The night cooled down to -9C.
The night cooled down to -9°C.
Even the leaf litter at the bottom of the forest froze solid.
Even the mice thought carefully about whether to venture out, since the frozen leaves crackled loudly enough to carry far, even under their tiny feet.
As for me, I can now say I’ve had the toughest night yet.
I spent the period from 4:00pm to 6:30 the next morning, 80% of the time completely motionless up on my tree stand, at a height of 8m.
I needed a merciless thickness of clothing. (I won’t go into detail on that now, . . . very thick.)
The seat heater also ran nearly the whole night.
After 11:00pm the roe deer arrived, two does and one, visibly younger, individual.
Most likely this year’s offspring.
It was interesting (seeing through the thermal scope) how they reacted to even the faintest red light, which didn’t even light up the feeder at all.
They noticed it.
But since it caused no other trouble, they didn’t mind it.
Later on I could even switch on my red spotlight from the stand, and they didn’t mind that much either.
