Thread: Tahr Hunting! Tips and tricks

Tahr are low at the moment, in the scrub line. I wouldn't bother climbing high until you have a good look over the lower country first.
There are tahr higher, you'll always see the odd one, but the bulls will be lower on the spring tucker. Nannies are often higher than the bulls at this time of year.
Glass, you'll cover country much quicker with your eyes than your feet. Like spend hours glassing good looking country, not minutes.
They're easy to see at the moment, pretty blonde. Look like big hay bales.
Bulls will be away in their bachelor groups, young bulls generally hang out together, they may be hard to distinguish from nannies from a distance.
Older bulls will have darker hides from the mane back, and will immediately be noticeable as a bull. If you see a group of these, worth going for a look.
Tahr were pretty active until 10am and they started moving again about 430pm last weekend.
It's likely to be hot during the day, take sunscreen and a sunhat. And water, drink plenty of water.
But its the alps, so could be snowing as well...so be prepared for that.
Depending on where you are going, if it's had a clean out, like the place we went last weekend, you may want to avoid having a "bomb-up" on nannies like we would have in the past.
If you want to PM me with any specific questions, by all means send me one.