A young, year-and-a-half-old, second-year (spike) red stag alone

The intense snowfall that arrived overnight cast a dramatic backdrop over the landscape: the winter forest now rests beneath a blanket of at least twenty centimeters of virgin snow. It’s a rare and striking sight, one that even we humans have only rarely experienced during the mild winters of recent years. But just imagine what…

I’ve "stumbled" onto an amazing spot. I can’t get enough of the pictures and events the cameras keep sending me. The fact that in broad daylight, at high noon no less, my feeder is hosting an entire sounder of pigs . . . that would have been unimaginable at the previous location. For a simple,…

"Our hardworking people will prevail." Today’s program: IcuServer solar power supply to maximize the runtime of the Zeiss Secacam 7 camera. Tank refill, terrain tidying, corn concealment, sugar-beet and alfalfa pellet trial run. I’m very curious which bio-feed the forest game will like best. The winching finally goes routinely. I’ve found the pulley that works…

After more than two months, “life” has returned to a tiny corner of the forest. Images kept arriving all night long from the deployed cameras. The most traffic was at the feeder, where — since it was set up, after more than two months of complete silence — the greenish glow of the motion-sensor “moonlight”…

Already on my very first walk through the area, it hit me at once that this place is a real gem! Around the wallow, in the mud, fresh tracks everywhere, small and large, by the hundreds, beds, hair, and a very heavy, fresh game scent. And these photos don’t just confirm my initial hunch, they…