Tonight there was a lot of life at this feeder again.
Tonight there was a lot of life at this feeder again.
The images captured by the cameras deployed on the site tell a story of the forest’s secret nocturnal life that’s almost like a comic strip.
The sounder arrived from the side of the big green wallow’s blackthorn-lined bow stand, around 1:40am, in a nice, disciplined line.
You can also see that, with a 10-minute delay, 2 jackals followed in the sounder’s tracks as well.
At 1:42 the little striped piglets arrived first, then the rest of the sounder arrived too, and they nicely gathered up the corn kernels spread evenly across the feeder area.
At 2:06, on departure, only a few piglets still didn’t want to follow the sounder, but in the end they joined too.
On the way back they headed toward the ditch, where 15kg of acorns were still waiting for them.
Of course, since energy efficiency is a very significant principle in nature, they couldn’t leave such a valuable food source behind.
This long weekend, from Friday 4:00pm, I’ll be here too.
It would be great to see them, to meet them in person as well . . .
