Thread: Tracking wounded animals. Mistakes and lessons

Yes a head torch can help even during daylight

The real bugger is needing to put Reading glasses on to check if it's actually bloody or a pigment spot on a leaf

It's surprising how many native plants have brown and purple blotches on their leaves

two is good give them 20 minutes - criss cross back woods and fowards until hopefully you pick up a blood trail - if there is two of you one stops at last blood - lead tracker goes ahead and picks up fresh trail -when the lead finds blood then he signals the other to come up to it and stay there - the lead then always has a point of reference to work on - usual rules on silence applys hand signals or a whistle - its when the blood trail goes up hill that is when the fun starts- down hill and staying down hill you jhave every chance but up hill 50/50

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Yes a head torch can help even during daylight

The real bugger is needing to put Reading glasses on to check if it's actually bloody or a pigment spot on a leaf

It's surprising how many native plants have brown and purple blotches on their leaves

I have to put them on to use a bloody camera now.... Anything less than arms length and I'm stuffed. Fresh blood...whipe on fingers n look works.