Thursday 3 January 2013

WILD BOAR

What a morning. I went to the forest and decided to hike some abandoned paths. Abandoned by humans that is, because there were many traces of wildlife. In the beginning I discovered some traces of woodpeckers and beneath, on the forest floor some cup lichen, a magical moss-like plant. In a very quiet and dark part of the forest, at the edge of a vast plain some strange dark forms on the forest floor catched my eye. When I got closer I saw two young wild boar, dead. What happened here? No traces of wounds were visible. Perhaps starvation or an encounter with a large male boar? A murder mystery, that’s nature as well.


On the plain two hen harriers were foraging. The hike ended at the edge of a beech tree forest. What a morning.