A BIG surprise whilst hunting for a Cuckoo!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2023
- Come along as I get more than I bargained for whilst searching for Cuckoos in norfolk. These Pike were lurking in the shallows and the swimmers nearby were probably not aware!
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Thank you for taking me on a lovely walk today! It was wonderful. Blessings to you 🙏
Hi Liam brilliant video love the pike I have come across them when fishing in the river Waveny love the part with the cuckoo I have heard them in the farm land at the bottom of my garden in Beccles keep up the great work and videos looking forward to your next video Bernard
Thotoughly enjoyed this. Thank you for being patient and capturing for us!
This is such a great channel.
Had to leave a comment Liam, these videos are fabulous, big thank you and keep up the good work. People like you give hope to the future of humanity.
Yes please I'd love to know more about the Cuckoo.❤
Loving it! Another fascinating vid. Many thanks.
Great shots of the pike!
Brilliant Liam 👏🏻🎥 love the pike footage !! Keep these posts coming!! Fantastic! Thumbs up 300 !
🙂 A cracking video, thank you!
I learnt many things I did not know, especially about the Cuckoo. And you got some great footage.
Yes, please. I’d love more on the cuckoo.
I second that! A cuckoo vid please!
Yes a factfile on the Cuckoo would be nice. Without regurgitated information would be wonderful! I look forward to your own footage!👍
Yes please to a cuckoo vid
Heard the cuckoo for the first time yesterday morning in Doon, Limerick, Ireland.
Great video, thank you Liam. I got some footage of a Green Woodpecker foraging the other day that I've still to upload. Still trying to catch the nesting pair of Jays that I keep spotting.Lovely day for that walk around the lake 😊
It would be lovely to see a video on the cuckoo. Really enjoyed this, thank you.
Great video. Lovely to see the underwater footage. only heard one cuckoo this year. Ten years ago ,I'd have heard dozens here in southern Scotland
Heard and saw my first male cuckoo two weeks ago in the attractive fields near unattractive Hersham, Surrey. I'd hoped to see the kingfisher on the river (not about today) but instead heard the call and saw the cuckoo in flight soon after moving between stands of trees.
Really good video, love these nature reserve ones❤
Hearing the cuckoo is good enough for me! He’s delightful! Thank you!
Thanks Rose!
1:05 I saw 2 of these at Trent Lock a few weeks ago. I had no idea what they were and they were not in my bird id books. Thankyou for solving a mystery for me.
So glad you got your cuckoo - and that pike footage was amazing! As I've not seen either for myself I found this a very interesting video. And yes, would love to see a video of cuckoo facts, please!!
We were down there the other day and there were two Cuckoos about the one you filmed and one further up Whitlingham Lane towards Trowse. Incidentally I have hear and seen more Cuckoos this year than I have for many years. I often put a camera underwater and have done for many years, filmed lots of Pike and seen them lunge for many small fish, but yet to actually see them catch one. I usually put a bit of groundbait in with the camera as it makes things happen quickly. You may have been there but Horstead Mill makes a great place to film underwater as it is often pretty clear. I set my camera on the bottom on the end of the extension stick and then pop the other end through a brick with a hole in and let things develop. I often can’t see a think until I get home and download, which makes it exciting…Several Cuckoos at Woodbastwick and Upton on the marshes…
excellent video. this is down and dirty REAL wildlife reporting! Love it!
I'd like to see a cuckoo fun fact file! 👍
As you discovered, _hearing_ a cuckoo and actually spotting it are *not* the same thing, haha ! 😊
Glad you managed it in the end because it's been years since I saw one myself. Loved the underwater footage too.
Great video Liam, I really enjoy your narration on these walks. 👍
Great video keep it up
I love this kind of video, full of fantastic wildlife. Your perseverance paid off, what a great day you had.
Absolutely amazing; superb footage of pike and a cuckoo. Thanks for all your effort.
Thank you Tony. I appreciate your support!
I haven't seen or heard a cuckoo for years yes do a video on one please
Fantastic video thank you for sharing your passion for British wildlife 👍🏻
Love your enthusiasm mate. I've learned a lot from your videos. Thanks.
The way you deployed that underwater camera without disturbing the pike is amazing, absolutely brilliant footage of the small roach shoals and the pike.
Another great video, thanks Liam.
What a cracking video, the horseshoe shaped scar is typical of a larger Pike having a go, any Pike above 10lb is going to be a female and sometimes a smaller male ends up as lunch and not a lover, I've not seen a Cuckoo since I was 16 nearly 50 years ago, I thought it was a Sparrow Hawk at first till it called, this was on a reclaimed Colliery site next to a very nasty chemical works of all places, Great Stuff 👏👏🍺
Love the production value on this. Superb shots and editing is right up there. Pleasure to watch. Thank you
Yet another great video Liam. Love the outtakes at the end. Always makes us smile ☺. A cookoo video would be great to. Thank you.
Great video, always good to see Pike, only seen a couple myself and never managed a photo or video!
Aw that was the best so far for me,very interesting!
what an awesome adventure. great work Liam, and your outtakes always make me chuckle!
Stunning footage of pike! I fish for and release pike and have never got within 30 feet before they shoot off.
Great variety and presentation. Thanks again.
Another cracking video and some really good footage of the Grebes, cuckoo and Pike.
Fantastic! 🙂
The 'monster' pike in our local flooded gravel pit in Molesey, Surrey, around 30 years ago made the front page of the Sun: 'girl bitten by shark' or similar (The Sun's reporting accurate as ever). She'd been swimming with friends and her flailing foot got nipped, drawing blood. I caught sight of the likely culprit near the surface a few days later and it was a whopper similar to the three-footer in Liam's video. On the other side of Molesey at a millpond on the Ember I've seen several new born pike lurking in the shallows. Perhaps the 'lake monster' was born here?
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LOVE this video - so exciting to see the excellent pike footage and awesome to see your personality shining through more and more :)
Thanks Liam for sharing this interesting walk around the lake! I was surprised that the Pike didn't disappear when you stuck your camera underwater. Greetings and have a nice day! // Bertil.
Great stuff as usual!
Love this video, & would be really keen to see one focused on the cuckoo
As someone who's been lucky enough to visit a lot of the places you have filmed I'd love to see some of the resident fungi, even if you're not great at identifying them! I've found all sorts, from scarlet witches ears to chicken of the woods and much less common things.
Wow ,plenty of wildlife in that video.I’ve never seen a live pike that closeup,so that was good to see.
Cuckoos always seen to be a bigger bird than I expect,and the males generally come to investigate if you make there call.
Wow loved the your footage especially the Cockoo and Pike FAB
Thank you for this brilliant entertainment. Peace be unto you.
3:40 woah! Great Crested Grebe display! AND Duel!!!!
Beautiful ,brilliant piece of work
Thank you!
I can imagine you had a really nice day 🙂
Thanks for sharing, great video!
Love your videos, even Attenborough or Packham couldn't do any better.
Thanks 👍
Terrific video Liam. Awesome Pike footage mate. 👍👍👍
That was superb! Thank you!
Looks like you had a great day Liam. So lucky to hear and see a cuckoo, another year we’ve had none around these parts. And what a great view of that Whitethroat. I never can see them even when they sound like they are only a couple of metres away in the hedge.
Thanks. This year seems to have been a really good year for cuckoo's over this way, I was watching three just yesterday. I was very lucky with the whitethroat, but it does help having a decent zoom on my camera.
Next video should be out this evening.
Great video and loved the underwater shots of the numerous Pike. ATB MMMD
Well done again Liam! Please keep making these videos.
Thanks for this! Well done with the cuckoo but it was lovely to see the pike. Beautiful fish!
My brother lives in trowse and I’ve enjoyed many walks around whitlingham, the last walk I saw my first ever kingfisher there so very exciting!
Great footage of the pike
Thanks!
Good job, I really enjoyed watching this video
Thanks for another great walk.
Have you tried calling Cuckoos to you. I learned to make the noise with cupped hands when I was a child. It works pretty much every time, but you have to hide well so they don't spot you, they're very sharp eyed.
Yeah there's loads to say about the cukoo! Do it! Also once you get your eye in for spotting a new species, it's great. I can't stop. I do love pike! Waterwolves
Brilliant pike footage
Thank you. I'm so glad i got it, I have tried to film them quite a few times with little or no success so I was chuffed to get them on film this time round!
Love your videos thank you
Thank you!
Lovely as always ; anything with fish or herps , way better than those feathered things hehe
another great video, love the behind the scenes 😂
That's great footage of everything. Don't worry about a little shaking or underwater particles. We all know there's an abundance of commenters who love to criticize people's audio or video work.
Those were great shots. Loved the pike. Thanks alot.
Well done! Good Pike footage! * I live in Thailand and have 'water monitor lizards ' in the klong (canal) behind me! The can get to six or seven foot longer--they are very shy normally! They have been scraping holes alongside my walls to try and lay eggs! Bit of a pest actually!
Brilliant video
Thank you!
Keep the videos coming very good!
That is epic footage mate. I've watched a big ol' pike on the little jetty on the north side of that lake.
Full marks Liam for sharing a fabulous day with us .Wow you had success all round .Re the cuckoo .Only once have I heard and seen but it was great .( tell that to any whose nests it uses ) Terrific encounters and lots of fun.The pike had me amazed . Liked and have to say .Keep filming .Love your style :)👏🏻 Helena
The egyptian goose was probably agitated as she had a nest in the dead tree - they nest in tree hollows, often a long way off the ground. There were two nests that I knew of that were used each year, although one tree came down a couple of years back - the nest-site in that one, an old and hollow ash, was at least 20 feet up, perhaps nearer 30 feet. The one that is still being used is in an old pollarded willow, maybe 10 feet from the ground.
Cuckoos are actually very easy to see, if you just sit and call them - they are extremely territorial - I have had one approach to within 30 feet or so as I sat still in some open woodland. Call them by cupping your hands together and blowing between your thumbs - the same principle as getting a note by blowing across the top of a bottle.
When they get wound-up, they produce a bubbling, chuckling call which you'd rarely hear otherwise.
Happy that you had such a nice day. Pike are a very misunderstood species of fish. Thankfully most people's attitudes towards them have improved. I wouldn't take too much notice of the bitten swimmers reports 😉😉😉.
Female Northern pike are the ones that get really big 🙂 nice footage i have one in my garden 👍
Thanks. I should have included how theres quite a size difference between adult males and females!
Pike's are like buses wait forever for one, getting close to walking, then half a dozen arrive together and they're all carrying no passengers......🫤
Great content. This was nice to stumble across, looking to learn a little more about British wildlife. The Egyptian Geese are as hardy as they are noisy - you'll find them shouting at one another and other animals in African rivers shared with crocodiles, hippos and other large neighbours.
Fantastic.
Thank you!
@@AShotOfWildlife 1st of May and our morning walk on Bodmin moor with our 2 labs and my wife says "the Cuckoo's should be here now, I said I have never seen one in real life, 2 minutes later walking under a tree the Cuckoo sang and I was right below it, made my year.
Perserverance pays off!
Great footage of the Pike ❤
Mate, those pike were amazing!!
Thanks, I was really glad to get to film them.
Brilliant, thanks
Definitely a fact file on the cuckoo please. There's so much in this film that there's not enough room in 1 comment. Pike, as with anything that swims or flies, changes in its aqua/aerodynamic weight priority as it gets larger, so you can tell a large from a small one at distance by the lowered head posture as the skull gets proportionally heavier the larger the fish. That 3ft one was a BEAST, and I too have seen a bite on a human's leg. Ouch. The great crested grebe is indeed great, I've watched these myself for ages at a time, thier courtship dance is charming and similar to that of cygnus olor, (mute swan), except that when you have a large population, you get all the others round in a circle beholding the lovers doing thier tango.. I have seen this several times and it's magical. The Egyptian geese also I'm v familiar with; they are cantankerous and naughty by nature it seems. If they have a go, then wagging your finger and saying "naughty bird!" usually does the trick but people are incautious and, I'm afraid, sadly ignorant of how to behave around wild birds. Avian flu would be less bad if only they'd refrain from feeding the birds, esp 'en masse' and on bread etc, but what can you do? If you say anything you get branded as "nasty bird hater".. Anyway, what a beautiful wildlife habitat you have there Liam, and, as the olde English song goes;
Summer is icumen in,
Loudly sing cuckoo..
Nice one Liam! 🎶🌟👍
Another great video 👍
Definately interested to see a video focusing on cuckoos! I've never seen one and know little about them. Good footage here cheers! Awesome shots of the pikes, massive fish.
Great work, love your content.
Thank you!
Lets see you do one on the big cats in the Uk 😮😂 you never know you might be the first to discover them 🤯🦁😅
Concerning the goodies drifting in the water, is it Algae or Daphnea? They are just not clear enough on the footage for me to see. Thanx for some nice facts about wildlife.
Thanks liam, wow , what an outstanding dsy❤
Great video best l have seen in a long time
Wow dude! Great video ❤
I used to swim regularly in the river corrib in Galway, Ireland. When swimming against the current we would swim through the reeds, weeds & lilies because the current was slower there. I did come across a few sizeable pike when doing it too.
One of my swimming buddies did get bitten on the foot by a pike once too.
He was wearing a long wetsuit at the time & his white foot most have looked like a small fish!
Lampreys were another fish to watch out for!
Brilliant 👍
Loving your channel bro! Keep up the good work 👏
Definitely a yes from us for the cuckoo fact file. While I've got you, Now is a good time to visit NWT at Hickling for the Swallowtails. We also saw a female Hobby and a massive female Marsh Harrier yesterday.
Well done mate...👍
Thank you!
You need to come down to South Devon, I live right next to a wildlife corridor set up for Cirl Buntings . The bird life here is absolutly amazing .
Good work, you done well!
Thanks Doreen