish. Thankfully most people's attitudes towards them have improved. I wouldn't take too much notice of the bitten swimmers reports 😉😉😉.
Mate, those pike were amazing!!
Thanks, I was really glad to get to film them.
Concerning the goodies drifting in the water, is it Algae or Daphnea? They are just not clear enough on the footage for me to see. Thanx for some nice facts about wildlife.
You need to come down to South Devon, I live right next to a wildlife corridor set up for Cirl Buntings . The bird life here is absolutly amazing .
Good work, you done well!
Thanks Doreen
Not heard a cuckoo in many years. My favourites are Skylarks - I love lying back and listening
Definately interested to see a video focusing on cuckoos! I've never seen one and know little about them. Good footage here cheers! Awesome shots of the pikes, massive fish.
Thanks for another great walk.
Have you tried calling Cuckoos to you. I learned to make the noise with cupped hands when I was a child. It works pretty much every time, but you have to hide well so they don't spot you, they're very sharp eyed.
Full marks Liam for sharing a fabulous day with us .Wow you had success all round .Re the cuckoo .Only once have I heard and seen but it was great .( tell that to any whose nests it uses ) Terrific encounters and lots of fun.The pike had me amazed . Liked and have to say .Keep filming .Love your style :)👏🏻 Helena
Brilliant, thanks
Thanks + I have an old Olympus TG4 that I've used used underwater and understand under water photography/videography is challenging for the reasons you describe. I also saw my first ever swarm of bees this (and I might be twice your age). Apparently, at least in Warwickshire swarms have been much more frequent than usual.
That's great footage of everything. Don't worry about a little shaking or underwater particles. We all know there's an abundance of commenters who love to criticize people's audio or video work.
Those were great shots. Loved the pike. Thanks alot.
I heard a Cuckoo a couple of weeks ago in central Hackney, East London. I also heard it last year but didn't believe it at the time as it woke me up and I thought I'd mistakenly heard a wood pigeon in my sleep. This time I was wide awake and it was very distinct.
Lets see you do one on the big cats in the Uk 😮😂 you never know you might be the first to discover them 🤯🦁😅
Another great video 👍
Great video best l have seen in a long time
Definitely a yes from us for the cuckoo fact file. While I've got you, Now is a good time to visit NWT at Hickling for the Swallowtails. We also saw a female Hobby and a massive female Marsh Harrier yesterday.
Fantastic.
Thank you!
@@AShotOfWildlife 1st of May and our morning walk on Bodmin moor with our 2 labs and my wife says "the Cuckoo's should be here now, I said I have never seen one in real life, 2 minutes later walking under a tree the Cuckoo sang and I was right below it, made my year.
Great video.
I heard dozens of cuckoos in the woods when I were a lad, but I never got to see one. It was rumoured(?) that cuckoos could 'throw throw their voice'.
Well done mate...👍
Thank you!
Definitely a fact file on the cuckoo please. There's so much in this film that there's not enough room in 1 comment. Pike, as with anything that swims or flies, changes in its aqua/aerodynamic weight priority as it gets larger, so you can tell a large from a small one at distance by the lowered head posture as the skull gets proportionally heavier the larger the fish. That 3ft one was a BEAST, and I too have seen a bite on a human's leg. Ouch. The great crested grebe is indeed great, I've watched these myself for ages at a time, thier courtship dance is charming and similar to that of cygnus olor, (mute swan), except that when you have a large population, you get all the others round in a circle beholding the lovers doing thier tango.. I have seen this several times and it's magical. The Egyptian geese also I'm v familiar with; they are cantankerous and naughty by nature it seems. If they have a go, then wagging your finger and saying "naughty bird!" usually does the trick but people are incautious and, I'm afraid, sadly ignorant of how to behave around wild birds. Avian flu would be less bad if only they'd refrain from feeding the birds, esp 'en masse' and on bread etc, but what can you do? If you say anything you get branded as "nasty bird hater".. Anyway, what a beautiful wildlife habitat you have there Liam, and, as the olde English song goes;
Summer is icumen in,
Loudly sing cuckoo..
Nice one Liam! 🎶🌟👍