Czech wildlife

[salad]

This is a great thread, thanks for sharing

[BushrangerCZ]

Thanks much for support friends...
apprx. week ago, my favourite highland area:

[BushrangerCZ]

I´ve just spent three days in Rychlebské mountains in northern moravia, nice piece of land, with almost no tourists...

[Shewie]

Gorgeous pics fella, hammock paradise too by the looks of it

[BushrangerCZ]

Gorgeous pics fella, hammock paradise too by the looks of it

yep, just take some insulation, it´s freezing already

[Shewie]

yep, just take some insulation, it´s freezing already

It's barmy warm here still, double figures (*c) most days

[BushrangerCZ]

It's barmy warm here still, double figures (*c) most days

Over here is continental weather, and in the hills are temperatures below 0°C even during the day. I don´t mind cold, better than sweating hot.

[BushrangerCZ]

taken today, rocks with no tourist trails nearby, had to push through some nasty bushes, using deer trails

[sandbender]

Looks good, when does the snow usually arrive?

[BushrangerCZ]

Looks good, when does the snow usually arrive?

Last year snow was already here, so it varies... but usually about this time.

[BushrangerCZ]

yesterday... high ridges are already frozen solid

[BushrangerCZ]

damn cool pics panda

[BushrangerCZ]

Today, Red deer signs everywhere, plus black deer in full rut (have seen 4 boars through the bushes)

[BushrangerCZ]

and found an antler of 12 pointer... old, but cool anyway:-)

[BushrangerCZ]

time to switch to my Meindls:-)

[sandbender]

time to switch to my Meindls:-)

I've been wearing my Miendl Perfekts for a month now! I like to keep my toes warm, maybe I'm just getting old.

[BushrangerCZ]

I try to use T8s as long as I can, I like airy boots. Also stalking is easier in lightweight footwear. But when it gets cold and wet, goretex is welcome

[Alfredo]

Great, great pics. Bravo!

[BushrangerCZ]

Thanks Alfredo, you gonna make me feel high and mighty:-))
Today I went to the hills to get some woodpeckers pics, but for some reason they remained hidden, even if the weather was fine. All I have seen were many buzzards hunting mouses and some roe deer in the fields on the way home...

Woodpeckers rocks, this is how I imagine Scotland´s Caledonian forest before being cut down and not replanted:


semi-frozen stream:


fields with deer on the way home:

[daniel88]

Wow bes photo i'v ever seen
Amazing.


pigus veidrodiniai fotoaparatai

[Wayne]

Cracking shots. Thanks for posting.

[BushrangerCZ]

thanks guys... today I went to hopefully get some muflons, instead I have found some nice spot with celtic oppidum relicts hidden in oak woodland, and many great spotted woodpeckers, they were everywhere. I think I´m going there for one man overnighter asap.

[BushrangerCZ]

todays woodpecker, with my new lenses Sigma 150-500mm, handheld, poor daylight:

[BushrangerCZ]

me retrieving the trail cam and getting caught in snow storm...

[Sheldon]

Really nice photos there, love them!

[pilotlight]

wonderful photo's, wish I was that good. where were they taken? I've been to the Polish mountains on the Czech and slovak borders, truly wild land.

[BushrangerCZ]

Hi mate, these were taken in Drahanska vrchovina, you have probably been in Jeseniky mts. or Rychlebske mts., nice places. I have some pics from there on my blog, it´s the nearest mountain area for me so I try to get there as soon as possible. If you would go there and needed advice to visit some truly special places, just send me a pm.

[pilotlight]

Hi there, looking at the maps, I've been further east, more on the Polish/Ukraine border in the Bieszczady national park. some of your landscape photo's look so similar, with rolling hills and wooded river valleys. I have been to Trutnov in my youth on a bike race, and was taken by the beauty of the land.

You are very lucky indeed.

[BushrangerCZ]

today´s sunset:

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