Can't believe she left out the Badger. It's an iconic British animal, and is so unlike the Badgers that America has. Also, the Pine Martin are way bigger than a ferret, more like the size of a Mink but a little bigger than the Mink with much longer legs
Robins also represent a visit from lost loved ones, there's a rhyme for it: "When robins appear, loved ones are near" They're also symbols of new beginnings/life and good luck, a very important bird in the UK overall
@@ineedanap1085 it's a very celticy tradition so I'm not surprised seeing as a load of us made up the white population of settlers in the US to get away tf from the English at the time 😅😂 we love our stories and superstitions, it's also why Halloween is so big over there because of the Irish bringing over Samhain ☺️
@@lindathomas5500 The day of the dead is still celebrated, it has nothing to do with Halloween 😅 Halloween itself is, in fact, Samhain, and has a similar vibe to the day of the dead but the traditions behind them are COMPLETELY different. Mexicans believe that loved ones visit, like a family reunion, and they offer up food and drinks as gifts to welcome them as honoured guests, whereas Samhain is a tradition where we believe the veil between our world and the after life is thin, and that spirits can pass over, both good and bad. Jack o lanterns are carved and kept at your front door to keep evil spirits out of your home, and some left offerings to appease them instead, because they were believed to bring great harm, even death. They would also dress their children as evil beasts/spirits to confuse the spirits and keep them safe. This became the Halloween we know today where kids dress as those evil spirits, and homes offer them sweets/candy as offerings to avoid their "tricks" ie. Trick or treat. Comparing el Día de los Muertos to Samhain/Halloween is like comparing chalk to cheese 😅
@@VillianousKitty yeah it does even scholars agree but deleted it before realised you replied, as I thought ah do I really want to start explaining my research! And truth was I didn’t. But just to clear up it is connected, and many other scholars agree too! You know just because someone says other on wiki, you know most of those are written by other Jo bloggs on internet right!
@@user-ob2oo8gx4s thank you. I learned something new there. 😊They aren't able to bite a human with those teeth I assume? No slowy has ever bitten me, not even tried.
@@timtreefrog9646 Hi, They could if they wanted to but if you're gentle with them, why would they bother. They're specifically for grabbing things like earthworms etc.
It might interest you to know that the Pine Marten is an unwitting friend of the Red Squirrel as it hunts the invasive grey Squirrel and therefore the Red Squirrel numbers are slowly increasing and moving into areas once the territory of the grey so hurrah for the Pine Marten.
And who told you that? The theory was that the red could climb to lighter branches, I assure you the pine Martin with devour the reds along with the north American greys
@@joshjaworski7612that theory might have something to it but yes, after they are done with greys they will take the reds. After all, they were preying on them before greys were introduced. Unfortunately many well meaning people involved in conservation have woolly, idyllic ideas on nature. It's like projects to reintroduce water voles that don't kill all mink in the area first. 99% the reason for their decline if not 100%.
I love your stuff JT but have to say i think i slightly prefer seeing you both reacting together, you both gel so well and bounce off of each other it makes it even more entertaining. I think and hope this channel will be huge :D
There are also badgers...which are nothing like honey badgers. Ours don't attack people or other animals, and we feed our local badgers on peanuts and cat food. They're so cute. Google them...Anna will love them, lol!
"don't attack people or other animals". Tell that to my sister who had to fit steel roofing on her chicken coops to stop the badgers clawing their way in!
I'm so lucky to live in a part of England which still as a thriving red squirrel population and I've seen many over the years. They really are that adorable, and much much smaller than grey squirrels
Postmen used to wear a bright red uniform (still called "Post Office Red") and as they delivered Christmas cards, decarme synonymous with the Robin. By way lots of British birds have human names. Robin Redbreast, Jack Daw, Jenny Wren etc.
Your Cardinal issue reminds me of my younger days at school in England. Back then, milk and cream was delivered daily to customers, door to door. The milk was not homogenised, but just pasturised, so had cream at the top. Milk was delivered in glass bottles (which you left out for collection once empty) and had foil tops (gold for full-cream milk, silver for regular, blue for skimmed) which little birds had learned to identify. Often, one would find a foil top had been pierced by a bird's bill so that the Tit, Finch, or Sparrow could drink the cream.
Pine Martens are quite big, and have been very rare. However, they seem to have been quietly increasing. As Siobhain said, they are very hard to spot, either been discovered by their poop or by photo traps. Apparently our native red squirrels know how to avoid them, but they successfully hunt grey squirrels who have no ancestral memory of them. We are very fond of Robins, who are our National Bird. They are very aggressive and territorial, but have a relationship with humans. Notoriously, if somebody is digging a garden, they often come right up to us, and try to get the worms, etc. we've dug up. ( There is a theory that they learned to do this originally following wild boar rooting about. Wild boar used to be extinct in this country, but have been re-introduced in some areas. ) There is quite a movement to bring back some of our recently-extinct species. This is known as 're-wilding'. So beavers have been re-introduced; their activities tend to reduce water run-off and therefore flash flooding. Lynx have also been re-introduced, but the suggestion to bring back wolves and brown bears - both increasing in continental Europe, and not that long extinct here - has been not so easily welcomed! We do have other fauna. We have several other species of deer, some introduced. Red deer - close relatives of what you call an elk (wapiti) - are common, and quite big. Our badger is larger than yours, and we also have stoats, weasels, rabbits, and two species of hare. And of course, we have red foxes, beautiful creatures surprisingly common in our cities, including in my garden!
the wild boar weren't exactly Introduced, they escaped after a storm in the 1990's and are now a nuisance animal and are culled to control their population as they have no natural predators in the UK other than Humans
2nd most famous red squirrel from my childhood is Tufty. He used to help kids learn the highway code so they wouldn't get knocked down by cars when crossing the road. Tit for small birds is short for titmouse as they look like mice hanging from cornstalks. Keep the videos coming. Love from UK 🇬🇧
North America has several species of wren, many of them a lot bigger than ours. They have one called the winter wren which is very closely related to ours, which is the only wren in the Old World
Tit is an old word meaning 'little thing'. Like titbit, a little taste of a treat or food or a snippet of gossip. A titmouse is a type of bird. Maybe they look a little like a mouse when on plants.
She never seemed not relaxed to me, I just supposed anybody would seem quieter next to JT lol, not a diss on him either, I'm 47 and this wee guy makes me laugh so much, Anna just seems a really lovely person, a great match. 🥰
I’m not sure weather or not you have the smaller relatives of the badgers , but if you freak out about the cuteness of the Pine Martens you might just die from cuteness overload when you see the Stoats ( wild version of ferrets) and the even smaller relatives called Weasels. Also over here we have feral herds of the Australian Wallabies that escaped from a small private zoo, in around the 1960’s, in Derbyshire and they bred so well that they have become a nuisance and they have spread out into other counties. In some locations it isn’t unusual to see them bouncing along the side of the road, as you are driving through their territory.
@@englishteadrinker736 , sorry but I don’t know the details of locations or numbers of escaped animals, I just know that they were breeding well and there was some talk about having a cull to control numbers.
New subscriber from Suffolk UK. Just found your Chanel and I’m already addicted. Down with the flu, so I’m gonna cozy up in bed with a cup of tea and binge watch you guys. Love your content. Lots of love from Nicola UK ❤️
always love your videos but so great to see how much more confident Anna is becoming in talking direct to camera. Yes Pine martins are cute but can really bite. Red Squirrels are being reintroduced in some parts of the UK but locations are being kept secret.
I would imagine the petting zoo had Wallabies. You DONT want to be petting a Kangaroo.. Dogs chase Grey Squirrels over here but Reds are much less likely to be on the ground. We have 6 types of Deer but only three are native-ish.. Our Badgers are totally different to yours too.
Interesting fact: pine martens were almost extinct here in the UK , but are being reintroduced as they kill and eat grey squirrels (which were introduced from the US in around 1890 onwards) Grey's have almost taken over from our native red squirrels, which get a deadly disease passed on by the Greys(which the Grey's carry but it doesn't affect them) in areas where pine martens have been reintroduced, red squirrels are making a come back. Love you two and your vids!👍
She forgot to mention the British adder. It's a different bread of adder to the puff adder in the US and is the only poisonous snake in the UK. Though rare their bite can be pretty bad and can be fatal if left untreated. A friend of my dad got bitten by one in the new forest and was slow to get medical help and nearly lost his leg. I'm 60 and have only ever seen one. They rarely bite and would rather avoid you. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
Puff Adders live in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, not the US. The British Adder is actually the Common European Adder (aka the Common European Viper) and is very widespread throughout Europe and into Asia. They have quite a nasty bite but are more of a risk to pets such as cats and dogs than they are to humans.
@@smalon75 agreed. They do have a snake on the east side of the USA that they call the Puff adder and as I said, it's not the same thing. Just like the bird they call a robin isn't actually a Robin.
I hate to be pedantic but the Adder or European Viper is venomous. As far as I'm aware, there is only one species of snake in the world that is poisonous and that is a harmless non venomous grass snake that lives in Japan, which preys on poisonous tree frogs.
Robins fight too, people don't realise this because they're associated with being cute but they kill each other all the time. Most that you see have a more orange breast because they rarely live long enough to get a proper red breast because they just destroy each other.
That and they really have always been more orange. They were named robin red breast before the colour orange gets it’s own name, red was inclusive of both colours
Loving the new channel and so pleased that we get to know Anna and, of course, the sweet dogs that drape themselves around you both...very cute little family! I am blessed to live right on top of a river and a Marina and the nature I see everyday is mind blowing! I went out one day and there were over 200 (I counted) Canadian Geese chillin on the river making a racket!! Then, another day I watched 4 baby Otters play games and giggle for over 20 mins!! Oyster Catchers, Swans, Crows, Sea Gulls, Large Otters, Kingfishers, Cormarans, Greebs....just to name a few!! I love standing out on the balcony and feeling like I have the best view ever! Loving you guys and look forward to lots more great vids!!
I would say my favourite native species to GB is the Stoat. They are simply a weasel, but where I am from here in Lancashire we call them Stoats. I encounter them occasionally when I go angling in the countryside on the big rivers, they are skittish, make a single movement when they are close by and all you will see is a quick flash of brown fur whipping through the reeds, where they tend to live. They are impressive hunters, and regularly take down rabbits and hares three times their size. Their pelt turns white in winter, and then they are called Ermine. I love their beady little eyes lol
I've rediscovered your channel after a few months disappearing into different rabbit-holes but it's good to be back, you cheer me up. Greetings from England.
I’m loving seeing you both together. You’re a great team and Anna, your expressions sometimes and you’ve got a contagious giggle! 😂😂Absolutely brilliant, you’ll be at 100k in no time 😁 xx
Great video with great reactions! I absolutely love robins, bluetits, hedgehogs & squirrels...they're so cute! I love how you say the word squirrels too - sounds more like squirls! 😀
I love Robins (I live in the UK) because they're so friendly. Most little birds like that will jump away when they see you but robins will sometimes stay and sit on your hand if you stay still.
I love the one dog who's a bit of a diva and the other little pup just chilling on the back of the sofa! I love these UK/US reacts videos and your reactions are lovely.
Our wildlife is absolutely beautiful.....and yes....they're probably smaller than their cousins...however, it doesn't mean that they're not equally as gorgeous!
my little hedgehog is the cutest little man ever. It's not a normal European hedgehog, but an African pigmy hedgie, and he is really cute but really REALLY stupid 😍😍🦔 I also used to look for and play with slow worms as well, much to my mums annoyance 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Fun fact, the hedgehog has been voted as Britain's favourite mammal for the last 3 years in a row, in a poll by the Royal society of biology
We have Armadillos in the UK too. But ours our soft on the outside, crunchy on the inside and we call them Dime's instead. Inside joke for all my fellow Brits who get the reference. 😉
Crows used to do that to our milk back when we got it delivered in glass bottles with the silver foil caps. They'd tip the bottles over, peck through the foil and help themselves. You have to admire their ingenuity while damning them for ruining your breakfast.
This was cracking, loved watching you two, you always make me smile, this time you made me giggle along with you.. and not forgetting the dogs too, best supporting acts ever. 'Maggie & Charlie in da House' They didn't show an Eurasian Badger, which looks totally different from it's American 'Honey Badger' Cousin. Thanks for pasting a smile all over my face, you are both a 'click straight away when notification shows'. My very best wishes, from Wales.
The Pinemartin might look cute but they are the second largest of the weasel family your wolverine is the largest. Pound for pound they are one of the deadliest mammals around. I wouldn't like to pick one up and I wouldn't like to be a rabbit.
We do now have a larger variant here. Only by half an inch from the Pine Marten though? I know they are an invasive non-native species, however we have wild American Mink running around the Fens destroying the water Vole and bird population. This was due to them escaping and being released by activists.
Soooooo glad you got Anna on board you guys make such a great team 🫶🏼✌🏼 yo we have all the cuties over here 🇬🇧 but I have seen more grey squirrels than red 😢
When I was a kid it was common to see a couple of empty yoghurt pots on peoples doorsteps, so the milk man could put it on the milk bottle to stop the birds pecking through the foil top to get the cream
As kids we had a rhyme about Robins. When the north wind doth blow, we shall have snow, and what will the Robin do then. poor thing, He'll hide in the barn, to keep himself warm, with his little head under his wing. poor thing. These tiny birds are utterly fearless if you are turning over the soil in the garden they will be next to you fixing you with a beady eye, when a worm appears they're on it like a tramp on a kipper.
If you ever visit Edinburgh there are red squirrelsin the city centre! Prnces Street Gardens and The Meadows have them - you can honestly, on occasion, see passersby herding them back into the garden when they head to the road!
She missed out our venomous snake. The viper. As a kid I picked one up and took it back to school lol 😂 just say my teacher wasn’t amused one little bit lol 😂😂😂
I get slow worms in my garden. They are gorgeous colours brown and even a copperish colour. When I've picked them up they poop all over me. I try and move them somewhere safe so birds can't get at them.
Okay, have to say this: As much as I love your videos TJ, these ones with Anna are 10 times better, because of the honesty you 2 both share in your reactions- you bring out the absolute best in each other.
The grey squirrels never made it to Jersey (and I assume all Channel Islands) so we only have loads of reds. Which are definitely smaller and cuter. Loads of the greys in London parks are tame too, I noticed a few weeks ago. So many hedgehogs here too but no badgers and I've still never seen one. No foxes but probably no bad thing - you see them roaming UK towns and cities all the time.
2:20 Porcupine are of the order Rodentia translation to gnaw, and are more related to Rats, Squirrels etc. Hedgehogs are of the order Eulipotyphla translation truly fat and blind, and are more related Moles, Shrews etc.
There is a recent update in UK law, sometime after 2015. Just related to grey squirrels; You're not allowed to feed them, Keep them as pets, If you find one injured, you're required to take it to the local vet's for extermination. This is due to the endangered British red squirrel.
My first video of yours. What a wonderful reaction video. I look forward to more. Yes, I liked and subscribed. Those animals were so cute. I agree with you.
!!! She forgot the best English animal I never saw until I moved to England... The Stoat. Please look them up. They're like a chipmunk crossed with a ferret only pocket sized! They're so cute!
Pine Martens are really vicious little animals, more so than ferrets and polecats. They look cute but are not friends of anyone with hens. They can get through the smallest holes and kill for fun.
It isn't strictly accurate that the grey squirrel is simply "more aggressive". To a point, yes, but the bigger issue is the grey squirrel brought disease with it that it had evolved an immunity to and our poor little red squirrels had none. They are supposedly starting to make a comeback though as they develop a stronger natural immunity and Pine Marten populations increase (Pine Martens love Grey Squirrels, they destroy Grey Squirrel populations but, strangely, Red Squirrel populations increase in the presence of Pine Martens!). Part of the reason in the decline of Red Squirrels was directly connected to the decline of Pine Martens, largely to loss of habitat (so we humans are as much to blame for the Red Squirrel's struggles as the Grey). Conversely, a decrease in Pine Martens allowed Grey's to get a bigger foothold ... the harmony of nature in action!
when the Pilgrim Fathers arrived in North America, they were amazed to see a TURKEY.. everyone in England thought they had come from Turkey .. hence the name. they had come ofc via the Spanish who'd brought them from central America.. mind you they were also amazed to meet 2 native Americans who spoke English and asked if they had any beer!
Our Robins are cute, but they are vicious when defending their territory. They're great when you're gardening as they'll be nearby, watching you in case you find any bugs
I once told an absolute A-hole of a Canadian that I worked with that Wombles had been found alive on Wimbledon common after being thought extinct. He asked "What's a Womble? I told him that "They hedgehogs the size of badger's, and there was a spate of small children being attacked in the 50's. So the population was culled. But on the news they said there had been recent sightings " ..... anyway, a little while later I witnessed him trying to convince someone that he saw on the news the Wombles are back on Wimbledon common. I really couldn't contain my laughter.
I was expecting to see the badger, I believe it differs to what you have. And Hollywood in 101 Dalmatians swapped the badger from the book for a raccoon even though they are not in the uk where the film is set, because it is what Americans would recognise
Est thing about Robins, they're very tame, as they were never hunted for food so will fly right up to you and if you're quiet enough and don't do anything to startle them will even eat out of your hand. Which is why they've got the nickname "the gardener's friend" because they will perch near by garderners who are digging in the soil so they can collect the worms when the gardner has finished. One of my friends jokes I'm a disney princess (a big hairy bearded one lol) because of how many times I've had one land on my shoulder Also regarding the pine martin... they are related to polecats and ferrets being part of the weasel family if memory serves they're the smallest member i believe (though that may be the stoat) Collecting slow worms used to be a common past time for kids, we'd search under debris in fields until we found one, and keep it as a pet. They're actually quite friendly if you're careful picking them up and will slither around your hand
2:00 minutes in and I can't concentrate, omg, the way Maggie is looking at JT 🥺😆 it's so damn cute, I love when my dog looks at me like that 🤗🥰 Loved the video btw lol, I don't even know how long now I've been subscribed to JTs channel, but it's great seeing the 2 of you together, we all know JTs a mad man 🤣 but Anna just seems like the loveliest person, you 2 are great together 😁
You guys are awesome. Reminded me of Beavis & Butthead when the cute little Blue Tits came on. I can’t think why that was so funny. 🤣 The really weird thing is I grew up in a suburb of London. Not the Victorian houses crammed together kind of part. But one where we had a school field & a wood behind our garden. We caught slow worms, they are just like snakes, but a damn site faster. Hedgehogs were every where. And we got to see red Squirrels in one of London’s main parks & I can’t remember which one. Oh, and Tits were everywhere, all we ever saw were Tits. Yet we move to the country side, half an hour out of London by train & I’ve never seen a slow worm, only seen unfortunate Hedgehogs in the road & The Tits aren’t out there as much. Tons of Robins though & the gray squirrels keep my dogs entertained when they dare enter the garden or run along the fence. I think Red Squirrels mainly live in Scotland & a little island off the south coast called the Isle of Wight now. A part of our county also has Wallaby’s. They escaped from Whipsnade Zoo decades ago and live wild around that area. And we have a deer that’s only about knee height (I’m 5’4”) called Muntjacs. I believe they were originally brought over from China. We also have another little creature called GlisGlis. They were brought here by the Romans I think, mainly for food purposes. They are little cute things that get into attics and cause chaos. They were protected, and I think they have stayed in a small area in the U.K. & just not wandered too far. There you go, more cuties to look up. 😁
Another brilliant feel good video, thank you x. Your reactions and the video are the perfect chemistry. You've got something here, please don't evolve with popularity, perfect as it is.
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Can't believe she left out the Badger. It's an iconic British animal, and is so unlike the Badgers that America has. Also, the Pine Martin are way bigger than a ferret, more like the size of a Mink but a little bigger than the Mink with much longer legs
Me too.
A friend i used to work with hated those things! He got chased by one after work one night and scared the hell out of him 😂😂
@@JC-kn3sx How could anyone hate something that loves mash potatoes so much? 😟
@@MonkeyButtMovies1 true 😂 I don’t hate them but my friend does ever since the one chased him 😂
Maybe she knows farmers? Badgers are just TB factories.
Robins also represent a visit from lost loved ones, there's a rhyme for it:
"When robins appear, loved ones are near"
They're also symbols of new beginnings/life and good luck, a very important bird in the UK overall
It's officially the nation's favourite. 🙂
I'm in the U.S. and my parents and grandparents always said that about robins. So it must be a saying that traveled across the pond ❤️
@@ineedanap1085 it's a very celticy tradition so I'm not surprised seeing as a load of us made up the white population of settlers in the US to get away tf from the English at the time 😅😂 we love our stories and superstitions, it's also why Halloween is so big over there because of the Irish bringing over Samhain ☺️
@@lindathomas5500 The day of the dead is still celebrated, it has nothing to do with Halloween 😅 Halloween itself is, in fact, Samhain, and has a similar vibe to the day of the dead but the traditions behind them are COMPLETELY different.
Mexicans believe that loved ones visit, like a family reunion, and they offer up food and drinks as gifts to welcome them as honoured guests, whereas Samhain is a tradition where we believe the veil between our world and the after life is thin, and that spirits can pass over, both good and bad. Jack o lanterns are carved and kept at your front door to keep evil spirits out of your home, and some left offerings to appease them instead, because they were believed to bring great harm, even death. They would also dress their children as evil beasts/spirits to confuse the spirits and keep them safe.
This became the Halloween we know today where kids dress as those evil spirits, and homes offer them sweets/candy as offerings to avoid their "tricks" ie. Trick or treat.
Comparing el Día de los Muertos to Samhain/Halloween is like comparing chalk to cheese 😅
@@VillianousKitty yeah it does even scholars agree but deleted it before realised you replied, as I thought ah do I really want to start explaining my research! And truth was I didn’t. But just to clear up it is connected, and many other scholars agree too! You know just because someone says other on wiki, you know most of those are written by other Jo bloggs on internet right!
Slo Worms are adorable. They don't have teeth. Very shy and also now endangered.
All in my garden I think.
Slow worms do have teeth. They are very small backwards facing and curved.
@@user-ob2oo8gx4s thank you. I learned something new there. 😊They aren't able to bite a human with those teeth I assume?
No slowy has ever bitten me, not even tried.
@@timtreefrog9646 Hi,
They could if they wanted to but if you're gentle with them, why would they bother. They're specifically for grabbing things like earthworms etc.
It might interest you to know that the Pine Marten is an unwitting friend of the Red Squirrel as it hunts the invasive grey Squirrel and therefore the Red Squirrel numbers are slowly increasing and moving into areas once the territory of the grey so hurrah for the Pine Marten.
And who told you that? The theory was that the red could climb to lighter branches, I assure you the pine Martin with devour the reds along with the north American greys
@@joshjaworski7612that theory might have something to it but yes, after they are done with greys they will take the reds. After all, they were preying on them before greys were introduced. Unfortunately many well meaning people involved in conservation have woolly, idyllic ideas on nature. It's like projects to reintroduce water voles that don't kill all mink in the area first. 99% the reason for their decline if not 100%.
You totally got called out for giggling 🤣🤣. I was laughing my head off! Great video as always! ❤️
I love your stuff JT but have to say i think i slightly prefer seeing you both reacting together, you both gel so well and bounce off of each other it makes it even more entertaining. I think and hope this channel will be huge :D
There are also badgers...which are nothing like honey badgers. Ours don't attack people or other animals, and we feed our local badgers on peanuts and cat food. They're so cute. Google them...Anna will love them, lol!
Yes UK badgers
Badgers are our largest carnivores
UK badgers -> Bill Bailey ruclips.net/video/OADwd5gOpCE/видео.html
"don't attack people or other animals". Tell that to my sister who had to fit steel roofing on her chicken coops to stop the badgers clawing their way in!
A UK badger will so kick your ass if it feels threatened.
I'm so lucky to live in a part of England which still as a thriving red squirrel population and I've seen many over the years. They really are that adorable, and much much smaller than grey squirrels
😢😢I've not seen a red Squirrel in years. Oh no mainland here Brownsea island does apologise.
IOW ? only time I've seen one was there
I've started seeing them in recent years where I am in Scotland
In sweden 🇸🇪
I've never seen a red squirrel here in Cambridge. I wonder where they are.
Postmen used to wear a bright red uniform (still called "Post Office Red") and as they delivered Christmas cards, decarme synonymous with the Robin. By way lots of British birds have human names. Robin Redbreast, Jack Daw, Jenny Wren etc.
Your Cardinal issue reminds me of my younger days at school in England. Back then, milk and cream was delivered daily to customers, door to door. The milk was not homogenised, but just pasturised, so had cream at the top. Milk was delivered in glass bottles (which you left out for collection once empty) and had foil tops (gold for full-cream milk, silver for regular, blue for skimmed) which little birds had learned to identify. Often, one would find a foil top had been pierced by a bird's bill so that the Tit, Finch, or Sparrow could drink the cream.
It was always my older brother who would nick the cream off the new bottle in the morning for his Weetabix.
Pine Martens are quite big, and have been very rare. However, they seem to have been quietly increasing. As Siobhain said, they are very hard to spot, either been discovered by their poop or by photo traps. Apparently our native red squirrels know how to avoid them, but they successfully hunt grey squirrels who have no ancestral memory of them.
We are very fond of Robins, who are our National Bird. They are very aggressive and territorial, but have a relationship with humans. Notoriously, if somebody is digging a garden, they often come right up to us, and try to get the worms, etc. we've dug up. ( There is a theory that they learned to do this originally following wild boar rooting about. Wild boar used to be extinct in this country, but have been re-introduced in some areas. )
There is quite a movement to bring back some of our recently-extinct species. This is known as 're-wilding'. So beavers have been re-introduced; their activities tend to reduce water run-off and therefore flash flooding. Lynx have also been re-introduced, but the suggestion to bring back wolves and brown bears - both increasing in continental Europe, and not that long extinct here - has been not so easily welcomed!
We do have other fauna. We have several other species of deer, some introduced. Red deer - close relatives of what you call an elk (wapiti) - are common, and quite big. Our badger is larger than yours, and we also have stoats, weasels, rabbits, and two species of hare. And of course, we have red foxes, beautiful creatures surprisingly common in our cities, including in my garden!
Have a few in my garden, they constantly raid the bird table and feeders
the wild boar weren't exactly Introduced, they escaped after a storm in the 1990's and are now a nuisance animal and are culled to control their population as they have no natural predators in the UK other than Humans
Do you know how to tell the difference between weasels and stoats?
Weasels are weasily distinguished, and stoats are stoatally different.
Tufty is also a well known British squirrel, as a road safety promotion
Anna’s laugh is everything! I love it 😂 Every time I see a red squirrel now he’s gonna be known as Eddie ❤ 🐿️
Love you two, from a British person you are both honorary British citizens
She left out the Scottish Wildcat, which is now extremely rare.
Fun Fact. The Scottish Wildcat is the most endangered wild cat in the world, rarer than tigers, etc.
2nd most famous red squirrel from my childhood is Tufty. He used to help kids learn the highway code so they wouldn't get knocked down by cars when crossing the road.
Tit for small birds is short for titmouse as they look like mice hanging from cornstalks.
Keep the videos coming. Love from UK 🇬🇧
Do you have Wren's in America they are the sweetest little birds
North America has several species of wren, many of them a lot bigger than ours. They have one called the winter wren which is very closely related to ours, which is the only wren in the Old World
Tit is an old word meaning 'little thing'. Like titbit, a little taste of a treat or food or a snippet of gossip. A titmouse is a type of bird. Maybe they look a little like a mouse when on plants.
@@gillianhynes7120 Wrens do not need an apostrophe!
We were lucky enough to have a hedgehog living on our doorstep he ended up moving to a hedgehog field.
Hi I am a 70 something grandma from Birmingham Uk. I love watching you both. Thank you 🎉
You guys are like the American version of me and my Hubby. Watching you both brightens my day 🤍
Love it. Anna seems to be settling into the reactions now. She seems to be loads more relaxed. Lovely couple.
She never seemed not relaxed to me, I just supposed anybody would seem quieter next to JT lol, not a diss on him either, I'm 47 and this wee guy makes me laugh so much, Anna just seems a really lovely person, a great match. 🥰
I’m not sure weather or not you have the smaller relatives of the badgers , but if you freak out about the cuteness of the Pine Martens you might just die from cuteness overload when you see the Stoats ( wild version of ferrets) and the even smaller relatives called Weasels. Also over here we have feral herds of the Australian Wallabies that escaped from a small private zoo, in around the 1960’s, in Derbyshire and they bred so well that they have become a nuisance and they have spread out into other counties. In some locations it isn’t unusual to see them bouncing along the side of the road, as you are driving through their territory.
I live in Derbyshire 😃. I’ve always wanted to see one of the escaped wallabies but never have. They escaped from Riber, didn’t they?
There's also an island in a lock somewhere in Scotland that's full of them too!😂✌️
@@englishteadrinker736 , sorry but I don’t know the details of locations or numbers of escaped animals, I just know that they were breeding well and there was some talk about having a cull to control numbers.
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@@fionagregory9147 my ex Mrs is also a Gregory!😁💜✌️
New subscriber from Suffolk UK. Just found your Chanel and I’m already addicted. Down with the flu, so I’m gonna cozy up in bed with a cup of tea and binge watch you guys. Love your content. Lots of love from Nicola UK ❤️
always love your videos but so great to see how much more confident Anna is becoming in talking direct to camera. Yes Pine martins are cute but can really bite. Red Squirrels are being reintroduced in some parts of the UK but locations are being kept secret.
I would imagine the petting zoo had Wallabies. You DONT want to be petting a Kangaroo..
Dogs chase Grey Squirrels over here but Reds are much less likely to be on the ground.
We have 6 types of Deer but only three are native-ish..
Our Badgers are totally different to yours too.
Maybe this was a petting zoo for naughty children, because you wouldn't want to pet a hedgehog either 🤔
@@MonkeyButtMovies1 i have done! They are fine if you are careful but get fleas
Interesting fact: pine martens were almost extinct here in the UK , but are being reintroduced as they kill and eat grey squirrels (which were introduced from the US in around 1890 onwards) Grey's have almost taken over from our native red squirrels, which get a deadly disease passed on by the Greys(which the Grey's carry but it doesn't affect them) in areas where pine martens have been reintroduced, red squirrels are making a come back. Love you two and your vids!👍
She forgot to mention the British adder. It's a different bread of adder to the puff adder in the US and is the only poisonous snake in the UK. Though rare their bite can be pretty bad and can be fatal if left untreated. A friend of my dad got bitten by one in the new forest and was slow to get medical help and nearly lost his leg. I'm 60 and have only ever seen one. They rarely bite and would rather avoid you. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
Puff Adders live in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, not the US. The British Adder is actually the Common European Adder (aka the Common European Viper) and is very widespread throughout Europe and into Asia. They have quite a nasty bite but are more of a risk to pets such as cats and dogs than they are to humans.
@@smalon75 agreed. They do have a snake on the east side of the USA that they call the Puff adder and as I said, it's not the same thing. Just like the bird they call a robin isn't actually a Robin.
And the non venomous grass snake too
I hate to be pedantic but the Adder or European Viper is venomous. As far as I'm aware, there is only one species of snake in the world that is poisonous and that is a harmless non venomous grass snake that lives in Japan, which preys on poisonous tree frogs.
@@adelia988of course, but they're kind of tame and fun. At least we don't have bears and cougars.
Robins fight too, people don't realise this because they're associated with being cute but they kill each other all the time. Most that you see have a more orange breast because they rarely live long enough to get a proper red breast because they just destroy each other.
That and they really have always been more orange. They were named robin red breast before the colour orange gets it’s own name, red was inclusive of both colours
@@davidwood5884 Yes, but apparently they can get redder with age and dominance.
Yes you are right. If only the people who think they are loved ones knew! 😂😂😂😂
Loving the new channel and so pleased that we get to know Anna and, of course, the sweet dogs that drape themselves around you both...very cute little family! I am blessed to live right on top of a river and a Marina and the nature I see everyday is mind blowing! I went out one day and there were over 200 (I counted) Canadian Geese chillin on the river making a racket!! Then, another day I watched 4 baby Otters play games and giggle for over 20 mins!! Oyster Catchers, Swans, Crows, Sea Gulls, Large Otters, Kingfishers, Cormarans, Greebs....just to name a few!! I love standing out on the balcony and feeling like I have the best view ever! Loving you guys and look forward to lots more great vids!!
There are more tigers in captivity in Texas alone than in the wild in the entire world 😕
Not a nice statistic 😔
Goodness, that’s depressing.
Thought Oklahoma would take it because of the doc
Was just about to say that!
Slow worms are a beautiful golden colour , love them
So shiny metallic. So pretty
I would say my favourite native species to GB is the Stoat. They are simply a weasel, but where I am from here in Lancashire we call them Stoats.
I encounter them occasionally when I go angling in the countryside on the big rivers, they are skittish, make a single movement when they are close by and all you will see is a quick flash of brown fur whipping through the reeds, where they tend to live. They are impressive hunters, and regularly take down rabbits and hares three times their size.
Their pelt turns white in winter, and then they are called Ermine.
I love their beady little eyes lol
I've rediscovered your channel after a few months disappearing into different rabbit-holes but it's good to be back, you cheer me up. Greetings from England.
I’m loving seeing you both together. You’re a great team and Anna, your expressions sometimes and you’ve got a contagious giggle! 😂😂Absolutely brilliant, you’ll be at 100k in no time 😁 xx
"Armadillos, soft on the inside crunchy, on the outside!"
Lol!😂✌️
do you remember your first dime??
@@evorock "That bloke's a nutter, Oi Nutter!"
@@baylessnow 🤣🤣🤣
@@evorock For those who don't know what we're talking about... ruclips.net/video/tmgBsjL4WTQ/видео.html
7:21 😆 some of our little birds look like tennis balls it makes you wonder how they fly sometimes 😅
my friend raised a full grown siberian tiger on their farm! i even got to pet it when it was a baby, they named him Frasier like the TV doc LOL
Am working my way through in order. Have to say most relaxed Anna has looked yet. Great job
Great video with great reactions! I absolutely love robins, bluetits, hedgehogs & squirrels...they're so cute! I love how you say the word squirrels too - sounds more like squirls! 😀
I love Robins (I live in the UK) because they're so friendly. Most little birds like that will jump away when they see you but robins will sometimes stay and sit on your hand if you stay still.
I love the one dog who's a bit of a diva and the other little pup just chilling on the back of the sofa! I love these UK/US reacts videos and your reactions are lovely.
The dynamic between you two is awesome - great video & the best I've seen you do together so far 👍
Who remembers hedgehog flavour crisps?
Wow that takes me back I'd forgotten all about them!😂🤣✌️
@@jamiecurran3544 Ah the good old days 🤣
you couldn't get away with that now! That vegan teacher would be apoplectic with rage lol
Our wildlife is absolutely beautiful.....and yes....they're probably smaller than their cousins...however, it doesn't mean that they're not equally as gorgeous!
Haha love the Muppet on the top of the sofa
fun fact!
we have a wild flower called Fat Hen and a cattail called Timothy. i got a british wildlife book for christmas and it includes flora.
my little hedgehog is the cutest little man ever. It's not a normal European hedgehog, but an African pigmy hedgie, and he is really cute but really REALLY stupid 😍😍🦔
I also used to look for and play with slow worms as well, much to my mums annoyance 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fun fact, the hedgehog has been voted as Britain's favourite mammal for the last 3 years in a row, in a poll by the Royal society of biology
Highland cows , Shetland pony , European badger and Scottish wildcat are some more you don't see in America .
We have Armadillos in the UK too. But ours our soft on the outside, crunchy on the inside and we call them Dime's instead. Inside joke for all my fellow Brits who get the reference. 😉
We also have unarmoured illoes.
We have Red squirrels, Pine Martens and Scottish wild cats ( sort of similar to bobcat , but Scottish 😂) where I live in the highlands 🏴
Crows used to do that to our milk back when we got it delivered in glass bottles with the silver foil caps. They'd tip the bottles over, peck through the foil and help themselves. You have to admire their ingenuity while damning them for ruining your breakfast.
This was cracking, loved watching you two, you always make me smile, this time you made me giggle along with you.. and not forgetting the dogs too, best supporting acts ever. 'Maggie & Charlie in da House'
They didn't show an Eurasian Badger, which looks totally different from it's American 'Honey Badger' Cousin.
Thanks for pasting a smile all over my face, you are both a 'click straight away when notification shows'.
My very best wishes, from Wales.
Brilliant thank you 😊
The Pinemartin might look cute but they are the second largest of the weasel family your wolverine is the largest. Pound for pound they are one of the deadliest mammals around. I wouldn't like to pick one up and I wouldn't like to be a rabbit.
We do now have a larger variant here. Only by half an inch from the Pine Marten though? I know they are an invasive non-native species, however we have wild American Mink running around the Fens destroying the water Vole and bird population. This was due to them escaping and being released by activists.
Soooooo glad you got Anna on board you guys make such a great team 🫶🏼✌🏼 yo we have all the cuties over here 🇬🇧 but I have seen more grey squirrels than red 😢
Yeah that's cause theyre taking over their habitat n making the red ones quite scarce!😥✌️
@@jamiecurran3544 sad times but it really makes you appreciate the rare time when you spot a red ✌🏼
Love seeing your pups doing their bit for the channel. Adorable ❤
omg my Beagle used to do the apology lick after doing something that he shouldnt. so cute and intelligent miss him
Pine Martin's are like the Wolverines of the trees, they hunt Squirrels, birds, small mammals, eggs. The Fox doesn't even mess with them👍✌
Seen a few Red Squirrels, adorable little things!
When I was a kid it was common to see a couple of empty yoghurt pots on peoples doorsteps, so the milk man could put it on the milk bottle to stop the birds pecking through the foil top to get the cream
As kids we had a rhyme about Robins. When the north wind doth blow, we shall have snow, and what will the Robin do then. poor thing, He'll hide in the barn, to keep himself warm, with his little head under his wing. poor thing. These tiny birds are utterly fearless if you are turning over the soil in the garden they will be next to you fixing you with a beady eye, when a worm appears they're on it like a tramp on a kipper.
If you ever visit Edinburgh there are red squirrelsin the city centre! Prnces Street Gardens and The Meadows have them - you can honestly, on occasion, see passersby herding them back into the garden when they head to the road!
Slow worms are quite popular in South Wales. My dads garden had loads of them. I used to love handling them to warm them up.
Robins are fantastic, tough, brave little beasts.
She missed out our venomous snake. The viper. As a kid I picked one up and took it back to school lol 😂 just say my teacher wasn’t amused one little bit lol 😂😂😂
I get slow worms in my garden. They are gorgeous colours brown and even a copperish colour. When I've picked them up they poop all over me. I try and move them somewhere safe so birds can't get at them.
Okay, have to say this: As much as I love your videos TJ, these ones with Anna are 10 times better, because of the honesty you 2 both share in your reactions- you bring out the absolute best in each other.
We also have a wild animal that will damage your car windows and wing mirrors, they’re called feral kids, and they’re mostly active at night.
The grey squirrels never made it to Jersey (and I assume all Channel Islands) so we only have loads of reds. Which are definitely smaller and cuter. Loads of the greys in London parks are tame too, I noticed a few weeks ago. So many hedgehogs here too but no badgers and I've still never seen one. No foxes but probably no bad thing - you see them roaming UK towns and cities all the time.
2:20 Porcupine are of the order Rodentia translation to gnaw, and are more related to Rats, Squirrels etc. Hedgehogs are of the order Eulipotyphla translation truly fat and blind, and are more related Moles, Shrews etc.
Love the fact the Beagy just wants in on the action... Beagy's rule.
Our cats catch sloworms all the time in our gardens.
There is a recent update in UK law, sometime after 2015.
Just related to grey squirrels;
You're not allowed to feed them,
Keep them as pets,
If you find one injured, you're required to take it to the local vet's for extermination.
This is due to the endangered British red squirrel.
In the uk we also have black squirrels too they so cute
Squirrel hunting! What on earth! We leave nuts out for them! Interesting views guys xx
My first video of yours. What a wonderful reaction video. I look forward to more. Yes, I liked and subscribed. Those animals were so cute. I agree with you.
Brilliant video I stopped work to watch it lol you guys are too funny sending love from Belfast Ireland 🇮🇪
Slow worms are adorable!
A big yee yee from over here in the UK! Love the new channel guys!!
!!! She forgot the best English animal I never saw until I moved to England... The Stoat. Please look them up. They're like a chipmunk crossed with a ferret only pocket sized! They're so cute!
Oh my god, it reminds me of meerkats! 😍
We love hedgehogs, they taught us how to cross the road safely!
Pine Martens are really vicious little animals, more so than ferrets and polecats. They look cute but are not friends of anyone with hens. They can get through the smallest holes and kill for fun.
I just love seeing the two of you!!!
Am loving this new channel… JT actually says more than gosh darn it, or whatever it is he tends to repeat a lot😂 The dogs complete this double act!! 🎉
It isn't strictly accurate that the grey squirrel is simply "more aggressive". To a point, yes, but the bigger issue is the grey squirrel brought disease with it that it had evolved an immunity to and our poor little red squirrels had none. They are supposedly starting to make a comeback though as they develop a stronger natural immunity and Pine Marten populations increase (Pine Martens love Grey Squirrels, they destroy Grey Squirrel populations but, strangely, Red Squirrel populations increase in the presence of Pine Martens!). Part of the reason in the decline of Red Squirrels was directly connected to the decline of Pine Martens, largely to loss of habitat (so we humans are as much to blame for the Red Squirrel's struggles as the Grey). Conversely, a decrease in Pine Martens allowed Grey's to get a bigger foothold ... the harmony of nature in action!
when the Pilgrim Fathers arrived in North America, they were amazed to see a TURKEY.. everyone in England thought they had come from Turkey .. hence the name. they had come ofc via the Spanish who'd brought them from central America.. mind you they were also amazed to meet 2 native Americans who spoke English and asked if they had any beer!
You guys are so hilarious together, such good fun, thanks for a good belly laugh xx🤣
Our Robins are cute, but they are vicious when defending their territory. They're great when you're gardening as they'll be nearby, watching you in case you find any bugs
Keep em comin guys 😀👍
I enjoy your videos and comments
hedgehogs size of a softball? what is she ON!!! I have 2 in my garden nightly that are the size of your small dog LOL
I once told an absolute A-hole of a Canadian that I worked with that Wombles had been found alive on Wimbledon common after being thought extinct. He asked "What's a Womble? I told him that "They hedgehogs the size of badger's, and there was a spate of small children being attacked in the 50's. So the population was culled. But on the news they said there had been recent sightings "
..... anyway, a little while later I witnessed him trying to convince someone that he saw on the news the Wombles are back on Wimbledon common. I really couldn't contain my laughter.
I was expecting to see the badger, I believe it differs to what you have. And Hollywood in 101 Dalmatians swapped the badger from the book for a raccoon even though they are not in the uk where the film is set, because it is what Americans would recognise
Est thing about Robins, they're very tame, as they were never hunted for food so will fly right up to you and if you're quiet enough and don't do anything to startle them will even eat out of your hand. Which is why they've got the nickname "the gardener's friend" because they will perch near by garderners who are digging in the soil so they can collect the worms when the gardner has finished.
One of my friends jokes I'm a disney princess (a big hairy bearded one lol) because of how many times I've had one land on my shoulder
Also regarding the pine martin... they are related to polecats and ferrets being part of the weasel family if memory serves they're the smallest member i believe (though that may be the stoat)
Collecting slow worms used to be a common past time for kids, we'd search under debris in fields until we found one, and keep it as a pet. They're actually quite friendly if you're careful picking them up and will slither around your hand
had to explain to mate of mine what a Kiwi was, he hadn't even heard of a Sloth before!!
2:00 minutes in and I can't concentrate, omg, the way Maggie is looking at JT 🥺😆 it's so damn cute, I love when my dog looks at me like that 🤗🥰
Loved the video btw lol, I don't even know how long now I've been subscribed to JTs channel, but it's great seeing the 2 of you together, we all know JTs a mad man 🤣 but Anna just seems like the loveliest person, you 2 are great together 😁
"We don't like vestigial bones" says the species with vestigial tailbones 😆
You guys are awesome. Reminded me of Beavis & Butthead when the cute little Blue Tits came on. I can’t think why that was so funny. 🤣
The really weird thing is I grew up in a suburb of London. Not the Victorian houses crammed together kind of part. But one where we had a school field & a wood behind our garden. We caught slow worms, they are just like snakes, but a damn site faster. Hedgehogs were every where. And we got to see red Squirrels in one of London’s main parks & I can’t remember which one. Oh, and Tits were everywhere, all we ever saw were Tits. Yet we move to the country side, half an hour out of London by train & I’ve never seen a slow worm, only seen unfortunate Hedgehogs in the road & The Tits aren’t out there as much. Tons of Robins though & the gray squirrels keep my dogs entertained when they dare enter the garden or run along the fence. I think Red Squirrels mainly live in Scotland & a little island off the south coast called the Isle of Wight now. A part of our county also has Wallaby’s. They escaped from Whipsnade Zoo decades ago and live wild around that area. And we have a deer that’s only about knee height (I’m 5’4”) called Muntjacs. I believe they were originally brought over from China. We also have another little creature called GlisGlis. They were brought here by the Romans I think, mainly for food purposes. They are little cute things that get into attics and cause chaos. They were protected, and I think they have stayed in a small area in the U.K. & just not wandered too far.
There you go, more cuties to look up. 😁
Love Maggies forced Mexican wave at the end 🤣🤣🤣
Another brilliant feel good video, thank you x. Your reactions and the video are the perfect chemistry.
You've got something here, please don't evolve with popularity, perfect as it is.
Used to breed slow worms. Love them.