Hedgehogs because they're quite rare in towns these days. Modern wooden fencing means they can't roam around from garden to garden which they could with the old chain link fencing.
Check the images you use, a photo of a Crocodile was shown not an Alligator, you showed a Tortoise not a Turtle. It is estimated that urban Fox numbers exceed country ones as they have found life safer and easier, less likely to be shot by an angry farmer for killing his Lambs and Poultry, being chased by Hounds is no longer a problem for them. Urban Foxes are also larger than their country cousins.
You didn't mention Wombles. Very cute little animals, although quite shy and secretive. You're most likely to see them on Wimbledon Common around dusk.
The screams of foxes are usually when they are shagging. It's a blood curdling noise. I almost phoned the police one night because I was convinced that a woman was being murdered in the back garden but I looked out and saw the foxes going at it.
Yes, the blood curdling noise that urban foxes make at night in the middle of residential areas is generally to do with mating (shagging), but males also use it to mark out territory. I have a friend who is a bit of wildlife expert and I remember her telling me once that generally it is made by the female (vixen) before, and not during, the “event” and it is the vixen calling for a mate and saying she is “available”. Apparently vixens can be very assertive! Which probably also explains why male foxes can also be very good “dads”, and unlike most male mammals, do not generally clear off, but actively participate in looking after the cub until it can fend for itself. So until fox hunting was banned in the UK, it was the unfortunate case that countless supportive “fathers” were needlessly being slaughtered. Hopefully Princess Anne has had time to reflect on this.
@@johnnyuk3365the penis of the male also swells up so they get stuck together until the swelling’s gone down. This ensures no other male can come along and mate with the female and it’s only his genes that get passed on.
( It's a herd of deer ) An American friend said their Badgers look like they want to stab you with a Shiv, whereas the European Badgers look like they want to invite you round for tea and cakes. Hedgehogs are so much fun, they have their habits and favourite places. We rescued a very young Hoglet in June 2 years ago, fed and watered her for a couple of weeks before letting her out free in our garden. She still visits every night in summer and this year she brought her own babies too. We are on the England/Scotland border so summer nights are very short and it's common to see hungry hedgehogs out before sunset and after dawn. But people are used to this and just let them do their thing. They eat slugs and snails as well as any cat or dog food left outside so gardeners love them. In remote places of Scotland wild seals will swim over to look at you. It's magical.
I know of a hedgehog rescuer and she only recommends dried food with meat as the top ingredient and not cereal as they can’t digest it. Also because wet food encourages flies which in turn produce maggots and infest the Hedgehogs eyes ears etc, and can kill them. She’s saved and rescued many by laboriously picking out the many maggots one by one with tweezers. She’s a former nurse and on twitter.
Be carefull. U.k badgers have incredibly strong Jaws. They can lock their jaws on to your ankle & you cannot shake them off. They would never usually attack. They are quite shy. However never get between a badger & it's cub.
A man was driving along the road when he saw a suitcase full of badgers,so he pulled over and called the RSPCA. They asked him “are they moving?” He said “I don’t know,but that would certainly explain the suitcase”
Living in Devon I am so lucky to have hedgehogs in the garden. I always have a bowl of clean water and I put out hedgehog food every night, I was bowled over about two weeks ago, i had two adults and four babies (hoglets) out at the same time, so cute
I really like the way you can often hear rather than see them, with all the rummaging about in leaves etc and grumbling, grunty-snorting. I've always assumed that that's why they got their name. On putting out water bowls, I don't know how common it is for others but late at night, in hot/warm dry weather I quite often see toads having a soak, and comfortable enough to stay there watching you watch them even if you're quite close. 🙂
It's actually us Brits who are wrong on this one (and the Aussies are wrong in different way). Turtles is the general term for that entire order testudines. That includes sea turtles, terrapins, and tortoises. Tortoise refers to the specific family testudinidae, which are distinguished by the way they have evolved to walk (on their toes). Their are land turtles that walk plantigrade (on their soles), these are not tortoises.
I'm Welsh and my late wife was an American living in Tucson, Arizona. I used to love seeing all the wild animals in the desert when I was hiking. Weasels in the UK are unbelievably cute and I have only seen them very rarely.
Hedgehogs are great at keeping a garden free of slugs, every so often my security lights will trigger at night and it's a hedgehog snuffling across the bottom of the garage door. They do love compost heaps, food source and the large amount of heat generated inside, so have to be careful when poking a fork in to turn the heap Usually nocturnal but I did rescue one a few years ago on a hot sunny afternoon as it made a b-line for the deepest section of the fishpond, noticed a bloody gash on its snout and gave the SSPCA a call. Turned out there was more than just the cut I'd seen so they took the wee fella away for treatment and released after in a different area. Seeing deer when out walking depends on which way the wind is blowing and how much noise you're making. Around dusk is often a good time to see them as they tend to come down from the hillsides.
Near where I live in Wales there is a red kite centre where they are fed each day. During the winter, you might see anything up to 150 arriving for the food. You can find terrapins in the canal in London.
I worked in Corby for a few years, and Red Kites were very common there. They used to circle our school yard, presumably looking for small Year 7s to carry off.
Turtles: Normally in the UK we tend to have tortoise’s rather than turtles. In fact they were very popular in the home as a family pet and were notorious for escaping from the back garden a lot. That’s because when they wake up from their winter hibernation once the weather gets warmer they tend to be let loose on the tasty weeds in the garden area. They will however escape to the wild garden scape of next door pretty quick!!! (And down to the local village Green sometimes!!!
I was Mountain biking in Northern England, Saw Red squirrels for the only time in my Life ,It almost brought me to tears ,Don't believe I was the only one amongst the Group. We stopped and just watched it was magical. Also had deer Cross Cross infront of us in Wales, it was in the 80s so no mobile phones. The Animal still on my Bucket list is a Pine Martin, but I doubt it will happen, ho also seen Seals I was surprised how big they were .
There is a bird hide which looks onto a country estate near the Cotswolds. Some years ago a pine marten was seen and photographed. I never thought I would see one but I was filling in a couple of hours and talking to a lady when we suddenly saw one running past very fast, pursued by a stoat, which veered off and went another way. I think it was just making the marten get off its patch.
I saw an armadillo wandering along the road in Florida once I was told to assume even a puddle has an alligator in it! My friend in Surrey has a bunch of foxes living in a bush near her flat and they make a noise like they are being murdered!
I have bought a hedgehog house for the garden. There are loads of people with them now and most are occupied. A feeding station next to their house and they are as happy as larry.
Hedgehogs are struggling as a species. It's worth looking up how to help them. It's also really important not to provide milk for them. It will kill them. I love red kites. We get the occasional one here passing through, though we've got resident buzzards in our trees. Every year, the kites seem to get closer. There's some near Bere Regis, so maybe next year. We very occasionally see a sea eagle since they were re-introduced. Apparently, they roam a lot. We sometimes get sika deer in our garden and every year we have a hare in the spring. Hares bother me because of the risk to them from hare coursing. We are on alert because the fields have just been harvested, and that attracts buzzards, barn owls and twats who (illegally) hunt hares with dogs. Perhaps my favourite local wildlife are the weasels that live in the stone walls on the farm. Diddy things, but properly deadly hunters.
Yes, we can help hedgehogs by leaving a small gap at the bottom of our garden fence so they can roam far enough to find food. And never give them bread and milk! Catfood if you must.
Deer are a nuisance, especially up here in Scotland where they do untold damage to trees. They are out of control because they have no predators. They have no predators because we wiped out all the bears and wolves. They are also very tasty, if well-prepared and cooked.
They reintroduced Red Kites back into the UK in 1990 in the Chilterns where I live, I believe only 13 were brought over from Spain having died out in the a UK many years before. Within several years I could sit in my sun deck and watch 25+ in the sky in front of me. They cruise along the ridge where I live and have been known to look in my bedroom window! They are beautiful. They have slowly spread out from the Chilterns and can now be found in many areas of England.
They didn't quite die out, there were maybe four breeding females left! There are quite a few release sites around the country, the main/first one was Mid-Wales around Rhaeadr. A really elegant bird. Hares are quite rare but round us (Nr Skipton) there are a lot. We have them running around the garden and along the lane leading to the house. We even had one come into the house by about a metre! It sat there looking around then lollopped off!!
I walk to work 4am and I've seen quite alot of foxes and badgers on my way up. Hearing the fox mating call does freak you out the first time you hear it.
In my garden I have a resident hedgehog, I live a few hundred meters from a country park, were there is red deer, fallow deer, muntjac deer, adders , badges and red kytes
I grew up in North Wales in a place where we have a LOT of Red Foxes and Red Kites. My publishing company is called Stygian Fox after the Fire Fox or those black foxes with red and orange tinges. In the UK urban foxes fill the raccoon niche. We also had deer, and around a nearby castle we had peacocks and tamed wolves. One of the reasons the UK and Europe share a lot of species despite us being islands is the existence of Doggerland. I won't say anymore because I'd LOVE to see you research and do a video 😊😊
Well I've never heard that term. I finished school in the 1970's and both my primary and secondary schools had blocks of temporary classrooms sitting in the grounds, due to the sudden increase of pupils post-war and onwards. We called them annexes or even the more industrial term 'prefabs.' I think my primary school took until the 1990's to finally turn those temporary classrooms into permanent state of the art new brick buildings.
@@frankbrodie5168Terrapin was the name of the manufacturer. They were based in Birmingham and made prefabs from the 50s they apparently stopped trading in 2016.
Regarding "land" turtles. I have noticed Americans call all shelled reptiles turtles In Commonwealth English (UK Australia etc: Turtles = sea living, big flippers Terrapins = amphibious, clawed flippers, often on riverbanks Tortoises = land living, usually can't swim So many videos of Americans dropping tortoises into lakes or from boats thinking they're setting them free
I live in outskirts of London and haven't seen a wild hedgehog for nearly 50 years. By contrast see urban foxes nearly every day, and can see them any time of the day. Also, one of the most common birds I tend to see are parakeets, which are not native to UK but have escaped at taken over a bit like pythons in Florida.
Those green parakeets are spreading and multiplying. Years ago I lived in Kingston and they were a fairly rare novelty in parks along the river. Nowadays Windsor Great Park, 10 miles west, has flocks of them everywhere.
@@davidpaterson2309 I think lockdown has given them a massive boost. They were rarer before then, but now seem to be everywhere. I think birds that relied on people feeding them/people dropping food left a bunch of environments, and the parrots moved in to the otherwise unoccupied areas. Not that it's totally a bad thing, I've seen them picking fights with other invasive animals like grey squirrels.
I remember as a child travelling from London down to the West Country for a holiday in about 1970 and we stopped at a teahouse/cafe where there was a sign inviting guests to go around the back to see a water otter. There on a rock in a pond was a kettle
Dogs have bad experiences with hedgehogs. Hedgehogs can't run away from dogs with their short legs, but they roll up into a ball with their spines facing outwards. A dog who tries to put the hedgehog in his mouth will have a bad day. It also doesn't help the dog to dig under the hedgehog. But a hedgehog that rolls up has no chance against cars. That's why many hedgehogs die. Hedgehogs live on insects and worms, and they may also find fruit on the ground. A hedgehog in the garden is welcome.
Accidents with deer and foxes can occur again and again at dusk. Deer suddenly jump onto the street and then stop. Or have just crossed the street and then jump back again. Foxes are smarter, but every now and then a car hits a young fox.
For some reason I feel the need to repeat Dan Antopolski's winning Joke Of The Year at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe: "Hedgehogs - why can't they just share the hedge?"
I saw about a dozen Red Kites wheeling over a field that was being harvested in Buckinghamshire. I guess they were hanging around for a free lunch. Really impressive.
@grahamstubbs4862: They are a dwindling in numbers now, so you were lucky to see some. I am afraid that Wind Farm arrays are the cause, they get disorientated by them and killed but the CEO of the RSPB would rather have more WF that save our birds of prey😡 they are started by diesel generators anyway so they are not as environmentally friendly as people think they are let alone ecologically friendly.
I saw a pair of them in a pet shop in Wimbledon. They were the first hedgehogs I has seen since the early 1970s, even though I live near the outskirts of London. Children used to come in to see them and the parrot that sat on a perch nearby. (The shop featured on a tv makeover programme a few years ago so I guess these attractions weren't generating vast sales)
Hedgehogs are very common in New Zealand as well, which is unfortunate as they like to sit on the road at night because the road is warm from the heat of the day, and they always get run over.
You have a lot of massive animals in the US. When I was in Florida, was in a pool and had a vulture staring over at us. I could not get over the size of it.
If you go to Scotland. or on your next trip to Scotland, there are a couple of animals to look for. Both live mainly in the Highlands. The first is a grouse which is a smallish bird, you might be able to find grouse further south. The second is the elusive haggis. This small animals are very difficult to find in the wild and if you do come across one then you are very special.
I like the way the noble haggi have two legs shorter on one side than on the other so they can run around mountain slopes. Of course, this can also be their downfall; if you block their path they have to turn round and when that happens they topple over - that's when you can catch them. The problem then is catching a sheep so you can boil your haggis in its stomach; sheep don't seem to like this idea much and run away, bleating.
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I have a fox and hedgehogs visit my garden (not a backyard) fairly regularly. I live in a town in the Chiltern hills called Dunstable was wondering if that photo you put up about the Red Kite was from here as they are protected here over the downs near my house. They live over the hills and I often see them flying over my house looking for food. The town isn't actually in the countryside but is surrounded by it on the outskirts of the urban area. So I was very surprised you mentioned it. 😊😊
Rose Ringed Parakeets in London. There seems to be more of them every year. They're pretty much a native species now. There are a lot of Red Kites out towards Northampton.
I live in a Bristol suburb . Have seen occasionally hedgehogs and badgers, less in recent years, but foxes can be seen every night in my street. I like watching the cubs play like puppies. A good place to see seals in England is Great Yarmouth, they have boat trips, weather permitting ,out to a nearby colony ; many years ago you could buy a little bucket of fish to chuck to them and they would swim alongside the boat . They don't allow it nowadays but its still a pleasant trip .
Thanks for this. "You can be 100% certain you will not be eaten by a bear" is indeed a great slogan for UK tourism. Unfortunately, hedgehogs are less common than they used to be. However, my parents live in the countryside and they would sometimes see badgers, hedgehogs or even deer in their garden. Hearing owls screech at night is spooky however. I agree that red kites are fabulous birds - it is amazing to see them circling low in the sky in the Chilterns and Thames Valley. I am not a birdwatcher but could happily watch them for a long time. I am ambivalent about foxes in London - at night, they sound like someone is being attacked violently and they walk openly in the daylight without fear of people. You can find herds of deer in parks such as Richmond and Bushy Park or (more rarely) Epping Forest. I am happy that we don't have alligators or the brain-eating amoeba you mentioned in another video.
There's a herd of deer on the outskirts of Plymouth that caused a bit of chaos last year when they got into the local hospital and decided to take a tour of the maternity ward!
I remember when I went to calgary I was amazed by a black fur squirrels. I see so many grey everywhere and only see red squirrels in special areas. I'd never seen a black squirrel.
I have had a family of hedgehogs in my back garden. One of my dogs used to freak out when she saw them and couldn't work out why they rolled up in a ball when they were threatened. It was so funny to watch them. I have video on my TH-cam channel of the juveniles snuffling about.
I've seen a hedgehog in North America, specifically in Canada. However, this was in a pet shop which was the first time I had heard of them being kept as pets (not something you could cuddle). We do have one or two that wander about the gardens of our block of terraced houses in the UK, which we mainly detect by it's loud sniffling for worms, slugs and snails (it crunches the snail shells quite loudly). It's quite used to people and would rather run away (quite fast) rather than roll up in a ball using it's spines as protection. PS. We don't hunt deer in the UK as everybody seems to do in the US. They are sometimes shot for culling purposes when the herd gets too large.
@brianbradley6744 My brother had a pet hedgehog back in the 60s. You can cuddle them if you know how to handle them. 😁 They're using contraceptives to keep the deer population down in lots of areas instead of shooting them.
Scotland has a different relationship with deer of all varieties. There are far too many of them for the land to sustain, but they do provide the upper classes with a peculiar form of sport, I suppose.
Where I live in the east of England, there's at least one or two red kite pairs who nest close to my home each summer, and for me it's always felt like the arrival of the red kites is the first sign of the warmer months to come. They're also Just really cool birds
I live Chiltern's and the Red Kites have been a pretty successful reintroduction and they're beautiful. I wouldn't want to get too close, but they're surprisingly bold - I've seen a couple perch within 10m or so when BBQing in the summer. Definitely intimidating. There's a campaign to reintroduce Wolves in parts of Scotland.
I grew up where badgers, hedgehogs, foxes, and hares (and even pinemartens) were common. As a preteen I'd seek out badger cetes in their sets and count their cubs. Of course I'd call them Brocks. With prickles of hedgehogs, their hognets were hard to find. Skulks of foxes were everywhere. We'd hear the tods and vixen at it every night. No wonder there were so many kits, kid Reynards were so cute!! Droves of hare were more elusive and the jacks and does guarded their leverets closely. Of course, back home we called them, respectively, moch daear, draenog, llwynog, and ysgyfarnog. 🏴
Here out on the west coast of Scotland we have red squirrels and badgers and pine martens as frequent visitors to our garden. We've had to move wild bird feeders because the badgers were standing on hind legs and hauling the feeders off the lower tree branches! We have a river next to our property and I've seen a mink on the river bank before, mink aren't native to Scotland, but are the offspring of escapees from mink farms in the past. The are voracious predators and have taken ducks and hens from our neighbour's garden.
There's a nature trail in Swindon, Old Town Railway Line, (disused). Has a mound facing Wichelstowe. Brilliant for observing red kites. Foxes are in my street, yelping, 3, 4 a.m. or can be seen walking back from the pub. Had many a staring contest with one. Funny things.
Cool video. You made me think of a TV show from America that I used to watch as a kid in the UK called Gentle Ben which was about a bear living in Florida. I think he eventually got arrested at Miami Airport (!) with three kilos in his luggage.
By the way, we have classical deer in the UK, large animals with antlers. We also have a much smaller variety, about the size of a large dog. The smaller variety are muntjac deer from China. They were imported by the Duke of Bedford for his estate, Woburn Abbey. Some of the muntjac escaped and now seem to be all over England. We see them here near Cambridge.
Yes. Only the red deer and roe deer are truly native to Britain, but several other species have been introduced over the centuries, including fallow deer (with spotted coats and palm shaped antlers) brought in by the Normans for hunting, sika from India, and Chinese water deer. Red deer can be found in the US too.
I have two hedgehogs and a fox that turn up to the back patio every evening after dark for fine dining. Foxy will eat almost anything. The hedgehogs like cat food and dried insects (which I soak in water). The crows, jackdaws and magpies like monkey nuts and also dog or cat biscuits!!
I think it's time you visited the Kruger National Park in South Africa: you'll love it. I live an hour's drive from it's nearest gate, and it's about the size of the Netherlands.
Here in Scotland we have several other native wild critters you can add to your list...weasel, stoat, polecat, red squirrel, adders (GB's only poisonous snake), grass snakes (harmless), beaver were extinct through persecution but have been reintroduced in areas in the highlands and are doing well...and of course Scotlands minature tiger the Scottish Wildcat, again persecuted to the brink of extinction but there is now a very successful breeding and reintroduction program again in the highlands. Recently there has been a problem in some areas eg Argyll with herds of Feral Pigs which are very habitat destructive and aggressive so stay clear of them! We also have otters and several native birds of prey.
I see hedgehogs a lot, they're adorable and it never gets old to see one just having a walk around. A lot of people here leave gaps under fences and stuff so they can roam easier around housed areas. Hedgehog highway 😍
I'm surprised you didn't mention Armadillos as something in the US we don't have in the UK. It was a long time ago now but staying in Kissimmee there were loads!
Hi Kalyn, We sometimes get groups of deer in towns and cities, can often be seen on Friday/Saturday nights. The are generally referred to as Stag does. 😊😊
Plenty of seals and a few dolphins off the Northumberland coast. I hadn't thought about badgers. I wondered whether our robins are sufficiently different to get a mention.
We live in Somerset a few miles from Glastonbury. We have a badger sett in our gardens and feed them peanuts, they are quite friendly now. We also have a huge amount of Sloworms slithering around. Loads of hedgehogs as three pairs of foxes and some Dormice.
You mentioned the fact that there are no bears in Britain. That has not always been the case, but they were extirpated here by AD500. Other animals we had historically but are extirpated here include the bison, lynx and wolf [hunted into extirpation by the 18th century]. The beaver became extirpated here in the 17th but has been successfully reintroduced in the 21st, the wild boar likewise disappeared here by the 17th century but returned in the late 20th, not this time due to a reintroduction programme but due to escapees from captivity breeding in the wild and becoming established, their stronghold is the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. There has also been a 'soft' reintroduction of bison in one part of Kent.
Hares were a very common sight at Altcar, in Lancashire, near where I grew up. They were chased with greyhounds until it was banned in 2004 in a sport called coursing (ancestor of dog racing on an oval track).
This is why I love where I live.. We have NO animals or Insects that can KILL US.. Even though I'm an arachnophobe we don't have spiders that can kill us either. Plus NO earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes etc... Thankfully.
@@nathangamble125 Nah. We've never had a hurricane in the UK. Even if we did have hurricane force winds here it still wouldn't be called a hurricane. The name is region specific. In the far east they're called typhoons.
No wild animals, but every year a few people are killed by cows and so-called pet dogs. I'm just glad there are no alligators living under my garden shed!
In Ukraine where I come from we don’t see much of a wild life, so you can imagine my shock when I spotted a herd of deer casually roaming the streets of the apartment complex where I lived. I’ve seen chipmunks, coyotes, raccoons (trash pandas lol), bunnies - these frequently build their nests right on people’s lawns and I’ve saved baby bunnies twice already while mowing the lawn. Skunks - these are quite annoying, one of them made himself at home under my house and it’s difficult to get rid of it. Also snakes - I have never seen a snake before moving to US, now I can name most of them in my area whenever I see them. I saw only one venomous copperhead so far the rest are “harmless” which doesn’t mean they won’t bite if you mess around with them. Funny thing is that our friends have hedgehogs as their pets in the US, so yeah I’ve seen hedgehogs here but not in the wild.
I've always lived in the same sort of area of Essex-Suffolk and up until a few years ago I'd only seen one red kite (in about 2009). I see them all the time now.
The Uk is a tiny place with over a fifth of the population of the USA. Less than 15% is built up so shy animals are everywhere. Foxes, of course, love the urban nightlife.
I walked home from work every night for two years during Covid past a Badger set with a family of badgers. On two occasions I was ten feet away from two tiny cubs. Once I was chased away by the Daddy Badger he growled and barked and followed me for about a quarter mile. He was huge and very scary. Shortly after that Daddy Badger just disappeared. I found out later that Mummy Badger becomes very aggressive at a certain stage of the cub's life and drives him out of the set (very similar to what happened in my marriage) after that for a year I just saw the two cubs and the Mummy Badger, their tracks across the fields and the road. Sadly last year I found Mummy Badger dead on the road hit by a car. The cubs are still there making tracks using exactly the same path across the road their mother was killed on.
Our most frequent wild visitors, these days, are the raccoons that have taken up residence behind our shed. They put a hole in our wading pool, trying to cool off, so we got them a big dog dish. The babies sit in it and splash around as mama keeps watching. I can hear her chattering at them, when our window is open. (Pacific Northwest USA). 🦝
Yeah our wildlife is definitely in general of the cuter kind than that found in America. Especially when you've grown up with Beatrix Potter's Mrs Tiggywinkle, Peter Rabbit and Squirrel Nutkin. Plus you have 'Wind in the Willows', many Enid Blighton books and "Brambly Hedge" books. Great books about our wildlife and of interest to anyone who is into the "Cottage Core" asthetic.
Hedgehogs, full of fleas, and incredibly dim, they are really stupid bless them. But they can be really cute. Put some food out for them and they will soon find it, dried cat food is good. They bowl into each other when angry ! They can move deceptively fast but tend to freeze if they get discovered.
I live in north Hampshire. If I set off to walk the half mile into town I am almost worried if I don't see a red kite within ten minutes. They are doing very well here. We often see up to ten together in some of our favourite haunts.
We have Deer around where I live in North West Lancashire but I have never seen one but people I know have. The country is just ten minutes away and the deer just roam the hills. Also don't forget the Deer Road Signs you come across when passing between residential areas.
1) I suggest you check out the New Forest in Hampshire. It´s just over an hour on the train (London Waterloo to Brockenhurst). In the New Forest there are huge numbers of wild horses (among lots of other wildlife). 2) I´ve only ever spent four days in the USA, the last nine hours of which were in Miami airport (MIA)!
Turtles - we don't have pet turtles in the UK but we do have pet tortoises (land reptiles) and terrapins (semi-aquatic freshwater reptiles are now illegal to sell).
You didn't mention snakes or lizards. The UK has 3 types of snake: grass snake, smooth snake (rare and possibly endangered) and the adder (only venomous native snake). We also have the slow worm (sometimes mistaken for a snake but is actually a legless lizard). When I visited Austin, Texas I saw a snake from a bridge swimming across the river.
Which of these animals surprised you the most?
Have not watched the entire video yet but will be very disappointed if Chavs are not on the list.
The fact America doesn't have hedgehogs always surprises me!! Did you know we used to have hedgehog flavoured crisps??🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔
@@jamesbeeching6138 They got banned because they didn't actually contain hedgehog.
Hedgehogs because they're quite rare in towns these days. Modern wooden fencing means they can't roam around from garden to garden which they could with the old chain link fencing.
Check the images you use, a photo of a Crocodile was shown not an Alligator, you showed a Tortoise not a Turtle. It is estimated that urban Fox numbers exceed country ones as they have found life safer and easier, less likely to be shot by an angry farmer for killing his Lambs and Poultry, being chased by Hounds is no longer a problem for them. Urban Foxes are also larger than their country cousins.
You didn't mention Wombles.
Very cute little animals, although quite shy and secretive. You're most likely to see them on Wimbledon Common around dusk.
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Ahh but they are underground and overground Wombling free.🤣
@@Dave-kw7jq Play the mod for Fallout 4. They have rather more... assertive Wombles in there.
or the Haggis that wee Beastie with one sides legs longer than the other so they can hide on the otherside of the hill very quickly
What about Clangers living under dustbin lids on the moon. Weeee ooo ooo. Eeee
The screams of foxes are usually when they are shagging. It's a blood curdling noise. I almost phoned the police one night because I was convinced that a woman was being murdered in the back garden but I looked out and saw the foxes going at it.
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Yes, the blood curdling noise that urban foxes make at night in the middle of residential areas is generally to do with mating (shagging), but males also use it to mark out territory. I have a friend who is a bit of wildlife expert and I remember her telling me once that generally it is made by the female (vixen) before, and not during, the “event” and it is the vixen calling for a mate and saying she is “available”. Apparently vixens can be very assertive! Which probably also explains why male foxes can also be very good “dads”, and unlike most male mammals, do not generally clear off, but actively participate in looking after the cub until it can fend for itself.
So until fox hunting was banned in the UK, it was the unfortunate case that countless supportive “fathers” were needlessly being slaughtered. Hopefully Princess Anne has had time to reflect on this.
@@johnnyuk3365the penis of the male also swells up so they get stuck together until the swelling’s gone down. This ensures no other male can come along and mate with the female and it’s only his genes that get passed on.
I've only ever heard that once and it was disturbing lol.
Not "shagging" - it's the vixens mating call, so it's them calling out to let all the local boy foxes know she's ready to mate.
An important point about urban foxes in the UK is that Rabies has been eradicated here for over a century so we don’t have the problem of rabid foxes.
( It's a herd of deer ) An American friend said their Badgers look like they want to stab you with a Shiv, whereas the European Badgers look like they want to invite you round for tea and cakes. Hedgehogs are so much fun, they have their habits and favourite places. We rescued a very young Hoglet in June 2 years ago, fed and watered her for a couple of weeks before letting her out free in our garden. She still visits every night in summer and this year she brought her own babies too. We are on the England/Scotland border so summer nights are very short and it's common to see hungry hedgehogs out before sunset and after dawn. But people are used to this and just let them do their thing. They eat slugs and snails as well as any cat or dog food left outside so gardeners love them. In remote places of Scotland wild seals will swim over to look at you. It's magical.
I know of a hedgehog rescuer and she only recommends dried food with meat as the top ingredient and not cereal as they can’t digest it. Also because wet food encourages flies which in turn produce maggots and infest the Hedgehogs eyes ears etc, and can kill them. She’s saved and rescued many by laboriously picking out the many maggots one by one with tweezers. She’s a former nurse and on twitter.
Surely it should be an expense of deer.
@@KenFullman they’re herd animals, just like horses etc, so logically it’s a herd of deer.
@@KenFullman I like your play on words - I think we should seriously consider changing to your suggestion!
Be carefull. U.k badgers have incredibly strong Jaws. They can lock their jaws on to your ankle & you cannot shake them off. They would never usually attack. They are quite shy. However never get between a badger & it's cub.
A man was driving along the road when he saw a suitcase full of badgers,so he pulled over and called the RSPCA.
They asked him “are they moving?”
He said “I don’t know,but that would certainly explain the suitcase”
😂😂😂
Hate to admit that took me a second.
Asahhh,I still don't get it..😫
Yeah, got it now.😊😂
"Alligators are not necessarily the most friendly" - you seem to be getting good at British Understatement! 🙂
Living in Devon I am so lucky to have hedgehogs in the garden. I always have a bowl of clean water and I put out hedgehog food every night, I was bowled over about two weeks ago, i had two adults and four babies (hoglets) out at the same time, so cute
I really like the way you can often hear rather than see them, with all the rummaging about in leaves etc and grumbling, grunty-snorting. I've always assumed that that's why they got their name.
On putting out water bowls, I don't know how common it is for others but late at night, in hot/warm dry weather I quite often see toads having a soak, and comfortable enough to stay there watching you watch them even if you're quite close. 🙂
Do you know the difference between stoats and weasels?
Weasels are weasily recognised, whereas stoats are stoatally different!
Excellent joke!
In the fields behind my house in Cambridgeshire, this morning I have seen: 3 roe deer, 2 Muntjac deer, 2 hares, and in the sky 3 red kites.
Americans seem to conflate turtles (aquatic - ponds, rivers etc) with tortoises (land only)
No such thing as a land turtle - that’s called a tortoise!
where as we confuse (ninja) for (hero)
Not forgetting terrapins
Well they aren't wrong. Tortoises are testudinoidea so are turtles. In the same way humans are apes
It's actually us Brits who are wrong on this one (and the Aussies are wrong in different way).
Turtles is the general term for that entire order testudines. That includes sea turtles, terrapins, and tortoises.
Tortoise refers to the specific family testudinidae, which are distinguished by the way they have evolved to walk (on their toes).
Their are land turtles that walk plantigrade (on their soles), these are not tortoises.
This year's hedgehogs that live in my garden are the third generation of 'hogs I've happily watched grow and thrive out there 😊
My 2 cats used to sit and watch the hedgehogs that used to come into my garden late evening, clearly knew not to get too close!
As a British animal lover and wildlife obsessed person, I really enjoyed this .
When you see a Red Squirrel (as opposed to the Non-Native Grey Squirrel) the immediate reaction is "Oh God its so cute!"
I'm Welsh and my late wife was an American living in Tucson, Arizona. I used to love seeing all the wild animals in the desert when I was hiking. Weasels in the UK are unbelievably cute and I have only seen them very rarely.
Hedgehogs are great at keeping a garden free of slugs, every so often my security lights will trigger at night and it's a hedgehog snuffling across the bottom of the garage door. They do love compost heaps, food source and the large amount of heat generated inside, so have to be careful when poking a fork in to turn the heap
Usually nocturnal but I did rescue one a few years ago on a hot sunny afternoon as it made a b-line for the deepest section of the fishpond, noticed a bloody gash on its snout and gave the SSPCA a call. Turned out there was more than just the cut I'd seen so they took the wee fella away for treatment and released after in a different area.
Seeing deer when out walking depends on which way the wind is blowing and how much noise you're making. Around dusk is often a good time to see them as they tend to come down from the hillsides.
Hedgehogs really need our help now, their natural habitats are slowly being removed. I hope your hometown is safe during this early hurricane season.
My street has 🦔 sign. I love those little idiots❤❤❤❤
Near where I live in Wales there is a red kite centre where they are fed each day. During the winter, you might see anything up to 150 arriving for the food.
You can find terrapins in the canal in London.
Yes, i went see those Red Kites in Wales. They were great. They spread eastwards across the country and I believe even see in London now.
I live south of London and their everywhere but it seems to have had a negative effect on the other birds of prey, buzzards and kestrels etc.
@@juliegale3863 Apparently they were very common in towns and cities (and so especially London) up until the 19th century.
I worked in Corby for a few years, and Red Kites were very common there. They used to circle our school yard, presumably looking for small Year 7s to carry off.
Turtles: Normally in the UK we tend to have tortoise’s rather than turtles. In fact they were very popular in the home as a family pet and were notorious for escaping from the back garden a lot. That’s because when they wake up from their winter hibernation once the weather gets warmer they tend to be let loose on the tasty weeds in the garden area. They will however escape to the wild garden scape of next door pretty quick!!! (And down to the local village Green sometimes!!!
I was Mountain biking in Northern England, Saw Red squirrels for the only time in my Life ,It almost brought me to tears ,Don't believe I was the only one amongst the Group. We stopped and just watched it was magical. Also had deer Cross Cross infront of us in Wales, it was in the 80s so no mobile phones. The Animal still on my Bucket list is a Pine Martin, but I doubt it will happen, ho also seen Seals I was surprised how big they were .
There is a bird hide which looks onto a country estate near the Cotswolds. Some years ago a pine marten was seen and photographed. I never thought I would see one but I was filling in a couple of hours and talking to a lady when we suddenly saw one running past very fast, pursued by a stoat, which veered off and went another way. I think it was just making the marten get off its patch.
I saw an armadillo wandering along the road in Florida once
I was told to assume even a puddle has an alligator in it!
My friend in Surrey has a bunch of foxes living in a bush near her flat and they make a noise like they are being murdered!
I have bought a hedgehog house for the garden. There are loads of people with them now and most are occupied. A feeding station next to their house and they are as happy as larry.
Hope you're not paying for their electric, too.
Hedgehogs are struggling as a species. It's worth looking up how to help them. It's also really important not to provide milk for them. It will kill them.
I love red kites. We get the occasional one here passing through, though we've got resident buzzards in our trees. Every year, the kites seem to get closer. There's some near Bere Regis, so maybe next year. We very occasionally see a sea eagle since they were re-introduced. Apparently, they roam a lot.
We sometimes get sika deer in our garden and every year we have a hare in the spring. Hares bother me because of the risk to them from hare coursing. We are on alert because the fields have just been harvested, and that attracts buzzards, barn owls and twats who (illegally) hunt hares with dogs.
Perhaps my favourite local wildlife are the weasels that live in the stone walls on the farm. Diddy things, but properly deadly hunters.
Yes, we can help hedgehogs by leaving a small gap at the bottom of our garden fence so they can roam far enough to find food. And never give them bread and milk! Catfood if you must.
@@chocsalYou can also get hedgehog pellet food. We did get some when a hedgehog would visit the garden.
A while ago l was riding my horse in my arena when fox came through the hedge and then sat down to watch for a few minutes.
Aw, cute!
Marks out of ten?!
I did wonder but he didn’t say!
@@lizbignell7813
Perhaps he just told your horse... 🦊🐴🤔
@bridgidsingleton, you could be right as the horse kept an ear cocked towards him.
We have several wild herds of deer in the part of England where I live.
Deer are a nuisance, especially up here in Scotland where they do untold damage to trees. They are out of control because they have no predators. They have no predators because we wiped out all the bears and wolves.
They are also very tasty, if well-prepared and cooked.
They reintroduced Red Kites back into the UK in 1990 in the Chilterns where I live, I believe only 13 were brought over from Spain having died out in the a UK many years before. Within several years I could sit in my sun deck and watch 25+ in the sky in front of me. They cruise along the ridge where I live and have been known to look in my bedroom window! They are beautiful. They have slowly spread out from the Chilterns and can now be found in many areas of England.
They didn't quite die out, there were maybe four breeding females left!
There are quite a few release sites around the country, the main/first one was Mid-Wales around Rhaeadr.
A really elegant bird.
Hares are quite rare but round us (Nr Skipton) there are a lot. We have them running around the garden and along the lane leading to the house. We even had one come into the house by about a metre! It sat there looking around then lollopped off!!
@bobwightman1054 Harewood nr leeds also reintroduced red kites . The first time I saw them there, I was awestruck.
I walk to work 4am and I've seen quite alot of foxes and badgers on my way up. Hearing the fox mating call does freak you out the first time you hear it.
In my garden I have a resident hedgehog, I live a few hundred meters from a country park, were there is red deer, fallow deer, muntjac deer, adders , badges and red kytes
Metres, kites.
I grew up in North Wales in a place where we have a LOT of Red Foxes and Red Kites. My publishing company is called Stygian Fox after the Fire Fox or those black foxes with red and orange tinges. In the UK urban foxes fill the raccoon niche. We also had deer, and around a nearby castle we had peacocks and tamed wolves.
One of the reasons the UK and Europe share a lot of species despite us being islands is the existence of Doggerland. I won't say anymore because I'd LOVE to see you research and do a video 😊😊
When I was a kid in the UK we called portable classrooms "terrapins" which are a form of turtle.
Oh yes, I thought that was just my school. Never understood it lol
Well I've never heard that term. I finished school in the 1970's and both my primary and secondary schools had blocks of temporary classrooms sitting in the grounds, due to the sudden increase of pupils post-war and onwards. We called them annexes or even the more industrial term 'prefabs.'
I think my primary school took until the 1990's to finally turn those temporary classrooms into permanent state of the art new brick buildings.
@@frankbrodie5168Terrapin was the name of the manufacturer. They were based in Birmingham and made prefabs from the 50s they apparently stopped trading in 2016.
@@PaulMGleeson I never knew
@PaulMGleeson: Interesting when they were always called Portakabin's.
Regarding "land" turtles.
I have noticed Americans call all shelled reptiles turtles
In Commonwealth English (UK Australia etc:
Turtles = sea living, big flippers
Terrapins = amphibious, clawed flippers, often on riverbanks
Tortoises = land living, usually can't swim
So many videos of Americans dropping tortoises into lakes or from boats thinking they're setting them free
Yeah, came here to say similar things, I wonder if the Roald Dahl story 'Esio Trot' ever made it in the states!
And in Mustique they call their large tortoises Land Turtles.
I live in outskirts of London and haven't seen a wild hedgehog for nearly 50 years. By contrast see urban foxes nearly every day, and can see them any time of the day. Also, one of the most common birds I tend to see are parakeets, which are not native to UK but have escaped at taken over a bit like pythons in Florida.
Those green parakeets are spreading and multiplying. Years ago I lived in Kingston and they were a fairly rare novelty in parks along the river. Nowadays Windsor Great Park, 10 miles west, has flocks of them everywhere.
@@davidpaterson2309 I think lockdown has given them a massive boost. They were rarer before then, but now seem to be everywhere.
I think birds that relied on people feeding them/people dropping food left a bunch of environments, and the parrots moved in to the otherwise unoccupied areas. Not that it's totally a bad thing, I've seen them picking fights with other invasive animals like grey squirrels.
I remember as a child travelling from London down to the West Country for a holiday in about 1970 and we stopped at a teahouse/cafe where there was a sign inviting guests to go around the back to see a water otter. There on a rock in a pond was a kettle
Dogs have bad experiences with hedgehogs. Hedgehogs can't run away from dogs with their short legs, but they roll up into a ball with their spines facing outwards. A dog who tries to put the hedgehog in his mouth will have a bad day. It also doesn't help the dog to dig under the hedgehog.
But a hedgehog that rolls up has no chance against cars. That's why many hedgehogs die.
Hedgehogs live on insects and worms, and they may also find fruit on the ground.
A hedgehog in the garden is welcome.
Accidents with deer and foxes can occur again and again at dusk. Deer suddenly jump onto the street and then stop. Or have just crossed the street and then jump back again. Foxes are smarter, but every now and then a car hits a young fox.
For some reason I feel the need to repeat Dan Antopolski's winning Joke Of The Year at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe: "Hedgehogs - why can't they just share the hedge?"
I just did an involuntary eye roll.
I saw about a dozen Red Kites wheeling over a field that was being harvested in Buckinghamshire.
I guess they were hanging around for a free lunch. Really impressive.
they're so beautiful!
@grahamstubbs4862: They are a dwindling in numbers now, so you were lucky to see some. I am afraid that Wind Farm arrays are the cause, they get disorientated by them and killed but the CEO of the RSPB would rather have more WF that save our birds of prey😡 they are started by diesel generators anyway so they are not as environmentally friendly as people think they are let alone ecologically friendly.
I believe that most of the hedgehogs for the pet trade are the African Pygmy Hedgehog.
I saw a pair of them in a pet shop in Wimbledon. They were the first hedgehogs I has seen since the early 1970s, even though I live near the outskirts of London. Children used to come in to see them and the parrot that sat on a perch nearby.
(The shop featured on a tv makeover programme a few years ago so I guess these attractions weren't generating vast sales)
Hedgehogs are very common in New Zealand as well, which is unfortunate as they like to sit on the road at night because the road is warm from the heat of the day, and they always get run over.
You have a lot of massive animals in the US. When I was in Florida, was in a pool and had a vulture staring over at us. I could not get over the size of it.
If you go to Scotland. or on your next trip to Scotland, there are a couple of animals to look for. Both live mainly in the Highlands. The first is a grouse which is a smallish bird, you might be able to find grouse further south. The second is the elusive haggis. This small animals are very difficult to find in the wild and if you do come across one then you are very special.
I like the way the noble haggi have two legs shorter on one side than on the other so they can run around mountain slopes. Of course, this can also be their downfall; if you block their path they have to turn round and when that happens they topple over - that's when you can catch them. The problem then is catching a sheep so you can boil your haggis in its stomach; sheep don't seem to like this idea much and run away, bleating.
You’re doing very well if you’ve seen a badger. I’m 34 and only ever seen two living badgers in the wild, both at the same time, when I was about 12.
Thanks Kayln, I love watching your videos and have subscribed of course so I don’t miss any.
Paul
thank you so much!
@@GirlGoneLondonofficialyou’re very welcome 🤗
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I have a fox and hedgehogs visit my garden (not a backyard) fairly regularly. I live in a town in the Chiltern hills called Dunstable was wondering if that photo you put up about the Red Kite was from here as they are protected here over the downs near my house. They live over the hills and I often see them flying over my house looking for food. The town isn't actually in the countryside but is surrounded by it on the outskirts of the urban area. So I was very surprised you mentioned it. 😊😊
Rose Ringed Parakeets in London. There seems to be more of them every year. They're pretty much a native species now.
There are a lot of Red Kites out towards Northampton.
I live in a Bristol suburb . Have seen occasionally hedgehogs and badgers, less in recent years, but foxes can be seen every night in my street. I like watching the cubs play like puppies.
A good place to see seals in England is Great Yarmouth, they have boat trips, weather permitting ,out to a nearby colony ; many years ago you could buy a little bucket of fish to chuck to them and they would swim alongside the boat . They don't allow it nowadays but its still a pleasant trip .
I remember seeing a seal in a Cornish harbour that used to beg fish from the boats that took holiday makers out mackerel fishing.
If you go up the coast a bit further to Horsey Gap you see loads of seals on the beach. If you go around xmas you'll see them with their pups.
@@louhunter7115 Wow I wasn't aware of that 👍
Thanks for this. "You can be 100% certain you will not be eaten by a bear" is indeed a great slogan for UK tourism. Unfortunately, hedgehogs are less common than they used to be. However, my parents live in the countryside and they would sometimes see badgers, hedgehogs or even deer in their garden. Hearing owls screech at night is spooky however. I agree that red kites are fabulous birds - it is amazing to see them circling low in the sky in the Chilterns and Thames Valley. I am not a birdwatcher but could happily watch them for a long time. I am ambivalent about foxes in London - at night, they sound like someone is being attacked violently and they walk openly in the daylight without fear of people. You can find herds of deer in parks such as Richmond and Bushy Park or (more rarely) Epping Forest. I am happy that we don't have alligators or the brain-eating amoeba you mentioned in another video.
There's a herd of deer on the outskirts of Plymouth that caused a bit of chaos last year when they got into the local hospital and decided to take a tour of the maternity ward!
I live in Plymouth, and we have herds of deer in the city itself, they love hanging around the industrial estates, especially evenings and weekends
I’ve got hedgehogs in my garden. They just amble around doing what they like.
I remember when I went to calgary I was amazed by a black fur squirrels. I see so many grey everywhere and only see red squirrels in special areas. I'd never seen a black squirrel.
I have had a family of hedgehogs in my back garden. One of my dogs used to freak out when she saw them and couldn't work out why they rolled up in a ball when they were threatened. It was so funny to watch them. I have video on my TH-cam channel of the juveniles snuffling about.
I've seen a hedgehog in North America, specifically in Canada. However, this was in a pet shop which was the first time I had heard of them being kept as pets (not something you could cuddle). We do have one or two that wander about the gardens of our block of terraced houses in the UK, which we mainly detect by it's loud sniffling for worms, slugs and snails (it crunches the snail shells quite loudly). It's quite used to people and would rather run away (quite fast) rather than roll up in a ball using it's spines as protection.
PS. We don't hunt deer in the UK as everybody seems to do in the US. They are sometimes shot for culling purposes when the herd gets too large.
@brianbradley6744 My brother had a pet hedgehog back in the 60s. You can cuddle them if you know how to handle them. 😁
They're using contraceptives to keep the deer population down in lots of areas instead of shooting them.
Scotland has a different relationship with deer of all varieties. There are far too many of them for the land to sustain, but they do provide the upper classes with a peculiar form of sport, I suppose.
Where I live in the east of England, there's at least one or two red kite pairs who nest close to my home each summer, and for me it's always felt like the arrival of the red kites is the first sign of the warmer months to come. They're also Just really cool birds
I live Chiltern's and the Red Kites have been a pretty successful reintroduction and they're beautiful. I wouldn't want to get too close, but they're surprisingly bold - I've seen a couple perch within 10m or so when BBQing in the summer. Definitely intimidating.
There's a campaign to reintroduce Wolves in parts of Scotland.
I grew up where badgers, hedgehogs, foxes, and hares (and even pinemartens) were common. As a preteen I'd seek out badger cetes in their sets and count their cubs. Of course I'd call them Brocks. With prickles of hedgehogs, their hognets were hard to find. Skulks of foxes were everywhere. We'd hear the tods and vixen at it every night. No wonder there were so many kits, kid Reynards were so cute!! Droves of hare were more elusive and the jacks and does guarded their leverets closely. Of course, back home we called them, respectively, moch daear, draenog, llwynog, and ysgyfarnog. 🏴
Here out on the west coast of Scotland we have red squirrels and badgers and pine martens as frequent visitors to our garden. We've had to move wild bird feeders because the badgers were standing on hind legs and hauling the feeders off the lower tree branches! We have a river next to our property and I've seen a mink on the river bank before, mink aren't native to Scotland, but are the offspring of escapees from mink farms in the past. The are voracious predators and have taken ducks and hens from our neighbour's garden.
Only yesterday i was watching a pair of deer from a window. Delightful sight
I ❤️ the red kite. Its great to see so many in my local area
A group of deer, usually twenty or more, is called a herd.
There's a nature trail in Swindon, Old Town Railway Line, (disused). Has a mound facing Wichelstowe. Brilliant for observing red kites.
Foxes are in my street, yelping, 3, 4 a.m. or can be seen walking back from the pub. Had many a staring contest with one. Funny things.
Obviously had a few too many if they're yelping on their way home from the pub!
Cool video. You made me think of a TV show from America that I used to watch as a kid in the UK called Gentle Ben which was about a bear living in Florida. I think he eventually got arrested at Miami Airport (!) with three kilos in his luggage.
The bear got arrested?
@@marekohampton8477 Yeah, I think they couldn't nail him though as the animal interpretor didn't show up for two days out of the three day trial.
Don't forget Florida has the Skunk ape. ;)
By the way, we have classical deer in the UK, large animals with antlers.
We also have a much smaller variety, about the size of a large dog.
The smaller variety are muntjac deer from China.
They were imported by the Duke of Bedford for his estate, Woburn Abbey.
Some of the muntjac escaped and now seem to be all over England. We see them here near Cambridge.
Yes. Only the red deer and roe deer are truly native to Britain, but several other species have been introduced over the centuries, including fallow deer (with spotted coats and palm shaped antlers) brought in by the Normans for hunting, sika from India, and Chinese water deer. Red deer can be found in the US too.
Red deer are mainly found in the Highlands. Round here in West Yorkshire, it's invariably roe deer that we see.
I have two hedgehogs and a fox that turn up to the back patio every evening after dark for fine dining. Foxy will eat almost anything. The hedgehogs like cat food and dried insects (which I soak in water). The crows, jackdaws and magpies like monkey nuts and also dog or cat biscuits!!
I think it's time you visited the Kruger National Park in South Africa: you'll love it. I live an hour's drive from it's nearest gate, and it's about the size of the Netherlands.
Here in Scotland we have several other native wild critters you can add to your list...weasel, stoat, polecat, red squirrel, adders (GB's only poisonous snake), grass snakes (harmless), beaver were extinct through persecution but have been reintroduced in areas in the highlands and are doing well...and of course Scotlands minature tiger the Scottish Wildcat, again persecuted to the brink of extinction but there is now a very successful breeding and reintroduction program again in the highlands. Recently there has been a problem in some areas eg Argyll with herds of Feral Pigs which are very habitat destructive and aggressive so stay clear of them! We also have otters and several native birds of prey.
Remember the Pine Martin.
When foxes scream…. They are fucking 😂😂😂
I see hedgehogs a lot, they're adorable and it never gets old to see one just having a walk around. A lot of people here leave gaps under fences and stuff so they can roam easier around housed areas. Hedgehog highway 😍
They've actually built some Hedgehog overpasses over busy roads, certainly near Tonypandy in Wales. Sort of Indiana Jones rope bridge affairs.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Armadillos as something in the US we don't have in the UK. It was a long time ago now but staying in Kissimmee there were loads!
In my part of North West London we have many Crows, Ravens and wait for it Parrots!
Hi Kalyn,
We sometimes get groups of deer in towns and cities, can often be seen on Friday/Saturday nights.
The are generally referred to as Stag does.
😊😊
All stags, no does!
@@philroberts7238 Yep I meant Dos.
And the female Stags, in this instance are Hens, weird, init?
Plenty of seals and a few dolphins off the Northumberland coast. I hadn't thought about badgers. I wondered whether our robins are sufficiently different to get a mention.
We live in Somerset a few miles from Glastonbury. We have a badger sett in our gardens and feed them peanuts, they are quite friendly now. We also have a huge amount of Sloworms slithering around.
Loads of hedgehogs as three pairs of foxes and some Dormice.
You mentioned the fact that there are no bears in Britain. That has not always been the case, but they were extirpated here by AD500. Other animals we had historically but are extirpated here include the bison, lynx and wolf [hunted into extirpation by the 18th century]. The beaver became extirpated here in the 17th but has been successfully reintroduced in the 21st, the wild boar likewise disappeared here by the 17th century but returned in the late 20th, not this time due to a reintroduction programme but due to escapees from captivity breeding in the wild and becoming established, their stronghold is the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. There has also been a 'soft' reintroduction of bison in one part of Kent.
Hares were a very common sight at Altcar, in Lancashire, near where I grew up. They were chased with greyhounds until it was banned in 2004 in a sport called coursing (ancestor of dog racing on an oval track).
This is why I love where I live.. We have NO animals or Insects that can KILL US.. Even though I'm an arachnophobe we don't have spiders that can kill us either.
Plus NO earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes etc... Thankfully.
Well, we have had hurricanes a couple of times before, but it's only once every few decades.
@@nathangamble125 Nah. We've never had a hurricane in the UK. Even if we did have hurricane force winds here it still wouldn't be called a hurricane. The name is region specific. In the far east they're called typhoons.
We do have earthquakes and tornadoes in the uk.Just not very big ones.
Adders are potentially deadly.
No wild animals, but every year a few people are killed by cows and so-called pet dogs. I'm just glad there are no alligators living under my garden shed!
In Ukraine where I come from we don’t see much of a wild life, so you can imagine my shock when I spotted a herd of deer casually roaming the streets of the apartment complex where I lived. I’ve seen chipmunks, coyotes, raccoons (trash pandas lol), bunnies - these frequently build their nests right on people’s lawns and I’ve saved baby bunnies twice already while mowing the lawn. Skunks - these are quite annoying, one of them made himself at home under my house and it’s difficult to get rid of it. Also snakes - I have never seen a snake before moving to US, now I can name most of them in my area whenever I see them. I saw only one venomous copperhead so far the rest are “harmless” which doesn’t mean they won’t bite if you mess around with them.
Funny thing is that our friends have hedgehogs as their pets in the US, so yeah I’ve seen hedgehogs here but not in the wild.
I've always lived in the same sort of area of Essex-Suffolk and up until a few years ago I'd only seen one red kite (in about 2009).
I see them all the time now.
The Uk is a tiny place with over a fifth of the population of the USA. Less than 15% is built up so shy animals are everywhere. Foxes, of course, love the urban nightlife.
I walked home from work every night for two years during Covid past a Badger set with a family of badgers. On two occasions I was ten feet away from two tiny cubs. Once I was chased away by the Daddy Badger he growled and barked and followed me for about a quarter mile. He was huge and very scary. Shortly after that Daddy Badger just disappeared. I found out later that Mummy Badger becomes very aggressive at a certain stage of the cub's life and drives him out of the set (very similar to what happened in my marriage) after that for a year I just saw the two cubs and the Mummy Badger, their tracks across the fields and the road. Sadly last year I found Mummy Badger dead on the road hit by a car.
The cubs are still there making tracks using exactly the same path across the road their mother was killed on.
Pegwell bay is getting added to the funny names list.
Hedgehogs are adorable.
You can hear the Foxes on a night they have a distinct call very different from a dog.
It's definitely Pegwell Bay, nearer to Ramsgate than Dover. We live on the cliffs at Pegwell and look out over the bay!
Don't forget the large herds of deer inside London at Richmond Park. ("Fenton!!!")
Our most frequent wild visitors, these days, are the raccoons that have taken up residence behind our shed. They put a hole in our wading pool, trying to cool off, so we got them a big dog dish. The babies sit in it and splash around as mama keeps watching. I can hear her chattering at them, when our window is open. (Pacific Northwest USA). 🦝
Yeah our wildlife is definitely in general of the cuter kind than that found in America. Especially when you've grown up with Beatrix Potter's Mrs Tiggywinkle, Peter Rabbit and Squirrel Nutkin. Plus you have 'Wind in the Willows', many Enid Blighton books and "Brambly Hedge" books. Great books about our wildlife and of interest to anyone who is into the "Cottage Core" asthetic.
Hedgehogs, full of fleas, and incredibly dim, they are really stupid bless them.
But they can be really cute.
Put some food out for them and they will soon find it, dried cat food is good.
They bowl into each other when angry !
They can move deceptively fast but tend to freeze if they get discovered.
The Hedgehog in my backgarden can chew through The Times crossword in 30 minutes. Hungry little critter!
Believe best food for hedgehogs is dog food, no doubt a web site has more information.
Hedgehog fleas are, however, species specific so they won't do humans any harm.
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You can buy tins/foil trays of hedgehog food in pet shops and some supermarkets
I live in north Hampshire. If I set off to walk the half mile into town I am almost worried if I don't see a red kite within ten minutes. They are doing very well here. We often see up to ten together in some of our favourite haunts.
We have Deer around where I live in North West Lancashire but I have never seen one but people I know have. The country is just ten minutes away and the deer just roam the hills. Also don't forget the Deer Road Signs you come across when passing between residential areas.
1) I suggest you check out the New Forest in Hampshire. It´s just over an hour on the train (London Waterloo to Brockenhurst). In the New Forest there are huge numbers of wild horses (among lots of other wildlife). 2) I´ve only ever spent four days in the USA, the last nine hours of which were in Miami airport (MIA)!
Staring badger, interrupted by me in his nocturnal doings: 'Do you fucking mind? I've got a lawn to dig up here.'
Speaking of hare's. Pipkins was an other 70s or 80s TV show, featuring Heartley Hare. That was one hell of a creepy puppet.
Turtles - we don't have pet turtles in the UK but we do have pet tortoises (land reptiles) and terrapins (semi-aquatic freshwater reptiles are now illegal to sell).
Hedgehogs are the cutest💕 We have so many here. Never seen a badger but also love them🥰
They say the hedgehog only has one trick, but it's a very good one. Ian Dee.
You didn't mention snakes or lizards. The UK has 3 types of snake: grass snake, smooth snake (rare and possibly endangered) and the adder (only venomous native snake). We also have the slow worm (sometimes mistaken for a snake but is actually a legless lizard). When I visited Austin, Texas I saw a snake from a bridge swimming across the river.