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02-09-2006, 07:36 PM
|  | Active Member | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: West Sussex
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| | | Wild boar
I was fortunate enough to see a wild boar sow and her "piglets" today very close to my home.Took a few pictures (which will follow if I`ve downloaded correctly  ).
It was incredable how close I got, she was so busy rooting around and seemed to be preoccupied searching out earthworms, I kept downwind and the gusty wind masked my footsteps through the undergrowth. At one stage some of the youngsters were within a few feet of the tree I was behind!!. |
02-09-2006, 07:38 PM
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| | | Re: Wild boar
 WOW! Fantastic! Can't they get a bit aggressive, heard of people being chased up trees. Can't wait for photos! |
02-09-2006, 07:44 PM
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Well done !! Have put these on my must see list after seeing bill oddie on tv recently watching them in my neighbourhood !
Chased up trees?....are they good climbers then ? 
hmmm...although....i have seen them wild in nepal/india and have to admit i had wild boar in a restaraunt out there and it was lovely. |
02-09-2006, 07:45 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Edge of the New Forest, Hampshire
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| | | Re: Wild boar
Excellent. Would love to see these back in the wild. The closest ones to me are in Bridport in Dorset I think. Heres a site on them. www.britishwildboar.org.uk |
02-09-2006, 07:49 PM
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| | | Re: Wild boar
heres one i took last year of a heap of boarlets - however this was at the wolfpack slaughtering excuse for a collection HWP at kingguisie so please dont go to see them there (I'm promoting a total boycott of that place)
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02-09-2006, 07:54 PM
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| | | Re: Wild boar
I think they will only attack humans if they feel their young are in danger.I had this in mind when the piglets came close, I had one eye on mum just incase  , they have poor eyesight but excellent smell and hearing, a couple of times she knew I was stalking them and just snorted and they all disappeared into cover, but they were not to difficult to find again.
Just having spoken to a National trust warden, it seems a few escaped from a farm following the storm of 87, and have been increasing in numbers and range ever since.I welcome there return to the wild but lots of farmers are against them because of the damage they do whilst foraging. |
02-09-2006, 08:31 PM
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| | | Re: Wild boar
 to Dan
what was that place eeyore? why the boycott? |
02-09-2006, 08:39 PM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Somerset
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| | | Re: Wild boar
We had few turn up on the Somerset Levels this year, 6 piglets and a adult male and pregnant female adult, turned up on private land, when they started wandering around, they were rounded up and dissapeared and no one knew anything........seems like someone was trying to test the water about re-introducing them.
Apparently know one anything even EN who own 99% of the Land in the area, but when word got out I had pictures of them, EN rang me at work asking me not to tell anyone about it! very suspect!
If you look on the Wild Boar website Wild Boar in Britain there are some pictures of them (not mine) from the Levels.
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02-09-2006, 08:42 PM
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Sadly they are being persecuted and ending up on the tables of restaurants etc  |
02-09-2006, 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by honeybee
what was that place eeyore? why the boycott?
| Full details here Wolf pack destroyed - I have also sent you a pm , it still upsets me too much to go into it on the boards
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