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After Saturday’s intervention ( setting up the big feeder automat ), the sounder has now returned. The photos follow chronological order. The very first photo shows them arriving from the direction of the drainage ditch (seasonal) 20m from the feeder, where the scattered acorns held them for a little while. But with so many hungry…
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 😀
For a bowhunter, there’s little better confirmation that one is doing something right than this: It’s already a fine achievement if, on an open hunting ground, with a game population traumatized by every conceivable aspect of wildlife damage control – a population that, because of the rifle-hunting community armed with “technology,” has “neither night nor…
At dawn, at 3:42, two pigs arrived at the feeder, then a little later, startled, they hurried off. The cause of the fright was the arrival of a seriously sized, middle-aged boar, who then leisurely rooted around for a good several minutes.
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…
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…