00:02and it is such a beautiful day this afternoon that I thought I would come out of my self
00:10isolation and take a walk around the fields and woods near my house thankfully I'm far
00:20enough out in the countryside that it's pretty isolated so I'm not breaking any rules
00:31but would you believe it here's a thought for you why is it that after months and months and months
00:38of rain over the winter here in the UK and continual rain and cold and miserable weather
00:46as soon as we're told to hole up inside the sun comes out it's been like that for three days
00:55now
00:56it's unbelievable here's another forethought for you after three days of isolation why is it that
01:09all these jobs that I normally never have time to do now that I have time to do them
01:17I really don't want to do them can somebody explain that one to me as well
01:28anyways
02:14okay so I'm one kilometer into the walk and finally come into some woodland
02:29you can hear the wind you can hear the chainsaw in the distance and not the barest of tweets
02:50you can hear the cut
03:08you please
03:16Near to a field here there's a tree line, a conifer tree line, and just inside the woods
03:24is this, he's resting this lovely little, I think it's a muntjac deer, one of those
03:30tiny little ones, and he's just looking at me, fluttering his ears again.
03:45It's beautiful, but I don't think they're native, I shall have to look them up a little bit,
03:52find out more about them. I have a feeling they're from China, funnily enough.
04:04But I shall have to look it up to confirm.
04:14Let's see if I can get a shot of him as well, it's nothing earth shatteringly good, but
04:22that's something.
04:44I've just come to this lovely bit of forest here, and I can hear the pheasants calling out.
05:00That's their alarm, because I'm walking here.
05:06Unfortunately being a game bird, they are incredibly, incredibly sensitive to human presence, they're so hunted.
05:17So unless you're sitting in a hide somewhere, it's going to be impossible to get a photograph of them.
05:25So let's go.
05:26Let's go.
05:31Let's go.
05:45Let's go.
05:47Let's go.
05:48Let's go.
05:49Let's go.
05:52Let's go.
06:02Let's go.
06:03Let's go.
06:04Let's go.
06:06Let's go.
06:07Let's go.
06:08Let's go.
06:09Let's go.
06:10Let's go.
06:10Let's go.
06:12Let's go.
06:13Let's go.
06:54So I'm just over half way round, so I've done a bit over 4km, and I have to apologise
07:03as well for my eye, I've got a bit of a stye going on and it's half closed my eye,
07:09so apologies
07:09for the ugly sight. Yeah, so I'm just over half way round, I've heard quite a lot, as
07:18you can probably hear this little bit of woods has got quite a few birds singing. But they're
07:29so high up in the canopy that I haven't actually seen them, and every pheasant, of which there's
07:36been quite a few, I've just frightened off way before I get anywhere near close enough
07:42to take a picture. Yeah, so anyway I thought seeing as I'm half way round and it's a nice
07:49spot I'd stop and have a bit of tea, and have a look around, see if I hang on here
07:56for half
07:57an hour or so, if anything, if I sit quietly enough maybe something will come along, I
08:02don't know.
08:05I was just about to get up to go, and I've noticed a little bit of movement, and it's
08:13a deer. I'm not sure what kind of deer, it might be one of the little munchucks. It's
08:26a deer. It disappeared behind a tree bone.
08:28a deer. I'm not sure what he's going on.
08:43A deer from, that's a deer.
08:43A deer.
08:45A deer.
08:46A deer.
08:50A deer.
08:51A deer.
08:51It is going to be a deer.
08:51A deer.
08:51A deer.
08:51A deer.
08:52A deer.
08:52A deer.
08:54A deer.
10:08And he spotted me in the end.
10:09Okay, so I really don't believe my luck.
10:13There's a small herd of roe deer just up ahead.
10:21I'm only getting a brief glimpse of them as they cross through the trees.
10:26So I might go around in the direction that they're headed and see if I can get a shot of
10:34them
10:34that way.
10:35Hopefully without scaring them off.
10:38Let me see if I can make my way through quietly.
10:42There's so many broken branches and twigs on the floor of this forest here.
10:52It's almost impossible to walk through without making noise.
11:46to sneak up on them any closer. So rather than worry them any more, I've just let them
11:56go and I'll enjoy them just as a fleeting glimpse that they were.
12:04Okay, so I'm out of the woods, so to speak, and straight into ploughed fields unfortunately.
12:16And I just realised I'd had a look on the map and I've still got another two kilometres
12:20to get home. The sun has disappeared. It's absolutely stunning actually. So yeah, I don't know if
12:34I'll get to see anything on the way home because I'm losing life rapidly now. It's been a wonderful
12:39walk. I've really enjoyed it actually, especially now I'm supposed to be stuck indoors.
12:45Because of this stupid disease. So getting out has been fantastic. And it's given me a few
12:54places that I'm definitely going to come back and scout out a little bit more carefully and
13:02maybe stake out for a while and see if I can get any shots that way. So yeah. I shall
13:10keep
13:10my eyes open in case I do spot anything on the way home. And if I do I'll be sure
13:15to bring
13:16it to you as well. But in the meantime, all that remains is for me to thank you again for
13:22watching. And I hope that if you are self isolating, you're not too bored out of your mind. And it
13:37will
13:37pass soon enough. Okay, so enough talking from me. Thanks again for watching. Bye for now.
13:45Bye.
