American Reacts to British Animals Not In America!

Join me on a wild journey as we discover some of the unique creatures that call Britain home! We'll see British animals that you won't find roaming the wilds of America. From adorable to bizarre, we'll explore the fascinating wildlife that inhabits the British Isles and learn more about their habitats, behaviors, and significance in British culture.
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[@scottythedawg]

Dont have large predators? a Womble will strip you to the bone in minutes - if you are lucky. If you are unlucky they will drag you off to line their Cribbins (a litter lined burrow). These creatures are sadly in decline since the Peruvian marmalade bear was introduced into their natural habitat.

[@tizzieblack3384]

Not to mention the red shirted Disney's pooh bear, which is taking over the territory of the native British Pooh bear ma t British children have ever seen the shy and unassuming native variety.

[@pommiebears]

Remember you’re a womble!! My dad, back in the 70’s, thought it was a GREAT idea to put a poster of uncle Bulgaria on the loft hatch above my bed!! I was about 3 years old, and I still remember being terrified of it 😂

[@pommiebears]

@@tizzieblack3384 what? We have PADDINGTON BEAR! Poo bear has NOTHING on Paddington Bear! Paddington Bear ate sandwiches with our Queen!! 😂

[@scottythedawg]

@@pommiebears he may just have saved your life lol

[@stewedfishproductions9554]

​@@tizzieblack3384 TBF: (And pedantic LOL), it wasn't Disney who put the red shirt on Pooh. It was Stephen Slesinger, who (in 1930) purchased the US and Canadian merchandising and all other trade rights from A A Milne. He drew the red shirt on Pooh in 1932 for a picture record and Winnie-the-Pooh game.... Then 'plush dolls' were produced in the 1940's wearing a shirt. Only after his death and much later in 1961 did Slesingers wife (Shirley), licensed rights to Walt Disney Productions... 😊

[@Ayns.L14A]

One she forget to mention, The ferocious, short legged, mountain dwelling Haggis, these vicious creatures live high in the mountains of Scotland, local farmers have to shelter their animals and do not leave their farms during the full moon, many hikers and wandering tourists have been lost while straying into wild Haggis territory, beware they are merciless,stealthy and attack in groups quickly overcoming and devouring their prey......

[@stewrmo]

Only one set of legs are short, the other side being long, so they can run around the mountains easier. I should know, my Dad was killed by one...

[@reluctantheist5224]

​@@stewrmomy dad was one.

[@redwiltshire1816]

We have something similar in wales that’s akin to a rabid sheep it only comes out on a full moon

[@Ayns.L14A]

@@redwiltshire1816 ah, you mean the haggis' frightening cousin the wooly backed weresheep?.. I've heard of these luckily I've never encountered one but I did hear of a group of soldiers on SAS selection had to be rescued by helicopter when they strayed off course in the Brecons...

[@redwiltshire1816]

@@Ayns.L14A yeah I remember that story its why they closed off half the national park

[@kjdempsey]

Slow worms blink like lizards. Snakes don’t blink. Snakes can’t lose their tails if threatened. A lot of lizards can. Snakes have forked tongues. Slow worms don’t

[@caroline_scotland]

I used to search for slow worms all the time when I was younger.. have still never to this day seen one irl🙁😪

[@januzzell8631]

We have loads in our garden NOT a snake - please don't misinform - they ARE a type of lizard and are protected

[@kjdempsey]

@@januzzell8631 how did I misinform when I said they’re lizards not snakes

[@kjdempsey]

@@caroline_scotland we have loads in Gloucestershire

[@AiLiang-hh2zg]

@@kjdempsey I think they were referring tot JJLA's comment, not yours.

[@torros1839]

One of the manifesto pledges of the Monster Raving Looney Party was to get rid of all the grey squirrels in the UK by painting them red

[@beverleyrankin3482]

🤣🤣

[@speleokeir]

Still more sensible than most of the Governments policies. They really are monsters.

[@alisonanthony1228]

They also pledged to reintroduce breeding pairs of dragons into Welsh mountains. Another very sensible policy. I did vote for them that year.

[@torros1839]

@@alisonanthony1228 the introduction of the 99p coin was a good one

[@simonmeadows7961]

​@@alisonanthony1228 I was quite fond of their policy to replace the speaker of the house of commons with a more modern hi fi system.

[@jabbra1837]

So nice to hear an American voice that's a bit more down to earth and a bit less OMG THAT'S SO AWESOME!!!

[@lynnegee6814]

Shame he's portrayed as a dummy 🤯. Sure he's OK really.

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

Robins are slowly singing themselves to death here. Because of street lights, their natural routine is messed up. They sing during daylight hours to defend their territory, but because street lights make them think it's day at night, they sing for hours on end until exhaustion makes them have a brief nap. They're incredibly loud for their size, and will often be the most common birdsong heard, along with blackbirds and corvids (crows/jackdaws, magpies etc).

[@mothmagic1]

They are also strongly territorial and quite physical in defence of their territory.

[@ExtantThylacine]

In Britain, by law you cannot release a trapped grey squirrel back into the wild: it has to be destroyed.

[@noggintube]

Same as rats, they're considered vermin.

[@davidware9549]

@@noggintubedon’t get why cause they starting to think that rats was the main cause of the plague rats are as clean as cats they clean their selfs so much so this stigma with rats being dirty they ain’t well maybe wild ones

[@binzy1996]

Grey squirrels are very tasty

[@Jb-tl1yi]

There used to be a bounty on grey squirrels, you got paid for everyone you killed.

[@511robyno]

And whos going to know. PC Dixon doesnt do a night shift beat these days.

[@jakeoliver9167]

Orange is a relatively recently named colour. The fruit came first. The colour orange was just a variety of red in the past. So robins were called red-breasted (stop it children)

[@Dan-B]

Yep, there was no distinction in the English language between red and orange until around the 16th century.

[@ericg5791]

Donald Trump?

[@ericg5791]

The European Robin is Britain's national bird Sadly,Hodgehegs are decreasing here,but Pine Martens which DON'T eat pine cones,coz they are pretty adept hunters,are slowly increasing,with one spotted on the northern outskirts of London.Roe and Red deer are native.Fallow deer were introduced by the Romans.Sika,Muntjac and Chinese Water deer were brought over by Victorian country estate toffs. I had a Roe deer doe walk up to me once, waiting at a rural bus stop in Epsom

[@missharry5727]

Red deer are the counterpart of the big deer known in North America as the elk. Confusingly, in European usage elk is the name of the huge Northern deer known in the US as a moose. It got the name before the moose was known from America.

[@terryhunt2659]

Redbreast was the bird's original name. After the British postal service was reformed in the 19th century, postmen (and they _were_ all men) were referred to by the generic name of 'Robin' (just as in some cultures one addresses a man whose name one doesn't know 'John'), and they had red uniform jackets, so came to be called 'Robin Redbreasts'. In time this was transferred to the bird, and then the 'Redbreast' was eventually dropped.

[@samuel56551]

That is not a " rat thing " , it is a pine marten . They are beautiful , intelligent animals . Members of the mustelid family .

[@joannagodfrey5111]

they are also very fierce and can wreak havoc in a chicken coop, killing the chickens wholesale

[@EmperorofMankindStuckOnAThrone]

They are adorable menaces

[@henryrodgers.]

​@@joannagodfrey5111 i kkow 7 out of my 12 chickens were killed by one I live in northern ireland

[@lynnegee6814]

And they are very much carnivores, not much into "eating pine cones".

[@jabbra1837]

TBF, rats are pretty intelligent too 😅

[@stephenwhite345]

Pine martens are savage little buggers, king of the trees and will chase squirrels to ground

[@Jamie_D]

They helping get rid of the grey squirrels who aren't used to them so the red ones can slowly come back, as they grew up around them and know how to avoid them better.

[@fayesouthall6604]

My dad went close to a pine martin as a kid and it went for him 😂😂

[@Thefox0922]

@@Jamie_Dyeah there trying to increase there population of pine martens to deal with the gray squirrels which is good

[@robertjohnsontaylor3187]

Pine martins can never catch a red squirrel as they are far too fast , unlike the grey & the black squirrels.

[@stewedfishproductions9554]

Yes, I just read a Scottish Woodland article about the pine martens devouring GREY squirrels but not RED ones because they are faster and harder to catch. It also said they are named after the pine trees which they mainly live in and not because they eat pine cones! 😅

[@rajekamar8473]

Pine martins predate grey squirrels but cannot get to red ones as the latter are lighter than both and can hide out on the thin brances of trees where the pine martins cannot follow. The PMs help to control the greys.

[@daevanpatel4207]

PMs. - Prime Ministers

[@sc3pt1c4L]

She never mentioned the lesser spotted haggis or the urban chav.

[@pommiebears]

Ughhh….. The Chav! Im way more afraid of the Chav. 😂

[@priscillaroberts7945]

Yes,beware the Garys. Member of the leevit family the cry of leevitgary is bloodcurdling.​@@pommiebears

[@Kit411230]

Ah the Urban chav, closely related to the Asbo if I'm not mistaken

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

I didn't realise there are no hedgehogs in Australia - there are plenty of them in New Zealand! I'm surprised she didn't mention badgers - Britain has the European badger, which is completely different from US badgers, and is an astonishing, beautiful-looking beast.

[@frankhooper7871]

Unfortunately mostly seen flattened by the side of the road

[@missharry5727]

The hedgehogs in New Zealand were introduced in the 1870s for pest control.

[@nolajoy7759]

I was hoping for a badger also.. the English badgers are Beatrix Potter level badgers. Other badgers are slavering horrors. No sweet hedgehogs here in Australia, just echidnas who are not cute and are smelly.

[@aitchessanon4312]

@@nolajoy7759Fascinating, zoologically, though (at least to a Brit such as me!) 😀

[@harrycapper69]

@@frankhooper7871 For me they are mostly seen in my back garden. The other night there was 2 large and 2 small ones, beautiful creatures.

[@armandoguzmannieves5472]

It’s not snake man. It doesn’t even have a snake tongue, as you said.

[@njones420]

I'm sure someone else will have mentioned it, but robins are an incredibly friendly bird ... if you dig a hole while gardening, a robin always turns up waiting for the free worms. My grandmother had one which would fly into her kitchen for food when she called it, it would eat out of her hand. FYI: The roe deer size is wrong, they're actually 3'-4' tall (she is thinking of the much smaller muntjack-deer)

[@user-tc2pc3mq8i]

my mum had that with a very large aggresive crow attacks everyone except our family on sight and gave us coins and shinies it found

[@theshiftybloke4672]

We sadly had two Robins nest get attacked by a cat in our garden, but prior to that they would always hang out with us :(

[@danrcash]

Apparently slow worms get their name from "slay worms" thanks to their diet: they tend to slay a lot of worms for breakfast, lunch and tea. Over the years 'slay' became 'slow', which is very funny because if you've ever seen one you'll know how fast those little buggers can move!

[@AlexP12526]

Also "wurm" was an Anglo Saxon term for any crawling creature. Not just literal worms

[@grahamlong6870]

The real origin of the name slow worm is from the old Norse language (Norwegians brought the language over when they invaded Britain and Europe) and are commonly referred to as Vikings in popular Hollywood parlance. The creature is sort of worm coloured, but sheds its skin (Sloughs) regularly, as do other reptiles, hence why it was termed Slough Worm. That became altered over time to the name we use today. As an additional fact or two they did invade and take over France, when they were called Norsemen, which again gradually altered to Normans. Think William the Conqueror. They did not wear horned helmets. Both these and the name Vikings were courtesy of Hollywood again. Viking actually meant, to go raiding. My wife is Norwegian, and squirms when she sees these films.

[@user-tc2pc3mq8i]

@@grahamlong6870 honestly i hate when in gift shops or movies or cartoons and whatnot they just have a bunch of horns and inaccurate viking posters when it was norse not vikings. one other thing i hate is when runes are just tossed aside as a way of speaking when no in norse myhtology runes were extremely painful odin was even willing to remove his eye ( i think could be being stabbed by his spear) to learn them as they could do magic like summoning water teleporting and others

[@AiLiang-hh2zg]

The common type of "pet" hedgehog is the African Pygmy Hedgehog. Interesting story- a friend of mines' dad actually did a genetic study on wild African hedgehogs and found that roads basically isolated certain populations of Hedgehogs in Africa, essentially creating genetically isolated subpopulations within a population.

[@rosemarielee7775]

The picture was of the african hedgehog not the native UK hedgehog.

[@jorgehurford1742]

we have hedgehogs; you have porcupines! We have pine martins (I don't think they eat pine cones; they are carnivores); you have fishers; We used to have bears, wolves, lynx, beavers wild boar, but our ancestors wiped them out. Wild boar have accidentally been reintroduced; there are people who want to reintroduce wolves. And slow worms ARE a kind of lizard not a snake; there are anatomical differences, I can't remember exactly what, but they are extremely cute and I have lots of them in my garden. Grey squirrels are a plague and have wiped out the red ones except in some remote(ish) places. Also you have the wolverine, an animal I wouldn't want to meet when out and about. There are several kinds of tits; blue tits, great tits, long tailed tits etc. The name is short for titmouse and is not smutty at all.

[@h-Qalziel]

Beavers have also successfully been reintroduced into the wild in some areas. I really hope the lynx also eventually gets reintroduced, the overpopulation of deers due to there being no predators is crazy.

[@Volkuth]

​@@h-Qalziel the beavers weren't supposed to be reintroduced, nobody knows who released them, but they have shown positive effects on the local ecosystem. And I too am hopeful to see the reintroduction of the lynx. Some want the wolves and bears to be reintroduced, I would like this, but because of the sort of animals they are it makes their reintroduction very complicated.

[@lindylou7853]

Saw a baby weasel once on a walk … length of a slipper but orangey red and fast as lightning … so cute …

[@Grib68-]

There used to be bears and wolves in Britain but they were hunted to extinction,the last bears were killed in the 15th century and the last wolves were killed in the 18th century.

[@pommiebears]

We have big cats now! Great big panthers. And, mountain lions. Lots were released in the 80’s when it became illegal to have them, and they’re everywhere now. Thriving for 40 years!

[@kemipue]

We also used to have lions natural;y, but that was a very long time ago!

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

@@kemipue i mean america used to have proper lions too (not just mountain lions) but that was also very long time ago (around the same time as the cave lions of the uk)

[@n1nj4l1nk]

They weren't boobie jokes, that's a completely different type of bird. That squirrel pic you pulled up isn't a pure red squirrel, it's got a lot of grey in its dna. Also, slow worms aren't snakes.

[@GuitarsAreHard]

Robins are said to have red breasts because they were named before the colour orange existed in the English language. The colour orange was named after the fruit which wasn't introduced to the british isles until the 15th century.

[@julianaylor4351]

European Robins are from the same family of birds as Thrushes, but although they look cute, they are extremely territorial and bully other small birds. I know that because a Greenfinch, accidently flew into my front hall once and it was terrified by my Christmas decorations of Robins. One Robin even tried to bully me once. I was picking elderberries in my back garden and it objected. It landed in front of me, showing an elderberry in its mouth; cheeky little bird, saying the berries are all mine, because it considered my garden to be its territory.

[@missharry5727]

European robins have recently been reallocated from thrushes to flycatchers, but I doubt they've noticed.

[@h-Qalziel]

European Robins are in the Old World Flycatcher family and American Robins are in the Thrush family.

[@julianaylor4351]

@@h-Qalziel Thanks for the info.

[@dianeshelton9592]

We had grey squirrels that used to sit on the roof and throw sticks and pine cones at people. Give me a robin trying to bully me any day. The visiting fish van man refused to come to the front door he was so scared of them.

[@julianaylor4351]

In the UK Grey Squirrels are classified as an invasive species and a pest. I don't know what the rules are where you live. I once had to varnish an upstairs window sill, near bushes to stop them striping paint off my wooden windows, put given it was old leaded paint, falling into a bush, instead of ingesting dangerous paint, was probably a better outcome for a tree climbing agile creature.

[@caroline_scotland]

Why isn’t Badgers or Scottish Wild cats on this list?🤔🤨 I get loads of hedgehogs in my garden every night. Had a wee fox sitting outside my gate last night being nosey as well.. so gorgeous🥰💕

[@Cleow33]

I think because they have badgers in America, although they are not the same as British ones. Ours are cute, the American ones look evil!

[@caroline_scotland]

@@Cleow33 really? I honestly didn’t think they had them there at all. Think every American reaction I’ve seen with a badger in it they’ve thought it was a raccoon😥😂

[@sushi513]

@@caroline_scotland I think it's because they're pretty different over there if you look them up, they look horrifying lol

[@caroline_scotland]

@@sushi513 oh aaaaye!! To be fair they do have kinda cute wee faces.. but at the same time looks like there’s been a wee mix up and got the wrong body or something.. like a cross between a Lemur and fluffy armadillo or something🧐😁 There was a pic of one that I have most definitely seen before tho because it was the most unsettling and craziest looking animal ive ever seen in my life, so may have possibly blocked all existence of it from my mind before😥🫣😂

[@zebedeemadness2672]

​@@caroline_scotlandAmerican "Badger" aren't true Badges in the same way as the American robin, and got there "Badger" name on the same basis (that look a bit like a Badger). True Badges are of the genus Meles (that is Latin for Badger), that's found through out Eurasia. The American "badger" or (native name) Honani (Taxidea taxus) are the most basal (primitive) member of the living Mustalid family, and is most related to another not true "Badger" the Honey "badger" or Ratel (Mellivora capensis).

[@Dreyno]

A lot of deer breeds are speckled when young. It’s camouflage as the mother wanders off to graze while they hide in the ferns.

[@JustMe-ks8qc]

Hedgehogs the size of a softball?? Babies, maybe, but the the bruiser that stomped through my garden at 8.30pm every night last year was bigger than some dogs. He wasn't scared of anything. He'd march right past me to the food bowl, plant his feet right in it and stare me down as he scarfed the lot.

[@AlBarzUK]

That was a badger. 😂

[@Sachik30]

Yorkshire terrier size? That's the size of the one that semi-lives in my garden, lol.

[@pommiebears]

Awesome! I used to feed a little hedgehog years ago. I live in Australia now, and I now feed a pregnant possum. 😂

[@pommiebears]

@@Sachik30 ITS CHEATING ON YOU WITH @JustMe-ks8qc! 😮

[@MrDaiseymay]

WILD CATS, MAINLY SEEN IN SCOTLAND . THEY LOOK LIKE DOMESTIC TABBY'S, BUT ARE MUCH LARGER, THE ONLY ANIMAL THE WILD CAT RESPECTS , IS THE PINE MARTIN, WHICH CAN ALSO BE VERY AGRESSIVE, AND HAS BEEN KNOWN TO ATTACK HUMANS, IF NEAR TO THEIR YOUNG.

[@pennycarter3433]

Size for size weasels are the most vicious killers.

[@user-tc2pc3mq8i]

no african wild dogs they are succesful in 85 of all hunts whilst lions and cheetahs are only 60

[@barrygentry5364]

Used to love watching grey squirrels when I lived in the UK, but now I live in Spain it’s great to see the red squirrels as the greys haven’t made it here yet.

[@user-tc2pc3mq8i]

grey squirrels are the bane of my existence near my house they were giant and hated everything and were capable of fighting cats one on one so when they were throwing nuts at me and my brothers head no joke my mum picked up a nut put it in her mini wooden crossbow (dont remember where she got it) and aimed and shot at the squirrel she got the largest one right where the sun doesnt shine

[@lenaoxton8827]

Love seeing people hear a Pine Marten for the first time 😂 They look so cute, you don’t expect them to sound like little demons.

[@nolasyeila6261]

Have you heard a Tasmanian devil?

[@johnp8131]

Pine Martens need to be encouraged as they prey on the intrusive Grey Squirrel whilst leaving the our indigenous Red Squirrels alone. Usually?

[@user-tp7le7qq2g]

Grey squirrels do not know the scent of pine martens, reds do, so reds avoid areas with marten scat or scent and martens ear greys.

[@sarahealey1780]

You may have sent us your aggressive squirrels, but we send you something far more invasive, the dandelion. You're welcome 😊 try getting rid of them 😂

[@julianaylor4351]

George the Goose from Wisconsin likes to eat them, but you would need millions of Chinese geese like him, to eat them all. 😁

[@petermercury]

Burdock's invasive in North America as well. Yo Americans, try putting them together in a beverage!!!

[@helenwood8482]

Starlings too.

[@missharry5727]

Would you like your Canada geese back in return for our starlings? They aren't doing too well over here, we could handle some more.

[@fayesouthall6604]

Dandelions are ok

[@Rachel_M_]

You should look up Mrs Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital.

[@jillosler9353]

We have NO killer animals in the UK (okay there are Adders but they are very rarely seen and even more rarely bite anyone!). Now if you want to see a country with the MOST DEADLIEST from spiders upward then you need to check out Australia 😂😂😂

[@user-tc2pc3mq8i]

yes we do scottish wild cats can kill we have dogs that can kill some are not strays and are just wild and we have so many shark species it is insane but we also have jellyfish that can kill and stingrays that very rearely can kill. also with the sharks we are very soon expecting great whites to join the list

[@Spiklething]

US Robins are associated with spring, as was mentioned, they appear at the end of winter Uk Robins are associated with winter, not just because of the red breast, but also because they often don't migrate, so they are one of the few birds that can be seen in the UK during the winter

[@auldfouter8661]

Robins start singing in September - almost made my granny sad when she heard them because she lost her oldest child aged ten in September 1933 and it brought back memories. Robins are associated with Christmas cards because postmen in UK used to wear red waistcoats in the 19th century.

[@missharry5727]

American Robins are thrushes, much bigger than our guy, which is much the same size and shape as a bluebird.

[@michaelkennedy8270]

'Convenient Pine Martin cancer'; now that's an album title.

[@lynnejamieson2063]

Yeah, eh…the American Grey Squirrel has essentially made the native to the UK Red Squirrel endangered due to how quickly they breed, they eat all the food so our native ones can’t and spread diseases to the Red Squirrels that they are immune to but are deadly for the Red ones. When I was 18 (back in the early to mid 90’s) I visited the US for the first time and whilst sitting outside in a green space by Opryland, I saw a Grey Squirrel in real life for the first time. A couple of years later I moved to England from Scotland and I honestly don’t think I’ve seen a Red Squirrel since but the grey ones are all over the place.

[@nicksykes4575]

Unfortunately Reds are mostly confined to conifer forests in Northern Scotland, although, I believe there's a few in Wales hanging on by their fingertips. All we have in England are the grey tree rats!

[@71CMM]

​@@nicksykes4575 You're completely wrong. The Isle of Wight is in England and only has reds.

[@lynnejamieson2063]

@@nicksykes4575 I used to work with someone who would purposely try and run down Grey Squirrels if they saw them on the road and would only refer to them as vermin because of how rare the Red Squirrel has become in England. I’m pretty sure that there are a handful of places in England that still have them but they are such a rarity now. And if I’m not mistaken it’s all because some 19th century member of the English Landed Gentry had seen the Grey Squirrels in the US and thought it was a wonderful idea to bring some to his country home as some sort of exotic delight and within a century or so they had become the prevalent species.

[@nicksykes4575]

@@71CMM That doesn't make me completely wrong, that just makes me incomplete. I had no idea there were only reds on the IoW. Never seen any reference to it, So you could tell me you still have dinosaurs, and I would be non the wiser.

[@nicksykes4575]

@@lynnejamieson2063 We've got more than enough invasive species of plants and animals too go round, usually introduced by people who knew no better. Starting with the Romans, who gifted us the rabbit.

[@robtyman4281]

Pine Martens are part of the Mustelid family - which includes stoats, weasels, (American) mink, ferrets, ermine, otters, European badgers, and even wolverines. The latter being the largest. Stoats, weasels, mink, ferrets, and pine martens are all very small. Stoats and weasels can kill an adult rabbit - which is twice their size.

[@mummylove5]

One of the reasons grey squirrels have taken over In the uk is that they carry squirrelpox , and they are immune to it, but british red squirrels are not . I've only seen red squirrels once in my life when we were on holiday on the Isle of Wight. The smaller red squirrels were beautiful and timid, not like the regular greys that empty my bird feeders !!

[@catbevis1644]

As a kid I went on holiday to a place with red squirrels and you could call them many things but definitely not "timid"! Every time we unknowingly stood underneath a tree where they were hiding, they'd drop pine cones on our heads to scare us off lol.

[@brun4775]

Visit mainland Europe. Red squirrels are everywhere with pine trees nearby.

[@binzy1996]

There’s reds coming back around me because A lot of people around me eat greys and it’s very tasty

[@watcherzero5256]

Theres a few squirrel reserves where you can find lots of Reds, but outside that they are pretty rare. Was in Canada last week and saw Grey, Red and Black squirrels as well as one hybrid grey-red which was solid red from head to waist then solid black from waist to tail.

[@isoldehammond23]

I’m sure grey squirrels are classed as vermin in the U.K, our landlord had the council get an exterminator in for free as they’re so invasive

[@vickytaylor9155]

You should do a comparison video between a British badger and an American badger. Apparently your badgers are scary. With regard to grey v red squirrels, Americans take back your grey squirrels so we can get back our red squirrels.

[@binzy1996]

American badgers are tiny compared to ours if I’m remembering right

[@pommiebears]

They don’t have badgers like ours.

[@thedarcbird]

Back in Victorian times, people were actually encouraged to release grey squirrels!

[@binzy1996]

@@thedarcbird yeah that’s why our native reds are nearly extinct

[@s.rmurray8161]

American Grey squirrels are slowly coming under pressure in UK by pine Martens as they are easy prey for them.The native red squirrels are much smaller lighter and agile than the grey and can escape from Martens easily. Martens are more common in Scotland and the north and numbers are increasing as the greys are providing an easy food source for them

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

I have seen 2 Pine Martins wild in Scotland near Comrie in the start of the Highlands and a load of Roe Deer in the back of Rosyln Chapple near Edinburgh. I was suprised she did not mention Capper Calies, they have a very unusual call and can be agresive in season. Other Scottish animals missed are Haggis they live up mountins and because 2 legs are shorter on the right ( if female and on the left if male) so girls run clockwise around a mountin and anticlockwise this is how they get together in season. They are very quirte but easy to shoot( in season with a big fine if killed out of season). She did not talk about 2 well loved animals in Scotland the Kelpie which is a horse that lives in lochs and our nost famous loch dweller which i am sure nost Americans have heard of. You have to be up at dawn to get a photo of it because its protected and can not be shot, its so hugeone bullit wont do it and its called Nessie. I have never seen it but my aunt used to say she had. So when in Scotland keep your eyes peeled you never know whats just around the corner or in the loch ( Loch Ness is supost to be the loch with Nessie in it) i think the clue may be in the name. In Orkney there is a breed of mouse which came with the Vikings and developed into its own wee beasty.

[@stephensanderson8920]

A pine Martin is a carnivor. It doesn't eat pine cones

[@watcherzero5256]

They are classed as carnivores because they are Mustelidae but Pine Martens are actually omnivores eating small animals, insects, fruit, nuts, mushrooms and eggs. About 40% of their diet is meat.

[@The_Rising_Ape]

Britain used to have a healthy wolf population which was unfortunately hunted to extinction during the middle-ages. Recently attempts have been made to reintroduce wolves but it's slow work with very few natural habitats left, especially outside scotland.

[@lynnegee6814]

Not a popular reintroduction with sheep farmers, understandably.

[@GnrMilligan]

Thank you again Sir. I spend pretty much all of the time watching your content either smiling or laughing.

[@PortmanRd]

Scince rewilding started in the U.K Pine marten have started to increase, but the best thing of all is that they've taken a particular liking to hunting the invasive American grey Squirrels. Our native Reds (being much lighter), are able is able to go out on to thinnest of branches to avoid the Pine martens. Unlike it's colonial cousin which is much heavier, thus making it a far easier prey option for the Pine martens than our native Red. P.S More meat on it too. 😂

[@D00M3R_MAVS]

The Grey Squirrels have pretty much bullied the Reds out of existence :(

[@stevie_M]

I think New Zealand is the only other country Hedgehogs roam. (The European hedgehog was brought to New Zealand by British colonists in the 1870s)

[@plutoniumcoreuk]

I am from the UK and have two Hedgehogs living in my garden all year round. They have made a home in a wooden box my tortoise used to use at night to sleep in full of straw so I have had to make a new one for her as I didn’t want to disturb either of the Hedgehogs.

[@xanx1234]

We've now got Beaver in the UK, I like Beaver, anybody remember the Leslie Nielsen/Priscilla Presley "Nice Beaver"?

[@nicw5574]

I love hedgehogs, they're so cute. We put food out for them and foxes too. Robins are beautiful and sing so loud and will come quite close to you. We have had slow worms living in our compost bin because of the heat in there. I love animals, they were all so adorable Great video, wishing you well 😀

[@paulhadfield7909]

i have a wild hedgehog who lives in my garden, i see him on my garden camera at night

[@darrenfearon4288]

I am born and bred in England and I have never seen a red squirrel without a long telescope and that was once when I went to a school trip when I was nine to some forest.

[@sooskevington6144]

The reason (UK) robins are known as 'Robin red breast' because until the 14th century when the fruit was introduced, the word orange did not exist in the English language. The colour was named after the fruit. Prior to the 14th century the colour shades we now call orange were regarded as red.

[@nataliegay1935]

We used to get bottles of milk delivered in a morning and we had to get them in before birds got to them…my parents would get so pissed 😂😂

[@paulmilner8452]

i'm only joking when i say this don't take offence :D my parents had the same problem but were smart so used a bottle cage the milkman could put them in and protect them from birds

[@mattymcnally]

What happened to fox's and our badgers compared to yours

[@rialobran]

There is little difference in the fox, my avatar is a fox I filmed in Montana.

[@grahamsmith5780]

You and I have a very different definition of evil, Red Squirrels are not evil, they are the the very definition of cute.

[@fr0z3n33]

8:19 funny you say “more aggressive” because I was at the park a few days ago and was feeding the American grey squirrels nuts but they never once attacked me actually while I was feeding them a fox ambushed one and brutally killed it before running into the bushes with the dead corpse

[@user-tc2pc3mq8i]

your lucky they grey squrilles near me could take a good hunter cat on in a fight then again the squirells near me look like they take steroids every two minutes and are about the size of a terrier

[@StegoSorcerer]

There is a hedgehog that lives in my neighbours garden and occasionally wanders into mine and we call him bert and his girlfriend bertha

[@-Caine]

Muntjac deer are my favourite to see out and about, they're tiny.

[@stevenoliver8570]

Slow worms are amazing lizards. We do have 2 species of snake the adder which is venomous and the grass snake all are protected species.

[@trevormillar1576]

Don't forget the Invisible Giant Hedgehog: it hides round corners and terrifies people with its cry, "DINSDALE!"

[@Theganjaman88]

My GF is polish and she was fascinated over how big the hedgehogs are over here compared to poland

[@sooskevington6144]

Yes, the introduced American Grey Squirrel is very aggressive and has driven the native Red Squirrel almost to the point of extinction with only two or three small population enclaves remaining in Great Britain.

[@kille7543]

Regulus regulus, called the the birdking in Denmark because it looks like it’s wearing a golden crown. Regulus ignicapilla, called the red topped birdking. Slow worms are called Steel worms in DK, because of their color, not dangerous at all, only as long as 1 - 1 1/2 lenght of a hand.

[@astrafaan]

My garden is absolutely infested with slow worms - mainly as I don't look after it (it's pretty wild), and they're great at pest control.

[@lmorgzy]

"They do look different, SiobHAN" 😂

[@YouCantEscapeTheBlob]

She is exaggerating a little about Squirrel Nutkin - he didn't actually get eaten alive by the owl, although the owl *did* eat his bushy tail. Hence, y'know, the moral. That thing about red squirrels' pointy ears making them look evil never really occurred to me till now, but now you mention it, that does fit with Nutkin's character quite well.

[@shadypenguinuk9747]

Our roadkill in the UK is mainly Badgers, some foxes

[@Ingens_Scherz]

Large fauna (including large apex predators) existed in the British Isles right up until the 19th Century. But, one by one, each species was systematically wiped-out over a span of some 1,600 years. The lynx was the first to go (1500 years ago), followed by, not in order, the antelope, brown bear, reindeer, wolf, lynx, wisent, musk ox, Eurasian elk, Irish elk, wild horse, woolly rhino and aurochs (the latter two are extinct globally now - so they're gone forever). The last to go were the wolf (18th Century) and, last of all, the Scottish wildcat (19th Century). Isn't extinction fun!

[@watcherzero5256]

You missed out Cave Lions which went extinct in Britain 12,000 years ago. So for 30,000 years Britains were living side by side with lions.

[@OneTrueScotsman]

We get a lot of pine martens in my part of Scotland. My cousin from Canada absolutely adores them, and makes a big fuss about them, when she visits.

[@tmcb2000]

Pine martens are good at excluding the American grey squirrel from their habitat but readily co-exist with the British red squirrel

[@Dragonblaster1]

Likewise the British badger is cuddly and bumbling. The American version is like something out of a horror film.

[@laurenC91.]

Wolves have been reintroduced to Scotland within a protected area enclosed to monitor their effect on wildlife and there are currently talks about reintroducing lynx into north east England, specifically Northumberland as this county has a lot of forests, bodies of water and very little light pollution with the biggest protected black sky area in Europe 😊

[@Dreyno]

I have a pine marten behind the house (I live in Ireland where they’re quite common in recent years after their numbers recovered strongly in the last 20-30 years) Pick him up on a camera every now and then (the night before last). They’re beautiful. There is an American Pine Marten but they look a bit different.

[@francocarrieri1988]

Internet says the Tits and Chickadees are all in the same genus, Poecile.

[@ricequin]

We often see roe deer wandering around our village early in the morning.

[@klaxoncow]

If you want to see red squirrels then the Welsh island of Anglesey is where you want to go. Because the grey squirrels are, indeed, aggressively out-competing the reds, they're becoming an endangered species. So the trick was that the island of Anglesey, in Wales, is naturally protected - being an island and squirrels don't swim (and the Menai Straits between the island and mainland Wales is aggressive waters that human boats struggle with, so even things that can swim have immense difficulty getting across to the island, making it a natural conservation habitat) - and therefore was designated a conservation area for the red squirrel. The greys have been removed from the island, so there are only reds there, who can thrive in peace, undisturbed by the aggressive greys. Another fun fact about the island of Anglesey: It's where the Druids operated from. The seat of their power over pre-Roman Britain. When the Romans showed up in Britain, the Druids were the local religion / administration and, you know, Rome brooks no competition. So there are Roman texts detailing how the Roman armies went to Anglesey and went there to wipe them out. So that Rome would have no administrative competition and could truly conquer "Britannia", as they called her. The Romans succeeded, by the way. So when you see folks dress as "druids" at Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice, they're strictly "neo-druids". The historical Druid line was wiped out - the Romans were quite deliberately committing cultural genocide and they succeeded. So there is a hard discontinuity there. The Druids died and were wiped out, and Rome took over. Indeed, the grand irony is that everything we know about the Druids and their culture mostly comes from Roman texts, as they documented their cultural genocide. Though there are some non-Roman sources, but these have few details - they're more just confirmation that the Romans didn't make this up and the Druids were a real people who existed, as there's independent sources also mentioning their existence (but Rome was the only source that goes into useful details about their culture, ironically enough). Not that I have any issue with the "neo-Druids" at Stonehenge. They're quite chill people. But just, you know, historically speaking, they're a revival. Their "Druidic rituals" are just made up - there's a hard historical discontinuity and we don't know what the real Druidic rituals might have been (or even, frankly, if they even had any, though romanticising them, folks like to make up that they were nature-worshipping but we don't actually know that for a fact). Also, for the historical record, Stonehenge is older than the Pyramids of Giza. It way, way, way predates the Celts coming to Britain. The structure really has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with "Druids" anyway. There is an annual Welsh cultural festival called the "Eisteddfod", where folks compete in a kind of "cultural Olympics". The big main prize is for poetry - and they win a big wooden chair (elaborately decorated) - and there's also prizes for singing and art. The "Eisteddfod" moves around every year to a different location around Wales - it's a purposefully nomadic festival, so that it takes people around the country over the years. And the reason I mention the Eisteddfod is that there's "the Council of the Bards" and they nominally run the festival, and they all dress as "Druids". The chief guy - the chairman of the council - is called the Arch-Druid and he wears more elaborate druid robes. Where the English look to the Queen's honours list for knighthoods and OBEs / MBEs, the Welsh equivalent is to be invited to become one of the druids in the Council of the Bards. I do believe that Michael Sheen was given the honour at one point, and had to dress the part for his initiation ceremony. There is also an "international Eisteddfod" - which is always held in the town of Llangollen - which invites cultures from all over the world to compete in these "cultural Olympics". Send us your best singers, dancers and poets. It's a cultural festival, so it's very much encouraged in the International Eisteddfod for other cultures to come over and show off their traditional dance or song or poetry at the festival. A nice touch in the opening ceremony of the Eisteddfod is that they have a sheathed sword and then the Arch-druid pulls the sword out of its sheathe and asks the audience "a oes heddwch?", which is Welsh for "is there peace?". And the audience all say "Heddwch" - that is, "peace" - and the sword is pushed back into the sheathe because swords will not be required here. It's a symbolic thing, but the idea is that the Eisteddfod is a peaceful cultural festival, so it may only commence when there is peace upon the land. Hence this "is there peace?" / "yes, there's peace" ritual and the sword is put away, meaning that the festival might now commence. Nah, seriously, you need to look more into the Celtic traditions and look up the "Eisteddfod" - both the national and international variants - because there's so much more going on in the UK, than the usual English-centric London-based view of the country ever acknowledges. You're an actor and musician, so I think you'd really dig the "Eisteddfod", as a kind of "cultural Olympics" festival. Send your best poets, we're going to have a "poetry off" and the winner gets a nicely crafted wooden chair. And it's all ran by folks cosplaying Druids as well.

[@fayesouthall6604]

Seen red squirrels in the Lake District.

[@klaxoncow]

@@fayesouthall6604 Sure, the reds do still hold on in other areas of the UK, of course. But the point is that Anglesey is a conservation area for the red squirrel. They've cleared the greys from the island completely, to make it a conservation area for the red squirrels to survive and thrive. If you like, it's a back stop. If the greys do out-compete the reds elsewhere in the UK and their numbers dwindle, Anglesey is a conservation area that only has reds. It's the "back up plan". Indeed, the idea would be that the reds can thrive unopposed in Anglesey and then some of them can be "transplanted" elsewhere in the UK, to re-populate those areas, should their numbers dwindle too low. That's the idea of the conservation area for the red squirrels anyway - and they chose Anglesey for this because it's an island and it already naturally defends them (and it only requires keeping the greys out to conserve them). It's an island, it's the easiest place to do it.

[@paulj5080]

Brownsea Island in Dorset is another place where Red Squirrels thrive, it's got one of the largest populations in the south.

[@Galbereth]

And Brownsea (yes, really) Island in Dorset...

[@Galbereth]

Wow, what an interesting and educational comment!! Thank you for all that! 👍🌻🪨

[@user-ox9ec1id9x]

Here in the UK the more dangerous species, wolves, bears, wild boars etc, were wiped out in the past by hunting & land management. Some species have been brought back to limited areas as reintroductions to rewild areas. These include Beaver, Wild Boar, European Bison, & it is possible that wolves, bears & Elk (Moose) may follow at some time. Hedgehogs in America have been imported from Europe. They are commonly found as road kill, & the number of them is declining rapidly, which is why there is a Hedgehog awareness week. An American Robin is only called that because it resembles the European Robin, because it has a red breast. It is more Thrush like, while a European Robin is like a sparrow. Grey Squirrels have meant the loss of Red Squirrels across much of the country, it is thought because of a disease they carry which kills the red species. The Pine Marten is related to the Ferret, Stoat & Weasel, all of which we have in the UK. All these are carnivores. She left out the Badger, which is quite different to the American Badger, much more cute, with a black & white striped face, it's 'badge'. We also have Moles, that burrow & live underground, Voles & Shrews, both like tiny mice, Harvest Mice, which are tiny Mice, & Dormice, which sleep a lot. There are Water Voles, which are like small Beavers, & live in rivers. We have only one type of venomous snake in Britain, the Viper or Adder, with a black/yellow zig-zag stripe down it's back. The other, Grass Snake, is green & harmless. A Slow worm is NOT a snake, but a legless lizard. There are several species of deer in the UK, from the very small Japanese Sika Deer, then the Fallow Deer, up to the native, much larger native Red Deer. Again, all often found as road kill.

[@louyeo4210]

I love your videos. Thank you for making fabulous content.

[@T_TheKnottingman]

8:00 😂😂😂 “The tits on this bird are actually gold” 😂😂😂 killing me dude.

[@Gomorragh]

yes the grey squirrels were brought to the uk and bred with them and killed them off for the most part, all we have round here is the genetic offspring of them, you can tell because what we have round here is basically grey squirrels with the occasional tufts of bright red hair in places

[@jemsjemski533]

You’ve been protesting the actors strike tooo long! Going. A. Little. JOHNNY 😮😂❤

[@carolempeters]

Found a dead slow worm in my garden, so sad to find a dead one but was fabulous to see one close up. They're most definitely not a snake

[@Falney]

The UK used to have bears and wolves which are big predators, however they were hunted to extinction.

[@speleokeir]

Pine martins are musalids. Other members of the family include: Weasels, stoats, polecats (ferrets), mink, otters, badgers and wolverines. They are all predators with very high metabolisms and very good power to weight ratios making them superb hunters. Mustalids also have the ability to spray a very unpleasant sent from their anal glands if threatened, much like a skunk. It's very hard to get rid of the smell. Squirrels: American grey squirrels gave our native reds the pox. No seriously. Greys carry squirrel pox which they have some immunity to, but our native reds don't. Much like early European colonists wiping out various tribes with small pox. Currently there is a program to vacinate reds squirrels. Snakes & Lizards: We only have three species of each*. Lizards: Common lizards, sand lizards and slow worms. Snakes: Grass snakes, smooth snakes and adders. For anyone who hates snakes Ireland has none at all. Slow worms and sand lizards are very rare and only found on heaths in Dorset. Adders are a species of viper are our only venomous snake. However the venom isn't very strong and fatalities are exceptionally rare (14 in 145 years) and usually very small children or adults with other conditions or who have an allergic reaction. * Grass snakes. Recently a sub species of grass snake has been identified, but whilst both have been found in parts of mainland Europe so far only the main species has been identified in Britain.

[@alanwood9804]

You are wrong about slow worms, they are most common in southwest England and Wales, however they are quite widespread throughout the mainland... I'm in Kent and often see them in my garden, normally in or around the compost bins

[@djdeemz7651]

if you look for vidoes of robins singing on here you can get them to follow you around , i have a robin friend at work he follows me around on my forklift eating bugs when i move pallets

[@killaheelz2315]

I have a hedgehog highway going through my garden❤️ I also have a pair of robins that will sit and wait for worms whilst I’m gardening, and many squirrels, magpies and pigeons oh and urban foxes. I’m also in London.🌺🌸🌺

[@harrycapper69]

Pine Martins remind me of mini Wolverines. They are part of the Mustelid family along with Mink, Otter, Badger, Wolverine and Weasel.

[@jeanproctor3663]

It's because of Squirrel Pox that Red Squirrels are a lot less common than they should be. Grey Squirrels are immune to Squirrel Pox, but Red Squirrels aren't, hence their decline. Grey Squirrels were introduced to the UK in 1876.

[@thorstenguenther]

LOL to your claim that the red squirrel looks evil, because there's a saying in German that the devil is a squirrel ("Der Teufel ist ein Eichhörnchen."), referring to its red or black fur and the blistering speed and dexterity when climbing and jumping around in the trees.

[@Tuberesu]

Hedgehogs are not insectivores, they will eat grubs but will gladly clear out a rat's nest of all the young they can find, will sometimes eat eggs, small mammals, chicks, frogs, flies and carrion (road kill).

[@timmyelite2951]

There are a lots of animals roaming around that were once pets like panthers, pumas, alligators, Wallabies, birds of prey and snakes.

[@germankitty]

I have a whole family of roe deer coming into my garden every few weeks -- and I live in a city the size of Washington, DC! They're cute, but they come up to my terrace and drink from the bird bath ... and eat the blooms of my potted plants. Grr.

[@carolynekershaw1652]

The American grey squirrel carries a disease which is lethal to red squirrels, so areas that have grey squirrels 'lose all their red squirrels'. Pine Martens find grey squirrels easier to predatem so the counter to the grey squirrel infestation is pine martens. Grey squirrels are regarded as an invasive species and can be killed, whereas red squirrels are protected. There was a place in North Wales did squirrel and hazelnut pate; grey squirrel meat of course.

[@Sestra_Prior]

Loads of red squirrels where I live; they range in colour from a bright, foxy red all the way to nearly black.

[@ericg5791]

The Red-billed Leiothrix, otherwise known as the Pekin Robin, from East Asia,and which is increasing its introduced range in Spain & Italy,is highly likely to become established here. Some reckon it could either disrupt or add to the dawn chorus of our little Robins and our Blackbirds. There's a small flock of Monk Parakeets living on the Isles of Dogs in east London,but worried their communal nest might be fire hazards,DEFRA is eradicating them

[@stevenwinteruk]

It is a lizard without legs. Found on railway embankments.

[@mrmajeika6101]

Spoiler: Anglophenia died on it's arse afterwards.