@@larrypeterson3375 I live in the English countryside, owls, foxes... nothing like this! Absolutely stunning, thank you for sharing 💜 stay safe and warm.
Awesome video, I just love it! - And those Herons are really cool, occasionally I have one that stops in for a rest.... and the woodpecker checking the camera for insects, lol, must've thought something was in there! I need to get my cameras back up.... Thanks so much for posting!
I really liked this video. I appreciate the identification of the animals/birds, and I learned alot from your comments during the video. I am going to subscribe and watch your other videos. Thanks!
Thankyou so much for letting us watch the life around this great old tree. It was so fun watching the coons grow. I loved watching the old trees wounds heal and age. I hope you will continue the death watch on this tree!! Very interesting. It sure is holding on and there sure is a lot of life around it..❣️❣️🥰😁
I'm looking forward to seeing if the beavers restart their efforts to bring down that tree this Spring or if they consider it too dangerous to stick their heads in there to do more chewing.
Hey Larry, I've enjoyed all 4 videos. I just found them. I subscribed after the first one I watched. Great editing, it good to know some of the story behind the clips we see. You have a Handsome Dog. I hope you can keep posting the videos. I'm now hooked on "When" the tree will fall. It looks like the Beaver have sub contracted the work on the tree to the ants to finish it. The racoons are making it difficult for the ants , the beaver might have to finish what they started. Thanks for taking the time to share this with us.
Bud, thanks for the comment. I too wish the beavers would finish the job on the tree. Like many sub-contractors I doubt the ants can be relied upon to get the job done in a timely fashion. Ha! I will definitely post another video if/when the tree falls. Hopefully it does by Spring and the camera picks up the movement in time to record the event.
I didn't know they had both a short gestation period (11 to 13 days) or such a short average lifespan, mostly due to predators until I followed up on your comment to find out more about them. Apparently "playing 'possum'" isn't as effective a predator deterrent as I thought. Thanks!
What a beautiful and wonderful place that you live in! Any guesses as what that animal sliding in the water is? Thank you for sharing with us. I hope you have a great holiday season.
I just looked at each frame of the video for the sliding animal and enlarged them. I can see a head with short ears in one frame and what appear to be front legs on a relatively long body. In a previous video (Vol 1 at 9 minutes 34 seconds) I mentioned an unknown animal was possibly a mink. Although the one in this latest video is really small, I'm going to guess it's a mink again, but without much certainty. Thanks for commenting!
I agree that the red type, especially when it''s over a green background is kind of hard to read and I should've noticed it. I will keep that in mind with future videos and try to use better contrasting type colors that are easier to see. Thanks for your comment!!
Always just assumed the whole, "Playing Possum," thing was more an Old Wives Tale, than anything else. But they Really, Actually Do, Do That Then, OMG!!
When i was looking at the possum fairly close to it I I could see his eye move a little to keep watch on me, but other than that he remained motionless with his mouth partially open. I thought it was funny that they even use the “play dead” tactic and wonder what their success rate is against a real predator by doing that. Ha.
One night I was out walking after midnight. My dog pointed me to an opposite playing dead. In the flashlight I could see a glint from his eyes. I called my border collie to me and we continued our walk. She was so surprised it was gone on our way back! Great vid, Larry!
The elm tree is still standing. It’s been so dry here this year, so there’s a lot of green algae on the creek and I haven’t had as much animal action. I hope it improves. I also thought the woody attack on the camera was pretty funny too. On closer inspection he did put a small hole on one of the side motion sensors. Thanks for the comment.
I'm not familiar with "fishers" so I looked it up and see that it's a member of the weasel family, although with the pictures they showed it looks more like a badger than a weasel. I've had badgers on my property before.... they have a nasty attitude and aren't afraid of anything. However, the very first animal going up the tree in the Volume 4 video is just a black squirrel. We have mostly red squirrels here, but there seems to be more of the black ones in the last few years. As for the small slender critter maybe being a mink, that's kind of what I thought except it's so small. Maybe just a young one?
I thought it was probably a salamander too, but the ones I’d seen before many years ago didn’t have such a long torso. However, I just Googled salamander pictures and some varieties do have long bodies and not the shorter stubby version I remembered. Thanks.
I think they are the twins. Their spots are gone as of November from when they first appeared in videos as young fawns in June. It also looks like their mom is also gone and they’re on their own.
Love the video. But I don't think that the heron has ice on its back, I believe that is a young bird that still has a few down feathers if it was ice, I think you would see ice crystals on ponds edge.
I checked to see if I had any other video clips in the previous 24 hours leading up to that heron video that might show a snow or ice storm or an abrupt change in temperature, which happens a lot in Nebraska, but there weren't any. So, I can't confirm or deny whether those are indeed ice chunks or down feathers. Thanks for the comment!
That tree still hasn’t fallen down yet and I still have two cameras pointing at it. A smaller tree that I had a camera aimed at did fall but the camera didn’t wake up in time to catch much of the fall. I wish the beavers would do a little more chewing on it to get the job done.
@ roughly 2:06, in this where you show the Carpenter Ant tree damage. The smaller log on the left, to me at least anyway, looked more like a piece of Modern Art, than a semi-traumatic event from the Natural World.
I put cameras on that tree last Spring when I saw the beavers were working on it. The weeds along that creek get 2 to 3 feet high and the wind caused them to move and constantly trigger the cameras. So, I used a weed eater around the area and beside getting less false triggering of the cameras. I also think it helped give the animals a place to hang out by the water without being surrounded by tall weeds and they take advantage of it. I don't know if the beavers have permanently abandoned their efforts to finish off the tree, but I will keep waiting and try to avoid the temptation to move things along with a little chainsaw assistance. Kidding. Thanks for the comment.
Can you please change the temperature reading on the camera to Fahrenheit. Great videos and thank you, thank you, thank you for not adding music to the video as so many people post videos that might have great footage but they can’t seem to help themselves and add guitars, pianos, Latin music heavy metal and somehow think it adds to the video. As soon as the music starts I’m out and when you look at the comments they’re mostly about the crappy unnecessary music that messed up their video.
The two Campark cameras I use show both Centigrade and Fahrenheit. They are both displayed and it's not a settable option to shut one or the other off. I too can't stand trail cam videos that add "music" and I much prefer the natural sounds. My Wildgame Innovations camera is a low-end version and only records 15 second videos without sound or still pictures. Thanks for the comment!
Sorry about the red lettering. Others have posted the same comment and I will be mindful of it in future videos and probably stick to white lettering which stands out better in most cases. Thanks!
I also find it interesting that they always seem to notice the camera, whether it's day or night. The cameras do use infrared lights for night videos and I imagine they can see those little red lights, but even in daytime they all seem to notice the cameras and as far as I know they don't make any sound.
I like your video's. I don't have the knowhow to put video's together into one video. I have posted a few on my channel. I am still learning. Will keep watching you channel.
Mark, I just use "Windows Live Movie Maker" to create my videos. If you're using a PC running Windows the movie maker program should already be on it. Once you have the program open, click on File, New Project and then Add Videos and Photos. Play around with the different options like Titles at the beginning, add Captions, insert selectable transitions between your videos (like crossfade, blur, etc.). It's fun! Be sure to Save your project frequently as the Movie Maker program is a little unstable and frequently abruptly ends itself and you will have to restart it and do File, Open Project to recover back to the last time you saved.
Someone else commented about the wording being hard to read (red letters on a green background, for example). I’ll try to pick better colors in future videos to make it easier to read. Thanks for letting me know!
I doubt the tree will fall in your lifetime. It is still alive and believe it or not that trunk is still sturdy. If the tree dies then the trunk will rot and soften. We had trees like that. They did not fall from that tree's problem but from the ground around it getting so soggy and the tree so big it just fell over.
You’re probably right and obviously my hoping it falls on camera hasn’t worked over the last 15 months. At some point I’ll get tired of buying batteries. Thanks for the info.
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I've never enjoyed trail cam footage as much as yours. What an astounding number of species you capture. Thank you.
Well done and without any annoying music in the background I’m hooked!!
This is probably the best trail cam video I've ever watched, so very cool. Great job!
Super captures and the tree still stands 👍🙏
This is HIGHLY addictive to watch.
Sneak level: opossum.
Sounds so so happy at night, could easily fall asleep to the sounds.
I also like re-watching these so I can hear the sounds of Summer, especially since it's been so cold and snowy this Winter. Thanks for your comment!
@@larrypeterson3375 I live in the English countryside, owls, foxes... nothing like this! Absolutely stunning, thank you for sharing 💜 stay safe and warm.
Awesome video, I just love it! - And those Herons are really cool, occasionally I have one that stops in for a rest.... and the woodpecker checking the camera for insects, lol, must've thought something was in there! I need to get my cameras back up.... Thanks so much for posting!
Maybe the loon doesn't want to fly south because it wants to see the tree fall like everyone else.
Leave it to a woodpecker to find a good drum! 🤣🤣🤣
These are great, Larry!
13:12. The beaver and raccoons reaction to each other was comical
I really liked this video. I appreciate the identification of the animals/birds, and I learned alot from your comments during the video. I am going to subscribe and watch your other videos. Thanks!
I'm gad I found your channel. I love these types of videos and you have a wonderfully active spot there.
Wow, talk about a honey hole by that tree! Very 😎, thanks for sharing!
Great video......Thanks for posting.😎😎😎😎
I love these videos. Watching the lives of these animals play out. Still waiting for the tree to fall.
Thankyou so much for letting us watch the life around this great old tree. It was so fun watching the coons grow. I loved watching the old trees wounds heal and age. I hope you will continue the death watch on this tree!! Very interesting. It sure is holding on and there sure is a lot of life around it..❣️❣️🥰😁
I'm looking forward to seeing if the beavers restart their efforts to bring down that tree this Spring or if they consider it too dangerous to stick their heads in there to do more chewing.
Hey Larry, I've enjoyed all 4 videos. I just found them. I subscribed after the first one I watched.
Great editing, it good to know some of the story behind the clips we see. You have a Handsome Dog.
I hope you can keep posting the videos. I'm now hooked on "When" the tree will fall. It looks like the Beaver have sub contracted the work on the tree to the ants to finish it. The racoons are making it difficult for the ants , the beaver might have to finish what they started. Thanks for taking the time to share this with us.
Bud, thanks for the comment. I too wish the beavers would finish the job on the tree. Like many sub-contractors I doubt the ants can be relied upon to get the job done in a timely fashion. Ha! I will definitely post another video if/when the tree falls. Hopefully it does by Spring and the camera picks up the movement in time to record the event.
Nice job 👍 I love the animals, we get a true look at nature, thank you!
Poor little possum our only marsupial playing dead, they don't live but just a couple of years. Wonderful video, Thank You.
I didn't know they had both a short gestation period (11 to 13 days) or such a short average lifespan, mostly due to predators until I followed up on your comment to find out more about them. Apparently "playing 'possum'" isn't as effective a predator deterrent as I thought. Thanks!
Wonderful and quiet for our own enjoyment! I love it....enough to subscribe.
We could take a lesson from that ole tree, all hell is having at it but it still stands!
Nice optimistic metaphor for everyone's lives over the last year, Thanks!
thanks for posting
Love your videos!!
What a beautiful and wonderful place that you live in! Any guesses as what that animal sliding in the water is? Thank you for sharing with us. I hope you have a great holiday season.
I just looked at each frame of the video for the sliding animal and enlarged them. I can see a head with short ears in one frame and what appear to be front legs on a relatively long body. In a previous video (Vol 1 at 9 minutes 34 seconds) I mentioned an unknown animal was possibly a mink. Although the one in this latest video is really small, I'm going to guess it's a mink again, but without much certainty. Thanks for commenting!
Cool video, tho I have a very difficult time reading the red type.
I agree that the red type, especially when it''s over a green background is kind of hard to read and I should've noticed it. I will keep that in mind with future videos and try to use better contrasting type colors that are easier to see. Thanks for your comment!!
Excellent video. Thanks!
If only trees could talk.
Always just assumed the whole, "Playing Possum," thing was more an Old Wives Tale, than anything else. But they Really, Actually Do, Do That Then, OMG!!
When i was looking at the possum fairly close to it I I could see his eye move a little to keep watch on me, but other than that he remained motionless with his mouth partially open. I thought it was funny that they even use the “play dead” tactic and wonder what their success rate is against a real predator by doing that. Ha.
One night I was out walking after midnight. My dog pointed me to an opposite playing dead. In the flashlight I could see a glint from his eyes. I called my border collie to me and we continued our walk. She was so surprised it was gone on our way back!
Great vid, Larry!
Very good compilation!
I be keep watching waiting for the tree to fall🤔
fantastic really enjoy that
Great stuff! - I have a Campark too (4K) is the Elm still standing? & that woody at the end - winding back the reel lol! 👍
The elm tree is still standing. It’s been so dry here this year, so there’s a lot of green algae on the creek and I haven’t had as much animal action. I hope it improves. I also thought the woody attack on the camera was pretty funny too. On closer inspection he did put a small hole on one of the side motion sensors. Thanks for the comment.
Where is bigfoot?
was the first animal seen going up tree a fisher? small slender critter could be a mink
I'm not familiar with "fishers" so I looked it up and see that it's a member of the weasel family, although with the pictures they showed it looks more like a badger than a weasel. I've had badgers on my property before.... they have a nasty attitude and aren't afraid of anything. However, the very first animal going up the tree in the Volume 4 video is just a black squirrel. We have mostly red squirrels here, but there seems to be more of the black ones in the last few years.
As for the small slender critter maybe being a mink, that's kind of what I thought except it's so small. Maybe just a young one?
@@larrypeterson3375 Silly me,of course it is a squirrel.The little crittur sliding into the water will have to remain a mystery!
my best guess for the small slender whatever would be a salamander or mudpuppy
I thought it was probably a salamander too, but the ones I’d seen before many years ago didn’t have such a long torso. However, I just Googled salamander pictures and some varieties do have long bodies and not the shorter stubby version I remembered. Thanks.
Great video!
Are those the twins from the last video?
I think they are the twins. Their spots are gone as of November from when they first appeared in videos as young fawns in June. It also looks like their mom is also gone and they’re on their own.
Love the video. But I don't think that the heron has ice on its back, I believe that is a young bird that still has a few down feathers if it was ice, I think you would see ice crystals on ponds edge.
I checked to see if I had any other video clips in the previous 24 hours leading up to that heron video that might show a snow or ice storm or an abrupt change in temperature, which happens a lot in Nebraska, but there weren't any. So, I can't confirm or deny whether those are indeed ice chunks or down feathers. Thanks for the comment!
Where is the video of the tree falling?
That tree still hasn’t fallen down yet and I still have two cameras pointing at it. A smaller tree that I had a camera aimed at did fall but the camera didn’t wake up in time to catch much of the fall. I wish the beavers would do a little more chewing on it to get the job done.
Thanks u my friend
@ roughly 2:06, in this where you show the Carpenter Ant tree damage. The smaller log on the left, to me at least anyway, looked more like a piece of Modern Art, than a semi-traumatic event from the Natural World.
Excellent
I confess to peeking at the ending. lol
Awesome game camera spot! Was waiting for the beaver that did all that damage the whole time
I put cameras on that tree last Spring when I saw the beavers were working on it. The weeds along that creek get 2 to 3 feet high and the wind caused them to move and constantly trigger the cameras. So, I used a weed eater around the area and beside getting less false triggering of the cameras. I also think it helped give the animals a place to hang out by the water without being surrounded by tall weeds and they take advantage of it. I don't know if the beavers have permanently abandoned their efforts to finish off the tree, but I will keep waiting and try to avoid the temptation to move things along with a little chainsaw assistance. Kidding. Thanks for the comment.
Wood ducks are great 👍
Yes, very cool indeed!
Great video! is that a coyote at 12:26?
Yes, and it looks healthy and is probably out on an early morning hunt for something to eat.
Can you please change the temperature reading on the camera to Fahrenheit. Great videos and thank you, thank you, thank you for not adding music to the video as so many people post videos that might have great footage but they can’t seem to help themselves and add guitars, pianos, Latin music heavy metal and somehow think it adds to the video. As soon as the music starts I’m out and when you look at the comments they’re mostly about the crappy unnecessary music that messed up their video.
The two Campark cameras I use show both Centigrade and Fahrenheit. They are both displayed and it's not a settable option to shut one or the other off. I too can't stand trail cam videos that add "music" and I much prefer the natural sounds. My Wildgame Innovations camera is a low-end version and only records 15 second videos without sound or still pictures. Thanks for the comment!
can't read the red lettering
Sorry about the red lettering. Others have posted the same comment and I will be mindful of it in future videos and probably stick to white lettering which stands out better in most cases. Thanks!
Nearly everyone of the trees visitors came up to the camera and said hi. I liked that..
I also find it interesting that they always seem to notice the camera, whether it's day or night. The cameras do use infrared lights for night videos and I imagine they can see those little red lights, but even in daytime they all seem to notice the cameras and as far as I know they don't make any sound.
I like your video's. I don't have the knowhow to put video's together into one video. I have posted a few on my channel. I am still learning. Will keep watching you channel.
Mark, I just use "Windows Live Movie Maker" to create my videos. If you're using a PC running Windows the movie maker program should already be on it. Once you have the program open, click on File, New Project and then Add Videos and Photos. Play around with the different options like Titles at the beginning, add Captions, insert selectable transitions between your videos (like crossfade, blur, etc.). It's fun! Be sure to Save your project frequently as the Movie Maker program is a little unstable and frequently abruptly ends itself and you will have to restart it and do File, Open Project to recover back to the last time you saved.
Enjoyed it very much. Because of my color blindness, wording was only slightly readable.
Someone else commented about the wording being hard to read (red letters on a green background, for example). I’ll try to pick better colors in future videos to make it easier to read. Thanks for letting me know!
@@larrypeterson3375 even without color blindness, it’s hard
Good film like the notes and the best part natural sounds. Nooooo music
Looks like a salamander slipping into water???
The print over the scenery is a bummer😥
At11:40 when the last beaver enters the water the small mamal swims song the bank heading toward the top from right in front of the tree .
i wonder what mama raccoon said to her kids to get them out of that tree so fast? lol
After "Please come down from there" was ignored, it was probably followed by a stern "NOW!". :)
Get yer hairy butts down here. I'm leaving right now!! Well that's what I had to do with my granddaughters and mothering is mothering. Lol
I doubt the tree will fall in your lifetime. It is still alive and believe it or not that trunk is still sturdy. If the tree dies then the trunk will rot and soften. We had trees like that. They did not fall from that tree's problem but from the ground around it getting so soggy and the tree so big it just fell over.
You’re probably right and obviously my hoping it falls on camera hasn’t worked over the last 15 months. At some point I’ll get tired of buying batteries. Thanks for the info.
Hope the coyote is still alive, safe and heathy... #ProtectWildlife
👍👍👍
Racoons are in the bear family
Hope it won't fall and kill some Critters