Czech wildlife

[BushrangerCZ]

I am very grateful that you British folks run so much good sites and blogs about bushcraft and wildlife photography where I can gain a lot of knowledge and inspiration, and so for anybody interested here is a little contribution from my own country. I use Nikon D80 with Nikkor70-300mm objective and also two Bushnell Trophy cams.

Roe deer, most common deer over here:

Red deer, also common but much more shy and clever:

Wild boar, VERY common, however it´s mainly night woodland creature so it´s not so easy to spot:

Muflon, wild goat, originally lived in whole Europe, but after ice age remained only on Sardinia and Corsica. Succesfully reintroduced and living wild in many regions of country :

 

[sandbender]

Great pictures.

 

[Galemys]

Great pics!

Cheers from Holland,

Tom

 

[Radix lecti]

Some great pictures there BushrangerCZ. Wild Boar are quite common near to where i live.Cheers. Thanks for sharing.

Darren

 

[dorkingbushcraft]

excelent pics, thankyou

 

[forrestdweller]

nice pics!- i like especially the muflon, never managed to see them in the wild.
and usually i do'nt have my camera at hand when i come across some wildlife....

 

[sam_acw]

Really good pictures, I've seen lots of Roe deer here but never a red. We even have Moose in some f the national parks around Warsaw.
Any beavers in your area?

 

[eraaij]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing those.

-Emile

 

[BushrangerCZ]

Really good pictures, I've seen lots of Roe deer here but never a red. We even have Moose in some f the national parks around Warsaw.
Any beavers in your area?

Yes, 20 minutes drive from my hometown is nature reserve "Litovelské pomoraví", where you can find beavers and otters too. Here is the pic from that reserve taken in 2009 and some more pics from woodland around my town:

 

[BushrangerCZ]

something from the autumn:

 

[bb07]

Excellent pictures! The animals appear to be quite tame?

 

[BushrangerCZ]

Excellent pictures! The animals appear to be quite tame?

Not tame at all buddy, I have to stalk and many times crawl on the ground to find the deer, get closer and get a decent photo (except the salamander which is pretty stoic creature). Also I use objectiv 70-300mm and it magnifies the pics so they look closer. The deer is actually very shy and cautious over here because of very popular hunting.
Some pics from today (Otter tracks, Rode deer and Pheasant in nature reserve "Pr Království"):

I also saw numerous Great spotted woodpeckers and one Black woodpecker.

 

[bb07]

Thanks for clarifying that. Your pictures are so nice and clear that everything looks close. Not being much of a photographer I never thought of a telephoto lens.

 

[BushrangerCZ]

Thanks for clarifying that. Your pictures are so nice and clear that everything looks close. Not being much of a photographer I never thought of a telephoto lens.

Well thanks much, but I´m just an amateur... there are profi dudes which take unbelievable pics (I like wilderness.sk and wildlife.sk as they also do only real wildlife)

 

[Ironside]

Fantastic pics. Thanks for posting

 

[BushrangerCZ]

Thanks much Ironside... From today - dry mulleins looking like cactuses

 

[BushrangerCZ]

From today...

 

[paolo]

Really amazing pics, thanks for sharing.
I definitely must come back to Czech republic for the third time, it seems that I have missed a lot of things.
Have a Litovel beer for me too

 

[BushrangerCZ]

Really amazing pics, thanks for sharing.
I definitely must come back to Czech republic for the third time, it seems that I have missed a lot of things.
Have a Litovel beer for me too

Thank you... Litovel has a good beer, and also nice and large nature reserve of hardwood forests right behind the town. Give me a shout when in Litovel, it´s not far from my place.

 

[BushrangerCZ]

Red deer stag scat... male has bullet-shaped ****, and female has both ends pointy or oval.