Whoaaa!

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…

Every day brings the end of the year closer, and with it Christmas, a holiday that normal people spend with their families, surrounded by their loved ones. I, however, having drifted away from that normality for quite some time now, will be spending this holiday in the frosty nighttime forest, bowhunting from a stand. Moreover,…

Experiences with the feeder system’s operation and the necessary setting adjustments The initial settings of the dual feeder-automat used on the property, originally judged to be good, needed adjustment due to how the game’s behavior developed. Based on observations, a large group – consisting of at least three sows, three or four subadults, and about…

A capable badger (Meles meles) also wants a seat at the table of plenty. He surely knows he’s under legal protection until July 1st (Chapter I of Annex 5 of Decree 79/2004 (V. 4.) FVM of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, implementing Act LV of 1996 on the Protection of Game, Game Management,…

After a frosty, windy night of mostly idle and uneventful stand hunting, on returning to my lodging I was greeted at the entrance by this decorated little tree, a truly fine bottle of Tokaji wine placed beneath it, and a Christmas greeting card fastened around the bottle’s neck. A truly kind and thoughtful gesture from…

It seems the crops on the farmland have already been harvested, the grain scattered during the harvest is also slowly running out, and the game is being forced back into the woods. These two stags, though after sunset, still arrived well within "shooting light" – which borders on a miracle in this hunting ground –…