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A rare wildlife encounter unfolds as Golden Jackal puppies emerge from the hedge and wander just a few metres from the hide on a beautiful summer evening. Set beside a lake and tall grass, the camera captures the pups playing, tumbling, hiding, and nibbling greenery while the light softens into golden hour. With the parent jackal returning suddenly to gather them back into the hedgerow, the moment becomes a brief but unforgettable piece of wildlife filmmaking.

Recorded from a pop-up hide after a friend shared the location, this is an intimate field sequence rather than a polished nature documentary, with the focus on patience, quiet observation, and the unpredictability of filming wild animals at close range. Most of the action happens in long grass and silhouette, adding to the challenge and the atmosphere. It’s a short, naturalistic look at jackal pups in their habitat, ideal for viewers who enjoy animal behaviour, fieldcraft, and real-world nature footage.

Created for fans of wildlife filmmaking, Golden Jackal puppies, nature observation, animal behaviour, and close-up wildlife footage. Also a strong fit for search terms like jackal pups, wild canid behaviour, summer evening wildlife, and hidden hide filming, especially for anyone looking for authentic nature content and quiet, atmospheric animal scenes.

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00:27So, hello my friends.
00:29I hope you're all doing well.
00:31As you can probably tell, I'm back in the pop-up hide and I'm set up down at the bottom
00:39of a field near the lake along this hedgerow where a friend of mine saw some jackal puppies
00:46yesterday and he was kind enough to share the location with me as I've been desperate
00:53to find some jackal pups.
00:57So, I've set up here, I've got about an hour and a half if they come out at the same
01:03time
01:03as they did yesterday.
01:06So fingers crossed they'll make an appearance and play in front of the camera for me.
01:13So, I shall catch up with you in a bit, hopefully, with the jackal pups in frame.
01:25So they popped out of the hedgerow and I had spotted a hole in the hedge about 50 yards
01:34away and I assumed that's where they were going to pop out.
01:38But they popped out literally about three meters in front of me.
01:44just two of them, I think there's four in total.
01:52And they had a look at the hide and then went running up the hedgerow so they're now approximately
02:01at the hole that I saw.
02:04two of them, two of them, that is.
02:07And they're just munching on some greenery at the minute.
02:13one of them is, anyway, they had a little tumble and play.
02:22And then they've just been sitting in the long grass and having a munch on the grass.
02:38I've just got one in frame at the minute, I don't know where the other one disappeared too.
02:44I'm struggling to focus as well with the long grass.
03:01So I'm getting silhouetted shots because the sun is behind them.
03:08And all I can see is a pair of ears and a little snout that comes up every now and
03:14again
03:14I'm going to grab some of the fresher grass.
03:24So, I'm going to stay pretty quiet, I think, now I won't be doing much talking to camera
03:33because they are just so close to me I'm scared they're going to hear me in spook.
03:40They seem to be very curious and quite unafraid.
03:45So I'll come back to you in a bit if I get some decent shots of them playing.
03:50And if the other two come out as well, it would be nice to get all four in a shot.
03:55So far I've only got the two of them interacting just a little bit.
04:01We'll see.
04:04The sun is hopefully getting lower now as well so the light will become a much softer and more golden.
04:14So I'm happy for some nice shots.
04:20I'll come back with you in a bit.
04:24Incredible.
04:26Either mum or dad came back and they all came running out to greet her.
04:31And she took them back into the hedgerow probably to give them a feed.
04:37So they've all disappeared just a minute but that was amazing.
04:41I don't know what kind of shot I got of it though because it happened so suddenly.
04:45I don't know why.
04:47And mum or dad didn't seem fazed by my presence here either.
04:52Which is amazing because they're really flighty.
05:00So I'll keep being quiet.
05:04And hopefully they'll come out again and have a play after they've fed.
05:09In the last light of the day.
05:11That would be lovely.
05:15Okay so it's been about half an hour since the parent came back and took the pups into the
05:23bushes to their den probably to feed them.
05:26And they haven't made a reappearance.
05:28The sun has been gone over the mountain now for a little bit.
05:33So light is completely gone as well.
05:38Which means it's probably not worth me hanging on any longer.
05:42I will try and put together a little sequence of the footage that I was able to get.
05:47I didn't get that much.
05:48I didn't have much time with them unfortunately.
05:51And most of that time they were mostly hiding behind the tall grass.
05:56And having a munch on the grass.
06:00Until their parent came.
06:03So hopefully a sequence will come together.
06:07We'll see.
06:09And hopefully you'll enjoy watching it.
06:11I might try again actually.
06:13Come down tomorrow or the day after.
06:15And see if I can get some more shots of them.
06:19We'll see because I didn't manage to get any stills either.
06:22So that being the case I'm going to sign off here.
06:27Stick around for the sequence.
06:29Hopefully you'll enjoy that.
06:31Thank you so much for watching.
06:33And I'll see you all again soon.
06:35Bye for now.
06:36Bye for now.
06:38Take care.
06:39Bye.
06:39Bye for now.
06:43Bye.

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