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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JWN Andrewes" data-source="post: 3678369" data-attributes="member: 7131">February 12th: part IAn early morning drive through the Marches delivered us to Speech House in the Forest of Dean as the sun came up, and we checked out the car parks recommended for Wild Boar. No sign on a short search, but we had been advised that we may have to try several times before locating them, so no need to worry. I decided at this point to do a quick round of sites, see what we could find. Parkend’s contribution was a dozen or so tree top Hawfinches, then it was back to Speech House via the Cannop Water Mandarins, which gave themselves up without protest (pity more Ducks can’t be like that, see later).Back at Speech House it became apparent we’d had visitors. Right by the where we’d been parked was some freshly turned earth, really easy to spot given the light dusting of overnight snow on the ground. The more we looked, the more sign we found, plenty of tracks as well as one very impressive dugout. We spent several minutes exploring the tracks (couldn’t find any actual footprints, they were sticking to leafy mulch rather than mud, so we couldn’t determine direction of travel). Soon enough we were opposite another of the car parks the Boar were reported to be seen in, so we crossed the road.</blockquote>