Post – 2024.10.30

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 —…

Yesterday, Saturday, already at dawn, at 5 a.m., I was out at my feeder. The day had two main objectives: 1. Increasing the capacity of the corn feeder tank Based on my past experience (reckoning with a daily dispensing rate of 5-6 kg), I decided to enlarge the tank size. The new size needs to…

I. (Introduction) Listen, good folk, to the birth of the trough: Carved from hard almond wood, which once bore rich and savory fruit, By hand, with saw and patience, I shaped and cut it, so that, pushing back its lid, the host of swine might find their joy in it, might find, for little labor,…

The large sounder living in the area visited the clearing feeder again, after many days. Even on uneventful days, the feeder kept dispensing around 5 kg of corn kernels daily, spreading them nice and evenly over the feeder’s area. This steadily increasing amount of corn, sitting on the ground getting a bit rained on, softening,…

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 😀

Last year’s piglets, now grown into young hogs, have gotten used to my motion-activated moonlight lamp’s activity after many months.