Kings of Forests - Small Or Big

I must say that today has been a very good day compared to the saturday feelings after the mussel food poisoning: I have felt almost normal actually, but my muscles in upper back are sore (from the vomiting I guess), so I have taken it very easy today. Light eating and a lot of water to drink.

A lovely cloudy and warm day +7c. Me and my husband decided to go walking into the woods to easy terrain with a lot of winter mushrooms Cantharellus tubaeformis, Yellowfoots. Of course I do not tell you the coordinates, as none of the finns tells their best mushroom positions. The best places are always secrets ;).

However this is what we saw standing near in the forest, almost on our Yellowfoot-mushrooms: A hunter with a rifle in his red jacket! The moose hunting has started.

A bullet of a deer (or moose) rifle range even 1 km did you know?

So we did not dare to enter this part of the forest, but drove away to another place, saw not a singe Yellowfoot, but instead we caught some nice deer keds. They are quite discusting small flies, that stick into the fur of mooses and bite and sip the blood to keep alive.

We also saw 6-7 stumps of trees freshly torn by bears!!!

No other animal makes that kind of a mess in finnish forest. Did not see any bear, however, maybe because we talked aloud so that the king of the forest could go around us. They normally do. This time too, what a relief ;).

My holiday is about to start. Only few days, but still - a holiday!

We will go to the secret place to the woods tomorrow again. For sure there is no riflemen on monday...?

Susanna