The Westermark woods near the town of Syke are my favourite local hiking spot and have been featured several times in these pages before.
Today was frosty and sunny, i.e. ideal hiking weather, so I drove out to the Westermark woods. I also took my camera along and managed to capture some truly magical light in the woods. So take a look:
Love the shots. Looking at the hunting blinds I began to wonder when “hunting” went from being on foot and stalking your prey with a rifle to just sitting on one’s ass in a station above a bait feeder.
Kind of sad, isn’t it? It certainly wasn’t this way when I was growing up.
I remember seeing hunter’s stations very much like these from fairly early in my childhood on. And since I grew up in an area where hunting is common, I saw a lot of those seats. I don’t know when they were first introduced, but they were firmly entrenched by the 1970s/1980s. And yes, it is kind of sad.
Glad you like the photos, BTW.