Exploring

Articles In This Section:

· Exploring

· BRANCHES AND LEAVES - Part 1

· BRANCHES AND LEAVES - Part 2

· BRANCHES AND LEAVES - Part 3

· ANIMAL TRACKS AND TRACES

· BIRDWATCHING

· BIRDCALLS AND OTHER SOUNDS - Part 1

· BIRDCALLS AND OTHER SOUNDS - Part 2

· LOOKING FOR LESSER CREATURES

· STARGAZING

Hunting in the woods is not confined to shooting game with a rifle or bow and arrow. You can spend your time in the out-of-doors far more enjoyably and constructively if you hunt with your head and eyes. All searching, tracking, and interpreting is really hunting, and the most patient and shrewdest hunters today are not those who hang their hunting trophies on the wall in the form of antlers, but rather those who preserve their booty from the hunt in photo albums—hunters with the camera.

Yet even without a camera there are innumerable things to hunt for in the woods and fields, things most people pass by without seeing. As you train your eyes and sharpen your powers of observation, you will begin to notice many fascinating things that you weren't aware of before.