Hi Mads! Thank you for your lovely comment! And I'm glad you echo my opinion :)

Thank you Mum :D

Thank you Tony! Really apreciate the positive feedback! Next one is Saturday :)

Cheers Niels! Thanks for watching as always, I will pass on the praise to Matt and Ben :D.

Thank you for your comment! I'm glad you have experienced the area and thanks for the tip location for the mandrin ducks. My aim is to go back in the spring/summer. Friends of mine seem to have had a lot more luck at that time of the year. Thanks for watching :)

Thank you Eric! Really appreciate it! I am glad you like that I kept it honest. It always feels like a risk when you admit failure :D

Thank you Trigger! :D Glad you enjoyed it!

Worthy of being on the list for sure! Thank you Andy!

Thanks LA! Hopefully lots more on the way :)

Cheers buddy! Glad it disapoint :) And there is always another chance to see stuff :D

Thanks bud! Yep, always creating, it just doesn't always make it to the final stage :D. Good to see you going so strongly! Keep it up :)

Glad you share the love of exploring new areas! Its half the fun! And thank you for your comment :)

Thank you Prince! Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you Espen! Much appreciated!

Ha, so chuffed you pointed this out! I joke with Ben all the time about this. I just sent him a screenshot of this :D. As for getting into wildlife stuff. I would say just go for it! Just bare in mind the wildlife always comes first and you can't go wrong :)

Matt Gould Haha it proper tickled me 😂. Rollercoaster of emotion. Awesome and yeah of course. I live just on the western edge of Brecon Beacons and just ordered a 2x Converter for my 70-200 so I should have enough opportunity to learn. If you’re down this way at all hit me up!

@@danieljamesphillips8364 Cheers man! Good luck hunting for the spots out there! That's a beautiful part of the world :)

Matt Gould yeah super lucky to grow up here. Thanks man, look forward more vids 👍

Thank you Phil! Ha, a fair bit yes, thank you for the kind words! And I am glad you found the conclusion thought provoking. I will try not to disapoint with the next one :)

Cheers Sam!

Cheers Jack! And right! All the coolest people collect skulls! :D

Hi Adrian! Glad you agree! Thank you for watching :)

Aw cheers Twizted! That's great to hear! I think the format of my videos will be ever changing but there will always be some like this and some solo ones. Thanks for the feedback!

Cheers Sarah! I understand that culling is sometimes unavoidable but I really believe strongly that other options are not fully explored before that happens in many cases. Thank you for watching :)

@@MattGouldphotography have you been to bradgate park ? There is loads of deer there £4 all day parking on a weekend £3 all day parking on a weekday

Ben! Cheers man, means a lot coming from you! I was especially proud of the boar footage.... ;'D Glad you enjoyed it, clearly it will be used in your teachings as a perfect story telling example... right? Ha, and your joke went down well, if you scoll down to a comment from Elaine you will see the proof. At least someone laughed :D.

Cheers! Glad you agree with my conclusion :). It really is a great location which made it so frustraiting coming away empty handed so many times.

Thank you for the lovely messatge John! Really appreciate it!

Hi Lucia, thank you! Yeah it is sad, but im glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for the kind words :)

Hi Rupesh! Glad you enjoyed it! Yep, im back for a few consecutive weeks at least :D

Cheers Jim!

Thank you Hadi!

Thank you Sam! Glad you agree! Hopefully i will be able to provide more photographs in the coming weeks though :D

@@MattGouldphotography I look forward to seeing them matey! I'm working on a long form video of my own surrounding West Sussex, hopefully will raise awareness and troubles that wildlife are facing in this era more so than ever.

@@samh1432 Ah wicked mate! I think that area is often overlooked for its wildife. Let me know when it comes out :).

@@MattGouldphotography Yeah it really is! And I've really enjoyed spending more time locally as it's much more personal and a lot less traveling for those early starts and late finishes. I'm hopefully going to get in contact with some local for info of Badger setts when I can get around to writing the email, but I did have a really good conversation with a lady at WS Badger Group. The project is on going and it's success will really just be base on whether or not I can capture enough footage over the course of this year to make a full story.

Hi Geoff! Thanks for your comment. And I am glad you agree with my conclusion! Ahhh yes, hence me putting in the little warning before hand. Didnt want anyone seeing their lunch twice :D

Thank you Tom! Much apreciated :)

Cheers Terry! Really glad you enjoyed it! Even if there was only the one Boar :)

Matt Gould -I think there were two boars. Hard to forget the first one. It was memorable.😱. Mother Nature’s buffet.🙂

Hi Magnus! Next one will be Saturday :). And hopefully the Saturday after that as well, if all go's to plan. Thats actually really interesting to hear that from a Norwegian! Personally I feel a lot of people look to Norway as a good example of how we can live alongside wildlife and respect the planet. So, interesting maybe isnt the word, perhaps disheartening suits it better. Thank you for sharing your thoughts though! And I am glad you enjoyed the video.

@@MattGouldphotography Great to hear! Keep it coming, its always a threat with good bird and wildlife photography videos as there is so much good landscape videos out there. How the Norwegian government presents itself outwardly regarding wildlife conservation and what is really going on is, I'm afraid not very transparent. Its such a shame, and I'm sure that goes for many other places to.

In some respects it's nice to hear peoples thoughts are echoed across continents, though at the same time its sad to hear that the problem is also present in those continents.

Hiya Preston! Yeah thats definitely an option and I actually have some upcoming projects along those lines. Though my aim was to capture footage on my camera really just so I can control the look of the shots more and hopefully get better quality footage :). Thanks for the suggestion though and for watching! :)

⁠@@MattGouldphotographyhi. This is me in a different account and I must of forgot that you replied 2 years ago. I agree with you completely. I went there for the weekend and I saw muntjac and boar

Hi Stefano! Glad you enjoyed the video, and no, I imagine it wouldn't be. Though I haven't experienced many places outside of the UK like this so I didnt want to speak for them without the information. And yes, the dead Boar was not pleasant, but it was incredibly interesting!

Thank you Tim! Ha, I like to think they have improved in recent months so I apologise if they appear to slowly dip in quality as you venture further into the archives :D. Thanks for the location tips, will have to check those out at some point :).

@@MattGouldphotography They're all excellent watches and your videos and stills is incredible. As someone who has just started getting into wildlife photography your passion and commitment is really inspiring and I can't wait to have my own similar experiences! Keep doing what you do!

Many thanks Steve, as always :D. I am glad you agree. I find it said that it needs to be a "wildlife lover" in order to have the opinion we should co-exist to the best of our abilities, rather than it just being a matter of respect for all living things. Still, hopefully times are slowly changing. And I am glad that photo had that affect on you :)

Hi Paul! Ha, everyone is allowed to climb on a soapbox once in a while :D. But yes, though culling is sometimes needed, I am glad you agree that more should be done to try and co-exist and respect these animals that have the same rights to live here as we do. Thank you for watching :)

Hi John, sorry you are going through similar frustrations. I did manage a few more glimpses but they were sprinting past and very on edge. My advice (... as someone not in a position to advise as they too have failed so far) would be to go in the spring and go for an early morning silent walk. That time of year they seem to be much more accepting of people and they seemed to be more active in the morning. Though that is just my limited experience in the area.

Cheer fella! Still planning to go and visit you in your new home for a collab or two ;). And my conscience is clear, I gave you fair warning :D. Thanks for the comment and for watching!

@@MattGouldphotography yep! The door is always open mate - would be brilliant to have you and Ben over for an adventure 🤙🏼

@@JoshEdwardsFilms This is highly possible :D Cheers fella!

@@MattGouldphotography the possibilities are kind of endless - tigers and Orangutans up in Sumatra. I will send you a link on Instagram now to something else as well

@@JoshEdwardsFilms ooooo intruiging!

You never know Adrian :) Thank you for the compliment!

Hiya Paul, thank you thats very kind. But the BBC is a very competitive place for sure. Maybe one day though, but for now I am really enjoying this process :).

Elaine!!! So good to see you back! Badgers are another example of my point, jumping to eradication without proper consideration of other methods of controlling the issue (TB). I beleive there is evidence to show that in some cases culling them can cause TB to spread, because if you kill at random you may well be killing healthy populations and so leave room for an un-healthy one to move in. And I will let Ben know his joke went down well. Thanks for stopping by :)

Hi John Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I will be releasing more solo efforts in the furture but the recent few months and next couple of videos have just leant themselves to group ones. It will always be a bit of both. And yes I completely agree, sometimes when there are no other options, culling is a necessary evil. Seeing as we have eliminated the apex predators in this ecosytem and many others already and so we need to take their place. My point was more at the fact that people seemed to treat animals like the boar as marmite, they love them or hate them. Personally I would like to see a world where we accept that we could/should be living alongside animals like this. Maybe I worded myself poorly. Lesson learnt I suppose :). Thanks for your honest feedback and thoughts. There should be more videos, once a week for the next two weeks at least :).

Thank you Tamil, much apreciated :)

Thats awful. Do you have the link to the article by any chance? Yeah, it's a said realisation. But I like to think optimistically that things are going to get better, especially with the changing public opinion on climate change. :)

It was an article published on the BBC webpage about a man from somewhere in Wales who regularly drove up to The Forest of Dean with his dogs & hunted the Wild Boar amongst other animals like Deer, Badgers & Foxes. When they finally caught him the found thousands of images & hundreds of hours of video footage of him in several different locations including TFOD committing some absolutely obscene acts of animal cruelty like throwing fox cubs to his dogs, digging out badger sets pulling out the adults claws & letting his dogs rip the badgers apart, videoing his dogs take up to 20 minutes to actually kill quite a few Wild Boar & take images & video of barely alive animals screaming in pain whilst he did a selfie with the animal in the background. This guy was a totally sick a55hole!… I know this is a wildlife photography channel & I don’t want to stray the comments away from that subject, but my belief is that people like this can’t be cured & it’s been proven that people who enjoy torturing & enjoy seeing animals suffer move on to bigger crimes. The current punishments are nowhere near harsh enough & I think for the crimes this particular individual committed think he should have got 10 years.

Sorry, I meant to say I loved the video & TFOD looks an amazing place & one I hope to visit one day. Mark🇬🇧

Glad you agree Christopher! Hopefully we are at the beginning of a new way of thinking just creeping through. Thanks for watching :)

@@MattGouldphotography your videos are fascinating and makes me want to attempt the challenges of wildlife photography

@@N000-reply thank you so much, that's the biggest compliment. Purely out of interest and only if you don't mind me asking, what made you click on and watch the first couple if you're not into photography already? It's always interesting to hear theses things as it's hard to know what it's like from the side of the viewer sometimes 😊

@@MattGouldphotography I Don't mind at all. My go to photography is landscape but been looking at getting another lens which I can't make my mind up macro or a superzoom. Going a bit of course I know, i think I sow your thumbnail of the sparrows and as its my second name it was only right to have a look. I think KZfaq brought it up as I was looking at macro b roll.

@@N000-reply Cheers, that feedback is genuinely really helpful. Well I hope to provide you with more reason to take the plunge into wildlife photography then in the future 😉

Aw wow, that sounds epic! I really want to visit Hong Kong I have to say! Sounds like there is some incredible stuff out there. And thank you! Glad you agree :)

@@MattGouldphotography Do come visit Hong Kong somedays! But definitely not while the whole conronavirus outbreak is happening of course, just saying...

@@anson4924 Hahaha, brillant :D Will do! It's genuinely high on the list with friends out there like Daphers :D.

Hiya Ise, an interesting suggestion for sure. I have no doubt it will work brilliantly in Scotland. I am no expert but I think Wales may hold more challenges, much higher habitat fragmentation and a much higher risk for conflict with humans due to population and sheep that will wonder into the woodlands in places. I hope I am wrong though and that they find a way to make it work. It would be brilliant to see them back :).

@@MattGouldphotography if other countries have to live with lions, elephants (two species the uk's mod help protect), lynx, wolves, bears (such as our European neighbours) then Wales and the UK in general can handle a few lynx too. If you ask the right people they'll tell you there's already big cats roaming the countryside as it is 😂

I agree that people should find a way to coexist with wildlife as is the conclusion on this video in a way. Though the examples you give I feel are different in the respects of people having always lived with animals like (meaning they grew up learning how to) and they have a substantially larger amount of space available meaning conflicts are far less likely. I believe, given the case of wolves for example, there is only room for one pack just in Scotland making that option impossible. I think space limiting population size may also be a factor for lynx in Wales, though I could be wrong 🙂. I'm not saying the lynx wouldn't work. I'm saying i'd need to see the differences between Wales and Scotland as potential reintroduction sites, before stating my unprofessional opinion. And other than the Scottish wildcat I think I would also need evidence that isn't shaky footage or personal anecdotes before I subscribe to the big cats in the English countryside theory. But science can always say it's wrong so the day that happens I will of course say I was wrong. 🙂 Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts on this channel, always open for constructive conversation about conservation 🙂👍

Well put Al, thank you for watching!

Brilliant upload BTW! ;)

Very intersting points Simon, i'm glad you feel so passionately about topics like this! Hopefully postive mindset changes are around the corner. Thanks for watching and i'm glad you enjoyed the video :).