Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE if you enjoyed watching - it really helps the channel - thank you. Please watch my other films on this channel : kzfaq.info/sun/PLVQf5iO8XVzpbZwdYAiv3qUpEBLtADO04

Happening on a film like this shows what a wonderful medium KZfaq can be . Aside from the endless barrage of noise and bombardment it allows filmmakers and artists of tremendous talent and dedication a space to publish personal work outside of their “professional practice” not to take anything away from that side of things but this is clearly a labour of love, can’t wait to sit with a cold beer this weekend and enjoy some more.

What a beautiful peaceful video.I can't wait to see more.The narration is so lovely too,perfect for the subject.Thankyou.

Some of the most amazing photography I've ever seen, and such succinct,clear, narrative. Thank you so much. Anne Coplestone

A Brilliant Wildlife Documentary. Beautifully Crafted. Many Thanks For Sharing.

What a beautiful piece of work!

Thank you Stephen, So wonderful to view this film, you are so kind to share it with us. Most of us will never be fortunate enough to witness wild nature, lacking your skillset and patience & knowledge. Also of course your special photographic ability. Thank you so much !

Your chanell is woefully under subbed.Brilliant content again. Who needs the BBC .

Beautifully done! Such wonderful camera work and storytelling. Congratulations on a fantastic production. 👍

Stephen, you mention your dad a lot, I too have my dad to thank for a lifetime of nature watching. Sunday afternoons were time for our walks, I have memories of seeing Weasel, Fox, Hare, finding numerous nests full of eggs, finding a shed snake skin, all whilst following in the footsteps of where my dad himself played as a little boy in the late 40’s/50’s. Now I have children of my own, 6, 8 and 11, I take them to the same places and they see the same things. I take them to bluebell forests, to poppy fields trying to inspire their love of the outdoors. They all love nothing more than putting their wellies on and going out and enjoying getting covered in mud. They recognise a lot of common birds and can recognise their song. We live backing onto farmland and have fox, badger, roe deer, stoat, grass snake, red kite, sparrowhawk, buzzard on our lists, it’s a small piece of paradise 😊

And you even checked the bridges at Oxford canal with me that day Stephen. You were brilliant. And a great day we had walking around the canal.

Equal to anything the once-great BBC ever did with Attenborough, I am tempted to say. What a thoroughly enjoyable and relaxing video, for which I thank you. Liked. Sub'd.

I enjoyed this very much, informative narration and stunning filming. Truly a master of your craft.

An absolute delight to watch your captured images and listen to your narration.

thank you. love your noninvasive video and smoothing, warm narrative

This is absolutely stunning film-making. My daughters were transfixed by your gentle, humorous and informative commentary and stunning photography - as was I. Thank-you for sharing your wonderful nature diary.

Magnificent film and every bit as captivating as the recent "Wild Isles" episode on Rivers. As an Angler I'm spoiled by riverside wildlife encounters but to see a family of Otters like this is a privilege afforded to few.

Fantastic photography Stephen. I like the details, close and prolonged focus on the wildlife and nature. The early morning filmings are wonderful. No added music makes it so much natural.It brings the nature to my living room. Your gentle commentary makes the film very relaxing. You have presented the filming without using too much technology and that makes it so real as if I am seeing it with my own eyes in the nature. . Otters and kingfishers are my favourite. The film was such a treat for my eyes and relaxation for my mind. Please continue to do more wonderful wild life films like this.

I love Stephen de Vere’s films. Love this channel. ❤

This is so great! I’m really pleased to see something of this quality on KZfaq.

Lovely, soothing, beautifully filmed and narrated. Your love and appreciation for the wildlife around your home shines through every minute. Your father would be proud!

Tranquility and Beauty.

Thank you for this lovely look at nature along the river. 🦦

Lovely video enjoyed watching Thank you 🙏

Thank you Stephen for an absolutely wonderful video. Your patience is outstanding and you get such rewards for it. The otters, kingfishers, mink etc , truly wonderful. Your education teaches us viewers so much. Now I know how to tell the difference between a male and female kingfisher. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful video 😊

What a gift! So good to watch a full length feature! Am going to be watching over and over. Thank you for doing this 🙏

I could watch this all day. Not only is it informative but so beautiful to watch, thank you very much for sharing this with us its been delightful and i like that you don,t make the documentry about yourself, the photography ans presentation is stunning thank you so much. xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thank you

Great shots of the otters 👍 as you said its one thing seeing them but filming them is difficult, although you made it look like a regular occurrence

Thank you very much

It's not very often at all that I leave comments but WOW! What amazing patience and know-how to be able to film all this. Superb camera skills, extremely talented. I very much enjoyed watching this 🙏

What a great video. I'm an amateur wildlife photographer, and I really enjoyed watching this. There's nothing like being out with wildlife. Thank you so much Stephen for this awesome video.

Excellent documentary. Very enjoyable and educational. Thanks. 😼

Just beautiful, these are the best nature documentaries I've seen. I appreciate the directness in which you present your materials, and the intimacy between you and the subjects.

Thank you Stephen, God bless you for your amazing documentaries. The filming is absolutely beautiful and narrated is truly one of a kind! You’ve given us so much great information of the beauty of our wildlife 👍 thanks again ❤

please always keep doing this. youre unique. there are all sorts of videos but yours are different. your passion that you verbally express and with the knowledge you offer is what i look for most in these types of videos. ive seen all your movies now and am belled to wait for your next one. i watched them out of order but am really glad youtube just keeps playing these when i fall asleep. i woke up to your meadow one playing and and watched it twice when i made a friend who i also now a fan watch it too. thank you from america for sharing the nicer side of your land

Beautiful video, what a joy to watch!

As always, beautifully filmed and narrated Stephen. I fully understand and appreciate the skills and knowledge needed to capture this footage and often try to visualise you behind the camera in each scene. I have lost count how many times I have watched your films now - which always inspire me to get out with my camera gear.

Thanks for sharing this, Stephen! I've watched Through the Garden Gate a few times and it's probably my favorite English nature documentary of all time, so I'm beyond excited to watch this one too.

Very very relaxing & narrated pleasantly!!

Thank you for this beautiful film, letting wildlife take the centre stage with just the background 'music' of nature. Perfect 💚

Well made one of the best nature film so quiet no music nothing but the sound of the river bank and of course the wildlife

Beautiful river and your film is great at showing the beauty that is still left in this once enchanted island.

Wow, these nature documentaries made by Stephen de Vere are some of my favorites and I'm a nature documentary fanatic. Thank so much!!!

Beautiful.Thanks for sharing

thank you very much for this magnificent film 😃

Absolutely amazing nature documentary. The voice is the cherry on the cake, ties it all together. So serene. Thank you

Excellent film thoroughly enjoyed it thank you

Awesome. So glad you posted another one. I loved the English Garden one you posted. Wife and I watch it like 50x lol.

27:46 whew life is touch for a Vole, look at those scars! Fantastic Footage Stephen. THANK YOU

Thank you for a stunning video

A superb documentary on all my favourite creatures. I learned a lot from this! Thank you for sharing this wonderful footage.

I really liked this documentary. My favorite segment was the grebes, though they were not successful at reproducing, I enjoyed watching them make the nest.

Wonderful video,thanks for sharing.

Lovely wildlife documentary, thank you very much!

Once again you rocked it. I have been wondering about all this. I got given 2 baby lovebirds a young budgie & an 8 yr old cockateil & they are all so different...but DIET!! I need to learn more about that. Went thru weaning with the lovebirds. The touch trainingbis also such an awesome tool. ❤🎉

Great Documentary, thank you so much for sharing!

Thanks so much. Your style narration made this video immersive and encouraging.. Hope you do many more

You could make videos with the amazing shots you get and relaxing music... Something like OCB Relax? If you do, the shots of the river at 2.28 - 2.35 👍. You must (should) be very proud of your work. It's great to see original content. To write your own music/poems, or make something is commendable & rewarding. KZfaq is amazing... To be able to fix tools, cars/motorbikes (and everything else!) is awesome on here & to find content like this. Kind Regards, Rob

@WildlifeInCloseUp a very good film, thank you for posting it. I have loved streams and rivers since childhood, the small chalkstreams of Hertfordshire were my idyll then. Wonderful places ever changing but always familiar, beautiful.

Amazing video,so well done, thank you so much for sharing.

Thank you for producing this video. :-) Especially having the scripts on the bottom, it is very much appreciated.

Absolutely delightful. Thankyou. Greetings from Aus

Just love this thanks so much grate documentaries

Wonderful work - entrancing. new sub.

Wonderful.

Johar🙏Namaste🙏💐🇮🇳Immersed in Majesty: Journeying Through Mountains and Forests in Nature's Embrace💎🤝🙏💐😎🏁

Hi have just seen your video and loved it. I adore wildlife but not seen otters nor voles, so this for me was fascinating. My experience with wildlife was with ospreys and pine martens up in Scotland. Thanks for sharing. Have subscribed!

Great film!. I really envy people who have jobs like this!

Thankyou delightful.

Thank You, for this lovely video. 💚

Beautiful video.

Amazing video well done, keep this up, I’m in love with wildlife and am so happy to see someone else spreading this information!

Thank you for this wonderful video :)

Beautiful.

cried at the end :,)

I sit in another world, Land around me, No modern woes, Just peace in freedom, Away from mankind. R.W. Glad for not paying the T.V. license... When there's excellent videos like your's, why bother with the aforementioned!!! Really enjoy your content... Will not forget you.

Если ты это читаешь, то знай, всё у тебя будет хорошо. Ты со всем справишься, и преодолеешь все жизненные трудности. Не грусти, и не унывай.

Great video! Very nice trip down an English river.

Very beautiful

Superb, great story,beautifully presented,thanks for all your hard work.

wow what a amazing documentary keep up the wonderful work by the way otters my daughters favourtie will have get her to watch it

Brilliant,,,👍👍👍👍👍👍

Beautiful and interesting film

Very nice thanks.

Thanks for this. I really enjoyed it.

Lovely stuff Stephen

Swimming with otters has never been more fun.

Superb camera work and very informative observations. Thanks for sharing. Sadly I have seen the demise of the water vole close to me. A combination of mink and then water quality would be my guess. Hopefully they’ll come back now that our water courses are being closely monitored. Open cast mining and farming as sources of water pollution/contamination - they seem to be getting their act together.

Lovely video! So perfect picture! Thank you so much Stephen. My husband wonders what camera it was shot?

Great video ,i rear a few pheasants myself and i do shoot a few but i definitely let out more than i shoot ,lovely bird i just wish some chicken eaters who buy their food in the supermarket wouldn't critise hunters

water mole genitalia is quite a rare sight

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What river system is this Stephen?? Thanks

hi, really interesting video thank you very much. do you know of any apps that are available to find these and other animals to photograph? i have ebird,but I'm after one for other animals/rodents not just cannal/river species,but woodland too ect.

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El documental es muy interesante, pero es una lástima que el narrador solo habla para él mismo, puesto que solo balbucea las palabras y a duras penas se le entiende lo que dice porque habla demasiado suave, para él mismo. Por esa razón no le puedo dar " me gusta"...

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I leave for a brake, having listened to this dull commentator for as long as the mind allows without contemplating suicide.