Great video, Gerry. The birds are juvenile House Martins, adults have already left for Africa and these wee guys need to build up their flight muscles for the long journey. The rocks are the only tall structures to keep them safe up off the ground away from ground predators when they need a rest. The rocks also get very hot and will hold onto some of that heat through the night to keep the birds warm as they roost overnight.

A great advert for the Mournes and Slieve Bearnagh summit in particular. the shots of the mist/ clouds rolling up the mountain at sundown were something special. Hope the ginger nut rationing worked out.

Awesome as always Gerry, you should be on UTV or BBCNI showing this off to the masses, but then again say naffin we don't want it getting spoiled.

Lovely video. Thanks Gerry, you pick a very nice spot for sunset👍🏻

Brilliant amount of nature captured again Gerry fair play. That's a very late tadpole!

Your resting spot for the night looked idyllic beneath the Tor Gerry! 😎 Such expansive views throughout, always exciting to see the Mournes - especially in such great conditions! Bearnagh seems to always deliver, whether it’s admiring it from another mountain, trekking up its slopes or basking in the glory of sitting/sleeping on top! You did it proud 😊🎉

Amazing footage Gerry, thanks for sharing

A real treat of a Waterfall on the way up gerry. A fairly decent volume for high up too. The tops must still be wet. Bit what a day. I don't blame you for taking 5 or taking your time at all. The Mourns were looking epic today. A superb pitch there bro - the perfect evening for the master of the bivvy. And the mountain gave you few people and a grand morning too. This was a result. Yeah, lovely one gerry. All the best out there. Mark

You make the Mournes look very pretty. The times i've been down that way it's only been rain!! Great video Gerry. 🙂

I know exactly we're you are I've been up all around there lot's of times thanks for sharing memories ❤

Ireland has lots of magnificent sceneries ! Thanks a lot for this video !

Another spectacular video of another of your adventures Gerry. What a wonderful place we have in the Mournes. You have a great eye for the small micro images as well as the big views of landscapes, clouds and skies. Thank you

Fantastic video Gerry, loved it all. Andrea came in when you were setting up the bivet. She couldn't believe your setup, no tent etc!! The picture of the Brocken Spectre was such a special moment. I love the way you just wander where you want and show us new angles of familiar places. Last time I was up Bearnagh we got a bit lost in heavy mist and got no views, your sunset was spectacular. Regards, ashley

Great trip Gerry! Must feel wonderful to wake up and have the mountain and all those views to yourself! I love seeing the weather, as the light moves and the fog/clouds roll by late in the afternoon. Great to have so much water available that you can filter and don't really need to carry any. A hot tea out in the mountains sounds perfect!! :) 👍👍

Great video Gerry. Beautiful area, nicely filmed. Thank you for sharing 😊

It's fantastic up there I lived just at the bottom of sleeve croob mountain, you've done very well my mountain friend stay safe 👍 I miss living in Northern Ireland 😊

Beautiful Gerry 😍 I'd say after the Summer we've had that you were more than ready for that trip ☀ 👌

Thanks Gerry, great video. The Mournes never disappoint ❤

Hi Gerry, lovely views from the Mournes, especially the latter half of your video, where the low cloud and mist rolls in. It made it look very atmospheric and must have been a joy to witness. You may bulk buy the ginger nuts 😅, it's not the sort of dilemma you need when on the mountains. All the best 👍

Beautiful view at the start! Wow

Hey Gerry, wonderful video. Glorious sunset, I love how the clouds were moving over the mountain. Made a great lighting effect. I hope we'll get a few more of those sunny summer days here in Ireland.

Cracking spot Gerry. Good looking wee Mountain too. Wouldn't look out of place on the Isle of Arran.

No joking, this is the best camping video I have seen on KZfaq, no click bait titles, no advertising freebie products and no staring at a frying pan for half an hour, class stuff and enjoyable just as it should be!

Aw Gerry, thats a beautiful video. You captured some stunning moments there. I would even say you caught the change from summer to autumn. That scene of the sunlit cloud billowing over the top of Bearnagh is just cinegraphic. Great video pal. Just great

Hi Geoff. Another great vid. If that’s a Nalgen bottle you’re using it’ll take boiling or near boiling water. Fill it, wrap it in a sock, chuck it in your sleep set. Toasty toes. My wife swears by it instead of just swearing about the cold. JK. Keep up the stunning work n maybe see you on a hill. Take care.

Brilliant Video Gerry on my favourite mountain. My uncle used to put hives into The Mournes to get the heather blossom flavoured honey many years ago.

You find some great places to hike through Gerry... Gorgeous

I am so enjoying your videos, watching with my morning coffee from landlocked Colorado - - such great photography and appreciation of the micro and macro nature of this fine Earth. Uncredited character of this video was obviously the mist...so glorious.

Fantastic video! Very beautiful views ❤ New subscriber Have a nice week!

I think you might have to pack extra ginger nuts for the next one, especially on the longer winter nights ☕️ It looked like a perfect spot, and what a day for it. Class as always 👌

Going by plumage and tail shape I think the birds you filmed were house martins. Swallows and swifts have longer forked tails. They mostly nest in urban areas but cliff faces were their natural nesting sites and the cracks in the tor would be ideal spots. In both clips they're flying towards the sunny side of the tor so my guess would be that it's a popular spot for insects to rest and warm up. These little birds are so agile they can easily pluck insects off the cliff without crashing into it.

Another great video. My favourite mountain to camp on. Whenever I can't get up to mountains I just stick a Gerry Video on. 😊

Beautiful 😍 some incredible footage Gerry 🧡 makes me wanna go back to the Mournes asap. Thank you for sharing 🙏

Gerry, you've a knack for this content. I love it. Inspires me to get out there

Great sharing Have a wonderful day

I’ve never been to the Mournes, but after watching this vid in particular I may have to consider it, they looked fantastic. Got a Brocken Spectre down south I reckon the same weekend, although in my case it was followed by two hours in cloud. 👍🏻

Great video Gerry.

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Another brilliant video Gerry, spectacular views all round, Bearnagh is definitely in my top 3....... ATB Stuart

Great video Gerry, I am the beekeeper in the video and would love for you to try the honey but when I post my contact details the comments get taken down. I only live a few minutes from Attical and have an honesty box. Keep up the good work Darren

You got a grand day Gerry! I haven't been in the Mournes for oh so long and I can see them from our road! I haven't seen a frog or indeed frogspawn in ages. Ah Gerry! Only 8 ginger nuts!!!!!!! Not good! Boy, you got some terrific long distance views! I'm really surprised about the swallow activity you saw. I wouldn't ever have thought they would group together so high up like this. I've seen them do the same on roofs up here on the Middle Braniel road. They would gather together in the sun and sit there. But this doesn't go anyway near explaining why they are so high up in the Mournes. Very strange. I've just looked closer and I think these are house martins and they are going into the crevices. I'm still very surprised. What are they after? I'm looking down the comments and I think Irishlens might have the answer. Good to hear about the abundance of bees and butterflies. You take care!

great scenery and camerawork - have subscribed to your channel after seeing that. would like to walk some of the mournes next summer - are there any issues with wild camping there? id heard it can be slightly tricky in northern ireland as there aren't as we dont have the right to roam laws that scotland has. also - bit surprised you werent using a tent, would have thought that was a necessity for keeping the wind and mist off you during the night. do you use a bivvy bag or is that just a normal sleeping bag? will have a dander through your other videos, the answers probably there already!

Gerry, another great video thanks for it and my daughter and really enjoyed it. I want to take her for her first wild camp in the Mournes. Any suggestions (she is 8, but has climbed Donard aged 6). Probably a tent camp.

Where's that waterfall gerry?