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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Farnboro John" data-source="post: 3162504" data-attributes="member: 36432">Seeing as I was struggling to photograph actual Wild Boars, I took the chance to take some pictures of related things. So here is a bit of a teach-in - apologies to readers for whom this is routine....1. Typical Wild Boar habitat in the Forest of Dean. A forest ride with some evidence of snouting in the rough grass. Rushes in the area were flattened (they're quite difficult to squash so that they don't spring up again, but boars manage it.) Under the young conifers boars find sheltered, dry, comfy pine needles to relax on: most people wander past without ever knowing they are close.2. Boar droppings (1) Sometimes they do come out and remain clumped together like this. Interestingly these are brownish - blackish is more frequent. There's a slight glisten to them that suggests they are fairly recent - in fact a fly flew off them, another indicator.3. Boar droppings (2) These are more typical. Separate blackish discs, bulged on one side like macaroons.4. Boar track. Bic biro (6" long) for size comparison. Not sure if the mark behind the two toes is a dew claw or a small boar going the other way.5. Wild Boar being difficult. In fact there are two, in the shadows back and left of the main subject of the pic is another one. The pic is taken with the first outing of my new 100mm f2.8  and only cropped a bit: the boars are only about five to ten yards away.John</blockquote>

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