Creek walk #88,766

[@tedhazlett]

If I were walking along that creek alone, I would never have seen all those things that you pointed out. I enjoyed your walk.

[@claudebernardin1096]

Cardinal, red fox, chipmunk, turtle, newt my faves. Yes the fox marks its territory. Love the hat!❤ bet you're warm. I'm beginning to think you are a good hour and a half north of pottstown. Fern Merry Christmas. You don't know how much I love these videos. Inspirational.

[@claudebernardin1096]

Let's go to the mall or to a. Swamp? Not even close to me ❤

[@Earle63]

Seeing the turtles under the ice was so cool! And I love that Struts song! I hear it a lot on SiriusXM radio.

[@jasonjones5213]

Great footage of the fox, enjoying the song shoutouts.

[@homersreluctantodyssey2508]

i love that you show the cool designs you find in nature. sometimes i feel i'm the only one that sees that kind of stuff, welcome to the club of weirdos lol. nature is amazing

[@BillyClancy-b9w]

That red tail is beautiful

[@guaporeturns9472]

Cool walk , thanks for sharing. That doe looks delicious.

[@Hike_America]

I made cheeseburger soup after your previous vid. I'd never heard of it before but it's on my go to recipe list, now. Thanks.

[@PACreekWalker]

@@Hike_America awesome! That's great

[@carlharper7410]

Fox radar? Pear 🍐 trees having babies? 👶 100 ticks in a water bottle? You've got my attention! 😃 Have a nice Christmas. 🎄 😊

[@PACreekWalker]

@@carlharper7410 you too!

[@BillyClancy-b9w]

The ice is beautiful

[@claudebernardin1096]

Songs cool. Enjoyed it. Agree on the words. I'm not going to waste my time. Time becomes more valuable the older you get.

[@alanroberts-z9c]

Another nice hike with you... please consider making one in neighboring Bucks County...

[@PACreekWalker]

@@alanroberts-z9c will do! The more places the better!

[@roberttannahill]

Hello Emily, and merry Christmas to you and your family! I do love my foxes. I live in a town of about 250,000 people, but at night the foxes take over the streets. It's truly wild after dark, the noises at night give me the shivers! The foxes are not usually tolerated by the locals, but I do what I can, and offer food throughout the year, and I am now good friends with a few of them. I give them food, and for some reason they think I want tennis balls in return! Exchange is no robbery I guess!!!!

[@PACreekWalker]

@@roberttannahill wow!

[@zekeurrabazo]

I'm hiking right now watching your video 😊

[@kynaturalist]

A clump of pin oak trunks together is quite rare, but it sure looks like one with the telltale drooping lower branches. Maybe it was cut down a long, long time ago and then sent up 3 sucker shoots that became those trunks. i also hate Bradford Pears. Great footage of the turtles and especially the fox.

[@souieappe]

Nice catch on the red fox, I caught a grey fox in my cage trap yesterday, had a photo op and let it go, I've never caught a red in a cage!

[@PACreekWalker]

@@souieappe I never see grey fox, only saw one in my life at the beach at obx

[@barrygraber9776]

That sure was a good looking red fox. Looked like he was well fed. Also enjoyed seeing those turtles under the ice. I would never have guessed they would still be active this late in the season. If you get a chance check out what Adam Haritan from Learn Your Land has to say this week. He talks about Marcescent leaves. I believe you just mentioned you weren’t sure why certain trees don’t loose there leaves until spring

[@PACreekWalker]

@barrygraber9776 I love his Channel! Ill try to find that video

[@Parker307]

Marcescent. I was just trying to remember that word

[@barrygraber9776]

@@Parker307yeah not a word in my every day vocabulary. I need to write it down as I will never remember

[@Steven-c3n3m]

Once again Fern you have great luck spotting and getting super close to wild fox. Yes , they urinate on their territory. As a bow hunter Fox urine is a great cover scent to use too cover human scent from Whitetail deer. Just do not plan to be around people at all. It does stink ! After putting some Fox scent drops on your hunting boots keep them in a separate place and away from your vehicles heater. My buddies and I learned the hard way when we were 16. Lol You taught me about Sweet Mt. Mint. It is not up here in WI. Thank you ! Those track's in the snow with the line on the ground could be a deer with a injured leg that drags, Possum, or a Otter. I could not see enough of the track's there to tell for certain ? Nice walk for a cool day. I will check out the Struts song. I have one for you Stephen Wilson Jr. Anything from" Son of a Dad" CD. I had the opportunity to see two of his shows in Milwaukee and Madison. Amazing singer, songwriter, and acoustic guitarist. He is from Southern rural IN. Enjoy !

[@PACreekWalker]

@Steven-c3n3m thanks, Ill look him up!

[@Floyd-w7b]

Great video thank you

[@dannywhelchel4801]

Awsome video,love the ice on the water

[@user-BobMason]

The best gospel album I've ever heard. Joey and Rory. " Hymns That Are Important To Us" Do you guys agree?

[@SuperHurdman]

Sounds like you know your mushrooms what might interest people is a information channel about them identifying them harvesting them ect! Nature fascinates you I own 28 acres with a creek running thew it I love to come home and just go walk threw will be moving my syrup operation up there in a year I live in a different town but get back home to just enjoy the beauty. There is one big white pine think it is a male the base is ten foot around I love to come home and I go visit him I feel such a calmness jut hugging him! I often wonder if it knows I am their!

[@PACreekWalker]

@@SuperHurdman that sounds amazing. I swear I feel a crazy connection with trees!

[@Imnotlostimexploring]

What an amazing video! So much wildlife!! Had to hit that subscribe button! Looking forward to catching up on your videos and seeing what comes next :)!

[@PACreekWalker]

@@Imnotlostimexploring Thank you so much!!!

[@Imnotlostimexploring]

@ You’re welcome :)

[@namealsoname3003]

Ive always wondered who did that song!!!! thank you! Have a good Christmas! Heres one for ya. Incura - Who you are

[@PACreekWalker]

@@namealsoname3003 Ill check it out!

[@DoctorDew]

The fox that walks and talks and finds a fox and suggests some rock... fascinating 🙂

[@jeffphillips73]

Another fox I can't believe that, you are a foxy lady lol. I rarely glimpse one, yours seem tame, the ones I see are running away. And how does that turtle live without breathing? So that's where pin oak come from huh? Sometimes they plant those here for landscaping, they grow pretty fast. I think the patterns in the ice was my favorite, except maybe the story about the kids, that sounded like a memorable trip.

[@PACreekWalker]

@jeffphillips73 all I know is that the turtle's breathing slows down a lot. We have enough fox around here, that there is a lot of fox roadkill sadly

[@jeffphillips73]

@@PACreekWalker I think that's crazy it doesn't seem like it could be breathing at all. I've wondered if there was a tally of every animal killed on every road in the world in a year how many it would be? it is sad

[@mcillustrator]

Speaking of fox in the snow, there's a great song called "Fox in the Snow" by Belle & Sebastian. It's very mellow compared to some music you have recommended but it's pretty.

[@PACreekWalker]

Ill check it out! Thanks

[@daleshisler2955]

Hi Em’. Good job on the Fox sighting, they’re pretty wary creatures. And I know what ya mean about the smell, they are territorial. Kind of a musky almost skunkish urine odor, to me. Know the spot you are walking there and I’m a bit surprised the water is still so low. I’m sure it’ll recover. The beavers who’ve relocated might have to again when the water rises back to normal. Thanks for the video. Stay well.

[@PACreekWalker]

@@daleshisler2955 I thought you might recognize the area

[@Parker307]

That is not a Red tailed Hawk. That is a Northern Harrier! The circular pattern on the face, the white patch at the base of the tail, and the shallow v shape in flight are some field marks I can see in your video. The only other raptor with v shape instead of flat- wings is the Turkey Vulture. Watching Harrier's is fun because they do these low patrols over the fields. When they find prey do an exciting flutter pause turn pounce move and drop down into the grass. The females and the males look very different with the females being brownish and the males grey. They are called the Grey Ghost sometimes.

[@PACreekWalker]

@@Parker307 cool! I will look them up, I don't know anything about them

[@CraigShortland]

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[@artistnumber12]

Not to be that guy, but I think the remaining structures were not dams, but their lodge. They usually build lodges near the banks or on islands, while the dams are smack dab in the flow, which in your creek, are long gone.

[@PACreekWalker]

@@artistnumber12 oh yes, you are absolutely right!

[@artistnumber12]

@ lodges, dams and pantries 3 main structures. Thanks @post10 for everything I know about them.

[@BarondeDynamite]

A Blink-182 fan in the wild. 😊

[@edkuklinski4237]

That was me regarding the patch, glad it worked out with liquid stitch. That looks like it's probably a band patch?

[@PACreekWalker]

@edkuklinski4237 yes, Blink 182, thank you so much for mentioning it!

[@edkuklinski4237]

@@PACreekWalker Right on, neither Blink nor The Struts are my jam, but I'm just a snotty old school punk rocker, don't mind me, haha! Good to see you so into, and shouting out, the music you enjoy tho, as music and the natural world are at the core of my being as well. I'll keep liquid stitch in mind!

[@PACreekWalker]

@edkuklinski4237 how about the Ramones? I grew up heavily on the Ramones

[@edkuklinski4237]

@@PACreekWalker Oh hell yeah, the very 1st punk rock show I ever saw, in a tiny club in Providence in '86, the Ramones changed my life! I'm a punk rock wildlife biologist/botanist, was a national park ranger and wildland firefighter for yrs too

[@PACreekWalker]

@edkuklinski4237 that's amazing. It's so damn cool! You just listed so many of my interests

[@user-BobMason]

Shout out. Kid Rock. "Po-Dunk"

[@PACreekWalker]

@@user-BobMason thanks, Ill check it out!

[@user-BobMason]

I have a million more. Lol.

[@jeffphillips73]

So there is a mint type plant that grows here all I've ever heard it called is pennyroyal, is that it?

[@PACreekWalker]

@jeffphillips73 pennyroyal is different. I absolutely LOVE Pennyroyal! It's smell makes me so happy. and it makes the most delicious tea.

[@jeffphillips73]

@@PACreekWalker oh, ok I will try and figure out what you are looking at. It looks familiar but there are so many localized names of things. There must be a lot of mints I think they are good for us

[@BillyClancy-b9w]

The fox was looking for mice

[@RalphJohnson-l8d]

I notice you always put your foot on the tree of interest. Is this your way spiritually or territorially claiming it ?

[@PACreekWalker]

@@RalphJohnson-l8d haha no, just to kind of show the size of the tree!

[@PACreekWalker]

@@RalphJohnson-l8d also to claim it 🤣

[@Parker307]

Turtles under the ice! I would guess it was a painted turtle but maybe idk a spotted turtle... or a musk turtle. This is evidence of musk turtles there I see. Oh the turtle are compressed into the much smaller water. It’s a turtle crisis, the pond is gone.

[@PorchHonkey]

See any swamp donkeys?

[@booo-u8k]

Was wondering while watching, is your forehead camera shy?

[@PACreekWalker]

@4336aaa I think so. Everytime I watch my videos I wonder why I'm filming like that amd always forget to tilt it up. Someday, I'll remember!

[@booo-u8k]

@@PACreekWalker As someone who shares your interest in observing nature, I very much enjoy your content. Thanks.

[@PorchHonkey]

🦊 👍

[@Marills]

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[@BillyClancy-b9w]

Your welcome bye