Before hunting season, after a thorough stocktaking, culling, and organizing, everything I need for spending my free time usefully — or almost everything — is now "housed" in the Outdoor Room.
The crates, boxes, and bags hide thousands more "treasures", each one the distilled result of experience gathered over many long years.
Second night Last night on the night stand I had a hunting experience full of life, full of moments worth living for. Already at 21:47, as the forest had wrapped itself in complete darkness, a serious sounder started moving toward the half-dried wallow. They lingered there for nearly two hours, where the ground was still…
Now that the trees and bushes have nicely leafed out, the lush undergrowth is starting to sprout up, you can see how nicely my feeder blends into the landscape. After the disturbance caused by the antler collectors, life has nicely returned to the wallow and to my feeder as well. It’s interesting to see that…
Finally! Life has returned to the feeders! Tonight a really serious sounder visited the "bowhunter" feeder. A few photos show them digging up the hidden corn even out of holes 40-50cm deep and about 25cm in diameter. This is one of their favorite pastimes, they get completely absorbed in the work, and usually spend several…
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,…
Even some serious boars are visiting this forest wellness spot. I definitely need to find a spot suitable for a stand here . . .
A Zeiss Secacam 7 is now set up on this feeder, and I’m getting to know, test, and fine-tune its functions. I’d been basically satisfied with the earlier Spypoint "flagship" models, but I wanted to see for myself what Zeiss could do. My idea was to get videos synced to the feeder automat’s timer, but…