Post – 2024.10.30

My long "hunting weekend", planned for once a month, has now begun. Unfortunately the weather is shaping up to be quite rainy, but as I arrived at my lodging and was unloading my hunting gear, the two-hourly camera-sync notification on my phone went off more often than usual, compared to how things have gone so…

After a long time — and already grown quite a bit — these young boars have returned to the "old bowhunting feeder" from the surrounding cornfields, which yield an inexhaustible supply of juicy, nutritious, tasty treats. Back when they were still small and striped there were seven of them, escorted by a young sow visibly…

The same event from two camera angles. You can clearly see the cameras keeping an eye on each other "out of the corner of their eye" 🙂

On Saturday, in glorious early-spring weather, the following tasks were on the agenda: tank inspection and refilling, setting up physical protection for the deployed Zeiss Secacam 7 cameras (a locked metal housing), and checking the stability of the two permanently deployed Summit Viper Pro SD stands. In the past there was almost always some small…

Why Deer Are Drawn to Herbal Mineral Licks: A Biological and Wildlife Management Perspective Cervids, especially red deer (Cervus elaphus), display remarkably sophisticated mineral-seeking behavior rooted in complex physiological needs and evolutionary adaptations. Modern scientific research clearly demonstrates that minerals make up roughly 5% of a deer’s body mass and play a critical role in…