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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Farnboro John" data-source="post: 3162418" data-attributes="member: 36432">I spent Sunday in the Forest of Dean again, with only moderate success (i.e. less than last time. The highlight of the day was an hour-long battle of wits with a Wild Boar that was going about its business close to a track I was on. I managed to get up to about twenty yards from it, and it then became aware of me through thickish cover and advanced cautiously to check me out. We stalked each other for the next sixty minutes, by the end of which I had some poor record shots and it had enjoyed an encounter with Man without getting shot. I'd like to say it was even but I suspect the boar did better then me!The only other decent mammals of the day were a couple of Fallow Deer that shot off giving me brief bins views as I was toiling up a steep hill. Hawfinches, Ravens and Crossbills made up the other interest of the day.John</blockquote>