Last year’s piglets, now grown into young hogs, have gotten used to my motion-activated m…

This "hunting weekend" has so far (with two days still to go) proven to be great, eventful, and full of experiences. I got out to my first night hunt a bit late, and the unfavorable wind direction also worked against me. So the group of 4 young wild boar that arrived after 9 pm —…

Wallow Use and Mineral Requirements in Red Deer – Phenological and Wildlife Management Connections May as a Critical Phenological Window May is one of the most dynamic transitional periods in the ecosystem of temperate deciduous and mixed forests. For large forest game – especially red deer (Cervus elaphus) – this period represents several mutually reinforcing…

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…

Life is starting to return to the Big Green Wallow . . . Today at 04:36 – while the camera was still in night, black-and-white mode – these fine young pigs arrived and spent more than an hour here, methodically picking up even the weekend’s few handfuls of corn. It’s been a long time since…

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 😀