I shot a wild boar this morning...

[CotoChris]

but with my camera....... no way I could hurt this beauty. The poor thing fell between the wall and a fence, went under the fence and my dogs went wild. this was at 4 in the morning last night. I thought it was just another hedgehog so i put the dogs back in the kennel.
In the morning though they went wild again. This time I saw the boar. It took two hours to get it out of the property, by the time I managed to persuade it to leave it trampled though the gardens and swam in the duck pond. I took a couple of pics so it wasn't a figure of my imagination! It did look a lot bigger in life though.










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[Kirstie]

It's got a bit of a tilt-on in the second photo!

Very cute, though

[CotoChris]

I'm glad he turned though because he was coming straight at me! I reckon it's a juvenile from early spring litter. Glad it wasn't the father!

[purple vonny]

It looks like like me after 2 glasses of wine in pic 2!!!!!

Cute critter, if it got stuck in your garden I bet it was livid, never mind wild.

[abucksdiver]

Mmmmm, hungry now!


Andrew

[chrisch]

Originally Posted by CotoChris

.... I thought it was just another hedgehog ...

No no. Boar is much more tasty and far more meat on him..

(Don't tell my missus she'd want it as a pet.....)

Mmmm... crackling

Chris

[Dizzydiver]

When can you catch it? I want to take the little piggy to look after and nurture it. Stuff the boss and his demands for crackling!

Fantastic pics, what a gorgeous beastie.

Cheers for that,
Dizzy

[PeeBee]

Ahh happy memories, smoked sanglier (french for wild boar) nearly as good as smoked venison. yumm...

[Lou]

You lucky soul to have those living around you. Not many left in most of Europe these days (thanks to folk who like crackling and guns )

Saw some horrendous Belgian/German woman on the Hairy Bikers who lived to shoot boar for fun - eugh. She had a lovely day once where they shot hundreds in a few hours.....

Glad to see this one lived to squeal another day - it does look like a young'un - there's a lesson chalked up!

[CotoChris]

There is a lot of wildlife around that one doesn't see. I knew there were wild boars in the area but of the 20 years I've been here I've only seen two, yesterday and one last winter. In the vineyards the boars pick the berries of the bunch individually and spit out the skin, they can be so delicate yet they are incredibly strong and as I found out today very quick!

It's been a nice week for wildlife, I saw this massive 1.5 metre snake entering the chicken coup and grabing an egg. Hedgehogs have been eating my slugs (but tramping on the lettuce at the same time!), frog spawn in the ponds, newts are happy in the pool and the toads hoping around with the latest rains. as for the birds they are around, one entered my office by the door, looked around and flew out of the window.

I wish my cockerel would behave though, he keeps attacking me when i come to feed hima nd his hens. He's a moody git.