Beaver Pond Wildlife: Part 2 - Late Spring
Interested in observing a wide variety of wildlife? There are few, if any, better places to sit down and quietly watch for mammals, birds, amphibians, insects, fish, and reptiles than at a beaver pond. It's nature's magnet habitat. A beaver pond is not merely a place where beavers happen to live; it’s a natural community like no other, that draws together a large percentage of the animal species of the region.
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, we follow wildlife in late spring, as nesting season progresses, new life develops, and young beavers disperse.
We'll see:
- nesting warblers, ospreys, great blue herons, phoebes, bluejays, red winged blackbirds, and other birds.
- mating northern water snakes and snapping turtles
- a painted turtle depositing eggs
- green frogs, bullfrogs, gray tree frogs, and their tadpoles
- dragonfly larvae underwater and transforming into adults
- herons fishing and feeding young
- beavers building a dam
- pileated woodpecker feasting on carpenter ants
- much more
More info at the New England Forests blog:
newenglandforests.blogspot.co...
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I was so happy to see this upload. It's like morning cartoons for adults.
@billrobbins5874
2 жыл бұрын
Hasn't alot of the bird species come back since they banned the use of DDT in the late 60's? Wonderful and enjoyable documentary. Thank you.
@kma5150
Жыл бұрын
@@billrobbins5874 yes. Birds of prey made an amazing comeback. I live in CT right outside of Hartford and we have a resident breeding pair of bald eagles in town. Ospreys are fairly common in warmer weather.
@SupergiantgeckosLLC
11 ай бұрын
Or after school special
I've watched a lot of documentaries in my life, but I have _never_ seen such amazing slow motion footage of birds catching insects *in flight,* with the insects highlighted and everything. That is just too cool. Sadly I can't sub twice to the same channel.
@awamazingwildanimals
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🤗👍........ this video is just wow ..💝💝💝
This has become my favorite youtube channel. The beaver pond series is amazing. More, please!
I came here for forest forensics but stayed for everything. What a gem of a channel! National Geographic with million dollar crews are lazy wannabes next to your content. So much intelligence and soul. Thank you.
@NewEnglandForests
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe that’s just a weeeee bit of a stretch there, Manny, but it’s really appreciated. Thank you! -Ray
These are very relaxing videos, nice to see we still have wild life here in New England. 🦉
love this, thanks. how i miss my western massachusetts!
Pure gold! Reminds me of my favorite PBS video, “Alone in the Wilderness” with Dick Proenneke. Makes me even more eager for springtime to arrive at the beaver ponds on our property in Upstate NY! Thank you for the great work put into this series of videos.
@NewEnglandForests
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! And, good news... part 4 should be available in the next couple days or so.
Incredible photography, narration and story line. This is a winner!
This is total food for our spirit. Thank you.
I just watched episodes 1 & 2 back to back and yet still, I am left wanting more! Thank you SO much for making these videos & sharing them with the rest of us!
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! 🙏🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
This and all the NEF productions are remarkably good - rich in content, great presentation, really well done. Better than almost anything else out there.
I’m home bound for a few months. I can’t tell you how happy your video makes me right now! ♥️ 💪🏼 🦫
Recently found this channel THANK U SO MUCH IN THESE CRAZY TIMES
Been looking forward to this one!
we just bought property in NE Ohio and the land has a beaver pond! watching these videos has us so excited to see how life will be on the pond this spring!!
@reneelascala5050
3 жыл бұрын
How fortunate you are!
Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much !!!!!
What an amazing film !! Thanks for making this!
Videography is amazing!
Nice, i enjoy watching
Not 1 single bad joke in the comments... well done KZread viewers, stay classy 😎
My compliments with this beautiful film! I enjoyed it very much! It brought back fond memories of the beavers and birds I have seen when visiting my brother in Central Massachusetts. Greetings from Belgium!
@NewEnglandForests
2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks!
Thanks again for another wonderfully filmed, edited and narrated video.
One of the best videos I have ever watched by far!
I love these! So fun and educational 🥰
I love all of the wildlife that can be found around beaver ponds and wetland areas. Excellent footage. 👍
Fabulous! Tadpole footage and 🦫🌙 were the best. Angles on RWB and YW will help loads of folks learn where to look-from a distance. Best line: “Goose fight!” Thank you so much✨
Lovely video, amazing things going on out of sight from most of us!
Thank you so much for posting this. I've already watched it twice, and I can't wait for the next installment.
What a well made and informative video series! Thank you for making and posting
Nice video, Like 161 and Greetings from Italy :)
Very well done. I can't imagine how anyone could give it a thumbs down. Strange.
Yeah!! Happy to see an upload
Thank you. Fantastic narration both in picture and the tale. A treat for a Nature lover.
Great behavioural video clips and commentary on this series. Thank you very much for sharing.
great video!!! so many animals, so much of their life and behavior explained. awesome!
I'm an outdoorsman and loved your series of nature videos. Kudos.
Nice beaver habitat vid. Just what I was looking for!
Thanks for the beautiful video on wildlife 👌
Excellent, thank you.
Thx bro! Yep 👍 what a beautiful video of your...👍👍👍🤒🤒
Awesome series! Found you by accident!👍
wow they added sound effects to every wingflap , splash etc so awesome
Thank you!
So excited for this one. only recently found the channel. Keep up the good work
Thank you so much for posting this, was looking forward to the second part.
Wow. So well done.
2 amazing videos combine all together as 1 Full Documentary , i love it! Great Narrator . Thanks for going out doing this amazing video of those beautiful animals. Stay Safe
As always...amazing and delightful!!!! Your sense of humor in the narration and those scenes you capture such as snake and snapper love really make your films so exceptional. I feel like I was there. And I will be or somewhere very similar. And thank you beavers for creating this essential environment!
@awamazingwildanimals
3 жыл бұрын
I agree with you......👍👍👍💝💝
I worked on a pond dredging project in Connecticut some years ago, and the snapping turtles shown mating here are like toddlers compared to some of the giants that lived in that pond. I saw a mating pair in the water that looked like juvenile Galapagos tortoises! Previously I had no idea they got that big up here and had assumed only the Alligator Snapper of the southern states reached such size. Some of the big turtles were unfortunately cut in half by the dredging process.
The number of birds featured is amazing!! Fantastic camera work!
Spent my night consuming your videos, I loved parts 1 and 2 on spring. I am very interested in what happens at the Beaver pond in the summer .
@NewEnglandForests
3 жыл бұрын
Working on that now...
Very nicely done!
great way to get familiar with all the birds from wingspan. :D
Thank you for sharing this cute video! 🤗👍
Great way to see the different bird species and how they live every thing is amazing
I recommend watermark your videos so that no bad faith channels can use your footage without permission. Such wonderful footage and sound I might add! I suspect it took effort to film.
@jakewilson4679
3 жыл бұрын
I agree, original content is becoming more and more rare on KZread these days.
Watching this whole series now that part 4 came out 😃 Great content!
Fantastic
Thank You beavers!
Beautiful, thanks !
I've watched this video before ,but my husband and I both have covid. This equals lots of time to watch nature programs
@NewEnglandForests
3 жыл бұрын
Judy- I hope you’re doing ok and get well quickly. Ray.
very nice filming an choices of subject. thanks
I loved seeing the little tadpoles breach like whales!
Amazing series - Thank you!!
@NewEnglandForests
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Sharon, hope to have Part 4 completed in the near future.
I think that heron is trying to cut that catfish up into multiple bits for multiple feeding. So neat!
Excellent!!!
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Tank you !!!
I hear veerys, pee-wees, eastern phoebes, red-winged blackbirds, catbirds, possibly an oven bird too!… all sounds of spring and summer 😌
New England Forests. Love how rich and diverse and quality all over that is presented in this very watchable and educational video. I liked your rather laid back way of Narrating this video, not over done but enough to let us know what is shown at any one time. PS do you use a lot of Trail Cameras to gather interesting footage then edit and put it all together. Appreciate the time and effort that went into this production.
@awamazingwildanimals
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your valuable comments 🤗👍
Very nice ....
Carp will be disastrous.
thanks
As kids we would sometimes keep reptiles and turtles as pets for the spring and summer and then let them go in fall. We had a female northern watersnake that gave live birth to 28 babies overnight!. The neonate (baby) watersnakes are much cuter and better tempered than in their adult form!
15:00 just like high school
@NewEnglandForests
3 жыл бұрын
After class you are to report directly to detention, mister.
The larger older dominant female snake I don’t think is a snake at all. Where I come from they call that a cougar!
The common yellow throat-never seen one
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@NewEnglandForests
2 жыл бұрын
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I was second too 👍✌At 10:44 what is the name of the birds that sing like " you hoo, you hoo " ? Anyone know?
@NewEnglandForests
3 жыл бұрын
The whistle-like call is the song of a Black capped chickadee.
@kdavis4910
3 жыл бұрын
@@NewEnglandForests a black capped chickadee. They are so cool. For years I have whistled back and always get a response. I cherish them really. Thank you for telling me 💚
The snake devouring a toad is at 11:00
Wow birds are smarter than us lol
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Desperate for part 3!
@NewEnglandForests
3 жыл бұрын
Me too! It’s coming, hang on!
wish i was beaver ... oh well! too late so what...build beaver build as ever
Was the carp purposefully introduced?
@NewEnglandForests
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, the common carp was introduced in the 1800’s.
50:24 da heck is that thumb up duck XD
48:10 do pileated woodpeckers have a form of sonar with their scream.
@NewEnglandForests
2 жыл бұрын
I don't believe they use their vocalizations to locate food (ants) in trees; they don't vocalize at every tree they visit. But, they tap on a tree trunk with their beak to test for hollow cavities within the tree, which can be due to carpenter ant galleries, which they'll then excavate. So, in that respect, I suppose you might consider them to have a kind of sonar.
At 7:52 why did you choose the term “introduced” fish rather than “invasive”?
@NewEnglandForests
2 жыл бұрын
No particular reason, could have used both terms to describe carp.
@newera4k333
2 жыл бұрын
@@NewEnglandForests was just curious, thank you for producing this magnificent work. I have watched both the spring & winter segments of your work. They are very similar to animal life in northern Minnesota.
Is it common for older bucks to travel together? I guess I've always assumed they were solitary after sexual maturity.
Do animals that swallows their food even tastes anything? Or they just eat to stay fat🤣
@christiancarson6387
Жыл бұрын
Birds have very few taste buds
Wonderful filming. (I only wish you would cease obsessing over the birds' "fecal sacks" so much. 4-5 times you film and explain it. once is more than enough)