Wild Boar paid me a visit last night

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the second time in a few months ......... buggers

destroying part of the back garden

we have a small wood that they "live" in - sometimes, now if I go by on one of my bird watching walks I get a few screams from the big male

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Bloody hell! 'Wild Boars in th garden (field)' I smell bacon
 
You could understand a rhinoceros doing that much damage, as they have the tools for it. But how the soft nose of a pig can plough like that is amazing.
 
Terrywoodenpic said:
You could understand a rhinoceros doing that much damage, as they have the tools for it. But how the soft nose of a pig can plough like that is amazing.
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in another part of the garden we have moles - easy to kill but they keep coming back
 
BillN_33 said:
in another part of the garden we have moles - easy to kill but they keep coming back
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What, after they are dead. Now that's cool.
 
I was expecting to see a picture of a wild boar rather than a ploughed field. Where is the wild boar?
 
skiking said:
I was expecting to see a picture of a wild boar rather than a ploughed field. Where is the wild boar?
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they are generally nocturnal and dusk and early morning - I see them maybe once a fortnight at dusk - and sometimes late at night when coming in

I had a few photos, but I binned them as they were not good

The local hunt will be around soon to see what they can do - but I have only ever seen them shoot a couple in 25 years
 
Putain Sangliers. I used to wake up every morning to scenes like that on the estate I worked for.
They can be absolutely huge, i've come across a few in the night and you do not want to mess with them!
I can only offer my heartfelt pity at the state of your grass. It's a massive pain tidying up after them!
I don't know where you are in France, but we used to pay a couple of local hunters to take them out, and then we would butcher them and split the meat, might be an option, it is never too tough to track down an enthusiastic hunter!
 
Counter-argument: grass lawns are an abomination, and they were simply doing you a favour in starting the process of rewilding whereby it'll become a far more interesting and wildlife friendly patch of land. Lets face it, there's nothing more soul-destroying than the time spent pushing around a lawn-mower.

* puts on tin-hat *
 
MattyW said:
Putain Sangliers. I used to wake up every morning to scenes like that on the estate I worked for.
They can be absolutely huge, i've come across a few in the night and you do not want to mess with them!
I can only offer my heartfelt pity at the state of your grass. It's a massive pain tidying up after them!
I don't know where you are in France, but we used to pay a couple of local hunters to take them out, and then we would butcher them and split the meat, might be an option, it is never too tough to track down an enthusiastic hunter!
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They will be around soon, the hunters I mean - not sure who are the worst, them or the Boar ........ I certainly carefully where I walk in the hunting season, (now), even on my own land

We are in SW France and Boar is on the menu

The W said:
Counter-argument: grass lawns are an abomination, and they were simply doing you a favour in starting the process of rewilding whereby it'll become a far more interesting and wildlife friendly patch of land. Lets face it, there's nothing more soul-destroying than the time spent pushing around a lawn-mower.

* puts on tin-hat *
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I have a ride-on, it gets me away from the wife!!! (tin hat!!)

I am leaving it as it is for a few days - they may come back and neatly arrange it for me
 
We have them here in the Forest of Dean, so that is a usual sight, but the anti brigade are against the culling, yet they have no natural predator
 
Yeah I've seen plenty in the Forest of Dean - they make a mess at times of peoples gardens etc but they are also good for the land in helping to cultivate the land for wild plants to grow better. Bit of a catch 22 I think (although they do taste nice:))
 
JulesP said:
Yeah I've seen plenty in the Forest of Dean - they make a mess at times of peoples gardens etc but they are also good for the land in helping to cultivate the land for wild plants to grow better. Bit of a catch 22 I think (although they do taste nice:))
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It is going to take me a good few hours to sort that mess out
 
Follow em round, Bill, you might get a few truffles............if you are quick enough. :D
 
Didn't realise they could do that much damage
 
Had one of those visit us when my friend and I were camping on the edge of some woods over near Dijon a few years ago. It woke me up at about 2-3am - obviously foraging. I buried my head in my sleeping bag and hoped it would just go away. My friend unfortunately left some bait(fishing) just outside his tent and had the thing right beside his tent while it made a mess of his bait box. We had been told by the locals never to challenge these boar so we did just that!! Later when it/they had gone we peered through the flaps in our tents and watched two otters patrolling the lake in front of us. One of them came up to us and scavenged the mess that was Mike's bait box.
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I put it all back and the next night they came again and dug it all up again and some more!
 
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