Solitary Bees Swarming Round Their Houses

After building the solitary bee houses last year the occupants have emerge along with my pear and cherry tree blossom. They are bigger pollinators than honey bees and best of all they don’t sting and it reduces the number of wasps. Take a look at the video top right on how I built the log bee house and build one yourself. If you want to see more of my save the bees videos check out the link at the top of the page or click it here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVnKaE3t-yQWmJKsobcFNYi-EDJJm3uci Please don't forget to subscribe. Malcolm aka  @FIXED1T ​

Climate Crisis - UK Peacock Butterfly Emerges In January 2022

Despite the growing Climate Crisis and the planet heating up, I was still amazed to see a beautiful UK Peacock Butterfly sunning itself on the wall of my garage this January 2022. I'm hoping that it was able to go back into hibernation until its staple food arrives or its emerged for nothing. Should it be out now? Malcolm aka  @FIXED1T ​

My Greyhound Saluki Cross Bree Hunting And Eating Crane Flies

Before we adopted our rescue Lurchers Bree and Skippy they were both believed to be outdoor dogs. Bree in particular was spent some time living wild and it shows as she is a silent dog, freezes at the sight of anything worth chasing and a total thief of anything she can steal. She also has a panchants for a plant called 'Sticky Willy' in the UK which she adores. However, we have never seen her hunt and eat Crane Flies before, especially as she is extremely well fed as is skippy. This is really interesting to watch as we had no idea what she was doing to start with. I hope you like and share the videos and check out my other Skippy and Bree videos and all my technical tips. Please don't forget to subscribe to the channel. Malcolm aka  @FIXED1T ​

Saving A Huge Spider With 12 Inch Kitchen Knife

I spotted this huge UK spider hobbling around my kitchen floor. On close inspection he had a couple of legs mashed together, normally I may have gotten a plastic take away container and captured him and put him outside but he’d have been easy prey. So I took pity on him and decided to do some impromptu surgery, but with a twelve inch blade it could end in tears.

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My Three Legged Rescue Dog Is A Great Soccer Defender

Please shares this to dog owner groups so we can spread the word three-legs isn't a hinderance to dogs or owners. Thanks Malcolm

Being a dog owner I love the Vet programmes on the various channels. Sadly I've noticed an increasing number of people putting their dogs through hell in order to keep a defective, damaged or infected leg, because they feel that their lovely pet will be some how be diminished, unhappy or be unable to cope if it has the limb amputated. But owning a very active (when he isn't sleeping 22 out of 24 hours a day) rescue Lurcher (greyhound saluki cross) called Skippy, I know that he is not hindered or disabled by having had his left back leg amputated after being thrown from a moving vehicle. He's always happy, playful and full of beans and constantly running or should I say leaping about, including charging up and down six flights of stairs to my Lab to steal my Ginger Nut Biscuits. When we run Skippy and his Sister Bree (who has four legs) there is very little difference in speed and agility other than cunning Bree has figured out that he turn slow one way than the other so uses it to her advantage. A dogs leg amputation is very quick, pain free and unless there is a residual infection from an injury the healing is also very quick and the dogs rehab is also quite quick. Whereas complex surgery takes time, risks infection, puts the dog through months of pain and discomfort and may leave the dog with worse mobility than having three legs. So please watch the video and consider it should you dog suffer injury or other problems. My second gripe is! I've been watching so great dog re-homing programmes and time after time people are rejecting three legged dogs(tri-paw or tri-pad) on the grounds that they don't think the dog is right, or it wont be happy, or it wont be so loving etc let me assure you Skippy is the most affectionate and sweet dog in the home I've ever come across and is full of beans and fun to be with, so please give three legged dogs a chance what love you show them they'll give you back in heaps. I hope you like the video, Skippy is an amazing defender at football or Soccer and every time we open the back door or step out into the garden he rushes for a ball to play goal keeper. Malcolm aka @FIXED1T #fixed1tRESCUEhounds #threeleggeddogs #tripawdogs #luchers #greyhounds

Best Astro Photography Smart Phone Mount For My Telescope

Articulating Camera Arm https://ebay.us/g7UOWf Ulanzi Tripod Phone Mount https://ebay.us/r1Uua3 It was a 'Strawberry Moon' last night so being an amateur astronomer I thought I'd get the large telescope out and photograph it with my Digital SLR. But unlike professional or well organised astronomers I discovered my camera was dead and the backup batteries were also dead. Is I thought no worries I've use my Nexus 5 with Night Sky facilities (yep you guessed it it was also dead). So not being put off I decide to use my iPhone, which also was low on power so I put it in a fully charged battery case. Then I dug out all the iPhone to telescope and microscope adapters I'd bought but never used on eBay, they were crap, cheap plastic not wide enough or strong enough to hold the phone without it falling out of the mount, or falling off the telescope. Just about to give up I remembered heavy metal articulating arm iPhone and Ulanzi Phone mount I'd been using recently for my Robot Video close up work, with its heavy but all metal will metal jaws. I hope you like the video, please don't forget to subscribe to the channel. Malcolm aka  @FIXED1T  #astrophotography #cameramounts #smartphones #iphone #fixed1t

#ASMR Video Of Solitary Masonry Bees Filling DIY Bee House Holes

This is a relaxing and soothing #ASMR or AMSR video of Solitary and Masonry Bees setting up their homes in my DIY Bee House by filling the Bee House Holes drilled for them to nest in. I designed and built the Bee House during the first week of May 2021after our old purchased insect house had to be repaired. The wood is a section of garden design bed beam which I retrieved from a skip. I was concerned when I set it up that I'd left it too late in the season as the bees used the old house and ignored mine, but as soon as the old one began filling up and hatchlings appeared from the old tubes the DIY Bee House began filling up and is nearly full. I hope you like the video and that it encourages you to design and build your own solitary and Masonry Bee House, this is also a great project for kids to help build, paint or monitor especially as these Bees are placid and have no sting. If your feeling down or depressed put on a pair of headphones and watch this #AMSR video in full screen a loop it is incredibly relaxing and soothing with the bees, a boy and his adopted dogs relaxing in the garden. Or close your eyes and listen to the sounds of Bees, a family, a friend and their dogs relaxing on a summers day. I will be making some more Bee Videos so please make sure you subscribe so you will be informed when I publish other videos. Malcolm aka  @FIXED1T  #bees #beehouse #DIY #ASMR #fixed1tWILDLIFEvideos

Does Your Dog Love Goose Grass AKA Sticky Willy?

My amazing rescue sight hound BREE is a Lurcher: A Saluki Greyhound Cross. She is loyal, inquisitive, intelligent, caring (she prompts me when my blood sugar goes low) and great to walk but she has a dark secret, BREE is addicted to SALAD and no matter how hard we try and what route we try to take to rid her off this habit she always brings us forcefully to one of her local Salad Snack Bars The thing is she only likes the finest cleanest shoots, she won\t touch any that dogs have scented. Whats odd is that Slippy our Tri-Paw Lurcher won't touch the stuff. I even try eating some of it to see what it tastes like, and not only is it very bitter, akin to an astringent but the leaves have incredibly tiny hooks or bards on them that sticks it to you tongue and throat. But BREE is not deterred and come rain or high water she's out on the hunt for her Salad. My question to other dog owners, is your dog addicted to? : Sticky Willy Goose Grass Cleavers Clivers Galium Aparine History also has is that it was used to pack sacks as a mattress. Does Your Dog Have A 'Sticky Willy' Addiction? #fixed1tSIGHThounds Malcolm aka  #FIXED1T ​

Crazy Cat Chewing Christmas Tree Baubles And Lights

Fluffy A Very Funny Beautiful Crazy Mischievous Cat Investigates, Pulls, Hits And Chews On Anything New That Arrives In Her World So A Christmas Tree Adds New Mischief I Mean A Happy Mischievous Cat And A Christmas Tree, What Could Possibly Go Wrong. Please don't forget to like, share, subscribe and comment and check out my money saving videos. Malcolm aka #fixed1t

This Really Is Amazing Mother Duck

This mother takes her kids on a terrifying walk, it's nail biting stuff and a real miracle. Lady Luck was defiantly looking down on them along with a chopper

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That's dedication for you

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Fly Ants Day Has Arrived

I went to the dentist and parked next to a few ants, when i came out the area looked like this thankfully only a few in the car 

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Silence Of The Lambs? Feeding Frenzy Pigs Are Much Scarier

Scary Pigs Foaming At The Mouth

Wasn't how I'd seen them before in open pasture.


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Is This Grasshopper Like Creature Eating My Lillie's?

Is it eating my plants?