Simon roper gets more and more Simon ropery by the day

@leenewsom7517

10 ай бұрын

Which is a fine thing! 😁

@burendasan

10 ай бұрын

…and I’m loving it!

More than anything else, this video demonstrates the significant value of dense hedges, trees and an "overgrown" garden: they provide habitat, shelter and an abundance of insect life. I'm all for it. Thank you Simon.

@mesechabe

10 ай бұрын

right you are. That’s so important for people who live in the city or the suburbs and wonder what they can do to encourage wildlife to stay in their area.

This is my favorite 41 minute video of birds, insects, and rain I’ve ever seen 😊

Rain would be lovely. It's hot today. Sunshine is overrated. 😊

I live in the Omani desert so this is *exactly* what I need.

It's a very hot day here in Bullhead City Arizona!!! Thank you Simon for the rain!

The ways you choose to explore life are very endearing Simon. It's often times fun to wander with you. Thank you for this brief respite as well. Cheers!

There is so much more to this video than birds, insects and rain. Well done. Although not educational, I do feel enlightened from having watched it. It’s a remedy for spending three minutes of my life watching TikTok and feeling stupider for watching it.

Nice, relaxing video Simon. The rainy section was great to have playing in the background. Thanks for sharing the wild, overgrown, full-of-life backyard. I would guess the diversity of plant and animal life is so much more in your garden, compared to one with trimmed hedges and cut grass.

You're really lucky to have such a variety of activity from your backyard Simon, thank you as always for sharing it with us!

This is a weird comment, but this feels like a reasonable time and place to leave one. To many (probably most) people, the wildlife in your own back garden is just mundane, and therefore, boring. I personally don't spend a lot of time looking at these things (though more than most probably), but I have had little experiences that make me want to ask a weird question. Several time, very mundane things have somehow triggered borderline spiritual...feelings. Entirely areligious and out of nowhere. Some are perhaps more "understandable" than others - like running in a pitch black field under a star-filled sky triggering a realisation of how staggeringly massive the universe is. Others are weirder; like seeing a tree blow in the wind when the light is "just right" causing some kind of "fresh sight" where it's like the blindfold covering the mundane is stripped away. I was wondering if that strikes a chord with Simon, and people who are perhaps on a similar wavelength when it comes to appreciating the nature that's all around us? There's depth in the mundane that can only be seen if you have the eyes to see it - or something like that. On a side note, I think that's what artists are supposed to do. Be the weirdos who see "it", and then be the ones to show it to those who can't see it by themselves. I think one of our greatest curses as humans is our brain's ability to map the new and turn it, instantly, into the old. Ramble over.

@andreyserebryakov2231

10 ай бұрын

I get that feeling too with komorebi. It is quite mundane but I just feel a deep sense of appreciation. (nothing spiritual)

@mesechabe

10 ай бұрын

It’s probably a clearing of the mind’s preconceptions that you really can feel the vastness that we are afloat in.

I’ve been very stressed lately. This is the first thing that’s made me relax in a long time. Thanks.

@GaryColemanNC

10 ай бұрын

Ditto...

I live in coastal NE Scotland (Peterhead) so, along with the herring gulls (scurries) , which I also find fascinating to follow - I have a family who rebuild their nest in view from my window every year and hatched a baby a month ago which is just about ready to fly - I have mostly pigeons, sparrows (spurgies), starlings, crows & blackbirds, which I feed several times a day. Thanks for your lovely video. Your videos on every subject are absolutely wonderful.

22:00 Cinnabar's are honestly one of my favourite insect in the UK, both in caterpillar and moth form. So vibrant and recognisable . Reminds me of holidays to Cornwall as a child, my dad showing me ragwort absolutely covered in them. Great footage.

Hell yes.

@mesechabe

10 ай бұрын

Dr Crawford, you are so Front Range.

I think this one of the best channels on youtube

By far the best Footage of birds, insects and rain out there.

This is beautiful. Thank you from a person who doesn't have access to such wildlife on a daily basis.

Simon you have such a brilliant aesthetic. I love the visuals and tempo of your videos. Plus of course the content, which is smart and emotionally honest. I’m a big fan of yours and I wish you every success.

Beautiful video! Thanks, Simon. Things are really shitty here in America. I'm jealous... You're a great guy...❤

I'm counting footage of wildlife as educational 🙂. And enjoyable. 👍

Makes me homesick -_-

Top man Simon. Like you, ive left my garden grow wild this year, mainly at the behest of my 18 year old daughter.. So lovely to give wildlife a chance to thrive. You can keep theme parks, leisure parks, so says DD3 Alice👍👍

Wonderful video. So relaxing. Thanks 😊

Simon, with all those birds, you forgot the cinnibar moth caterpillar!

I really like this garden. I imagine it is very relaxing to sit in.

Gotta love them birds

Thank you Simon . . .

This is lovely, thank you Simon! ❤

that's lovely, thank you :)

I really love when you use this kind of footage in your videos, and now you give us an entire video of that! Hecc yeah >:D Also I wanted to ask, is it ok if I use this footage for my visual work? (like visuals for my dj sets for example)

Thank you. We could trade place. The experience would be just like home. I have the same glider you have. I also have similar bird feeders. I thank you for inviting all of us into your lovely garden. I feel most at home there.

The doves feeding off the stuff on the ground seemed very skittish. I felt like I was almost able to startle them myself by moving. Then I saw the camera move a bit and I wondered if they were wary of you.

Lovely nature friendly patch of ground.

Thanks for sharing a relaxing video.

I want a bunch of rain footage from all the locations in the Bealdric video. I would watch that on repeat.

this is really beautiful

4:50 👍 When the starling gets dive-bombed by another starling. If I made a 40 minute video of my feeders, it would just be 40 minutes of aggressive starling wrestling like that.

I'm saving this to watch on a bigger screen than my phone

Thank you.

When the winter hits, imma rip a bowl and put this on the big tv and chill

Is Simon dropping asmr content now?

@GaryColemanNC

10 ай бұрын

😂

Description accurate. plenty of birds and rain.

So at first i thought cool and quirky but whos going to watch even a fraction of this? Then i guess i just watched 20 minuets of it while painting and it was really relaxing. So that was kinda interesting

Lovely video. That's an interesting suet ball feeder and obviously a winner. Could someone please identify the large, greedy, dusky bird? Cheers from upstate New York.

@georgina3358

10 ай бұрын

Well, there's a pigeon that arrives after the magpie

@simonroper9218

10 ай бұрын

The one near the start that's scaring off the other birds is a juvenile European starling, I think :)

i love this vid :-)

Regional song differences are used by female birds to differentiate local birds from outsiders, not your intention for this video but it plays in with the channel's theme. It was so restful to watch

I'm curious to ask you if anyone is working on an online translator for Anglo Saxon or Old English? Granted it probably wouldn't have millions of users, but it seemed fun to entertain the idea and ask.

The magpies at 14:09 have tags on their ankles. I wonder why.

@svetlanakholmetskaya6282

10 ай бұрын

Maybe some ornithologists tagged them for research reasons? I know they count certain bird species every season.

@gilesfarmer5953

10 ай бұрын

They're on parole and electronically tagged, so ex jailbirds.

@Exgrmbl

10 ай бұрын

@@gilesfarmer5953 that could be it. Ive seen a pair of magpies just straight up murder a woodpecker because he annoyed them.

Is it always so cloudy in the UK?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Anglian_English - when you are back on it, wonder if addressing Anglian English would be good ?? It still seems incredible that across many linguistic spheres, people rarely talk about it - even with a train line and A roads going to the region now, the Fens drained, reducing it's insularity, it still seems almost invisible. Yet, this is understood to be the area in which 'English' first began to formulate and diverge from the continent ? Also, it's influence on to the south east of England from migration in the industrial era and so on. Is it not high time to do an in depth look at this fascinating root area of 'English' ? Did you know, up until the 40s, people still used the word 'Bearn' for chid for example ? Peter Trudgill is the Linguistic expert on Anglian, being from Norfolk and his name being dialect for: Threadgold, a name for a kind of threader in the weaving cottage industry.

Thank you.