I Went into the Woods for 5 Hours and Found ___ Critters

Añadido: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]Welcome back to the extreme wildlife adventure show. We are in the woods.

[00:00:03]>> I am back seeing if I can host a wildlife show even though I don't fully know what's going on. First tree of the day. We got a blue greynat catcher.

[00:00:10]They're fly catchers, but I guess they're even even more specifically gnats. This is infamously a really hard bird to film. Um, this is some of the cleanest dirty water I've ever seen. Oh, okay. So, the gnat catcher is taking silk from that like spider egg sack to build its nest.

[00:00:31]I think it's a woods episode, so ticks are going to be a factor. Luckily, I've been micro doing my dog's tick and flee medicine for months just for this very moment. It tastes horrible unless you have it with a little bit of peanut butter.

[00:00:45]My own cameraman is doubting my ability to find creatures. So, he's given me the challenge to find, film, and identify 30 different critters in a 5-hour adventure. This is the type of boardwalk that makes you sound like a fancy horse.

[00:00:57]Oh my god, wildlife guy who's terrified of birds. I am in between what we like to call gourd field goalposts. And there's a lot of purple martins on them. Martins are one of my favorite birds that are a boy's name. As you can see, they are very drawn to nesting in 5G cell tower garlic cloves looking type of boxes.

[00:01:17]Something about the purple martin, they're very kind. That smells awesome.

[00:01:22]Yeah. Yeah. Flowers smell awesome. It's not often we get to see this in the wild. This is a pavilion, which is the larger species of a gazebo. I'd like to get bugs. I'd like to get a cool bug.

[00:01:36]Thought I had more to say. If that's on Zillow, I'm paying huge prices to get this residency. If you're a critter, I mean, are you seeing that, guys? We're going off the trail.

[00:01:49]Oh, it may be the nicest day out of all time.

[00:01:54]Spider, if you want it.

[00:01:57]I feel like a Disney princess that's OSHA certified. Okay, vulture circling.

[00:02:02]It's fine.

[00:02:05]They made the Hollywood magazine a real thing. Yeah. Okay, that's fine, right? I mean, we're we're not dead or anything. I don't want to speak on things I'm not 100% sure about, but I'm pretty sure this is snake weather, like where it's a little wet and I'd love to see a snake. People don't tell you that when you go into the wild, you have to like concentrate on one thing at a time. And that's tough that so much is going on.

[00:02:44]That's got nuts in its mouth for sure.

[00:02:46]>> It's got so Holy >> All right. You a lot of animals, they don't hang loose.

[00:02:54]Chipmunks, you can tell they take a load off when they're eating nuts. dream destination to put a little water on your face after you're all like dirty and been running away from something.

[00:03:04]Should we just do the Hunger Games?

[00:03:06]Great thing about the Hunger Games, beautiful wildlife in nature. A lot of chilling. We've officially reached the 0.1 mile marker. So, where's the people handing out cups of water and orange slices? We're We're running a marathon here. I'm hoping to do what I call the AL East challenge today where we see a blue jay, a Baltimore oral, and discover a green monster. What a great early find. This is the creek that you go up without a paddle. We are getting lucky today. This is the stone that killed those two birds. You do not see this every day.

[00:03:38]A field of wild birding foot lettuce.

[00:03:41]Some birds don't want to be seen. This one's making it pretty easy. Eastern bluebird right there. I think it's real zen. I don't know if they're okay. I'm stank stanky legging by accident.

[00:03:52]But that's the type of stuff the bluebird makes me do. It's I mean he's inspired me.

[00:03:56]>> Hour one. We put up solid numbers, but the birds were really carrying the workload. So, for hour two, we started at the vernal pools deeper into the forest to sniff out some creatures of the deep. Not deep, maybe the shallows.

[00:04:07]Some creatures of the shallows. Okay, this I'm pretty sure is where they filmed Frog and Toad coming up here.

[00:04:13]Wow. We're doing some experimental vernal pool film making. Have you ever heard of going under the water? We used a a phone. iPhones can go under water now. I guess the newest marine mammal iPhone.

[00:04:28]bug.

[00:04:32]Little tadpole. Bug in a tadpole's tail.

[00:04:35]So that's really which is a good book name actually. Bug and tadpole's tail.

[00:04:40]All right. Um you never know what's right in front of you. Object. We'll see you next time. I just got an Apple 299 charge notification. It's unavoidable.

[00:04:50]Even Even here, we are tied down by our ties to technology. You know, when it's a time of day that looks like an oven temperature and then whenever you walk by the stove, you don't know who to trust anymore.

[00:05:02]I'm not a tree expert, but based on all the rings and kind of where it is, you can tell that this one fell over.

[00:05:13]Frog, he's perfectly camouflaged.

[00:05:18]Yes. If you didn't have keen, really good, natural, observing, terrific eyes like me. I also kind of accidentally almost walked into it. There's another frog right there.

[00:05:33]Okay, turns out these suckers are everywhere. When the scientist doesn't 100% know the name of the species, I think that like instead of saying, "Hey, this is a woodf frog," I'd probably just say like, "What's up, man?" or like, "Hey, dude. Keep it vague."

[00:05:46]What's up, man? Look at that thing.

[00:05:48]People doubted us, but I'm starting to think we're gonna have an extreme wildlife adventure.

[00:05:54]Guitars sting.

[00:05:59]Woodpeckers literally sound like there's construction going on.

[00:06:09]Sometimes I'll stand right outside my apartment and stretch for like an hour and a half so everyone walking by thinks I'm about to go on a run. Whenever you're in the woods and then you start seeing a house kind of peek through the trees, it takes you out of the moment a little bit, like the Starbucks shop in Game of Thrones, it feels like a habitat change is gonna happen.

[00:06:26]>> And it did. For hour three, we headed even deeper into the wildlife refuge to try and find some of the even more elusive woodland critters. We also got lost a little on our way.

[00:06:34]>> Is this the visitor center? Okay, so I'm assuming we're here. So, if we go down that this road, we'll get I feel like this is where we were last time. So, should we just drive down here?

[00:06:57]Oh, we got a turtle.

[00:07:02]>> It's on a lily pad straight ahead.

[00:07:07]Oh my god, there's a spider on the turtle. Kind of heaven on earth situation happening right behind me. We were able to spot a turtle.

[00:07:16]Now, this is a tough one. I'm gonna the I like always to just assume it's a redeared slider. I don't know if it is.

[00:07:23]Sounds like an Arby's menu item.

[00:07:26]Or I'll throw out Eastern Box into the mix. Maybe if one of those are that. If it's one of those, I'm happy. If it's something else, cool. Also, almost impossible to spot with the naked eye.

[00:07:41]It's not too hard.

[00:07:45]It's actually a little easy once you really kind of dial it in. Once we zoomed in with the camera, I actually saw a little spider crawling on the turtle's back. This has inspired me instead of the final straw that broke the camel's back. Maybe it's the final spider that broke the turtle shell.

[00:08:02]Could be a cool thing. I just want to make a lasting impact. Hour four. Our totals looking healthy, but we're going to need a strong finish to the fourth and fifth quarter if we're using a sports analogy. We entered the heart of the swamp where we would find our craziest creatures yet. Come on, green monster. Please let there be a green monster. Come on, big money. Big money.

[00:08:21]Come on, green monster. Right behind me, an eastern phoebe. One of my favorite birds that has a girl's name. So, if you love birds and have two children, one of each, Phoebe and Martin, it's a great family. There's just something about this. This spot is really nice. Just chilling with a poolside view.

[00:08:43]Dining. Met a two trick pony once in college. Guy was way too cocky.

[00:08:47]>> Game time. For this one, we're going to do you guess what it is? Because I mean, this one's just absurd. Is this a solitary sandpiper? Lesser yellow legs, raider yellow legs, spotted sandpiper.

[00:08:59]Those are the four options. Think about it a little. Here we go. Solitary sandpiper is the correct answer because it's alone is the big hint here and it's got a big eye. The other ones have smaller, more proportionate eyes.

[00:09:17]>> A couple weeks ago, we did an episode exploring the uncanny valley, but we had to scrap it. Something was just a little off. Hummingbird. Feel like you normally think of those in the desert or more tropical, but there's a couple species up north here and that's one of them.

[00:09:31]What kind it is? I don't know. I'm gonna just say I'm going to just ruby throat it. I think it's the only one.

[00:09:36]Hummingbirds are just bugs that were raised. Right. This is also the third episode of the show. So, the proverbial third date, so I'm I'm I want something special.

[00:09:50]I'm not going to It's not going to get romantic at all with the animals. It's just a turtle.

[00:09:55]Thank god because I have to get out of that sentence. Real small turtle right there. Probably it's young because it's small.

[00:10:04]Turtles are proving to be impossible. I I guess I don't know my turtle. I'm going to throw out a name. I'm going to say it's the orange paint bald black slider.

[00:10:15]It's not. It's definitely not that. What an episode. Subscribe. Instead of doing model trains, if you did model swamp, this would be a really good basement display. Swine flu is just a medical term for when pigs fly. Probably some bug that we've never heard of. This is the perfect habitat to find some hex bugs and if we're lucky, maybe some zuzu pets. Oh my god. Snake right there curled up in a ball on that moss.

[00:10:44]It kind of looks like like a prank snake. God, what kind is it?

[00:10:49]I wasn't expecting to see so many snakes and turtles. That is so comfy on a bed of moss surrounded by water. Okay, it just went into the water. Dove right into the water. But giving me a hint.

[00:11:00]I'm thinking it's a water snake. Brown water snake. Black water snake. I don't know. Awesome though. Snake on the board.

[00:11:07]>> I'm feeling self-conscious about my turtle and snake knowledge. Hopefully I got what? There's been three. Two turtles, one snake. Hopefully I got one of them. I'll feel pretty good about that. Nailing the birds. Hour five. It's critter crunch time. At this point, it was almost afternoon, so the forest activity was slowing down. I was kind of neat to get lucky. Something I don't know if people are going to be talking about. I think I really found my footing with this hat. Feel like it doesn't even look like I'm wearing a hat anymore. We need a salamander. I mean, at this point, honestly, mammals are lacking.

[00:11:36]Chipmunks are like a cherry on top of the woods. This happened on our way here, but just catching you guys up.

[00:11:42]They got smurf fire hydrants around here. Those actually like smurfs.

[00:11:48]That's cool. Robin kind of interrupting me.

[00:11:52]>> Oh, is that a snapper? Yeah.

[00:11:54]Jarvis, go ahead. 10x that zoom. Make sure you can see its teeth. Say if this was the extreamer wildlife adventure show and I'm walking through there. I don't even see that until I feel it taking a chunk out of my dad calves.

[00:12:09]That's literally a sleeping dragon. Big milestone for the show. First animal I'm really scared of. That is a huge snapping turtle. And I think they kind of all are. What a day for reptiles. If we're being real, I wasn't fully prepared for it to be reptile day, which was the best at school. When the reptile guy comes in, it's like, "Look at this."

[00:12:28]I mean, that's what's happening today.

[00:12:29]It's full on reptile day. The snapping turtle bigger than you could ever think.

[00:12:34]I mean, it's moving. I hate when people say this, but that's a dinosaur. It's that was alive when dinosaurs were alive. That's just a dinosaur. It's crazy. It's eating slow.

[00:12:48]frog.

[00:12:57]>> Okay, imagine you open your toilet seat and you see that it's too simple at this point. We saw the yellow warbler for a second. They just keep they never stop really moving. So, it's tough. But, we got it for like one to two seconds. Slow mode. I would give that five. I feel like you normally see a turkey on your table or and like a farm. It's kind of when you see him just lurping through the dense woods, it's kind of mysterious and scary. I'm surprised there isn't folklore about a big bird like that. Northern flicker right there.

[00:13:35]A secret second. Deep into hour five on one of the last trees of the park, a secret warbler jumped into the frame. We would not have even noticed it if the flicker didn't get our attention, but the yellow rumped warbler miracle of 2026 has put us at 30. Wow, what a rush.

[00:13:52]No one thought we could do it. This is the outro now. Thanks for watching.

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