I once swam in a rough ten acre beaver pond in northwest Oregon. The diversity of life in that one pond was amazing! There were bass, bluegill, crappie, and carp among fish.There were several varieties of snails and periwinkle. Bullfrogs, other native smaller frogs, and newts or salamanders resided there as well. The depth of this pond averaged four to six feet, although I found one hole that had to be at least sixteen feet. All this, according to the landowner, had been started by four young beavers about twelve years prior, and built upon by succeeding generations. She and her son showed me the dam they began with, and how much it had been continually expanded over the years. It was a marvel of engineering, and I noticed the beavers picked construction sites that would yield the most benefit with the least amount of effort. I could have not been more impressed.
Thank you in general! In particular, thank you for not imposing an (hidden or not so hidden) agenda, not having an infomercial vibe, and narrating without upspeak or vocal fry!!!!!
I love how timeless nature is, there is no indication of when this footage was captured aside from the fact is was captured on a camera. All of this same stuff must have been happening hundreds of years ago, save for the new species
Thank you Kelly, that’s really appreciated. There currently are three more 1-hour segments of the beaver pond series published, and another in the works. Enjoy! -Ray
This series is fantastic. I watched it out of order but I can see myself watching it all over again at least one more time. I'm down south but most of the wildlife is familiar.
Very cool to see in detail, I'm Boston area guy, always loved the natural environment instead our cement jungle, I live next to the ocean and the areas built up, I often wonder how it looked originally, must've been beautiful.
There is a fantastic beaver pond on the evergreen valley road just off rte.113 in Chatham NH...right on the maine border near the evans notch wilderness.There is even a nice blind where you can observe in relative camouflage.Its one of my most favorite places in the white mountains of maine and N.H...It is huge and well worth exploring if you ever find yourself up near Fryeburg Maine..
These videos are amazing quality. The microphone catching such small sounds blows me away. Talk about the privilege of access to worlds humans otherwise wouldn't see. There are beaver ponds not far from home and I just found them last year. They're amazing.
I love the video and narration. Very good information. Thanks for putting so much work and time into making this gem. I love beaver habitats. So much amazing wildlife to be found in them. 😀👍
Really enjoyable, thank you. Great information in the commentary and images, appropriate music, but plenty of ambient sound of the beaver pond. A treat for an Australian viewer.
Being new to NC coast I find the difference and the similarity of the wildlife and habitat fascinating! I grew up down on the Gulf Coast of Fla/Ala and spent many hours just observing how nature wastes nothing and improves even the most barren areas. Life does indeed ...find a way! That mallard female trying to nest in a tree illustrates my point. Thank you for your effort to share this. Liked, subbed, shared and........DING!
My mom had a 4-acre manmade pond (a dredged-out marsh) in front of her CT home that was frequently visited by hooded mergansers. Most years we also had a red-tailed hawk take up residence overlooking the pond, and occasionally we would see it swoop down and grab a fish. No beavers or muskrats however! It averaged 10 to 12 feet deep, with one pocket that was about 20 feet.
Another wonderful wildlife documentary, looking forward to part II, reminds me growing up on in south Florida back in the 50/60s, spending hours tramping around in the Everglades, just exploring and observing, before everything got developed, wish I had taken up photography as I have always enjoyed exploring nature, wherever I’ve traveled over the years, however everything has changed, gators were endangered back in those days but are numerous theses days, while many common animals have all but disappeared from south Florida as developers keep encroaching on what little remains outside on Everglades national park, and invasive species like the pythons etc, have impacted them as well, anyways, I’ve enjoyed this very much, be interesting to see how climate change impacts these areas in the years to come, as I’ve also notice a serious decline in insects, everywhere...thank you!
Cannot express how wonderful your videos are; the pacing, the information, and all the amazing shots you get are WONDERFUL. My husband and I are always checking for new videos, we've learned so much, and you touch upon things I never knew and never learned from professionally produced nature docs. Eagerly awaiting more like these!
Hi Colleen... thanks so much! You'll be happy to know that part 3 of the Beaver Pond Wildlife series will be available this week. Looking forward to your thoughts on it. -Ray
Spectacular. I love all of your vids. Thanks very much for taking the time to make and post these. I have an obsession with beaver and misread the title thinking it was about beaver but despite my error I was not disappointed. :)
Thanks John! Part 2 will be finished in the near future, to be followed by others until a year’s time is represented. There will be more coverage of beavers in each coming part, as well as many other creatures. I think you’ll appreciate them.
I really love your Beaver Pond Wildlife series🥰🥰🥰! Amazing and lovely animals! Excellent camera work and footage, the slow narrative with a tingle of humour) Pleasant music..Very calming and enjoyable atmosphere. Kind of meditation for me) Thank you!🙏🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
Yeah beaver a really neat. There's a place a mile from my house and it's 700+ acres of swamp when it originally was a creek that would dry up yearly. It still goes dry when we're in major drought. Then on my farm 4 years ago we just had a beaver set up shop. Usually this particular creek don't hold beaver due to drying up yearly and the fact it will go from 2 inches deep 4ft wide to 50 ft deep and a quarter mile wide. This beaver. He's a tank lol. I trap them since I was 13 but this beaver at my farm I'm letting him do his own thing. 4 years. Still hasn't gotten over the creek bank. Make my creek 30ft wide. I can fish now. Made it not dry up. I can swim in it. Tbh beaver are cool animals to learn.
This is awesome. I love watching your videos. Amazing how much you can learn just by sitting and watching. Also awesome seeing some of the same wildlife I see here in East Tennessee.
Very nice, Wonderful photography. Very interesting seeing all the competition that goes on in a seemingly peaceful, idyllic locale. I look forward to more of the series.
Your videos remind me of Marty Stoufer do you remember watching that. I used to love watching that show as a kid years ago. That show is what got me raising birds like rare quail species and pheasants fruit doves partridges.
A terrific video series which I’ve just been referred to by a local naturalist. I do question the sound effects, are they all actual? The sound a but contrived, bird songs are clear but the munching of redwings, sounds of waterfowl, seem a little artificial…
Very nice documentary. Modern programs could take notes from you. You are not insufferably in every shot, there’s no continuous terrible loud background music to interfere and the commentary is interesting without constant superfluous chatter. You remind me of the Mutual of Omaha wild kingdom documentaries.
Great video! I used to live in W/MA and miss it sometimes...this takes me back..Now I live in So CO @8,000 ft elevation, desert and alpine . Very, very different ecosystem.
I've been considering how to make wooded land pay for itself.(You can protect more of it that way.). Considering the value of bee forage increases what you can do and changes which tree species you want to favor. Do you know a good reference to help me figure out the sequence of tree flowering in the spring? The usual timber, firewood, syrup lead to one ranking of what's valuable. Adding grazing changes things quite a bit since grass turns out to be so valuable. What transforms what is commonly seen as most valuable is to include bee forage needs. For instance early spring pollen is critical to get a hive off to a strong start. The best tree for early pollen is the Pussy Willow. Bass/linden is extremely valuable for the nectar. Sugar Maple flowers last for a short time and are stingy. Red Maple is way better bee forage. Sumac becomes more valuable per acre than cornfield once you add the value of the honey. (#100/acre @ $10/#)
I never in my life would've guessed that those spinning beetles have eyes on the top and the bottom of their heads so they can see above and below with clarity. That's crazy! There's so much to learn about the world. It amazes me all the time.
Kudos to you for showing how much diversity and beauty a Beaver can bring to an area.
I once swam in a rough ten acre beaver pond in northwest Oregon. The diversity of life in that one pond was amazing! There were bass, bluegill, crappie, and carp among fish.There were several varieties of snails and periwinkle. Bullfrogs, other native smaller frogs, and newts or salamanders resided there as well. The depth of this pond averaged four to six feet, although I found one hole that had to be at least sixteen feet.
All this, according to the landowner, had been started by four young beavers about twelve years prior, and built upon by succeeding generations. She and her son showed me the dam they began with, and how much it had been continually expanded over the years. It was a marvel of engineering, and I noticed the beavers picked construction sites that would yield the most benefit with the least amount of effort.
I could have not been more impressed.
Thank you in general! In particular, thank you for not imposing an (hidden or not so hidden) agenda, not having an infomercial vibe, and narrating without upspeak or vocal fry!!!!!
it is tiring everytime i hear "climate change this" "global warming that"
ìts like, man, i really don't care, just show me nature or shutup.
"me me me. complain complain" just "shut up" and enjoy the nature 😂
I love how timeless nature is, there is no indication of when this footage was captured aside from the fact is was captured on a camera. All of this same stuff must have been happening hundreds of years ago, save for the new species
The quality of this excels -like being there in person. Thanks
I grew up in central New England and your video and audio explanations are perfectly presented. From 1955-2018 thx.
Thank You for allowing me to watch this ~ 68 year old history buff from New England.
What a wonderful video. Great narrative/explanations of the different species. Thank you so much.
Gorgeous cinematography, and well-written narration! A joy. I look forward to the whole Beaver Pond series.
Thank you Kelly, that’s really appreciated. There currently are three more 1-hour segments of the beaver pond series published, and another in the works. Enjoy!
-Ray
What a wonderful video! Amazing quality! I enjoyed every minute!
Thank you Beverly, be sure to see parts 2 and 3, and part 4 will be available shortly.
Beautifully narrated...thank you for sharing...
What a beautiful job with this entire documentary. Awesome videography and narration. I learned a lot.
Thank you for the Beaver Pond video. I enjoyed watching & listening to the narrative.
You’re welcome, I hope you watch parts 2 to 5, there’s much, much more to see, with some surprises.
-Ray
This series is fantastic. I watched it out of order but I can see myself watching it all over again at least one more time. I'm down south but most of the wildlife is familiar.
SO much to learn from a Beaver Pond
The greatest story ever told
Very cool to see in detail, I'm Boston area guy, always loved the natural environment instead our cement jungle, I live next to the ocean and the areas built up, I often wonder how it looked originally, must've been beautiful.
There is a fantastic beaver pond on the evergreen valley road just off rte.113 in Chatham NH...right on the maine border near the evans notch wilderness.There is even a nice blind where you can observe in relative camouflage.Its one of my most favorite places in the white mountains of maine and N.H...It is huge and well worth exploring if you ever find yourself up near Fryeburg Maine..
Love the music ! So glad I found this chanel.
Love your work, I visited a 750 year old Oak just now on Windsor Great Park in the UK, some 12 feet across.. Tree's are everything.
Great Wildlife Documentary! I can't wait to see part 2!
You are one of the best nature channels out there. Keep up the great work
This is excellent! Thank you from Nova Scotia
These videos are amazing quality. The microphone catching such small sounds blows me away. Talk about the privilege of access to worlds humans otherwise wouldn't see. There are beaver ponds not far from home and I just found them last year. They're amazing.
I grew up in the bush do I love the forest and watching this is so fanastic seeing all the animals Snd insects you do very good work thankyou!!!!!!!!!
That was just so interesting something different to watch that was interesting to say the least
I love the video and narration. Very good information. Thanks for putting so much work and time into making this gem. I love beaver habitats. So much amazing wildlife to be found in them. 😀👍
Very interesting. Beautiful photography and narration.
It was such a pleasure to watch and listen. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this. People should see what they create. Beaver are so amazing that you realize how many things are amazing.
Really enjoyable, thank you. Great information in the commentary and images, appropriate music, but plenty of ambient sound of the beaver pond. A treat for an Australian viewer.
Such an astounding piece - so much detail and care, so much information. I really love these. Peace and love from Chicago, IL.
Thanks Nate... #5 is almost ready.
Being new to NC coast I find the difference and the similarity of the wildlife and habitat fascinating! I grew up down on the Gulf Coast of Fla/Ala and spent many hours just observing how nature wastes nothing and improves even the most barren areas. Life does indeed ...find a way! That mallard female trying to nest in a tree illustrates my point. Thank you for your effort to share this. Liked, subbed, shared and........DING!
Wonderful video just your voice and me and nature ,thank heavens no music keep it like that please.
My mom had a 4-acre manmade pond (a dredged-out marsh) in front of her CT home that was frequently visited by hooded mergansers. Most years we also had a red-tailed hawk take up residence overlooking the pond, and occasionally we would see it swoop down and grab a fish. No beavers or muskrats however! It averaged 10 to 12 feet deep, with one pocket that was about 20 feet.
I like how you have kept the original sound at normal speed and played over the slow motion accents sounds.
It's so fascinating to see how interconnected nature is. All the different species and systems at play. Thank you for such a fantastic video.
I loved this video, can't wait to watch the rest!
Reminds me of George Page's work.Its perfect!Thank you.
I love the ‘ trill ‘ of the Red Wing Black bird
Another wonderful wildlife documentary, looking forward to part II, reminds me growing up on in south Florida back in the 50/60s, spending hours tramping around in the Everglades, just exploring and observing, before everything got developed, wish I had taken up photography as I have always enjoyed exploring nature, wherever I’ve traveled over the years, however everything has changed, gators were endangered back in those days but are numerous theses days, while many common animals have all but disappeared from south Florida as developers keep encroaching on what little remains outside on Everglades national park, and invasive species like the pythons etc, have impacted them as well, anyways, I’ve enjoyed this very much, be interesting to see how climate change impacts these areas in the years to come, as I’ve also notice a serious decline in insects, everywhere...thank you!
This is such a special video. Thanks for this
The woodpecker sounds are excellent!
Fabulous photography and information!
This is so awesome. Thank you for all the information and footage!
Thanks for going out making this great and beautiful video with a narrative i can understand.
Cannot express how wonderful your videos are; the pacing, the information, and all the amazing shots you get are WONDERFUL. My husband and I are always checking for new videos, we've learned so much, and you touch upon things I never knew and never learned from professionally produced nature docs. Eagerly awaiting more like these!
Hi Colleen... thanks so much! You'll be happy to know that part 3 of the Beaver Pond Wildlife series will be available this week. Looking forward to your thoughts on it.
-Ray
@@NewEnglandForests Oh! I can't wait! Thank you so much!
Loved watching them, fascinated how they lived and survive and developed ingenuity.
Spectacular. I love all of your vids. Thanks very much for taking the time to make and post these. I have an obsession with beaver and misread the title thinking it was about beaver but despite my error I was not disappointed. :)
Thanks John! Part 2 will be finished in the near future, to be followed by others until a year’s time is represented. There will be more coverage of beavers in each coming part, as well as many other creatures. I think you’ll appreciate them.
@@NewEnglandForestsLooking forward to it. Can't thank you enough. Excellent production, videography and narration.
Beautiful wildlife! Thank you for sharing!
This was an amazing video and I loved the narration!
Love these. Thank you
I really love your Beaver Pond Wildlife series🥰🥰🥰! Amazing and lovely animals! Excellent camera work and footage, the slow narrative with a tingle of humour) Pleasant music..Very calming and enjoyable atmosphere. Kind of meditation for me) Thank you!🙏🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
Yeah beaver a really neat. There's a place a mile from my house and it's 700+ acres of swamp when it originally was a creek that would dry up yearly. It still goes dry when we're in major drought.
Then on my farm 4 years ago we just had a beaver set up shop. Usually this particular creek don't hold beaver due to drying up yearly and the fact it will go from 2 inches deep 4ft wide to 50 ft deep and a quarter mile wide. This beaver. He's a tank lol.
I trap them since I was 13 but this beaver at my farm I'm letting him do his own thing. 4 years. Still hasn't gotten over the creek bank. Make my creek 30ft wide. I can fish now. Made it not dry up. I can swim in it. Tbh beaver are cool animals to learn.
Amazing, thank you so much for putting this wonderful video together!
This is awesome. I love watching your videos. Amazing how much you can learn just by sitting and watching. Also awesome seeing some of the same wildlife I see here in East Tennessee.
Very nice, Wonderful photography. Very interesting seeing all the competition that goes on in a seemingly peaceful, idyllic locale. I look forward to more of the series.
Your videos remind me of Marty Stoufer do you remember watching that. I used to love watching that show as a kid years ago. That show is what got me raising birds like rare quail species and pheasants fruit doves partridges.
I loved his show, and my dad watched that and Mutual of Omaha every week. I bought about 3 of Marty's DVD's.
“Enjoy our wild America!” ... yes, I do remember watching Marty’s show.
Marlin Perkins’ “Wild Kingdom” was a classic nature program. Jim Fowler was always wrestling some beast to the ground.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I learned so much by watching it. You have great knowledge, and it's wonderful you share it with us all.
Your documentary is chocked full of information I didn't know and I thought I knew everything!
Now you do ! 😬
@20:02 It's so amazing that Eagle's can see such a small fish at those distances and then pluck it with ease out of the water.
Best nature video ever. thanks so much.
Beautiful documentary, thank you.
Wonderful video, made my day. Thank you so so much. Love that fat beaver!
Interesting and informative video. I subscribed to your channel.
Amazing camera work!~thanks!
Excellent.
This is so well made
Greatly enjoyed this video, thank you!
Excellent!!!
Excellent! Thank you very much.
So beautiful 😻
Awesome video. Narrator is great. Reminds me of Marlin Perkins. Beautiful habitat.
Love the video of course I’m animal & bird lover
This was very enjoyable. Thanks.
A terrific video series which I’ve just been referred to by a local naturalist. I do question the sound effects, are they all actual? The sound a but contrived, bird songs are clear but the munching of redwings, sounds of waterfowl, seem a little artificial…
Great work, I've learned so much
Beautiful Birds !
One year ago this masterpiece series was released
Amazing amount of footage 👍
keep making these kind of videos
great job by the film crew
Thx for sharing your beautiful video and stunning!👍👍
For nature lovers, this is really the best time of year. After a long, long winter, the pussy willow was always a special treat.
Great channel and video! Thank you sir 😊
This video is everything! Love it
Thank you!!
well done, thank you!
Very nice documentary. Modern programs could take notes from you. You are not insufferably in every shot, there’s no continuous terrible loud background music to interfere and the commentary is interesting without constant superfluous chatter. You remind me of the Mutual of Omaha wild kingdom documentaries.
A regular Marlin Perkins...
Great video! I used to live in W/MA and miss it sometimes...this takes me back..Now I live in So CO @8,000 ft elevation, desert and alpine . Very, very different ecosystem.
Beautiful sight💞💞💞
I reckon this is your best, ever. That muskrat segment...wow. And the clumsy juv eagles wiping out into branches. I’m #TeamOsprey.
Amazing video, full of information! What did you use to record your footage?
Thank you for your hard work. Amazing footage!
Sir, you have earned a subscriber.
Nice looking scenery, almost as good as Canada...
... almost.
Nice. Thanks for this documentary... keep your great works..😊
This is fabulous!
This video is awesome!
I've been considering how to make wooded land pay for itself.(You can protect more of it that way.). Considering the value of bee forage increases what you can do and changes which tree species you want to favor. Do you know a good reference to help me figure out the sequence of tree flowering in the spring?
The usual timber, firewood, syrup lead to one ranking of what's valuable. Adding grazing changes things quite a bit since grass turns out to be so valuable. What transforms what is commonly seen as most valuable is to include bee forage needs. For instance early spring pollen is critical to get a hive off to a strong start. The best tree for early pollen is the Pussy Willow. Bass/linden is extremely valuable for the nectar. Sugar Maple flowers last for a short time and are stingy. Red Maple is way better bee forage. Sumac becomes more valuable per acre than cornfield once you add the value of the honey. (#100/acre @ $10/#)
How would I have known that a water bird like Blue Heron builds its nest hight on top of trees. Thank you.
I never in my life would've guessed that those spinning beetles have eyes on the top and the bottom of their heads so they can see above and below with clarity.
That's crazy!
There's so much to learn about the world. It amazes me all the time.