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, and Hunting), so nothing can happen to him until then, and he won’t "get his feathers ruffled."
My currently nicely set-up feeder (there are still plans for further development…) hosted the already well-known large sounder again today, after a few days’ break. The NDZ18 BigGreenScum01 camera captured them first, at 4:57, setting off from the patch of forest behind the camera and crossing over at the wallow. Naturally the acorn feeder was…
Feeding time is coming . . . The local appointed gamekeeper regularly checks and maintains the feeders. Next I’m planning to sit out in April, provided the feeders are being regularly visited by the game. It would be really great if this secluded, undisturbed feeder, for which the stand was built with such excellent features,…
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…
Lunchtime has arrived for the sounder. 2 days ago there was a brief spell of human activity here, when half a sack of acorns was brought to this feeder, as well as to the clearly visible washed-out gully depression also 25m from the stand. The sows are still cautious, distrustful, and still consider this feeder…
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”…