Why is it so Different? | Exploring Unusual Patch of Woodland | Cinematic (Audio fixed)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video, I explore a patch of local woodland that is completely different to all the woodland around it with my dogs. The trees are bloated and falling down and this is the only area I have seen litchens grow in this woodland.
This is the first video I've attempted to shoot in a more cinematic style, using my new Nikon ZF I've had less than a week. Not a bad first attempt, but still a lot to learn, not just about the camera, but video in general.
Wise words. I'm feeling squeeze right now of elderly parents and a teenage son. I can get spread thin very quickly. It is definitely important to take time for yourself.
That is so hard, kids on their own are hard enough, with parents too it really does make things difficult. Fortunately for us, both sets of parents are still independent. I do remember my parents going through it though with my grandparents and whilst they would always help, it was definitely a real burden on them.
Thank you for re-posting with the sound right. It was lovely 🙂
No worries! Glad you enjoyed it.
If people would just slow down and look, paying attention. We have an amazing country. Lots of little micro climates and little havens of nature.
Thanks for sharing ❤
So true, I feel like there is still so much to explore in this country, never mind abroad.
This was such viewing, it kills me.
I think as you do as soon as I'm alone in nature. It's like a secret superpower. It learning, appreciating, enjoying, meditating,... Almost everything a human needs can be found in a walk in the forest.
Thank you for the beautiful video-poem, is what I'd call it.
I LOVE that term, that's a new way of thinking about it for me. I'm stealing it!
I love the look of the English woodlands 🇬🇧 🇳🇿
I do love them. A bit bare at the moment, once spring arrives properly its very green. This particular wood has a lot of rhododendrons which give huge masses of purple flowers. Very pretty.
An intriguing combination in this one, DDO, the different, lower ground, the dying trees and regeneration, with some quite personal revelations about family relationships and your struggles with those. I think one of the hardest things for some of us to learn is how to listen and empathise without trying to problem solve or cheer up. But it's what most of us need when we're going through stuff. The video is lovely. I adore that temperate rainforest. I lived for a while in the Scottish Highlands, where it was all around me, lichens like you'd not believe (they indicate clean air as well as moisture), and there are gorgeous bits of it in Wales that I know of. Mere scraps round here (North Yorkshire) and the Pennines, it used to blanket these islands. I'm guessing this is further south. Keep up the good work.
Thank you.
Lovely! That is what I do most of the days (go into the woods) and it keeps me happy and quiet.
It makes such a difference, a couple of hours in and I slowly become aware all of the tension has left my body.
absolutley spot on mate your best video yet beautiful and peaceful and a great chat
Thanks Mick, much appreciated.
I love sitting quietly in the forest with my dogs, contemplating the surroundings.
Yes, if I can tire Bolt out enough first (the Black & White one) I love that too, otherwise I'm getting up every 2 minutes chasing after him.
@@dogdadoutdoors My youngest likes to run big circles around me. I will become a zen master if I could just tune him out. Lol
Very nice now the sound balance is good!
Good to hear! (Did you see what I did there?)
I know what your saying mate my kids sound like they are going through the same thing as they tend to talk to the wife more. And I'm there for them and supporting the wife.👍
It's a tough one. My eldest has just been diagnosed with Autism and my youngest one is going through the process now. I'm not equipped! My wife on the other hand has been a teacher for 25+ years and is not only more knowledgeable, she has a better temperament for it. I'm trying to learn and understand more, but its really hard for me to fully understand them.
I totally understand, I usually take our all terrain vehicle up into the woods and just take the pleasure in by walking through the woods. Something else that adds pleasure to life is a camp fire in the evening right about sunset. Good medicine for the mind.
Absolutely. Nothing like a fire for mindfulness.
i can relate. sometimes you have to stay out of it to be helpful. but focusing on actually helping instead of feeding your ego is the right thing. i do a lot of walking these days.
Yes, I do a lot of counting to 10 at home!
Just subbed because of your name, still in the adverts. Fellow doggy dad here
Thank you.
Excellent observation. We have rainforest here in Alaska. However its full of things that will eat a man.. Greetings from the Great Lands..
yes, we are pretty safe here, unless we get a particularly angry squirrel....
Great sentiment in the video,and getting back to nature is a big help. btw, what hoodie is that you’re wearing?
Honestly no idea, it was a Christmas present from my mum, but I really like it. I've been wearing it a lot over winter!
Why so different- It's predominantly the past choices of land owners. In English broadleaf woodland you're mostly seeing the remains of traditional productive forestry before it became economically unviable and then got left to go derelict. It's all about money but sometimes aesthetics too if it used to be part of a big estate with a big house in the middle. I bet they left this area alone when those massive old oak trees were still standing. They obviously messed with surrounding bits with that stand of planted conifers and what looks like rhody bushes in the background of your shots. If you really want to see what it was like the last time it was in active management take a look at the 1st Ed OS, six inch to the mile. It'll be roughly 1890s depending where in the country you are. TLDR- there's no wilderness in England.
That definitely comes into it, although this part of the wood is in a natural depression I think. You are right, it was once part of a big estate and the manor house is still in use, but has been taken over by the army now.
Why's it different? Here are some possibilities concentrating on 'ecology'. Can't tell definitively from a short vid but you seem to have two different woodland habitats here divided by a boundary bank. Skip to 1:38. Stop the vid. Foreground looks like the 'borrow ditch' for that big bank with all the moss on and that you and Dog are walking along. It's big, so ('cos likely built by shovel and stoop labour, maybe over many clearances of the ditch, each adding to the bank) important. Bigger trees on the bank yeah? Background is recent secondary woodland, a mix of oak and birch, tall and leggy and likely formerly open fields. Gonna guess that there are some unhappy willows in there and maybe a few young and unhappy conifers. You could check this by looking at old maps starting with the 1st edition Ordnance Survey maps of around 1855.
Roll forward. Hit 1:51 and stop. I'm guessing the woodland behind the Husky is the woodland behind the viewpoint at 1:38. It's different. Trees are older with some big conifers beyond the Rhododendron. May have been planted as forestry before the field/open ground was abandoned. Roll to 2:00 and stop again. Lovely big old oak (native sessile oak Quercus robur) pollard. Old tree deliberately cut over head height and out of the reach of grazing cattle. There is another oak pollard in the first few seconds of the vid (0:30) which seems dead. Pollards this age will have been cut for the first time when the oak was young. Done with an axe - date back to before saws were cheap and easy to get hold of. Hard work and dangerous - used to be known as 'widowmakers'. Cut at the same level repeatedly when the stems growing out of the top of the bolling were usable size. Re-cutting slows down the growth of the tree so this tree is going to be older than a never-cut oak of the same trunk diameter. Older trees are older habitat. Older habitats have more time to accumulate biodiversity. Pollards and the difficulty cutting them are a sign that in the past there was a lot of pressure for grazing and pressure for wood for construction (and other uses).
There will be things on the dead pollard, exploiting the dead wood. Gonna guess that this pollard is in the area 'behind the husky'. To its right is another older oak that is 'stagheaded' at the base, likely cut at ground level long ago. Signs that this bit of woodland may be old, enclosed by the bank and borrow ditch. Guess is that it was later planted but some older 'worthless' trees were left. Last guess: this woodland (all of it) is on acid soils, sand or clay or a mix. Soils effect tree species. Likely abandoned for agriculture (and part-planted) because it was poor agricultural land.
All woodlands in the British Isles are the result of human activity overt the last 3,000 years. Virgin woodland in the UK (including all but maybe a few tiny areas of Atlantic temperate rain forest) is a myth.
This any use? Shutting up now...
The only history I know of this woodland is that it was once part of the Minley estate, the family who owned it had a few big manor houses in the area. You are right though, man has shaped the land over many years.