Wildlife photography and camera traps in a tiny urban garden
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024
- Part 2 dear people! Those of you who have watched the first episode know that this is part 2 of 3 in a short series documenting my attempts to make the most of this uncertain time by exploring and photographing the two very small gardens that I know I am lucky to have. This episode sees the surprise camera trap guest revealed and some more unexpected visitors.
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I love seeing all of the wildlife in an urban setting! Great video.
Hi Roxanne! Me too, I always try to show what can be found in a city. Though its challenging at times :D.
Thanks for watching :)
Hi Matt. I enjoyed your excitement with the badger. I'd had the same experience in late march, just at the start of lockdown. A family of badgers, started visiting my bird table. It been great watching them climb up to my bird table. And totally clear it. It's been a god sent to have this family of badgers, during these difficult times. Best of luck with your badgers.👍
Hi Michael!
After reading your first line I wrote a very bad joke about flying badgers. I was disappointed to see you then explain that they climbed it as I had to delete the joke. However, that is incredible! I haven't heard much anecdotal evidence of their climbing ability, though I had heard they were meant to be good climbers. Amazing to have in your garden!
And thank you! I think I will need the luck :D
No justification needed, a badger is ALWAYS EXCITING.
Ha, glad you think so Laura, cheers for watching 😊
Badger celebrations... fantastic 😄👍. Always a great vid from you Matt... nice one. Loved the Sparrow shots at feeding time. Beautiful. 🙂👍
Thank you Steve! Glad you liked it! I wasn't expecting them to take to the feeder so quickly that's for sure!
Thanks again for watching!
your channel is unique because it doesn't feature unreachable locations for the average joe and you don't use loads of gear. i hope you continue doing this stuff. its more relatable to a common aspiring photographer that lives in the city and has responsibilities and cannot quit his job to pursue the wild.
Thank you so much Puneet! I have big plans for the future of this channel, but there will always be a core theme on British/local wildlife because that's my passion :).
Brilliant Matt the production is amazing and the Badger!!! Didn't expect that!!!
Thank you! Really appreciate it, glad it was a good surprise :D
Loved it! Rat and sparrow footage was captivating. Good luck with the badger shots!!! :)
Thank you! I will need all the luck I can get with the badger shots 😂. Fingers crossed for a good one of a fox at least 😊
Great friend, incredible all the wildlife in your garden. Thanks for sharing it with us. Best regards.
No problem, thank you for your comment and for watching :)
Nice video, Matt. Love the sparrow shots!
Thank you! Glad you like them! 😊
So awesome that you can do all of this in your backyard! Great video, so lovely to watch. Stay safe!
That you so much! Yeah it's incredible what I've been able to find, and in an area of such high disturbance! Thanks for watching!
Hi Matt. I loved the baby sparrows. Not so keen on the r.a.t. But understand why you want to film them. Love Badge. How amazing. Btw thanks for the link to Warwick. 👍👍👍👍
Hi Chris! Glad you liked it! Glad you found Warwicks link! I am most fond of his third episode :D
Awesome!,just saw Badger!!!.
Ha, cheers :D
The image of the 3 sparrow is typical good wildlife shot, great comp, good light and cute subject, nice one Matt. Sorry mot with you about the rats but to have a badger on your patch is awesome, bring on pt3.
Thanks Jeff, glad you like the sparrow shot :).
Ha, not everyone is with me on the subject of rats, not to worry, as long as you enjoyed most of it.
And part three will be in two weeks time, next week is something a little different that should be quite interesting.
Thanks for watching :)
@@MattGouldphotography I have a few chickens & ducks so they are a constant pest, also like crows very clever. My son did have pet rats, those were nice and very friendly so I have some sympathy, everything has it's place in the world. Keep safe & Take care.
great episode, Yay i was right. looking forward to the next one
Congratulations :D. Only one or two guessed in judging by the comments :D. The next part will be in two weeks time, with next weeks video being something a little different :D
Excellent couple of vlogs, and some great surprises. Keep them coming.
Thanks Charles! Glad you liked it! :) I will indeed try to keep them coming :)
OH! That's what it was! Brilliant!
Ha, great reaction Al, just what i'm after :). Thanks for watching :)
@@MattGouldphotography I'm looking forward to moving my family over to the UK when things settle down. Videos like yours just get me all excited!
Lovely stuff. Imagine spotting a badger somewhere so urban!
Thank you Mark! Yeah it would be amazing. I have heard stories of them being quite abundant in a few cites but just being much better at not being seen than foxes.
great video love your channel
Thank you for watching Sam, really appreciate it 😊
Well, I expected Fox but Badger! No wonder you were exited. Brilliant as usual Matt, stay safe.
Oh and I forgot last week, loved the jumping Zebra Spider shot.
Thank you Stewart! I'm glad it wasn't anti-climatic :).
And thank you for the complement! Still to get one I'm super happy with of a jumping spider :D.
Hi Matt , loved the video as it is how I’ve been enjoying my free time too. Restricted to the garden makes you notice even more . All my flicker photos from late are just in the garden ,being still and seeing what pops up .i remember my first trail cam at the bottom of the garden expecting another deer and then the excitement of seeing my first badger and then all the clues falling into place , claw marks , trails through the wild part of the garden and of course my trip down the garden at 3am thinking cats were fighting with my trusty torch to protect me. Just to get very far from the house and hear the badgers fighting and thrashing though the undergrowth. Then the trusty torch dies , I’m in flip flops and shorts .. and sudden blackness , then all I hear is the heavy breathing of the culprits , vulnerable is the word I’d use for how I felt , Usain Bolt wouldn’t have beat me back to the house that night , flip flops or not 👀
Hi Lee! Great anecdote! I have been charged by a badger in the dark before, I was apparently between it and its route back to safety but didn't know it and we both made each other jump :D. So I know the vulnerable feeling :D.
Thanks for watching :)
Great photos, good work. :-)) Greetings from Germany.
Hi Clive! Thank you for the kind words! I plan to visit Germany one day for the wildlife photography, apparently it has a lot to offer! Thank you for watching :)
That's amazing to have a badger literally at your front door! I've seen badgers twice so far and I hope to get out and find them again soon and photograph them too :) Loving your work and videos!
Well I may have them at my front door but you have seen twice as many as i have 😂.
Thank you for watching and the kind words 😊
@@MattGouldphotography Haha I'm sure you'll see them again soon enough! I have my own photography page if you wish to have a look, it's named pinfold.photographic :)
Great film Matt. Particularly liked the BW shot of the sparrows. Look forward to next vid.
Cheers Jim! Chuffed you enjoyed it! Next week will be something a little different and part three will be a week after that 😊
Smashed this one mate! Glad to be back in the wildlife hotspot that is our garden haha
Cheers bud! Looking forward to seeing what you manage to capture here :)
Brilliant Video Matt! loved the surprise was thinking either badger, Fox Cubs etc. Also loved that broll when you kinda flew from one side of the house to the next! Loved it mate!
Hi Sam, thanks for watching, yeah I think you were one of the few that guessed correctly in the comments. Ha, yeah looking back there was a small technical issue but pretty happy with how it turned out :).
Top-notch video!! You have done brilliantly with what you have - I am expecting great things with the fox and badger, fingers crossed!
Cheers Harvey! That is really appreciated! I wouldn't get your hopes up too high for the final shots though, as we speak I am a couple of days away from checking the trap... the test night did not go well :D
Amazing film Matt, just goes to show how even what might appear as a garden without any life can have many secrets.
Hi Paul, yes I totally agree, I really wasn't expecting to see all this in my garden!
Thanks for watching!
Love the final photo. I love wildlife too but have never found myself drawn to rats. Eeeeeewww
Lol
Elaine! Lovely to see you are still watching :)
And I don't think you are alone in your opinion on rats.
Thank you for watching :)
I love the photos of the baby sparrows
Thank you Tessa, glad you like them 😊
@@MattGouldphotography i really do...well all your videos are brilliant
Whoa! Nice one! 👊🏼👍🏼😃
Thanks Irene! :)
Love the video and especially the sparrow shots. I rarely get to see Sparrows where I live. Congrats on the Badger too, I can understand why you were excited. By the way Badgers love peanuts if you ever want to leave anything out for them.
Hi Catherine, yeah I have heard they are doing very badly in the UK. Though both here and back at my parents home they are in big numbers.
And yeah I have heard of their love of peanuts, I may be tempted to do that a few times in the future. But I want to try and get a natural shot without using baiting first before trying that. Though I may use that method to try and get a sighting rather than a shot :).
Great video Matt, really enjoyed it
Cheers Andrew, thanks for watching! :)
Absolute class dude. Sparrow photographs awesome
Thanks Dave, really appreciate it 😊
Not a Polar Bear then?......love the rats!....and the Fox/Badger/crows/sparrows ....all of ‘em!...must put my camera trap out.....🤩🌈😎
Ooor, a dwarf polar bear in disguise... Can't yet prove it isn't ….
Ha, glad you enjoyed it Peter, thank you for watching and thank you for your comment :). Yes, definitely put the camera trap out! Who knows, you too may get a dwarf polar bear in disguise o_0
@@MattGouldphotography .. Id settle for bonking hedgehogs !
Great video, I think I’ve found a superhighway in my local patch for animals and want to set a camera trap up. What trap do you have?
Ah nice, a wildlife corridor is a great place to capture shots and sightings! I use the CamPark T20, works fine for me :)
Love rats, an amazing little mammal. I have no idea why they have such a bad rap. Cool to get a badger too. Living where I do they are quite common for me but I do remember the joy of my first and the similar reaction to yours. Well done.
Hi Phill!
They really are cool creatures! Very envious of badgers being a common sight for you :)
Thanks for watching!
Had to put a cable tie round ours.
Did you have trouble with the crows as well?
Not a sparrow that got eaten by a cat, but that is really dope! Foxes and Badgers on an urban environment. Is that even normal or is this because of the quarantine that is going on that's why they are able to roam at night? 😲🤩😲🤩😲🤩
Ha, no not quite :D. Solid guess though to be fair. Yeah, I was expecting the odd fox but I really wasn't expecting to see the badger. Foxes are very normal in urban environments in the UK. And it seems that badgers are getting more and more common though they are a lot more secretive in my opinion. I think Bristol is especially good for them but sets are still very difficult to find.
@@MattGouldphotography That is really nice to see something rare in an urban environment! Hopefully we'll get to see more of the Badgers on part 3! Cant wait! 🤩🤘
Great video Matt! I’m thinking of getting a night camera to see what is eating my seed from the ground feeder during the night. Any suggestions?
To be honest I am pretty happy with my one. It was a Christmas present so I haven't looked at the market in detail. But I use a CamPark T20 :)
Wonderful. I have some trees behind my house. Lucky enough to have a nuthatch pair and a great spotted woodpecker as regulars at the bird feeder.
Thank you Tom!
Wow, a regular nuthatch is especially brilliant! Very envious! :D
Thank you for watching!
@@MattGouldphotography yeah, probably should have said I'm over in Germany -- not sure if they more common over here. But I love the "everyday" birds, the birds I grew up with, and love the great photos and footage you get of them too
Amazing Matt! Loved your excitement with the badger! I also got some footage of mice in my garden (in the city). I'm nowhere near as accomplished as you are but let me know if you'd like to see it. Epic BW shot of the sparrows.
Ha, nothing like finding a badger in your garden it turns out :D
Mice footage sounds cool! Any mammal shot is impressive in my opinion. Thank you for the kind words and thank you for watching as always
I hope not to disappoint in future episodes! :)
Smashed it with the thumbnail 👍🏻⚡👍🏿
Thanks man, I feel I know who this is by your profile photo, by all means tell me if we haven't met :D
Quality video matt, can’t believe you have a badger visiting your garden!!! The photo of the bee in the hole, it says 1/5000 shutter speed, is that right?
Me neither Tom!
Ha, yeah it is right :D. It was a very bright day and I lit the hole with an additional light :).
Great, that you give animals like Rats space in your videos. Congratulation!!! Thanks for sharing, greetings Rolf
Ahhhh there is room for every animal on this channel :D.
Thank you for watching Rolf!
Bird feeders do attract rats par for the course, but still wildlife.
Very true, love a good mammal shot though :)
What lens do you use? 500mm mark 1 or 2
Hi Manuel, the 500mm f4 IS mark 1
And get a shave ya hippie 😂, just kidding the beard rocks 🙌🏽
Ha, the shave will happen, I feel my attempt at growing a beard has only highlighted my inability to do so :D.
About 10 years ago I ran out into the back garden at night armed with a fire poker because theives were trying to get in the back door. I went out the front door partially to attempt to surprise them via an alleyway. But as I stepped out of the front door two adult badgers ran round the corner play fighting and chasing each other. They had been in he back garden and play fought all the way down the garden steps and crashed into the back door. They didn't even notice me. Truly a privilege to see. And they continued to visit. They love plain peanuts. No salt etc. Some suppliment and some are stand by and watch animals cope. I may tinker now and then 😆
Edit: Bloody brilliant Matt. I reckon I'll be watching you on TV in a couple of years. Many thanks for sharing.
Hi Adam, that sounds like a brilliant thing to see! Very envious!
And yeah baiting is a controversial one, I plan to do a video sharing my thoughts on it at some point.
At the moment, as they are passing through anyway, I am trying to get a shot without using bait, though I may be tempted to try it a few nights to try and get a sneaky sighting in person :).
Thanks for watching!
Oh and thanks for that lovely compliment at the end, maybe one day... but I feel TV is far too professional for me ;)
great video
Cheers Rudy!
Nice cam trap vid.
Thank you Stafford! More to come :)
Impressive vid, feeding sparrows tops. Rats have become more aggressive since lockdown of restaurants have reduced their customary garbage scraps - not fun.
Hi Paul! Thank you, glad you liked it! That's not nice to hear, luckily my ones haven't really acted aggressive and I haven't seen them since I fixed the feeder issue. Though I imagine they were a population that wasn't dependent on scraps from restaurants in the first place.
Thanks for your comment and for watching :)
I'm trying to capture a bold as brass fieldhouse that owns my garden.
Ooooo a field mouse would be a great shot, you don't see many nice shots of mice, good luck with it :)
There are the good rats (those who visit but stay out of your house) and the bad rats (those who show up with the intent of forcing their way inside so they can nest in your walls. I've experienced both. I prefer the former. ;)
great content, great channel 👍 subs
Hi Amicx! Thanks for the sub! I hope not to disappoint in future videos :)
I have been putting out a handful of dry dog foodto see what comes to eat it.
Ravens.
I'll put out some poultry pellets when I find some, I think those will be more universally appealing. So far, my birdseed has been scorned.
Ravens are an excellent find in your garden, very jealous!
Good luck with future feeds :)
@@MattGouldphotography They're part of the indigenous wildlife, along with magpies, butcherbirds, mudlarks, willy wagtails,twenty0eights, galahs, cockatoos, mopokes.
Never saw a badger 6 years in the UK...
Well, I have seen one in person, wait... two (technically) in 26 years so based on that average you were due another 7 before you had seen one :D.
Hope all is well with you. I heard the bad news about Hong Kong, though I need to educate myself on it more. Hope things work out as good as possible from this point.
Thanks mate, and yes unfortunately China is trying to impose direct rule over Hong Kong, do keep an eye on the situation here...
Also, great to see you are making the most out of quarantine! Wish I can spot a badgers one day, maybe a few more years in the UK? Lol
Fun
Glad you thought so Alex! :)
Starting look a bit Amish, with that beard, Matt. 😏
Hahahhah, a common remark. I will keep it until the end of part three 😂
First time seeing a badger was in my garden very similar area to where you live best thing was it was 4 in my garden, with my security light on so had a very clear view just not a great camera. If anyone wants to see the clip its on my ig @smith.ereens13
I like rats
Glad to hear it Kayleigh! :)