Man Befriends Chipmunk Upsets Blue Jay

Man Befriends Chipmunk Upsets Blue Jay

I'm working on making friends with a precocious chipmunk, but my Blue Jay Buddy is having none of it. I find Chipmunks a little harder to relate to than Gray and Red Squirrels and I'm not sure why this one has such a fear of the call of the Blue Jay. This time of year in the mountains they are busy storing away as much food as they can.
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Man Befriends Chipmunk Upsets Blue Jay

Full Harvest Moon Digiscope Video With A SmartPhone

Full Harvest Moon Digiscope Video With A SmartPhone

Full Harvest Moon of 9/24/18 gave me a chance to test out the new Spotting scope to digiscope the Moon with my Droid Trubo 2 SmartPhone. With your Smart Phone, free software and a low-cost spotting scope like the WOSPORTS 15x45-60 available at Amazon https://amzn.to/2MZoO7F and provided for me to test you can get pretty remarkable images and video for $53. I could have done much better with a heavy tripod - I was using one of my lightweight ones and the jiggling you see sometimes is actually caused by the pretty stiff wind that was blowing last night.
A review and demo of using the digiscope and phone is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24neE...
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Full Harvest Moon Digiscope Video With A SmartPhone

Film Backyard Birds Videos with Your SmartPhone

Film Backyard Birds Videos with Your SmartPhone

An affordable Spotting Scope and your SmartPhone are all you need to photograph and film your Backyard birds and animals really close up without spending much money. These are the outtakes from my test of the WOSPORTS 15x45-60 available at Amazon https://amzn.to/2MZoO7F and provided for me to test. All opinions are my own - the full review is at: https://youtu.be/24neEWq--fw
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Film Backyard Birds Videos with Your SmartPhone

Low-Cost Digiscoping With Your Smart Phone

Low-Cost Digiscoping With Your Smart Phone

An affordable Spotting Scope and your Phone that's all you need to photograph and film your Backyard birds and animals really close up without spending much money. This detailed review with tons of examples using the Wosports Spotting Scope (15-45X60 Waterproof Monocular Telescope Bird Watching Outdoor Viewing with Tripod and Digiscoping Adapter) available at Amazon https://amzn.to/2MZoO7F will show you how to get started for less than 60 Dollars. Your Smart Phone, free camera software (discussed in review), and the Wosports Spotting scope will get you started on the basics. I'll follow up with more digiscoping video information in the future.
This spotting scope was provided by Wosports for review all opinions are my own.
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Low-Cost Digiscoping With Your Smart Phone

Animal Personal Space Violations

Animal Personal Space Violations

Wild Animals have personal space boundaries with each other and humans. The concept is easily demonstrated by these four wild Backyard squirrels, two red squirrels in North Carolina and two Gray Squirrels in Florida - All habituated to me, but each with their unique personalities and reactions. It is important to be aware of personal space with all animals if you want to get along and observe them and generally enjoy Nature more. Personal space violations trigger alert reactions and ultimately fight or flight responses in animals. Violate their space at your peril, respect it and you will be surprised at how your relationships with animals will improve. Especially regarding squirrels unless you raised them from kittens and know them intimately never try to take the initiative to touch or hold them no matter how friendly they may seem, you are now in their intimate space reserved for fellow wild squirrels, their reaction time is so much faster than you can imagine and a simple nip on your finger by them as a warning will result in a mess of a finger. On the other hand, fed and overly spoiled squirrels and most other wild animals such as raccoons and bears will eventually readily invade your own personal space and you'll have an issue of discipline or worse.
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Animal Personal Space Violations

What This Abandoned Stray Cat Finally Reveals is Amazing

What This Abandoned Stray Cat Finally Reveals is Amazing

Wait for it! Experience it like I did in real-time - first impressions can be wrong. What human idiot would abandon such a stunning Tomcat in the jungle/conservation area behind the Florida Backyard. Oh yes he's a Tomcat all right - in all his natural glory!
Past Feral Cat Documentaries from the Backyard:https://youtu.be/_URRhBkbYDE
https://youtu.be/mVPWvFW0Jwk
https://youtu.be/S-p-Hqfab9Y
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What This Abandoned Stray Cat Finally Reveals is Amazing

Stunning Chipmunk Singing Performance

Stunning Chipmunk Singing Performance

Simply Stunning - a true virtuoso Chipmunk performance! Perfect staging, posture and positioning of head, hands and tail - the performance starts out slow and builds to a dramatic conclusion. If you have listened to other Chipmunk fall performances you will note the subtle variation in this performance, much more song and bird-like than the classic chipping call. Listen carefully at the beginning and you'll hear a competitor start to compete and then give up - there is no competition! A recent performance by another Chipmunk:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZGS5...
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Stunning Chipmunk Singing Performance

Chipmunk Learns Never Turn Your Back On A Blue Jay

Chipmunk Learns Never Turn Your Back On A Blue Jay

Blue Jay versus Chipmunk - after much back and forth a treaty for peaceful coexistence on the feeding platform has been reached between these two intelligent creatures. The Chipmunk and Blue Jay will now share and eat seeds at the same time, but the Chipmunk must never turn its back on the Blue Jay - Unfortunately for us that means a lot of butt shots of the Chipmunk.
Some history:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnFme...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW3EH...
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Chipmunk Learns Never Turn Your Back On A Blue Jay

Yellow Throated Warbler

Yellow Throated Warbler

Filmed my first Yellow Throated Warbler in the Great Smoky Mountains around 4K feet. A small group of them no doubt passing through as I never see these birds up here on a regular basis. Truly one of the most stunning Warblers they are extremely difficult to film and get in focus as the flit through the tree branches. I left some unedited footage so you can get the idea of how hard they are to track.
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Yellow Throated Warbler

Possum Tries to Eat Trail Camera

Possum Tries to Eat Camera

Did you know Opossums have the most teeth of any mammal - 50 teeth - this is what they look like! They are omnivorous, but cameras usually aren't on the menu. Mother Raccoon and her three kittens also can't resist checking it out the camera, but not eating it - they have standards.
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Possum Tries to Eat Camera

Chipmunk Calling "Chip Chip Chip"

Chipmunk Calling "Chip Chip Chip"

Excellent example of the classic Sound of a Chipmunk calling Chip - Chip - Chip. This is why they are called Chip-Munks. This is very different from their "cluck-cluck" knocking on wood sound heard here: https://youtu.be/QgoTM4RZF7o They get very noisy in late summer and early autumn!
Not sure where the "munk" part comes from, but Wiki says: The common name originally may have been spelled "chitmunk," from the native Odawa (Ottawa) word jidmoonh, meaning "red squirrel" (cf. Ojibwe, ajidamoo).[8][9] The earliest form cited in the Oxford English Dictionary (from 1842) is "chipmonk," however, "chipmunk" appears in several books from the 1820s and 1830s.[10] Other early forms include "chipmuck" and "chipminck," and in the 1830s they were also referred to as "chip squirrels;" probably in reference to the sound they make. In the mid-1800s, John James Audubon and his sons included a lithograph of the chipmunk in their Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, calling it the "chipping squirrel [or] hackee."[11] Chipmunks have also been referred to as "striped squirrels," "timber tigers," and "ground squirrels" (although the name "ground squirrel" usually refers to other squirrels, such as those of the genus Spermophilus).
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Chipmunk Calling "Chip Chip Chip"

Review of COOAU 4K 20MP WiFi Action Camera

Review of COOAU 4K 20MP WiFi Action Camera

My Backyard friends and I test out a new Ultra HD Action Camera from the folks at COOAU. A special Backyard 10% discount code ( IIC7WSEM ) available on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/COOAU-Wide-angle-Underw…/…/B07F6DYF43 in addition to the 10% coupon already available - that's 20% off the already low price. A very affordable alternative to GO PRO for filming animals, hikes and other outdoor activities and outdoor VLoging etc. Check it out!

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How This Blue Jay Gets Revenge on Chipmunk Is Hilarious

How This Blue Jay Gets Revenge on Chipmunk Is Hilarious

Don't usually think of Blue Jays as being stealthy, but watch how this one silently sneaks up behind the Chipmunk and nearly gives the little glutton a heart attack! This back and forth had been going on all morning - its like being behind someone in the buffet line and realizing there is not going to be any food left by the time you get there!
Filmed on 9/10/18 with a new Ultra HD Action Camera I'm testing out from the folks at COOAU. I'll do a full review video of this camera soon. A special Backyard 10% discount code ( IIC7WSEM ) available on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/COOAU-Wide-ang... in addition to the 10% coupon already available - that's 20% off the already low price. Check it out!
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How This Blue Jay Gets Revenge on Chipmunk Is Hilarious

Plucky Young Cardinal Versus Young Blue Jay

Plucky Young Cardinal Versus Young Blue Jay

You'll fall in love with this plucky young female Cardinal that simply wont give way to the much bigger young Blue Jay. For its part the Blue Jay youngster is pretty well behaved and mellow.
Filmed on 9/9/18 with the new COOAU Action Camera Ultra HD I'm testing out. Available on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/2N0RD8P
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Plucky Young Cardinal Versus Young Blue Jay

Affordable Gimbal Tripod Head For big Telephoto Lenses

Affordable  Gimbal Tripod Head For big Telephoto Lenses

A Gimbal Tripod Head for $40 Bucks? You need a solid gimbal head for filming wildlife with a big telephoto lens. I try out the ViewFlex CS-GBH01 Gimbal Tripod Head with Arca-Swiss Quick-Release Plate on a cooperative Rabbit and some Backyard Birds.
This product was provided by the manufacturer for evaluation, my opinions are my own. It is available on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/2oMKjPG
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Mysterious Wood Knocks in Forest Solved

Mysterious Wood Knocks in Forest Solved

August 31, 2018. Best example of distant forest Wood Knocks I have captured. This always starts in late August and continues into October. Would you believe Chipmunks make these incredible distant sounds? I solved this mystery a few years ago and it is not what scientists claim.
Cluck - Cluck or Knock - Knock on wood sound or calls echoing loudly through the forests and mountains - these incredible sounds are made by Chipmunks and seeing is believing! After three years of documenting these loud sounds that carry for 100's of yards through the forest and suspecting they were from Chipmunks, but not knowing how they could be so loud I've finally caught the little ones in the act. They put a lot of effort into these calls with full body involvement. This loud calling typically starts in late summer - here in the Great Smoky Mountains it was August 29th. These calls have absolutely nothing to do with a warning call after seeing predators such as hawks as some scientists have concluded in limited studies mostly in the northeast, but likely have everything to do with Chipmunk communication, perhaps territory. These sounds will echo through the forest sometimes for hours with several joining in especially in October. Because Chipmunks are so small and the forest so vast it is very hard to actually find the source of these loud wood-knocking noises, but today I got lucky with one sitting on a pile of rocks at the forest edge - the Chipmunk seemed to enter an almost trance-like state for a few minutes.
Here are the previous recordings in the deep forest - you can imagine how hard it is to find an individual Chipmunk:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SyMU...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYjOm...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHDR6...
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Mysterious Wood Knocks in Forest Solved

White Breasted Nuthatch

White Breasted Nuthatch

White Breasted Nuthatch hunting for food in crevices of tree bark is their natural method of finding food. Very woodpecker-like they mostly feed upside down. This time of year they are getting more active. In the background you can hear a very excitable Titmouse and a Hummingbird and a special surprise at the end!
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White Breasted Nuthatch

Visit With Young Bull Elk on the Hiking Trail

Visit With Young Bull Elk on the Hiking Trail

Always exciting to encounter an Elk while hiking around the GSMNP. The ethical goal is to have a pure natural encounter and practice quiet relaxed behavior so you can enjoy the animals natural behavior in a natural setting without bothering them. The "Backyard" is a selfie-free and soft talking zone! This channel is about the animals!
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Visit With Young Bull Elk on the Hiking Trail