Around the "birdbath" made from a fallen poplar log, this young buck keeps showing up regularly.
It’s a joy to watch how the game takes possession of the feeding, watering, and wallowing spots I’ve created on my hunting grounds by purposefully reshaping what nature already offered.
1. Ecological Camouflage and Anthropogenic Structural Adaptation The design of the hunting stand is based on the principle of the “dynamic concealed interface,” which achieves optical, acoustic and olfactory integration with the local vegetation (e.g. as can be seen in the images included as illustrations: a hawthorn bush, Crataegus monogyna, growing beside an alder tree…
From 6:45 PM onward, the newly revived, long-abandoned feeder became the site of great feasts. It seems word has truly "gotten around" among the forest’s wildlife 😀
Well, I’ve been preparing for such mysterious, hermit-like sows for a long time now. For a chance encounter like this, I’m willing to spend the night out from 4 in the afternoon until 7-8 in the morning, 8 meters up, on a Summit Viper PRO SD stand barely larger than half a square meter, fixed…
The silver poplar’s second life on the hunting ground A few weeks ago a windstorm swept through the area. The damage was dramatic: one of the larger, heavily one-sided silver poplars snapped in two. A trunk over 80 cm near the base, still over 60 cm in diameter above the break — this was no…
For a bowhunter, there’s little better confirmation that one is doing something right than this: It’s already a fine achievement if, on an open hunting ground, with a game population traumatized by every conceivable aspect of wildlife damage control – a population that, because of the rifle-hunting community armed with “technology,” has “neither night nor…
I still had a bit of unfinished business with the winch that raises and lowers the feeder. This morning I finally took care of it. Since the 8mm Dyneema prusik didn’t slip even the slightest bit on the 6mm wire rope, I decided to keep it as a redundant safety measure. Besides that, of course,…