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It is not looking good is it?

I did not see any information about getting video from gom.

April 4th: the camera is still not found.. they have taken it away...
i was so hoping to see stripies here...

The only hope is that there is a minor problem that will be fixed after the weekend. Cam 2 is still on, but even the big boars are hard to see I can hardly imagine seeing a stripey there

It is working again

There is still hope of seeing the stripies up close!

YIEPPIII!!! the camera is on again! what a relief!
Alice, i agree: i don't think it's possible to see stripies on cam2. even the hare was very difficult to see there and the fox earlier in the winter when it was lighter there with the snow. now it is so dark because the muddy ground absorbs most of the light there. i had a look there the night before and it was hard enough to see the big boars there.

this is our only chance now, and i'm hoping that the mommy will bring the piglets here before it's quite dark. let's keep our fingers crossed! or as it's said in Finnish: "peukalot pystyyn!" = "thumbs up!"

EDIT: food was brought at 18.54 (6.54 pm):

the pigs arrived at 18.42 (6.42 pm):

at 19.28 (7.28 pm)

the normal group of piggies have been here for quite some time.
here on the right is one of the big pigs together with the middle sized ones:

i'll be now, nighty-night!

The two alone are back together. They standing touching each other as they eat.

it looks like the usual group of 8 now. they are munching peacefully....


earlier in the evening at 22.36 (10.36 pm) the same group was here:

And now I am seeing only 2 but they are not touching so I am not sure it it the same two. One seems bigger than the other.

Now there are 8 or 9 piggies eating by dawn's early light.

Food Arrives

the food was early today. and here are some early birds having breakfast:

at the moment there are even more crows. they were away for about 20 minutes and then there was a blackbird instead.
it's coming a sunny day.

at 8.27 crows still eating...

there are a lot of birds singing and i even heard geese calling. a great tit is loudest at the moment.

Today the other cams keep closing on me, but this one keeps playing. I just heard a very interesting bird -- wild and amazing. (probably something common but it sounded amazing)

at the moment the cam has been off-line again for maybe an hour again...?

Alice: i wonder what it could have been, the bird you heard in the morning...... i think i had the cam on almost all morning, but i can't remember anything wild... but i suppose most of the birds you hear here are exotic to you, just like the wildly-coloured bird you heard at home the other day and first thought you heard here... it was some sort of a thrush, too, if i remember right, but the colours were quite psychedelic compared to European thrushes.

the camera is on again!
it looks like the normal group of eight... no piglets...

this is almost too much nerve-wrecking: trying to guess which time the cam has been finally removed or whether it will still come on-line...
who could give us some info?

there seem to be the normal group of 8 pigs munching here.
(now i understood what you meant Alice with adjusting the picture: there are controls for picture brightness and contrast etc. i can adjust them myself! how stupid i could be... )

they talking quietly to each other: grrr.. grrr.... and sometimes a bit more angry GRRH! to push away the neighbour when it comes a bit too close...

there seem to be at least 9 of them...
no piglets...

i haven't had a look here today but now the ground is quite empty. it's cloudy and rather quiet...

ok, there were the two piggies eating first at about 17 (5 pm):

these are the two who lean against each other.

they had to leave because the man came to bring the evening food.

he had injured his left thumb! but he seems to have it still. it could have been much worse with the circular saw...
then it took a while and the normal evening group of 8-9 piggies came and they have been munching here almost steadily ever since. i've taken some pictures but i'll post them tomorrow (overnight, you know....)
i'll be now, ta-taa!

two pigs eating. no piglets.
the new lakeside-scenery-board on the top of the LK-page looks too 'summery' quite suddenly...
earlier in the evening the herd of nine came almost right away after the man had been there, at 17.20 (5.20 pm):

at 21.01 - 21.03 (about 9 pm ) there were two pigs. it seems that the pedestal with the salt block had been tossed over and later the pigs played kick-a-ball with it.

... but right after that the bigger group. i didn't see whether the two left or did they mix..?