Beaver Pond Wildlife: Part 3- Early to Mid Summer
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- The special habitat that is a beaver pond hosts more natural drama than many people might imagine. In this multi-part series, we highlight the lives of the pond's inhabitants both to educate and entertain, in the hope that the importance and significance of this unique habitat will be appreciated, welcomed, and protected.
This film series spans a year's time at typical beaver ponds in New England.
In Part 1 ( • Beaver Pond Wildlife: ... ), we looked at what takes place in early spring, as the pond comes back to life after a cold winter.
In Part 2, ( • Beaver Pond Wildlife: ... ) we followed wildlife in late spring, as nesting season progresses, new life develops, and young beavers disperse.
In this, Part 3, nesting season has wrapped up for most bird species near the pond, but there's plenty happening both above and below the pond's surface.
We'll see:
- a red-shouldered hawk hunting at the pond.
- a variety of creatures underwater, and some of the drama occurring there that most people will never personally witness.
- the lives and significance of the odonates (dragonflies and damselflies), below and above water.
- belted kingfishers, as they dive into the pond for fish.
- mink and otters
- beavers at work maintaining the dam.
- some things about bullfrogs that will amuse, and may shock you.
- and much more.
More info at the New England Forests blog:
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The quality of this footage is amazing and great variety. It must have been very challenging.
Most beautiful, so full of so much life. ❤️🐺🦊🐻🐸🐢🦎🦌🐇🐿️🦫🦨🦦🦅🦉🐦🦆🐟🦞🕷️🐌🦗🦟🪰🐝🐞🦋🪱🐛
Spectacular underwater footage and narrative! Thank you so much for this.
I really love your Beaver Pond Wildlife series! 🥰🥰🥰Amazing and lovely animals! Excellent camera work and footage,the slow narrative with a tingle of humour) Pleasant music.. Very calming and enjoyable atmosphere. Kind of meditation for me) Thank you so much!🙏🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
The Red Wing Blackbird literally sitting on the back of the hawk mid-flight while it's pecking it between the wings was just absolute comedy I had to see was well captured phenomenal video guys thank you
Omg this footage is remarkable.
Especially the bullfrogs! I never knew what predators they are 😮
The footage you've captured so nicely in this one is insane! I never thought to see bullfrogs pulling that off before. Its like they think they're alligators or something!
love this kind of videos so much, learning so many different biomes and its inhabitants
Ray, WOW! Thank you so much for the fantastic photography, narration, stories and diversity. I watch a number of nature videos and this is one of the best. I have learned a lot from watching your first 3 shows and I'm looking forward to more. Nature is a scary (gettingeatenalive), funny (the frog leaping to the top of the stick umpteen times to finally catch a dragonfly), sad(the sunfish going over the dam and trying to save themselves), amazing world! Thanks for sharing your hard work with us. It must take an incredible amount of patience and effort to film, edit and narrate these shows. Cheers and thanks again 💕❤ 😊
Hi Dale, thank you for the kind words, and for watching. We're in agreement about nature, it can evoke many of our emotions. I think that's what makes it so compelling. There's always a mystery to be figured out, always entertainment, and awe. Yes, making these films is time consuming, but it's been some of the very best time of my life. Our world would be a far different place if everyone experienced firsthand the simple wonders the natural realm offers us every day.
-Ray
It's wonderful to see so many species so similar to the familiar European waxwings, hawks, sparrows, and yet different, new, unknown. Thank you!
PS: bittern looks absolutely the same
Another amazing production. Love these Beaver pond videos. So much great footage and solid narration as always. 👍👍
Thank you!
@@NewEnglandForests You're very welcome.
I enjoy all of your videos but the photography in this just blew me away. Such great work. I know nature is full of hidden dramas but this video really illustrates the point.
Hello Keith, thank you for very encouraging words. There are many stories out there yet to be told, and so many more to be learned. Spending days in the woods is its own reward.
-Ray
I've probably seen every insect and animal species shown in this series in the wild back when I was a kid, although I have yet to see any otter or mink here in Connecticut. I've been bitten by those giant water bugs and man they hurt! Love seeing the dragonflies hunt mosquitoes both below and above the water. A beaver pond is kind of like the underwater version of Australia because everything that lives under there is trying to kill something else, usually by invenomating, liquifying, and sucking them dry😳! Concerning the caddis fly larvae, the houses they build with sticks and trigs are pretty cool, but even cooler are the houses they build in a sandy environment with little grains of sand cemented together.
I love all the aquatic insect footage in this one! So cool!
Finally!
More beaver pond!
I don't know how I'd get through winter without your beautiful and engrossing summer films!
Thank you Deirdre ... Part 4 of this series will be published in the next few days, just for you!
-Ray
Fascinating photography and great narrative! Great series that should be shown to young and old people alike!
Nice been waiting for this since spring haha
So have I !
Thank you for putting together such high quality content for us all.
Thank YOU for watching, and taking the time to comment, that really is appreciated. More on the way.
🤔🫣😳😳😳😳 whaaatttt!!! I’ve never seen or new frogs 🐸 ate anything other then 🐛 🐜 bugs!!!! Much less a 🐦 bird!! That’s crazy!! ( Learn something new everyday!)
Thanks for sharing!!!
Love the series and the bullfrog and dragonfly segment was great the bullfrog going ass over top hat was hysterical for sure
The camera work is amazing! Capturing the bullfrog eating a bird was awesome!
Exquisite footage, perfect narration, thanks for showing!
Fantastic footage, thank you for sharing , and reminding me how lucky I am to be able to live in an area like that here in southeastern Mass.
What incredible footage of wildlife in and around this old pond. Reminds me so much of my childhood growing up in extreme Southeast Missouri exploring nature with my trusty 22 caliber rifle in the 1960's and early 1970's. I used to capture all kinds of critters, turtles, snakes, frogs, etc... and take them to my science class at school in Junior high and high school in a little town called Deering Mo. I have observed Red Shoulder Hawks as well as their cousins Red Tailed Hawks praying upon those nasty tempered Water Snakes that so many would misidentify as Cotton Mouths. The Beavers, red Winged Blackbirds, and Dragon Flies and other insects seeing and hearing them brought back pleasant memories of half a century ago. Thank you for this wonderful video on RUclips.
Loved the story about the beavers & hemlocks last video!
Amazing stuff
such an incredible series! the footage is amazing! really curious about the making of this series and how you got to spend so much time at this spot and got such great content. really amazing! thank you for creating and sharing
Absolutely fascinating, I hope beavers are reintroduced into the UK faster so we can see these amazing scenes.
Freaking Awesome, keep the videos coming!
This footage is top notch
Thank you for making these remarkable programs !!!
And thank you for watching and commenting.
This series is incredible. I appreciate the beaver bogs so much more now. Spring is around the corner! Only 2 months away from some greenery.
That frog jump was epic 😂😂😂
the saga of the frog and the dragonflies was hilarious 😂 I was rooting for the dragonflies though, you have definitely earned my subscription 🤣
Hi Norman,
That frog kept me entertained all day and laughing too, and was one of the highlights of the project.
Finally got around to commenting! I think my husband and I were the first viewers on upload night, haha.
Amazing footage as always, and even though buggy water critters aren't my absolute favourite, I was amazed by the variety! Love all the footage of birds, amazing stuff! Even saw a Cedar Waxwing (my favourite!). We were laughing at the frog footage, but sobered quickly at the bird being eaten. Truly amazing footage! I love these more than most professional documentaries. Thanks for all your hard work and for sharing this with us.
Buggy water creatures not your favorite?? What? Oh Colleen, how can you not want to snuggle up to a cuddly dragonfly nymph?? Or a predacious diving beetle? I’m mortified.
But, in spite of that, thanks for the kind words! Let’s see what we can dredge up for you in Part 4 😁.
@@NewEnglandForests Ok! Ok! I admit the water boatmen are actually pretty cute with their little paddles! 😂 Looking forward to part 4!
I feel better now.
Also the Kingfishers, and the Bass leaping out of the water snatching insects I have observed many times. So much fun growing up in the country.
Fantastic all around. Thank you. Who knew what a frog can do!
Love this! I see so many northern water snakes with injuries, but I’ve never witnessed a bird going for one. I wonder what makes them so hard to capture.
I’m not sure just how difficult northern water snakes are for a capable predator to capture, but they’re not shy about resisting. They’ll thrash about, and attempt to bite the attacker. The red shouldered hawk in the film probably could have succeeded at taking the snake, but apparently lost its grip on it momentarily, and the snake wasted no time in escaping.
Thank you for the Beaver Pond series....
Thank you for watching! Editing Part 4 is nearing completion, so that will be available soon.
I can't wait to see late summer and early fall.
Hilarious segment of the frog & the dragonflies..
Great job! Subject matter, photography and narration. Thank you. 🇺🇸
Amazing camera work.
" Yesterday a child came out to wander/caught a dragonfly inside a jar/fearful when the sky was full of thunder/and tearful at the falling of the star....." Joni Mitchell, the Circle gGame
I once saw a beaver sitting on a river bank that was the size of my black lab which was about sixty pounds. I told a trapper about it and he told me that he caught one that weighed over a hundred pounds. Finding his story hard to believe I looked up state record beaver and they get that huge.
another banger
Very impressive. Nice that you let the beasties lead the way, that's how you get unusual clips that are not only part of a preconceived narrative.
42:32 the poor chipmunk has had enough of this bull...frog lol.
I've never cheered on a bull frog b4 2day.
Nicely done!
Spectacular episode !
Thank you... was there any specific part you enjoyed most?
@@NewEnglandForests Frogs ! Dragonfly scenes ! Underwater scenes ! Hawk scenes ! Beaver dam scenes ! Kingbird scenes !
Sounds good to me... thanks!
Oh my god, the bullfrog trying to catch a dragonfly just about killed me. Surely it wasn't worth the expenditure of energy. His pride overshadowed his reason.
Beautiful documentary.👍
Wow the insects the dragonflies the everything thankyou so interesting
Another incredible video!
I SO love your work..THANK YOU!
Hi John... I greatly appreciate that, thanks.
Really love this series, keep it up team New England Forests :D
Thanks, we are!
@@NewEnglandForests Niceee..💪🏽🎄🎄 Thanks..😆
dragonfly's are awesome lol, areal acrobats :D
Great narration
Awesome!
Loved it 👍🏻
IT's crazy how efficient nature is watching the Dragonfly. Do even imitate their flight we need loud noisy machines like helicopters and still can't compare with natures design. Think about how many hundred of gallons of water trees lift from the ground into their canopies with just a few thin layers. Imagine the machinery we'd need to lift an equal amount of water like the trees do,
Back to watch again, huh?
I've seen a small owl perched on a power line connecting my house to the grid a couple of times over the last few nights. Before that I've seen a rabbit [ introduced species ] in the front yard a couple of times a few weeks ago. Urban-dwelling rabbits have been known to be around in this locale. Someone has gone the pet rabbit[s] route at some point.
wonderful
Incredible
Excellent series I appreciate that you don't have music in the back ground. What video camera are you using?
I've used several cameras, mostly in the Lumix line, currently a GH5S. And, for particular circumstances, others such as Reconyx, Gopro, and even Iphone 11, as well as a drone.
vamosss por fin!
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Thanks for the relaxing interesting video! Just a tiny bit monotone but very nice 👍😊
the first part of the bullfrog section was hilarious. Although I feel the music was unnecessary and would prefer snarky comments to failed bullfrog attempts (whether vocalized or thought bubbles)
Where part 4??
Working on it right now!
@@NewEnglandForests part 4 was a banger keep up good work!
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