Well, after roaming around the pine forest we discovered a secret place with plenty of pig signs !! Also I took assorted pics from another things you maybe enjoy to see.

First we find the trees...




Here is my hunting buddy who is 1,70 metres tall showing where the mud ends...



Then we set up the feeder and the trail cam (tree infront the feeder)




This pic was taken from under the feeder, we will build the high blind under those yellowish pines infront.



This is a Martineta, some kind of "giant" partdrige.




This is a common partdrige, when driving around they just lay down and you can put the truck near ontop them and they will not move...




We find another feeder with ants, I hate them !!!



Old cattle fences made from stones. Before the wire age in the old times, farms and properties where delimited or separated by stones. You can still see them for miles and miles.





L

If your hogs are proportional to your ants, they're going to be a lot bigger than ours. Wow! Good luck on the hunt.

Lorenzo,

Those rubs tell me you're in for some good hunting. I really like the old stone fences...a different time and a different way of doing things. The ants look like they could make sitting around for very long pretty uncomfortable. Happy hunting and thanks for a look at some new critters and country.

Matt

Those are some really nasty looking ants.

The name/group of birds your "Partridges" are in, are the Tinamous.

They are a fairly primitive group of birds that are only a short way up the evolutionary tree of birds from the Ostrich/Emu/Rhea/Kiwi.

Interesting pictures, Many Thanks for posting them.

Very interesting pics lorenzo.

Never had the chance to caught a red tinamou on camera. Sometimes they are covered up just by my foot and I can even see them.

Lorenzo, nice photos as usual. Thank you. When will you be paying the feeder a visit?

Thanks gentlemen.

Indeed those birds are "tinamous", when the spaniards arrived to our coasts, they find them so similar to european partdriges that they just call them partdriges and it just stay like that.

It's amazing how much of these birds roam around with all the gray fox population we have here, I don't enjoy shooting animals just for fun and as foxes are not edible I never shoot them but I think that those big red tinamous and the little common ones deserve some fox culling !!!

I will continue baiting the pigs in the area, I will not try to hunt them yet, I have invited a couple of friends from Argentina and they will visit me around mid june so I want a lot of pigs and partdriges around so my guests can enjoy them.

Those ants are nothing compared with others that live in the same place, a reddish ant three times bigger the ones of the picture !!!

Those are REALLY some serious insects

Thanks for your comments,lets see what the cam finds there, nexr week I will go again to pick up some pictures...

L

Lorenzo.
Good Luck with the new feeder location, I wish You catch a big wildboard soon !!! Maybe You must promote free ants hunt in Uruguay !!! soon some pictures of Our new rented property, I hope You visit it , next roar season and take free more than one of 1000 boards that live there. Regards Guille.

Lorenzo--we have a product in the US called a "No Pest Strip" which is used to keep insects out of barns and away from animal pens. It is available in farm/agriculture supply stores here. We had a similar problem with insects in our feeders--not ants but wasps. I bought the No Pest Strip, cut off a small piece (about 2-3 cm long) and put it in the feeder mechanism box. Kept the wasps and scorpions out just fine.

dustoffer,

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will try to find that product, what a good idea you gave me.

You have that problem with wasps ???
I am completely afraid of wasps !! Thanks God the ones we have here don't give us that problem

"No pest strip"....I will google it.

L

Forgot to mention that the ants built a nest inside the feeder mechanism and completely spoiled it

We must clean all the sticks and sand they put inside the mechanism....and see if we can make it work again.

L

quote:

You have that problem with wasps ???
I am completely afraid of wasps !! Thanks God the ones we have here don't give us that problem

Here the yellow jackets sometimes get inside the barrel of the feeder for shelter when the weather is cold. Quite a shock to see a big ball of them when you open it up to fill it. Of course, you hope it is still cold when you do or they will be active.

Lorenzo, can a Martineta fly? The wings seem very snall.

Looks like you will have some good hunting in those pines. The rubs are old and well used. Big ones, too.

Keith

Keith,

Yes, the martinetas are similar to a pheasant.
First they fly up very vertical, a couple of metres up, with a big noise taking the sh..t out of you when you are just walking or hunting slowly as they wait to fly away till the last second, near under your feet !!!

Then they just plane and fly horizontaly away from you quickly.

L

Sounds like they are fun to hunt!

Keith

Lorenzo--I checked the package and found that I gave you the wrong name--the correct name of the product is "PROZAP Insect Guard". Here's a link to information about the product.


http://www.amazon.com/ProZap-I...z-card/dp/B000084F0G

dustoffer,

Thanks for the link !!!!!

Keith, yes they are very sportive...and they taste good also

L

Ants....I remember the ants....and now again....you must be using excellent bait... Hello to Federico....

Howdy Bill !!

I will give your salutes to Federico



L

Nice pics Lorenzo, thanks for posting, I enjoyed it. Keep us up date on this spot, Waidmannsheil, Dom.

x-terminator cattle ear tags work really well to keep insects out of the inner workings of feeder-timers.... just cut 1 into several pieces....and wire it somewhere close....