Wild Boar in the Forest of Dean today! (pics)

We were riding the SSEC course in the FOD today and came across some Wild Boar with their little boarlets. Was really hard going as the ground was soft and loamy.
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Been riding in the FOD for over 10years and this was only the 2nd time I've ever seen Wild Boar and the first time I've managed to get a pic!

Cool.
I bet you were glad they were on the other side of the fence. 🙂

Cool, that's impressive! I'v never seen anything like that while out on a ride.

How are you cooking it?

I was more worried about scaring them off!! The fence wasn't sealed off so they could of got to us if they wanted to ;-0 Cooking it? Spit roast I think 😉

EEEK!
If I come across one of those at the SSEC, apart from wiping it off and saying sorry, I'm going to be the fastest bloomin hill climber ever 😯

"Wild Boar II"
Sounds a bit like a remake of that 70's film
"Wild Geese" 😆

Anyone…

I'm going to be the fastest bloomin hill climber ever

This I have to see 😉 We rode 1 lap today and we're feckered LOL

[obvious joke]Wild bore did you say? Were all the SSEC organisers there then?[/obvious joke] 😈

Although that is a pretty amazing sight!! 😆

Cool. Not seen one of those out and about yet.

i was expecting a pic of stu with his wok out.

nice capture though Sheldon

We rode 1 lap today and we're feckered LOL

yes, but you weren't powered by beer and "special" cake were you? it makes all the difference 😀

Some of them are bigger than you might expect when you meet them. They tend to avoid human contact although there have been a few cases locally where dogs off leads have been attacked when there have been young boarlets (sic) around. When I've seen them they wander away, stopping to look back every now and again. There are a couple of 'scratching posts' in the woods where they obviously wallow in the mud and rub against a post, amazing sight!
FoD's an amazing place for wildlife: boar, deer, badgers, goshawks, peregrines, otter, as well as the more usual foxes, rabbits, etc.. Oh, and the sheep of course.

FoD's an amazing place for wildlife: boar, deer, badgers, goshawks, peregrines, otter, as well as the more usual foxes, rabbits, etc.. Oh, and the sheep of course.

you missed out 6 fingered locals!

We also saw some deer close up too but didny get camera out for them common animals!

Somewhere in The Forest of Dean, later this evening…

nice pics

you missed out 6 fingered locals!

I would have included that but you'd be surprised how difficult it can be typing… 8)

maybe not the best place to mention my Maori in laws and what they do to wild boar!!

LOL @ Pedalhead, that's in 3 weeks time!

Quality Asterix post. Wild boar, mmm mmm mmmmmmm…

Those boar have no idea they came to being eaten.

If only that wasn't an electric fence I'd have been in there with a portable grill and a loaf of bread.

Nice pics!

Heard they can be a bit aggessive when they have young to protect.

Fantastic pics – last time I was up at FOD I got a shock when I came across a group of boar – they all legged it quick though, no time for photos!

Wild, Wild, it looks livid too me.

I saw a wild boar on the SDW last week…… got really close – seemed quite shy

On the south downs way? Really? I have heard they can be very aggressive? But is this just like the demonisation of wolves?

11:00 Le mans style start
15:00ish Finish and ride back to the campsite

😯

so how long a lap????

11:00 Le mans style start
15:00ish Finish and ride back to the campsite

so how long a lap????
you have to do 4 laps or you have to sleep in the boar enclosure with brown sauce smoothered over you arse

i know i said i'd cum on my cross bike – BUT –

brown sauce smoothered over you arse

you 29erists are weird

😯

and an apple in your mouth…

and an apple in your mouth…

laptop or iphone?

Depends how big your mouth is…

that's not a boar

this a boar!!

Taz, thats dinner for Stu 😉 He hasn't got a wok that big from eating smaller boar!

Qwerty, the laps have some KM's in shame its a vertical KM 😉

Yes really.

thats dinner for Stu

Might make a small starter but not big enough for dinner. 🙄

do you think stu could manage this pig?

That reminds me of the time a mate had a bag of scratchings and one of them had a nipple on it. 😯

Were they Chicken scratchings?