@@morgantorium There used to be monk parakeets in Hyde Park, Chicago too! But they released falcons a few years back to clear out "pigeons" and now there's nothing left.
Exactly that, I used to live there, hated it. Seeing this video made me realise that while it isn't a great place to live unless you are pulling in at least £60k a year, it is stunning to observe
Grey sounds like a little kid when he’s heard there’s snow outside. I used to get the same feeling when I lived back in the US. He sounds so happy and it makes me happy
I've heard Grey laugh before, but 2:20 Grey laughing at birds, alone, like a child, while on a snow covered beach, was such a "I haven't really been outside in a year and its snowing and the world is beautiful" moment.....probably made my year.
@@enricorpg this video came out like 2 days after some of the heaviest snow in the UK I've seen in years (though I live in the south west, London could've been different) so I just assumed the video was produced incredibly quickly lol.
This should be top comment! doesn't look like a bird native to the British isles though, possibly escaped from captivity? rose-ringed parakeet I think?
@@theeutecticpoint yeah they are ring-necked parakeets, there have been feral parakeets living in parts of London since as early as the 1830s but most are descendants of what are known as the "Kingston Parakeets" who established a sizable colony in Richmond Park in Kingston-Upon-Thames and then spread through South West London up into the rest of London throughout the 20th Century. There's a lot of urban legends about them being Jimi Hendrix's escaped pets or other such stories, but almost all of the stories come after the first known sightings of birds in the Royal Parks. It's a combo of escaped pets and birds stowed away on cargo ships, and for some reason the ring-necked parakeet is an invasive species that really thrives here.
The parakeets are everywhere in london! They’re especially tame in the parks and have come to associate humans with the food givers rather than the scary creatures
Alright. Especially with the bird landing on his hand at the end, I think it's safe to say that Grey is definitely a Cryptid, or at least some member of the fae.
Thank you, Sir Grey, for sharing this. I needed that moment of spontaneous "adventure", beautiful scenery, true and palpable enjoyment and reverie, sprinkled with the humor and sarcasm that makes it personal, close, and real. So often I become so entangled with daily life and the chores that litter adulting that I need, crave, and am inspired deeply by little things like this, and I was just reaching that point when I stumbled over this missed video in my subscription feed. Thank you. You truly are a great friend, even to those you barely know.
In lots of european cities there are wild parrots. Its REALLY cool. If you life in some german cities for example, it can happen to you that you wake up because of a strange noise, you look out of the window, and you see a huge group of blue greenish parrots flying outside. It always instantly cheers me up.
@@drai4077 Amsterdam and more big cities also have loads of them, mostly in and around the big parks. In the past people let them free and somehow they adapted and keep breeding like crazy. I like it tho ghehe.
I'm guessing those parakeets have been hand fed before. They're feral Rose-Ringed Parakeets and are the most northernly breeding population of parrots.
There's snow on the ground where I am right now - it's commonplace here, but watching Grey's excitement makes me feel like I'm really experiencing it with him. Snow is wonderful.
@El Dimos Karam yeah I just mean my part of the UK which is on the coast. Apparently living by salt water decreases likelihood of snow but we did used to get snow quite regularly. Now it hasn't snowed properly in 10 years :/
I was in London years ago. The weather was terrible (as it should be). But it was amazing. I love the city so much. Watching Grey cruising over the places when it's snowy is awesome. And a huge amount of respect for grey for not killing the moment with non-stop talks. He speaks in the perfect moments and lets you enjoy and sink into the video perfectly.
Thank you so much for this video! Now that we are unable to travel, this brought back that wonderful feeling you get when exploring a new country, a feeling I haven't experienced in a while.
It's only been standing fully for about a year yet now it feels impossible to imagine getting a view of the square mile without 22 Bishopsgate. Also, the walkie talkie looks so much less ugly with a white coating.
I lived in London for ten years before moving away a few years ago. This video was like a trip through memory lane. What a wonderful city. Thanks Grey.
Thank you Grey, wonderful. The wonder one can feel for the world around us is a beautiful thing to capture and share. I must also commend you on a great choice of music for this video!
This was a gorgeous field trip with our 10/10 tour guide Grey! Please film more trips like this when you have the time- I honestly enjoyed this so much as a Texan.
Central London is a great touristy area. Even as a local from the outskirts (South-west, near Heathrow), when I head into Central to look around it's great. Normally in December I'd have gone with my parents to look at the Christmas lights and the tree in Trafalgar Square that we get given every year from Norway. Best thing to do though is to go to some of the really touristy areas, but dive off down a side street somewhere. You never know what you'll find. Explore the less travelled areas, and you'll see a whole different side to London.
@@Wintersnow1212 i see them all the time. The story goes that they were on the way to / already at London zoo but they escaped, and somehow they’ve just adapted to the environment. It’s crazy, i know. Just a little quirk this place has i guess.
The green birds are ring necked parakeets. They live wild all over London. Rumour has it that they escaped from the set of "The African Queen" when it was filmed in London back in the day. But whatever, they're now common in the London parks and green spaces.
@@Wintersnow1212 There is an urban legend that they escaped from the film set of "The African Queen" in the 1950s and created a breeding population. Not sure how true that is though
I believe that they were a fad pet for a while many years ago and when people got fed up of looking after them they set them free. They've bred like crazy and are all over the parks in central London.
Absolutely beautiful footage, I'm glad you enjoyed yourself so much. I'm from London and still living here and loved the snow day too, but I'm also familiar with everywhere you showed covered in snow and found it really lovely to see it all like that.
Indeed: the closest we had to them where I live were in 2007 and 2020, when blizzards made it difficult to go anywhere. London honestly looks like a typical Canadian city at the start of winter.
Can confirm, we only have snow days on particularly bad days, tho what we here in ontario consider bad someone in alberta is like "hahaha you weaklings"
I was just about to board my flight at Heathrow in December 2010 when the skies opened up. I had 4 solid days of snow exploration before Heathrow reopened. The snow just stayed and stayed. Kew Gardens was the best! With nearly zero tourists around I got to talk to the researchers there... and got to ask why the London plane trees look so much like American sycamores... but monstrous gigantic ones. The London Plane tree is an artificial hybrid between an American sycamore and a related Chinese tree!
Honestly, I love this as a little change of pace from your usual videos. Your informative videos are great, But I'm so glad you consistently find ways to mix it up, which is why i have been subscribed since 2014
Hearing Grey kinda monotone voice switching to the voice of a child filled with wonder was the best part of the video. Just hearing the genuine enthusiasm. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Bonnie Bee Brigade, for making this video possible: czcams.com/channels/2C_jShtL725hvbm1arSV9w.htmljoin
Indeed :)
Yay:)
thats most fall days in germany
Woohoo! :)
I guess the 640 people who disliked this video must be public school board trustees.
I would like but you have the funny number
Rip number of dislikes
Agreed
"Grey goes Outside" is coming together nicely. Not quite as fast as planned, but still.
Grey goes Out
Grey goes into the grey. London.
@@nomadMik Grey's Day Out
Small steps mate.
Guray
I almost passed this one by. Then I thought, “He wouldn’t have shared this if it weren’t spectacular.” I wasn’t disappointed. Thank you.
Ikr
I thought the same thing
Yes
Yeah I was wasn't sure what this was gonna be compared to. His longer videos. Glad I clicked on it anyway.
I wouldn't have watched this if you didn't leave this comment
CGP Grey: "I am not a vlogger"
Also CGP Grey: *Shoots more cinematic montage than 99% of the vlogging community*
Seems consistent.
Which makes him better than a vlogger
I really enjoyed the slow camera moves with timelapse.
I have to double check whether i am subscribing CGP grey for the cartoon-stick or the vlog
its nice to have a video that didnt take hundreds of hours of work and research. just a little serendipity
“This isn’t adverse weather, this is glorious weather” spoken like a true New Yorker.
No, no, I'm from upstate and I disagree, this is neither adverse nor glorious, it's 4 months out of the year. I'd call it "painful but pretty" weather
If this happened where I live, we would all die.
@@shawnmou9600 Try 6 months a year of snowy weather in Michigan :D I still call it glorious, but sometimes it's "adventurous" too
I agree. I’ve never seen snow like this in my life, living in the middle of the desert and all
@@AidanRahder
You get really cold nights though.
Do they ever get below freezing temperature?
I have the feeling this will be like the time he mentioned snow day on Cortex... "Nobody could possibly be able to work at 9am on a snow day!"
It’s 6am for me
.........9:45
Am Pst
after watching the video, this is probably THE time he did that
What it's 7pm
Near the end - Grey is a Disney princess, confirmed.
nah, just fluttershy
You can go over to hyde park with an apple and the parakeets will perch on you, they're lovely and friendly :)
@@morgantorium There used to be monk parakeets in Hyde Park, Chicago too! But they released falcons a few years back to clear out "pigeons" and now there's nothing left.
You'd think so, but those parakeets in Hyde park are notorious for being incredibly friendly and people loving. My cousin goes and feeds them a lot
@@calvinhoward3808 there are hundreds in all the London parks. They're really tame compared to the pigeons
Never in my life have I felt such a strong desire to see London, nor have I ever been so jealous towards someone living in a big city. Well done sir
Me: Wants to travel to London
COVID: How about no
I grew up in London, moved out 5 years ago. This video makes me miss it like crazy...
We'd love to have you in San Francisco; the locals need the trade.
it'll probably never snow again in London so it doesn't matter
Exactly that, I used to live there, hated it. Seeing this video made me realise that while it isn't a great place to live unless you are pulling in at least £60k a year, it is stunning to observe
Grey sounds like a little kid when he’s heard there’s snow outside. I used to get the same feeling when I lived back in the US. He sounds so happy and it makes me happy
Grey is wholesome confirmed
Where now?
Not even a little surprised that Grey keeps his feet exactly on the feet marks on the escalator
Just following the rules that are in Castle Grey.
Feet markers?
I love how grey gets to just make what he wants to make and we all love it no matter what it is
I love you too no matter what it it is ^^
I've heard Grey laugh before, but 2:20 Grey laughing at birds, alone, like a child, while on a snow covered beach, was such a "I haven't really been outside in a year and its snowing and the world is beautiful" moment.....probably made my year.
He laughs all the time on the streams.
It a wonderful laugh, I was hoping someone else noticed
As some others have pointed out, this was recorded pre-pandemic.
2:12 “Ooh the beach is open!”
Somehow, knowing grey’s personality, I’m guessing that’s an incredibly rare phrase to come from grey
You know him personally?!?!
@@Man_Man_Man_Man_Man Yes, I'm Grey.
Sorry??
@@Man_Man_Man_Man_Man I mean on his podcast, I understand his personality
open (and empty)
"It's not averse weather, it's glorious weather!" I've never felt so understood in my life.
CGP goes for a walk. Half a million views.
Took three years to edit this video. The quality is sincerely valued :-)
My favorite thing about Grey's vlogs is how you can never really tell if they're 2 days or 2 years ago.
Easy.
> The View from The Shard is currently closed in accordance with latest Government guidelines.
He also eats inside of a coffee shop, which I’m pretty sure you can’t do in London rn
And from what he’s said on Cortex, he’s taking lockdown very seriously, so I doubt he would’ve broken quarantine over a snow day
It’s actually 3 years ago.
@@enricorpg this video came out like 2 days after some of the heaviest snow in the UK I've seen in years (though I live in the south west, London could've been different) so I just assumed the video was produced incredibly quickly lol.
Grey was able to have fun in the snow since it was his weekend Wednesday.
It actually snowed here on Sunday
@@SplatterInker In London it was Wednesday at that time.
For me it was also Wednesday
For me it was 36 degrees c
Unworthy Potato for me it was that negative :)
I love how unambiguously joyful Grey is in this, didn't realize how much I needed this energy today.
I haven't had the best day. This fixed that.
I'm a Londoner, born a Londoner, lived my whole life in London. THIS is special. Thank you x
I haven’t been home to the UK in over a decade.
Thank you for showing me this.
Bought a tear to my eyes. 😭
One tear to both eyes. TALENT!
What country you love now
@@bttremby6642 USA
Yea I just bought this tear from the grocery store
“I was supposed to be working today” I feel called out
same
But did you call out or just not show?
"and i took that personally"
"The pigeon agrees with me." 🐦
Birb
And i agree with the pigeon.
Yeah but the pigeon will say _anything_ if it thinks there's even _a chance_ of a dropped chip/breadcrumb ...
"I will not forget the gift of this day and I'm glad I could share it with you" - I think that's a quote we should all remember.
Watched this under a cozy blanket while eating a warm bowl of soup. Felt amazing
A wild k6 appeared!!
Watched this from a summer heat wave in the southern hemisphere. Felt horrible.
Same
You ate the bowl 🥣🙄😕
Sounds messy
From this day onward, I will refer to the Shard as Barad-dur.
Right?! That's like my new favourite thing.
Did ... did he just barad-dured the Shard??!?
This implies that there is a Sauron somewhere in London.
Grey is a treasure and apparently a Disney Princess.
I love that he just kept this footage ready until it snowed again
3:50 - the Mind of Metal and Wheels ascends Barad-Dur and becomes the Eye. How appropriate.
As-of-yet underrated comment. Surely this will change.
Perfect comment ❤
He sounds so nice. This is such a calm video.
Just a wholesome grey video
"It's open to the sky!"
"I am the eye."
Grey, you poet!
Of course! Remember the glorious "humble bumble" video?!
Grey could easily pass as Dr. Seuss for our times..
I wholly appreciate how he refers to that building as Barad-dur. Very fitting
Grey is a Disney Princess appearantly, gets a bird to land on his hand.
This should be top comment! doesn't look like a bird native to the British isles though, possibly escaped from captivity? rose-ringed parakeet I think?
It looks like there is at least one other parakeet in the background.
@@theeutecticpoint yeah they are ring-necked parakeets, there have been feral parakeets living in parts of London since as early as the 1830s but most are descendants of what are known as the "Kingston Parakeets" who established a sizable colony in Richmond Park in Kingston-Upon-Thames and then spread through South West London up into the rest of London throughout the 20th Century. There's a lot of urban legends about them being Jimi Hendrix's escaped pets or other such stories, but almost all of the stories come after the first known sightings of birds in the Royal Parks. It's a combo of escaped pets and birds stowed away on cargo ships, and for some reason the ring-necked parakeet is an invasive species that really thrives here.
The parakeets are everywhere in london! They’re especially tame in the parks and have come to associate humans with the food givers rather than the scary creatures
@@ArtemisScribe interesting to know, thanks!
I don't know that I've ever heard Grey sound so absolutely thrilled as (almost) this entire video.
Pirates branding video is my closest guess
I presume you don't follow cortex then
"it's open to the sky!"
@@elenagraves6249 "I am The Eye," .....sometimes I forget he's a LoTR nerd lol. So awesome.
Alright. Especially with the bird landing on his hand at the end, I think it's safe to say that Grey is definitely a Cryptid, or at least some member of the fae.
I mean, he always considers knowledge etc to be like a forest, and he just started a cult about a shape
Definitely fae
Thank you, Sir Grey, for sharing this. I needed that moment of spontaneous "adventure", beautiful scenery, true and palpable enjoyment and reverie, sprinkled with the humor and sarcasm that makes it personal, close, and real. So often I become so entangled with daily life and the chores that litter adulting that I need, crave, and am inspired deeply by little things like this, and I was just reaching that point when I stumbled over this missed video in my subscription feed. Thank you. You truly are a great friend, even to those you barely know.
I would genuinely love to see more “London Adventures with Grey” in the future when COVID is more under control.
but but, he wont go outside as much then..
I believe he had planned more vlog-style videos last year... but then covid happened so he bunkered down instead.
@@Sebasu_tan yeah especially with that video exploring the missile test facility, it seems quite strange for that to have been a one-off thing
Considering this video is probably from 2018, I'm hoping to see some more of these released soon.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 This video is from a few days ago?
dude casually gets a wild parrot to land on his hand like it's normal
The parakeets in hyde park like to perch on people, especially if you have an apple. They're extremely adorable and I highly recommend it.
There are loads of parakeets in London, there’s tons in my local park, I’m honestly amazed they’ve adapted to survive winters in London
In lots of european cities there are wild parrots. Its REALLY cool. If you life in some german cities for example, it can happen to you that you wake up because of a strange noise, you look out of the window, and you see a huge group of blue greenish parrots flying outside. It always instantly cheers me up.
@@drai4077 Amsterdam and more big cities also have loads of them, mostly in and around the big parks. In the past people let them free and somehow they adapted and keep breeding like crazy. I like it tho ghehe.
The parrot watches his videos
Grey casually showing us that he is a Disney Princess in the last few seconds of the video
Grey, your enthusiasm for the snow is as beautiful as the snow itself!
Snow: Peaceful
Images: Beautiful
Content: Wholesome
Hotel: Trivago
lol
This was so wholesome. Hearing you laugh in pure joy was one of the most beautifully human things I've heard in a while
I love all your well-thought out and incredibly intentional content but I really appreciate the whimsicality of this
I love how Grey doesn’t vlog that often but even when he does it’s still a better clog than 90% of the stuff out there
A top quality clog
@@fabian0042 r/grammarnazi
@@spicyleaves8876 r/ihavereddit
@@spicyleaves8876 r/spellingisntgrammar
Grey's clog is definitely better than any others' vlog.
Also stfu, Spicyleaves.
Well if snow is hexagons this is hexagon land
bestagon land*
And we all know they're the bestagons
Hextonia? Hexislavokia? Hexgland? The Hextain isles!
Ye
@@realneonbluegamer lol
It’s crazy that london is on the same latitude as parts of canada yet is so much warmer. Gulf stream is so weird
Coasts & winds
yeah it's a west coast thing. The North American west coast is kinda the same - if New York was on the west coast, it would be in California!
Yeah isn’t like Belfast and Stalingrad on the same latitude as well?
I would compare London's weather to that of vancouver, the West coast has similar weather patterns
@@acatwithafancyhat5782 "Stalingrad" (really Volgograd) is on the same latitude as Paris. Belfast is a little futher south than Moscow.
Grey your voice is so damn relaxing, even without proper equipment
Listen to the audiobooks he unloaded
Thanks for the gift, Grey. 😊
Finally, an educational CZcams video that doesn't give me an existential crisis.
Enjoy every little thing, such as snow, otherwise one day, you'll look back at your life and see that it was meaningless. Yay!
Oh he can do that too.
i am annoyed by how trite this comment is
exurb1a
This is me every time any science channel uploades
4:57 Grey upcoming Disney Princess confirmed?
I'm guessing those parakeets have been hand fed before. They're feral Rose-Ringed Parakeets and are the most northernly breeding population of parrots.
I hope we get another one of these tomorrow Grey!
And we did! I just wish I was in London to enjoy it!
This is still my favourite CGP Grey video, just so beautiful
Man, really helps to remind me what living in the moment looks like.
Thanks, Grey. I'll be sure to value my snow days a little more from now on.
There's snow on the ground where I am right now - it's commonplace here, but watching Grey's excitement makes me feel like I'm really experiencing it with him. Snow is wonderful.
Hasn't snowed properly in my part of the UK for 10 years now, and it used to snow every year or 2
@El Dimos Karam yeah I just mean my part of the UK which is on the coast. Apparently living by salt water decreases likelihood of snow but we did used to get snow quite regularly. Now it hasn't snowed properly in 10 years :/
4:54 Grey is a Disney Princess confirmed?
Those parakeets in Hyde Park are notoriously friendly. Stick out your hand and you can be a Disney Princess too
I could listen to Grey just BE Grey as he walks anywhere in the world.
The London Ministry of Tourism (as I imagine it's called) should pay you for this video.
Grey in the Loneliest Road video: "It never snows in London!"
Grey now: "It snowed in London!"
The first time in two years haha
Global Warming 😁
@@amiraa6407 what part of London do you live in? For me like 5 years
@@barrysutton4589 I'm sure that has hardly anything to do with global warming. The climate would be like that either way in britain.
@@kkmac7247 We got a dusting last year in Surrey, but it melted an hour after the snow stopped.
At least I could call it a snow day!
I was in London years ago. The weather was terrible (as it should be). But it was amazing. I love the city so much. Watching Grey cruising over the places when it's snowy is awesome. And a huge amount of respect for grey for not killing the moment with non-stop talks. He speaks in the perfect moments and lets you enjoy and sink into the video perfectly.
Thank you so much for this video! Now that we are unable to travel, this brought back that wonderful feeling you get when exploring a new country, a feeling I haven't experienced in a while.
Somehow this is one of the most spectacular things I've ever watched. The view from the shard gave me goosebumps.
Thanks, Grey.
Me at the beginning: "I don't know if I'd like this kind of video from Grey."
Me at the end: "This is the best video ever!!!"
Exactly my train of thought!
I hope you have seen his video of driving a Tesla on the loneliest road in America it’s fantastic.
Same!
@@andjoa1975 The 48 hours in Vegas was quite interesting too! I never thought I'd enjoy this kind of stuff but...
I do
@@njeneway3776 Yes I believe the Vegas and the road trip were shot together but there were a couple of years in between their release on CZcams 😁
This was everything I didn't know I needed today.
Thanks, Grey.
You just made my day 100% better.
This filled me with such joy. Thank you, Mr. Grey.
His giddy enthusiasm for this whole little snow day adventure is so pure. Absolutely delightful snowsploring with you Mr. Grey!
This must be from a few years ago. You can see 22 Bishopsgate and The Scalpel still being built at 4:10. I'd guess it's 2017.
You’re right - what a sneaky vid
I was going to say all this stuff is open I was surprised
Yeah, I was like, there is no way the shard viewing platform is open during this lockdown
It's only been standing fully for about a year yet now it feels impossible to imagine getting a view of the square mile without 22 Bishopsgate.
Also, the walkie talkie looks so much less ugly with a white coating.
Yeah, I was wondering, I thought the UK was in lockdown.
"This is not averse weather"
As someone from the centre of Canada, I agree completely
Representing Norway, we share your sentiment.
😂 In the UK, it never gets below - 5 celcius in London, and never above 35 in the summer
It always stays at a constant rainy, drizzly climate
There is no adverse weather, only poor choices in clothing.
@@DingDingTheCZcamsBuddy Chicago isn’t a very mild climate. Quite the opposite
Representing the West Coast of Canada, I agree, but I really want my snow
I lived in London for ten years before moving away a few years ago. This video was like a trip through memory lane. What a wonderful city. Thanks Grey.
I love how excited Grey is about snow, it's fantastic to see a fellow snow-loving soul!
I haven't seen on of these videos with the green CGP Grey logo in a while, I'm excited!
Q and A time!
Same
@@maxbaktbrood9976 Maybe on the 30th, because that's the 10th anniversary of his first video?
@@MortalRepublic Yeah that seems more reasonable
I swear, grey is the most delightful human(?) being
Thank you Grey, wonderful. The wonder one can feel for the world around us is a beautiful thing to capture and share. I must also commend you on a great choice of music for this video!
Thank you for helping me appreciate the little things in life I had started to take for granted. Thank you for sharing that moment with me.
Ive never heard Grey's voice this joyful and cheerful
remember the road trip? he was *ecstatic.* but i do agree that he was really joyful here.
Grey never ceases to make me smile with every form of content he uploads. It is videos such as these which get me through many a dark day.
It's great grey weather and a great grey city. I have never thought London could be so beautiful.
Its so wholesome how hes feeling about the snow like any child would. I love it so much
This was a gorgeous field trip with our 10/10 tour guide Grey! Please film more trips like this when you have the time- I honestly enjoyed this so much as a Texan.
This was just so damn wholesome and did I need some wholesome Grey today. Thanks so much man.
London in the snow was beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Grey, this was really cool. As someone who has never traveled to London, thanks for the mini tour!
Central London is a great touristy area. Even as a local from the outskirts (South-west, near Heathrow), when I head into Central to look around it's great. Normally in December I'd have gone with my parents to look at the Christmas lights and the tree in Trafalgar Square that we get given every year from Norway.
Best thing to do though is to go to some of the really touristy areas, but dive off down a side street somewhere. You never know what you'll find. Explore the less travelled areas, and you'll see a whole different side to London.
@@itskdog yeah I live in Ealing, couldn’t have asked for a better city to be born into.
That's part of the wonder of this video. I'll never experience a snow day from the top of The Shard, but Grey brings that experience right to us.
This makes me feel at peace with the world.
As a Londoner who wasn't able to venture outside during the snow, thank you for this. I really miss the city.
Ugh I just love snow. It's just simply the most magical
This is just delightful, pure wholesome delight
Grey’s gleeful giggling on the beach made my evening.
London truly is beautiful.
Beautiful! I do love snow days. Thanks for sharing!
I love that after all these years living in London, Grey can still find joy in seeing the sights on a snow day.
We’re talking about how pretty the snow looked but can we talk about the parrot on Grey’s hand at the end there?
That was such a cute moment :D
Right?! How can that kind of birds live wild in London? It did not look native? 🦜
@@Wintersnow1212 i see them all the time. The story goes that they were on the way to / already at London zoo but they escaped, and somehow they’ve just adapted to the environment. It’s crazy, i know. Just a little quirk this place has i guess.
The green birds are ring necked parakeets. They live wild all over London. Rumour has it that they escaped from the set of "The African Queen" when it was filmed in London back in the day. But whatever, they're now common in the London parks and green spaces.
@@Wintersnow1212 There is an urban legend that they escaped from the film set of "The African Queen" in the 1950s and created a breeding population. Not sure how true that is though
I believe that they were a fad pet for a while many years ago and when people got fed up of looking after them they set them free. They've bred like crazy and are all over the parks in central London.
Absolutely beautiful footage, I'm glad you enjoyed yourself so much. I'm from London and still living here and loved the snow day too, but I'm also familiar with everywhere you showed covered in snow and found it really lovely to see it all like that.
I am here for this wholesome, relaxing content
The music ties everything together perfectly. Well done, Mr. Grey. I love it.
In Canada we don't have snow days because we wouldn't have any school for 4 months of the year.
Indeed: the closest we had to them where I live were in 2007 and 2020, when blizzards made it difficult to go anywhere. London honestly looks like a typical Canadian city at the start of winter.
Can confirm, we only have snow days on particularly bad days, tho what we here in ontario consider bad someone in alberta is like "hahaha you weaklings"
We got a day off because of freezing rain or if there was like over 30 cm of snow that morning.
Canada doesn't get time off from snow; snow gets time off from Canada.
Seven years since I've been away from this - and all the places by the river are still familiar to me. Thanks for helping me relive this, Grey.
I was just about to board my flight at Heathrow in December 2010 when the skies opened up. I had 4 solid days of snow exploration before Heathrow reopened. The snow just stayed and stayed.
Kew Gardens was the best! With nearly zero tourists around I got to talk to the researchers there... and got to ask why the London plane trees look so much like American sycamores... but monstrous gigantic ones. The London Plane tree is an artificial hybrid between an American sycamore and a related Chinese tree!
Honestly, I love this as a little change of pace from your usual videos. Your informative videos are great, But I'm so glad you consistently find ways to mix it up, which is why i have been subscribed since 2014
“I am the eye”
Said with more emotion since I’ve been able to muster since 2011
Same here
Grey greets the world with the right attitude, turning the kind of snowy day some bemoan into an aesthetic adventure!
Thank you!
Hearing Grey kinda monotone voice switching to the voice of a child filled with wonder was the best part of the video. Just hearing the genuine enthusiasm. Thanks for sharing.
I adore how just, adorable and sweet this whole thing is