Wonderful weather for landscaping work.

It looks like no more rain will fall after 4 PM, and this will be the first occasion at this promising new spot. This morning, still in pouring rain, I went out to the feeder once more to find a suitable tree and placement for the remotely controlled glow-light illumination of the feeder that can…

Around the "birdbath" made from a fallen poplar log, this young buck keeps showing up regularly. It’s a joy to watch how the game takes possession of the feeding, watering, and wallowing spots I’ve created on my hunting grounds by purposefully reshaping what nature already offered.

The hard, frosty nights of recent days have driven the forest’s wildlife to roam far wider areas than usual in search of a food source that could maintain body temperature and supply energy. My Zeiss Secacam 7 has been recording this fascinating activity at the feeder I built and maintain myself, capturing images at 5-minute…

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…

Whoa! This stag regularly visits this feeder, set up specifically for bowhunting. If all goes well, I’ll get to meet him in person this weekend.

This July’s hunting weekend was a little different from the usual ones. After my 26-year-old Audi A4, on the way home last time, literally “breathed its last,” I had no way of getting to Somogy. But a very kind acquaintance of mine offered to drive me there, and to bring me home again on Monday….