Random Stuff - More Mudlarking, Autumn Forest Walk
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- A little bit more mudlarking (a few interesting finds), and a nice relaxing walk in the forest (this is the walk where I captured the Slow TV footage here: • Slow TV - Autumn Forest )
If you haven't seen the previous mudlarking video I mentioned, it's here: • A Little Bit Of Mudlar...
i find it so mind boggling how the little things in life that most people overlook, when actually focused on (by you) its all so much more interesting with that added bit of info
6:45 (palaeontologist/geologist). The light-coloured ridges you see on echinoids are the ambulacral plates (these were where the tube-feet - gripping and movement limbs - protrudes from the test). The spaces in between are the interambulacral plates (which is where the spines attach - if it had any).
To me they look like an example of a regular echinoid (which likely means those fossils are hundreds of millions of years old). I'm not familiar with the local geology of the area tho. You can probably get an estimated date by looking at local rock types which contain this fossil.
The internal pattern is not soft tissue I'm afraid (it's not representative of the internal structure). Its likely just surface discoloration by weathering.
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That is an irregular echinoid. They evolved later than regular ones and are still around today (e.g. sand dollars). They have adapted to have sub-five-fold, bilateral symmetry. They typically don't have spines for protection, but may have spines on the underside to allow them to burrow into soft sediment.
Regular echinoids also have their mouth on the bottom and anus on the top (they graze on algae).
Irregular have their mouth in the "heart crevice" and their anus at the back. This allows them to funnel in water so they can filter feed, without ingesting their own faeces.
Regular echinoids and asteroids are the only genus which has a 5-fold jaw bone.
This is the comment I was looking for. Atomic Shrimp has the best audience.
I'm a Marine Biology student and I came to say this but you beat me to it. Great comment.
I live near Charmouth on the Jurassic Coast and we find the irregular heart shaped Micraster urchins in the chert. They're Cretaceous. Also similar flint beds in Hertfordshire which are Cretaceous. Couldn't say if it's the same for the sites you've found them at though :)
I also dive in the area and sea 'sea potatoes' at sandy sites sometimes in Devon. It's funny, their tests look pretty much the same as the Micraster fossils I find on the beaches nearby. They haven't changed much!
Thanks for sharing!
If I went mudlarking and found those items myself, it would be intensely uninteresting. But to hear Atomic Shrimp talk about them in more detail, they become fascinating. He has knowledge in so many different fields, I reckon he'd do pretty well at pub quizzes.
That electrical insulator could well have been used as part of a ships short wave communications antenna. It may have failed as a result of a lighting strike.
Came to say just this. There is no good reason to be moving high-voltage electricity around a ship on naked conductors (we only do that on land to save the effort of burying the cables) but there *is* a good reason to string antenna wires between the masts, as was done all through the WWII era.
It's a standoff insulator, meant to be screwed between a device and the structure of a ship.
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It do be facts tho
And that's a fact!
Undoubtedly!
@@PandemoniumMeltDown agreed
Archaeologists. The most versatile RUclipsr I ever known.
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@@oshea6702 yes, we are OK, thank you very much. I hope u r feeling good too.
@@africa_everyday Good to hear my friend we are also doing well. Many blessings to you and your family, stay safe.
Hello Babatunde! Any good chicken recipes from Nigeria? I have a Nigerian friend that makes an awesome chicken. I want to beat him in his own game my brother. Help me!
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I live in Australia now but I grew up in Horndean. My dad used to take me to Langstone Harbour at low tide to get old WWII bullets (I believe where the US were during the war). You could dismantle them and use the gun powder sticks to make mini fireworks and rockets. I imagine that type of content might get your pinged though. Great channel sir. Id love to see you present Netley Abby and its history some time.
That reminds me of when I was a kid on July 5th every year (the day after our Independence Day). We would go around the neighborhood and collect all the ‘dud’ fireworks from the night before, carefully dismantle what remained of them and make a couple of our own fireworks out of the powder we were able to scavenge.
That sort of content would get you arrested!
Discovery of any live munitions are meant to be reported and dealt with appropriately.
The chances are, small bullets in Langstone Harbour will have degraded and lost their contents, however you might unearth some larger explosives down there.
I bet that was really interesting to go down there and do that. The shores around Portsmouth must be littered with so many interesting things. Especially when you consider how many military ships were built, sunk or scrapped there.
When I lived in fareham, I remember older generations telling me how they would spend whole days sifting through the mud in Fareham Creek fishing out allsorts of wierd and wonderful things... no doubt coming across a lot of nasties too that they qeep quiet about!
@@underwaterdick Im talking rifle bullets. We weren't picking up land mines and 200lb bombs to take them home and dismantle. And it was only about 20 years ago. I can't imagine there would be that much difference in degradation between the end of the war, then and now. You could use a clamp and some decent pliers and pull the actual round from the casing. The insides were almost like the lead in pencils but gunpowder. You could gather about 5, wrap some tin-foil around the end. Light it and obviously the restriction of the foil would cause a minor 'bang'. Or we would do the same and tape them to a piece of triangular paper (a wing so to speak) and off it would go with a little bang at the end. My understanding was boxes of small caliber munitions were just dumped over the side of barges rather than being disposed of properly.
@@simonrb1942 I wasn't suggesting you took anything larger than that home. But legally, even a bullet suspected as live should be reported and not removed. It would be an offence to possess them.
Fine if people are happy with that, but uploading it to RUclips for the world to see would be another matter.
I only suggest they may have degraded because I have found bullet casings on other salt water sites over the years and they tend to crumble when picked up.
Interesting what you say about throwing them off barges, because from what I hear, war trophies are also "cast overboard" before arrival into Port, and after a famous Naval conflict "down South" an incredible number of south american weapons, munitions and explosives ended up in the solent.
If course, that is just an urban legend, because the RN would never knowingly have tipped off their returning sailers and soldiers that any war trophies found to be illegal to possess would bring prosecution on arrival...😉
Ironically, those who ignored this "fictional" warning still have interesting things above their mantlepieces as talking points, whilst those who paid attention ended up without.
Sounds like great fun making those little foil bangers 😁
@@underwaterdick I didn't take it in a bad way. And yes, that is also true. Same father served in the Falklands and was a clearance diver. Well, he told me they did that. When I served at a 'quiet' base in Bedfordshire, the base adjutant had a 1960's ish Kalashnikov mounted on his office wall
Urchin dies millions of years ago...
Atomic shrimp discovers it in 2020.
Urchin: My time to shine has finally come.
Urchins rock!
Fun fact, those urchin fossils are what Pratchett refers to as "Shepherd's Crown" in his book of the same name. I have one sitting on my desk that I got as a gift at a Discworld Convention. They're really cool fossils. :)
I don’t think I can properly describe how great your content is. In rough times I can come here and your stuff is just so interesting and happy and chill.
I genuinely enjoyed the walk, it truly feels like a walk with an old friend.
I kept thinking if I look close enough I will see Pooh and Tigger bouncing through the woods! LOL
I love the smell in the woods, such clean, fresh air. Although my local woods don't have the variety of flora and fauna.
Isn't it amazing? There is a 2400 ac forrest persevered right in the middle of my town. The people who founded the town protected the space and it's incredible. The smell from the different types of plants/bushes that were planted at the original owner's home have gone wild over the last 150 yrs and the entire wood smells like I can't describe all year long. And it's 10-20 degrees cooler in there during the summer. It's like passing into another world
@@chrissyliberty8117 Where's that? Sounds awesome. I live in a suburban neighborhood, but have woods adjacent so a few minutes away.
@@chrissyliberty8117 so true about the woods, we have a preserve a mile or so away. The difference in temperature in summer is awesome, it's great to drive through with the window down.
I love the peaceful way you present things, not monotone but none of that yank style almost fevered faux excitement that is offensive to the senses, instead you have a genuine, and gentle way of involving people to let them be interested in that which you do, on their own terms.
I value that.
Sarah, many "Yanks" find that frenzied style in RUclips videos pretty awful, too.
Ghost Town Living, who is restoring Cerro Gordo ghost town, sifted through the towns old bottle dump. Good channel
I learned everything I know about meandering rivers in a dull geography lesson from a book. I wish I had had you as a teacher who would have taken us out into the forest, showing things in situ.
I originally started watching your videos for the scambaiting but I've come to really love all of your content. It's just so fascinating and easy to listen to. Thank you for your many interests.
Certainly the reason I love your content. It's can be so random, as you announced! Brilliant and never really boring! Thank you for being different and the interesting entertainment!
I really love the mudlarking its really interesting to see all these items from the past.
Your channel is a wholesome, educational(you always learn something) space on YT. Eye for detail! I love the randomness and variation.
This channel is so ordinary and humble. I love it.
Idiots: Bees sting and hurt us. Kill them all! Idiots later: We're starving.
Don't remember bees stinging me.... But a wasp. Have you been stung, as a child? I wouldn't give a damn if people wanted to kill them all. Not much. I wouldn't automatically act self-important and superior about me "not wanting them all killed"... Like it would be self-evident to jump to such conclusions without any argument whatsoever.
That said: I don't claim spiders are unimportant... However I do suspect their importance is still greatly exaggerated... And either way, I would say exterminating them from the universe should count as a prime-priority of humanity (including making this possible by whatever means of ecosystem balancing, of course).
Never been stung by a bee my entire life. Wasps on the other hand seem to have a real bee in their bonnet 😂.
100% agree that dangerous/poisonous fungi should NOT be destroyed, the world isn't here to just supply for us
Dangerous/poisonous, ultimately, does apply to all things so by the logic of the destroyers: all things should be destroyed...
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@Benjamin McCann I would never put my money in my mouth...
i think they want to destroy the fungus by kicking the fruit body with the feet. but the fungus mostly contains of myzelium under the earth/ inside decaying wood. so there wouldn`t be achieved anything. the fruit body is short living anyway. but destroying them would shurely trigger the spores to float around, helping the fungus to spawn around.
@@paulpower5028 Indeed so let's let them spread the thing they want to destroy for ignorance is bliss, I guess :D
@@PandemoniumMeltDown yeah, lol. i am just happy that they are too stupid to really destroy fungides
Love this, very peaceful and grounding
I find it so interesting that someone who seems to live so close to me can find such interesting things in places I visit myself at least weekly. Very glad to see these videos so I can learn to make the most of my surroundings and be more observant 🙂
Mudlarking is like treasure hunting. Very fun
I feel like it is a Shrimp Christmas with all these wonderful video gifts!
Another wonderful Random video.
I've seen Sea Hurchins tons of times; live underwater, dead, on my plate, found their tests on the beach but never seen a fossil of them. Very cool.
Yes. Their shells are so thin and fragile, I’m surprised even those half shells could be found.
it's like the theme of this channel is pure curiosity and honestly that's so refreshing and genuine 😭you can see it in each of his videos 🥺
Nothing beats a good morning cuppa with a new upload from Atomic Shrimp!
I loved the sound of the water flowing along. Pretty views also
hi, i’m new to the channel as of a few days ago but greatly enjoying things so far :-) this was a lovely video, thank you for sharing!!
i just wanted to say, as well- i have really terrible mycophobia (fear of mushrooms and fungi/mold), and your videos have been helping with that, as of late! something about your level of comfort in foraging and handling fungi makes my brain pause before sounding the alarms, and then i’m too busy learning interesting facts about the woods to worry about it for too long anyway :-)
so, in that way, it’s a sort of exposure therapy, i guess? i really hope to one day be able to conquer my fears and maybe get close to your level of comfort in regards to fungi, but for now i’m happy with whatever steps i can manage in that direction.
so, i wanted to say, thank you for making the content you do! i love all your videos, and i’m really happy to have found your channel.
Love all your content! Your voice makes everything more engaging! Please do more food challenges! They're so cool!
27:42 Sounded like a Yorkshire man saying Covid lol
Thankyou for the video! You bring happiness to many, many people my friend.
I think your mudlarking videos are my new favorite thing you've done. I hope you keep it up at least sometimes alongside all of the other cool things you do and whatever else new strikes your fancy.
Komorebi
Japanese word for light through trees.
Thanks for doing more larking :) what’s fascinating is that objects such as the insulator could have a really interesting story which we’ll never know. Or it could have just fallen off something!
I could watch these kind of vids all day! So relaxing and fascinating, really makes me want to venture out!
I love your videos, its calming and nice to watch when you are going through a bad day. Thank you.
A wise wizard with vast amounts of knowledge made RUclips channel. It's great.
Like, honestly, your expanse of knowledge is awesome, I hope I'm like you one day, just knowing a bunch about a bunch of different subjects.
Ah, Saturday shrimp! Perfect!
Keep up the good work fella and stay safe.
Love your videos chap, makes me think I need to slow down and enjoy the world around me more.
What a lovely relaxing video to watch. I thought November in England would be grey, cold and rainy but it seems to be a tolerable temperature and sunny. Here in Canada it is getting very cold, no insects flying around, no leaves on the trees and wild animals are getting ready for the big sleep. I look forward to your videos.
In my part of Alberta, there's snow on the ground now (3 weeks into November, for anyone reading this later on). Probably going to stay til spring - unless we get a January thaw.
Your diagram and comment at 9:07 made me think of the "Canals of Mars" sketches by some astronomers in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
We've had a section of wall collapse along the seafront by us (Hayling Island/Langstone, which is quite close to you from what I'm aware). Likewise to you, the site where they built the wall used to be a dump and the wall collapsing has unearthed so many treasures! Popped over the other day, picked up lots of old perfume bottles, old glass bottles and jars, and beer/wine/spirit bottles many with the town name made into the glass. Such an intreating afternoon out scavenging.
Thanks - I might give that a look!
Perfect video to go with my morning coffee.
what a cool video. didn't know there was so much history in one little area. If that where here in Canada everything would've been picked clean already. So cool that its all still there
Thank you for sharing your woodland walks and mudlarking. I do enjoy it.
I really enjoy watching your videos, such a variety of topics delivered in such an interesting way.
It helps that I am familiar with 90% of the places you mention...
Grew up in Fareham and went cycling to the shores of Porchester a lot. Lived in Stubbington and used to stroll down to Lee or Hill Head most evenings.
Spent a few years as a student in Southampton, (didn't live there though, commuted in) around all the places you frequent for some of the things you get.
I used to live in the new forest and currently live on the Western Border of it.
Keep up the great content, and keep name dropping places that I hung out in or have lived 🤣
PS, you next video isnt from the Scottish Highlands is it? 😉
And as an additional PS added yet again after posting, the land on the far side of the water from the castle is reclaimed landfill. I'm not sure if they still use it for landfill as it has been a few years since I used it. -"port solent"
But that would most likely explain the large quantity of bottles and ceramic, that the site has been used to dump waste for many years and the tide helps spread some of it around. The mixture of tidal flow and density of the ceramic/glass might mean that it is deposited there in greater quantities than other bits washed away which probably collect together elsewhere.
Imagine the stories these things would tell if they had a voice!!! Fascinating!!
Looking forward to more of these! Would be fun to see a week’s worth of discoveries if it were possible to go back each day.
I'll definitely be going back, as well as exploring some other similar locations. There is an island nearby that can be reached on foot at low tide
@@AtomicShrimp Island Shrimp sounds like a great video
Hi Mike would you consider a monthly episode where you sit and teach us something ? Or read from a favourite book, or a show and tell type of thing ? All your content is educational but I’d love a dedicated regular episode, the mud larking objects talk was brilliant. Thanks for all your content I’m enjoying binge watching it all.
A ship snail 🐌 nice find!
It's like a sea slug
It’s 2am here in California, but I’m here! And glad to be!
10:30am in the UK. Hello California ✌🏻
@@James-oo1yq good morning to you all! ✌🏽😅
You got me in with the scammers and I stayed for the random canned goods 😘😘😘
Also could the old bottle dump be a poorly contained landfill area? I know that in some cases this may have happened in the 1960/1970s and that water especially could erode the banks where they had sometimes been put
There is a large modern landfill at Porchester, with some of the old land reclaimed once piled high enough, so your theory holds a lot of weight there.
It is on the land over the water from the Castle, in a place now called "Port Solent", easy to find on Google earth.
My love with Britain tends to grow with every video I see of you. Queen Victoria. Tragic and also lovable. Your insulator reminded me of her, God Bless Her.
Your insulator is called a "shed" & may have been used vertically...
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This is just my idea, I haven't seen it written down anywhere else, but I think the name "shed" comes from shedding off of water. The shape of it, when it is hung, let's the water cascade off.
They have to be clean & smooth for them to work, without arcing, at high voltages. Any damage, especially to the ceramic "skin" would make it unusable.
Hence it's appearance at your dump.
We call them bottle dumps because that's all that remains. It would've been a normal, everything dump when it was in use. It's only glass & ceramics that last into our time. Hence "bottle dump".
I'm probably teaching granny to suck eggs here Shrimp. My apologies for waffling.
Thanks for an interesting video. ☮️
Really cool video! I actually like this Mudlarking series! Keep it up :D !
Great video, really enjoy all the variety.
Bird call maybe an Eurasian Jay, notorious shy and live in tree tops. Screechy calls, in Ireland the Gaeilge name for it is Scréachóg... very fitting
Love the explanation on how that nail works. Great videos :)!
I don't know why, but the sound of you walking in the woods, made me think of video games....specifically The Legend of Zelda games. My husband use to play those 24/7, and we would all end up falling asleep to the sounds of the game. (He died in 2009 and I haven't played a game since really).
Odd where sounds take our brains sometimes. 😊
Honestly, I'm going through quite a bad time at the moment but your videos help me so much. Youre such a positive and interesting person. Keep brightening my day and keep up the good work my friend 👍
The bird sounded like European jay to me. Also I totally agree on not destroying anything in the nature and just take the amount you need. Everyone should be taught this since the childhood. We are only visitors in the fores, we need to be polite...
It's definitely a small corvid, most likely a magpie. They make the most astounding range of noises. In contrast the parakeets are far less diverse in the sounds they make, although they can be extremely noisy. Here is a nice little video with info on them: ruclips.net/video/zoMidnDz0co/видео.html
Your style of video and talking is so calming and interesting thank you for bringing me some needed peace in a hectic week. God bless you and your family!
Looking forward to seeing the urchin polished up! Brilliant video as usual thank you x
Knurling, a new word for me, none the less.
Really enjoyed the walk, my walk this morning here in Danmark was stormy and very cold quite the opposite , keep them coming.🇩🇰😃🇩🇰
Thank you for your videos, entertaining, and informative.
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I find it oddly funny the way you point and gesture with your walking spoon. It has the same energy as people doing mundane tasks with those finger hand things
This man can make a video about his favourite cereal and it will be the most entertaining thing in the world. I love your videos plz keep up the good work
Loved all notes on the miscellanea, you're the most interesting uncle I never had Shrimp :P Really enjoyed the fossils, reminded me of when I was growing up. Small town in limestone country, the path to school was almost all rough limestone from the area and you'd find fossils almost daily. A few decades later and it's not like that anymore unfortunately, but it's a pleasant memory to recall so thankyou for bringing that back.
Always remove ticks by grasping the capitulum very firmly with flat-tipped tweezers, to avoid squeezing the body and getting guts injected into your bloodstream.
We've got a special hook thing that is designed to slip underneath them to pull them out (sort of like a tiny claw hammer) - it's meant for dogs, but I'm sure it would work on humans. Eva (my dog) appears to be nonstick as far as ticks are concerned, so we've never had cause to use the tool.
what would happen if the guts got in the bloodstream?
@@KNylen they sometimes carry Lyme disease which would be transmitted by removing a tick the wrong way. Ticks can have multiple hosts, therefore they can transmit disease in this way.
@@Emergency_Confetti ah that tracks, thanks!
@@Emergency_Confetti my dog has her tick and flea medicine prevention stuff so basically if a something bites her with malicious intent of being an evil little tick it dies
Beautiful and so calming! Thank you.
Your vids have been one of the life saving and peaceful items in my life this year!
I love your outlook in foraging - if you don't find anything, you still had a nice walk!
Those sea urchins can be found by the gazillions on the reefs near me (live, not fossils). As kids we used to snorkel for them, bring them home and let them dry out (die) and in a relatively short period of time, the sun will bleach out the shells to a beautiful white and sometimes a lavender color. Sand dollars were another thing we used to collect (or maybe they’re called sand pounds in the UK).
*Just a random thought - I’m curious what the average age of an Atomic Shrimp viewer might be 🤔. You should try and do your own unscientific study sometime. Age, sex, location, etc.
30/male/Spanish I would have found the channel entertaining at about any age, but found it just recently
Love mudlarking! You could have more of these videos, even an entire list of them! Very interesting stuff 🙂
Thanks! This is just like the walks I take in the forests of Northern California.
Thank you for taking the time to share your beautiful life with us
Meander - named after an actual river, in modern-day Turkey. Good stuff, thank you!
This channel is a breath of fresh air for us stuck in American suburban hell, made a hundred-fold worse by the virus.
I know some youtubers who make arrowheads from flat pieces of broken glass. Definitely a better use for the glass than just sitting there, being a hazard.
Yes! this is so cool! thank you! I really enjoy your videos.
Best example where killing pests and unwanted species backfired is in the Great Chinese Famine, which was partly caused by the Four Pests Campaign which saw the eradication of Sparrows and thus an increase in insects and major decrease in crop yields.
seeing the insulator was cool, i recognized it instantly. my mother used to collect discarded insulators. neat.
I love watching your videos, it gives my brain a break from everything because it's like travelling to another world and I love learning little fact about nature from your videos, they're always so interesting. So thank you for making some of the most unique content I've seen, I look forward to seeing more :)
Fascinating! Thank you! -love those fossils!
I think it's cool how varied your content is, I can watch for hours and never get bored. Also your voice is very nice to listen to.
That forest looks so relaxing to walk through.
I quite like your trips, like a vacation for me
Your videos fill my brain with so much serotonin
Re getting relatively close to that stag: is there any danger posed to you from stags? If you happened to stumble through a clearing very close to one, would it flee or get defensive? Also when you restrain your Eva from going over to them, is that purely for the stag and deer’s sake or would/could they harm the dog?
Relatively little danger. They will nearly always retreat from humans if the option is there, but I did once encounter a huge red deer stag that seemed almost the size of a horse, with antlers like a tree, that showed me no fear at all. I imagine they'd charge if cornered, or if you wandered suddenly into a battle between two stags
And mostly when I restrain Eva, it's just because she will run after them for potentially miles and might get lost, or run far enough to hit a road, which could be a hazard to the deer, the dog, and drivers
Very interesting, im actually very fascinated by this video!
That was qi, I love fossils ever find any with signs of predation? And that wood is gorgeous thanks for sharing.
I think the best way to remember the Amanita family is to know for sure what the deadly ones look like, and that Amanitas have an egg sack and often have a skirt around the stem; this is not the case for the grisette. The specimen you found looked much like a citrina instead of the Amanita phalloides, or death cap, which especially grows in association with oak trees. When in doubt, leave the mushroom alone.
Also, that bird you heard could be a jay. I live in London and get loads of parakeets. Their calls are unmistakeable.
Nice job I would love to try mudlarking in the future I enjoy bottle digging over here good luck and happy hunting.
Goodness, that 38 minutes flew by.
From the top view that insulator reminded me of the knob you had made out of plywood
‘and i’m not going to name them, they know who they are’ - the passive aggression in your voice 😂
15 minutes , 3 or 4 videos , subscribed. Good content is hard to find these days.