Red Deer Camera on Saaremaa 2022- 2023

[IceAge]

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[IceAge]

07:40
Someone takes the antler.

[IceAge]

08:33
Uno brings fresh carrots and sees that the antler is gone. Is everyone allowed to collect antlers in Estonia?

[Trine]

08:33
Uno brings fresh carrots and sees that the antler is gone. Is everyone allowed to collect antlers in Estonia?

I am not sure; I suppose it is legal. However, it was not a nice thing to do. This dude also knew it.

[IceAge]

Thank you, Trine. In Germany, this is poaching and is punishable by law.

[rongike]

IceAge, Trine, here's a post from RMK about it from 2018: https://www.rmk.ee/metsa-majandamine/lo ... tse-eetris
It is legal but they have asked people not to do it. Maybe this is someone new who didn't know about that.

But Roland was the one who finally lost his antler. We have been waiting for it for some time.
Ervin is now the only adult (over 5 years old) who still has both antlers.

03:49 Norman, Jesper, Timothy sniffing Roland's antler


03:51 A fox came to see the antler but Mark told him to leave


04:02 Sander sniffing the antler

[rongike]

04:07 Roland returns with one antler and shows his tongue to Mark


04:41 Travis eating, Trevor sniffing the antler


04:47 Evert looking at the antler

[rongike]

04:54 Ford vs Evert, Rasmus Hubert II and Roland watching


05:38 Roland, Evert, and Rasmus Hubert II climbs on the hay


05:46 Roland, Evert, Rasmus Hubert II, and Timothy on the right feeling intimidated by them

[rongike]

06:03 Julius, Forest, Evert, Timothy, Trevor see something


06:08 Julius, Forest, and the fox is back looking at the antler


06:12 Forest is trying to kiss Timothy


24 deer visited this night, 19 stags, 3 hinds, 2 calves. 14 stags have now lost at least one antler, 13 of them probably both.

[rongike]

The video of Roland losing his antler:

[Trine]

Thanks, rongike

[Biker]

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yes! These are impressive reports and pictures from you rongike. Thank you very much

(at the beginning of the current live transmission I often watched live, lately hardly...)
but one thing struck me this year:
there were very often hinds at the feeder. That was not the case in recent years, right?


IceAge, thanks to you also
regarding legality of antler collecting in Estonia, I think this collector disguised himself, speaks for itself.
(or was he to be seen and you have the picture detail for data protection reasons so chosen that he was not to be recognized?)

[rongike]

but one thing struck me this year:
there were very often hinds at the feeder. That was not the case in recent years, right?

Last year hinds and calves also visited quite a bit, but not many the years before. I've been going through the forum, looking at past seasons. I haven't watched much of season 2 (2014/15) yet, but there also seemed to be a lot of hinds then, but later they stopped visiting.

I made another video of this morning.

[rongike]

19:50 The first three: Rasmus Hubert II, Troy, Daniel

[IceAge]

Biker, you are right. He wasn't visible because he didn't want to be recognised either.


20:15

[rongike]

20:52 Roland arrives on the right, he has also lost his other antler


21:03 Roland vs Norman, Roland won

[IceAge]

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23:15

[rongike]

A new post about the antler thief by RMK: https://www.rmk.ee/metsa-majandamine/lo ... tse-eetris

[IceAge]

March 16.

Rongike, thank you.I hope the thief will be reasonable and return the antlers.

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