Czech wildlife

[sandbender]

Great pics as always.

Getting a bit chilly over there I see.

[BushrangerCZ]

man, it was about -17°C last night here

[sandbender]

man, it was about -17°C last night here

Brrrr. about -12°C here tonight but at least I am indoors. Stay warm.

[BushrangerCZ]

Jeseníky mts., main ridge, -22°C + windchill factor

[Col_M]

Ahoj BushrangerCZ, do those trees with lots of snow on them have a name in Czech? In English they're sometimes called "Snow Ghosts".

[BushrangerCZ]

Hello Col_M, maybe they do, but I am not aware of it. I just call them mountain spruces.

[BushrangerCZ]

hidden roe doe in floodplain forest reserve "Litovelské Pomoraví", taken today"


Great Cormorants, same place, same time:

[dixienormns]

i hate the cold wish it was 50f above year round great pic

[BushrangerCZ]

Me too, but I hate hot even more... rather freezing than above 100f

[BushrangerCZ]

cam reseted itself so there´s wrong date, pic is couple of days old

[sandbender]

cam reseted itself so there´s wrong date, pic is couple of days old

Fantastic!

It must be warming up over there by now, I don't think that it has been below zero for the last few nights.

[BushrangerCZ]

The puddles in the hills are still frozen, but all the snow is gone... I guess it´s still below zero there at night.
one more, same place, last week:

[BushrangerCZ]

just clearing my head before workweek:

[BushrangerCZ]

trail cam check, today:








By the way to the cam, I have met Roe deer, Red deer stag and even pack of boars, but light was poor and bushes thick, so pics are crap:




and this is how it looks like in Poacher´s walley, muddy stream running through wild broadleaf woodland:

[Robbi]

fantastic photo's, thank you

[BushrangerCZ]

Vydra river, very clean, with otters and salmons. At the weekends, it´s allowed to ride in it, other days it´s closed because it runs through national park. Beer-like color is because it runs through mountain moors. Water was still pretty chilly.

[BushrangerCZ]

30.4.2012 Beltine (in czech "Noc pálení čarodejnic" - night of burning witches")

[BushrangerCZ]

some trail cam pics from today´s check:

[sandbender]

Great pics. That looks like a nice leisurely paddle in the earlier post.

[BushrangerCZ]

Yeah Sandberger, my face was nicely leisurely frozen. It was a good ride, nice waves and not too many rocks. Btw last pic is from the part of the river which is forbidden to negotiate, I stopped couple hundred meters above that.

[sandbender]

"...Yeah Sandberger, my face was nicely leisurely frozen..."

I can imagine.

"...Vydra river, very clean, with otters and salmons..."

Interestingly (or not) vydra (Czech for otter) is the same word in Hungarian just spelt differently (vidra) and also Croatian, Romanian and a bunch of other languages I think, I have no idea where the name came from originally.

[BushrangerCZ]

Yes, many words are common in central europe, even between german/slavic/romanian language groups. We are all mixed together here.

[Reddo]

Inspiring!

What a lovely range of animals! And a great idea for a thread! Beautiful and thank you for sharing.

[BushrangerCZ]

Thanks mate, still waiting for lynx, and if extremely lucky, even wolf can occur in my area... for a bear and wildcat, I´ll have to travel to border regions:-)

[BushrangerCZ]

[sandbender]

Thats a busy bit of forest.

[BushrangerCZ]

it indeed is, it´s right between large open area and deep wood so animals transfer through here all the time, plus there is water source nearby

[BushrangerCZ]

from today:

[Dave]

Wonderful looking place. I always look forward to you updating this thread Bushranger.....Still waiting for you to capture a lynx with the trailcam though!

[BushrangerCZ]

Wonderful looking place. I always look forward to you updating this thread Bushranger.....Still waiting for you to capture a lynx with the trailcam though!

Thanks for support Dave, I really appreciate that. I also look forward to a lynx, or maybe I will install the cams in NP Podyji (southern warm forests) to get a wildcat...