Wild Pig Cam 2010 discussion Camera 1

[venegor]

Snow sweeps up wild boars. A wild boar with a sick foot in the foreground

[Kuremari]

a big group is back, the weather is kind of better than earlier, at least it has stopped snowing

[ame]

March 19th: good morning!
the lens is partly covered with snow but it's not nearly as bad as it was a few weeks ago. i can see that there are no animals, not even little birds on the ground. they are chirping in the trees around...

[ame]

Snow sweeps up wild boars. A wild boar with a sick foot in the foreground

the boar with the sick leg doesn't look very sick otherwise: it seems that it's not thin. i think it must be doing rather well after all.
was it limping, Venegor? i mean: was it walking badly?

[alice44]

I have never really noticed the boar with the odd leg limping (maybe my connection is too slow) -- or not much, but I am pretty sure I have seen it growl and push a healthier looking pig away. So I think it is doing pretty well, and has been able to maintain at least some status.



I also noticed at some point during the night when the momma with the two young were there she tries to chase other pigs away, but when 8+ young pigs came bounding in she simply could not keep them all away. So then she and her two went off into the forest.

And the bunch of young ones were not pigs (not a group of pigs) I recognized and they seemed a bit nervous but they were very bouncy. I kind of wondered if some of last years pigs are splitting off from their mom's to form groups of youngsters.

[venegor]

Greetings, AME! With a sick foot for the first time I have exposed a photo of a wild boar on a forum on February, 25th. Then he considerably limped, yesterday I have not noticed it.

[alice44]

I feel so foolish that I did not notice the limp -- what is wrong with me?

[Kuremari]

there is a jay right now and small birds are singing - sounds so springish

[ame]

I feel so foolish that I did not notice the limp -- what is wrong with me?

i haven't noticed him limping either... actually i have been able to see the bad-legged pig only very few times among the other pigs at all.

usually it is such a merry-go-round there that it is impossible for me recognize pigs individually (even with this rather clear marker!). the few times i've seen this pig the whole herd has been nice and easy there and none of the pigs have moved fast. then the limping can't be seen either, they just take one step after another quite nicely.

so don't worry: i don't think there's anything wrong... ... or maybe we both are equally blind!

[ame]

food has been delivered. thank you Mait! is it akorns or grain? and potapples? and can there water puddles the on hte ground? the weather data says that it's +3 degrees, and that it's been above zero since 1 o'clock last night...

a jay is singing somewhere near the camera.

[ergee]

Grains and vitamins..there will be a waterballet when the boars come...

[ame]

a big group of pigs have arrived.

it seems to be nearly 20 of them.

[ame]

the pigs gradually proceeded into the ground.

[ame]

then they left and three ravens came in, one by one.

[ame]

then the pigs returned. gradually they 'pushed' the ravens into the foreground.

[ame]

just a moment ago the lamp turned on and all the pigs got scared of that sound. they all took a dash into the forest.

the lamp first makes a loud brrrzzzz for some time...

[ame]

it took some time before the boar began to come back. first there was a group of six...

[ame]

... then gradually more and more pigs came....

the usual green pigs at this time of the evening.

[ame]

now there is the usual crowd munching....
(the following are some later picturs which i added here on Saturday= next morning)
at 19.27:

at 19.39 still green pigs:

[sunnygirl]

Greetings, AME! With a sick foot for the first time I have exposed a photo of a wild boar on a forum on February, 25th. Then he considerably limped, yesterday I have not noticed it.

How nice to know he has survived