Homebound Adventures: A Wildlife Photographer's Year in the British Countryside #naturedocumentary

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This is great. Thank you.

Beautiful England

Thank you very much for this beautiful film. All the animals here are so adorable, I "discovered" your film thanks to your short vid of long tailed tits, one of my favourite birds

Its been years since I've heard a yellow hammer or a sky lark come to think of it so thank you once again

Once again another great video thanks

Hey Steven, thanks for this, British countryside is the best in the world with its four seasons. I've been in Australia for 15 years now and it's the one thing I miss the most. The shot of the grass snake was excellent, I've never seen one before, only adders and slow worms, surprised how quickly it moved. The muntjacs I would always see driving through Thetford Forest, originally from India or China I think, and as for the Red Kites, after they were reintroduced into the Oxford area, I could count up to a dozen in the air whilst driving up the M40, beautiful birds, imagine them landing in your garden on the bird feeder lol. Keep up the good work, cheers(with envy)🍻

Questo era il mondo magico che oggi non esiste piu'.

Great videography and stunningly put together!

God bless you! Thank you for this amazing work! ❤

Lovely video

Fantastic film well done

This England, there is nothing quite as lovely.
Really superb filming, thank you so much.
Greetings from Zimbabwe

Beautiful shots! Thank you! 👍

Thank you for this lovely reminder of the natural richness still available (just) in our British countryside. Over my 70+ years Ive been lucky enough to have seen all of the species you featured, other than the muntjac. But how much more scarce many of them have become! I was reminded of this hearing the yellowhammer in the soundtrack - I have never seen one in the six years I have lived and explored in Cornwall. Your sensitivity to the wild creatures and acute observations make this very special - as though one were almost having these intimate experiences oneself. So often such encounters are happenstance, but all the more precious for that.

Breathtakingly beautiful!! Living on the Essex/Suffolk border, I think there's nowhere quite like our stunning countryside and, my goodness, do you prove that point here. Subscribed in an instant!!

I love this to watching this all other season early autumn and Summer - spring winter this is credible wildlife

I've just discovered you and subscribed. This was a wonderful hour of relaxing with you in nature. I understand it is alot of work and you aren't just sitting back and letting the cameras do all the work. Big thanks to you and your team and helping neighbors for this video from Costa Rica.

excellent photography

What a gem! Thank you so much as I really enjoyed this video.

Thank you for this, the bird song is so sweet. I could listen all day long. Lovely wild life, living in South Africa I appreciate seeing more gentle wild animals.

Wonderful, thanks so much for sharing ❤❤

This is great!

You did a great job! thank you so much for sharing this wonderful film. The hares reminded me of when I was a child, how our little dog ran into a field with a few hares, running rounds, and she just got in the ring and ran with them! and we had hoped to make some hare stew!

Bellísimo documental. Gracias

Excellent

I've just had a strange owl adventure in SW France....I live in an old watermill, and it was built with little doorways for owls to enter the attic, under the eaves. In 2021 I had a clutch of five owlets which all grew to maturity; this year I had become concerned about the owlets so went up to the attic and opened their wooden nest box, which has a hole corresponding to the entry in the wall, and found six owlets, three of which were not showing feathers, three obviously older with one or two a couple of weeks from flight.
I'd become concerned when I found one of the youngest three on the grass near my front door. I'd brought it up and put it back with the others....

That night I kept an ear on the nestbox....it rocks slightly so I can hear when an adult enters, as the box is immediately above my bedroom. There was a severe storm, and I don't think the adults made any feeding visits

In the morning I checked, and they were all looking very weak and comatose, so we fed them some turkey breast and got some water with glucose down them...they all perked up a good bit...then replaced them.

This morning I went to check on them and....all six had vanished! A French pal who came over for the feeding session yesterday says he's heard of this before....the adults somehow airlifted all six to a new location.

It's good to know the adults are ok, but I really think that if we hadn't fed the owlets yesterday, the youngest were on the point of popping their clogs....

Birds are truly amazing! Wish I had footage of the airlift.

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I have been so enjoying these incredible videos! Just discovered them yesterday after being stuck inside with constant downpours, wanting desperately to be outside like you! Overwhelmed by the barn owl babies you were able to get so close to! Congratulations! What a feat! Ty for your talent time and effort. This New England native presently of NH is very grateful and more than refreshed! I grew up on 15 acres of land in Massachusetts and miss it daily! Blessings on your continued success with these marvelous movies for the public..
Namaste! 🦊🌿🐇🌱🐸🌾🐐🍃🪺🦆✨

What a Wonderful wildlife camera/film maker you are!!!! Such patience and dedication. Your voice is so soothing i could watch and listen for hours. Thank you once again! Can't wait for the next video😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

THANK YOU

This is such an enjoyable video to watch. Your dialogue is so natural and calming. I’ve given up on tv and these are the type of films I’m comfortable watching. Thank you for all the effort you put into you work. Aussie follower.

Fantastic!

Thank you, it's amazing what is just beyond your garden gate...

Wow, this video really opened my eyes to the beauty of our environment! 💖

One of the most beautiful films I’ve seen in a very long time. Thank you Stephen

Thank you so much. I am from Ukraine. Your work helps to understand the surrounding nature better , to recognise so many things I see here, in Greater Manchester. Everything is new for me here and at the same time so close to my native land. Well done. From Ukraine with love.

Hunter with camera, not gun!

To me it is awesome the pains of being naturalist/photography.

Stunning countryside, looks like Chiltern Hills.

Stunning nature video Stephen. You could have made 20 vids out of that 😄 I heard a Blackcap this morning, funnily enough! I didn't recognise the song and the Merlin app told me that it was a Blackcap. Tx for sharing. New friend in The New Forest. 😄 Best wishes, Rob

Beautiful.

Mr de vere, thank you so much for letting your Loving eye roam the fields and all the inhabitants in such distinct Detail and parting with us These wonderful Film. All the best to you and the countryside of England - kath. Zwing

No music, just natural sounds, that's the best decision. So many interesting details. This is so good, thank you very much for sharing.

I wish you hadn't begun by saying that the UK doesn't have the 'rare and exotic' animals that you film elsewhere, considering the fact that we are home to many species of both, and your film then goes on to show the huge diversity and beauty of British wildlife.

You may take me out of the country but you will never take the country out of me.

Magical, you're gifted to get these shots! I live off grid in Brittany and am constantly out and about and can count on one hand some exceptional encounters. I've been sitting in a hedge with a fox half a metre next to me grubbing his ears moved when I swallowed, it was late evening but not yet dusk. I returned the next evening with a friend to enable me to endorse this encounter, the fox returned along the hedgerow and slowly passed in front of us within a metre. Like the first night we were just sitting in the hedge no growth in front of us. I'm also lucky enough to have a kingfisher nest in the bank on the stream 30m from my dwelling and for three years now I've watched them coming and going. They have been here for a couple of weeks now so hopefully the fourth year for me to catch daily sightings of them. I also believe they have accepted my presence.
Ideal for filming!!!

Wonderful documentary! Well done. So amazing to see what's hiding just behind garden gates. May I ask where was the filming location? I'd love to visit one day.