Huge Wild Boar just the next day after setting the cam.
Hi again!
Long time since my last post but life is sometimes busier than one would like, but let's get back to business.
Trail cameras are an inestimable help for many wildlife lovers: from hunters to wildlife managers or simply someone who likes to see what roams in a certain area, they are, at least for me, a true discovery.
You can take photos or videos (I prefer photos, they make batteries last longer and give me that "stealth" feeling which a video lacks).
This model in particular (Keep Guard is called, made in China), takes colour pictures during daylight and black and white ones at night. The cool thing is that the flash is an infrared one so the animals do not detect it. It also doesn't make any noise when taking the pic although some animals look at the camera, making me think that they do sense something.
A friend lend me one a couple of weeks ago and I decided to set it in an area where I think there's mostly boar and forest animals activities.
I set the trap on a sunday morning and went to check it five days later and the results have been better than I expected; you can't imagine what a fistfull of corn a couple of oranges an an apple can do!
The camera started to catch images from the next day and the first visitor was a huge male boar.
No one messes with a pig this big!
Needless to say that having a top dominant animal in the area would decrease the chances to see meny other animals, but there are always brave ones who accept the challenge, and among of them are badgers: tough, brave and self confident. And there's one who came a few times:
Brave badgers don't fear big boars.
A couple of nights after, some more boars came but, as always, the big ones get the best spots. At first they enter the site with caution but once they feel safe...
Nice thighs!
It is always a thrill knowing that there's such a great wildlife around us and with this "toy" we can be aware of it, helping us to find from a certain invididual which we want more information from to de different species that dwell an area.
The trap is now set in another place, it is now a matter of a few days to see the results.
Oh!, look who our last visitor was:
Mr Badger!!!!!
Cheers!
