Even some serious boars are visiting this forest wellness spot.

Increased Game Movement Following Summer Thunderstorms Summary The increase in game movement observed after summer showers and thunderstorms, particularly in wild boar, is the result of a combined effect of complex ecological, physiological, and behavioral factors. The phenomenon is not rooted in a fundamental increase in the animals’ energy needs, but rather in the more…

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…

Lunchtime has arrived for the sounder. 2 days ago there was a brief spell of human activity here, when half a sack of acorns was brought to this feeder, as well as to the clearly visible washed-out gully depression also 25m from the stand. The sows are still cautious, distrustful, and still consider this feeder…

According to the footage, the red stag’s day began well before the wallowing, in the section of forest bordering the wallow. That’s the spot where I also have my automatic feeder and a bird waterer carved into an old, felled poplar stump. At 15:27, one of the wallow’s cameras caught him on the sun-drenched, duckweed-covered…

Given the last two weeks of trail camera photos, the weather forecast, and a bit of “terrain tidying intent,” I decided to head out to my automatic feeder stand at three in the morning on Saturday and spend the whole of Saturday night hunting. Thanks to the early start, I arrived comfortably around seven in…