Perfect print

After breakfast sleep proved a bit elusive so I explored the area close by. A red fox soon appeared and I watched it hunting on the adder hill in front of the guest house. The car park leads down to the river, the bank covered in spring snowflakes, very like snow drops but with an attractive yellow frill round the petals. D was a several steps ahead of me and had found a beaver lodge and dam 500m up the road. It was fairly easy to access, the main pools and channels leading to them were obscured by vegetation so probably not a great observation spot but interesting to see.
After an hour or so napping in the afternoon we had lunch/dinner at 4pm. Usually we are all carnivores and I managed a small helping of tomato soup with cold pasta and a pork stew with potatoes. We took supper with us and like last night ate snatches of it on the move.
The hour before sunset we spent wolf and bear tracking with some pristine bear prints in the mud and some very fresh wolf scat. This excited our guides and we made several attempts to catch up with the wolves who were moving at quite a pace. From the van we saw a magnificent male lone wolf, the main pack having retreated to the forest.
After watching several beavers, and unsuccessfully finding any evidence of lynx we returned to the accommodation at 10.30 and dropped off 3 folk who had decided to call it a day. On the basis that Jan and Mark estimated another 90 minutes of “lamping” K and decided to continue.
We were rewarded with an amazing sighting of two otters cavorting about around an industrious beaver, none of them perturbed by our presence and the spot light. The Border Guards stopped us again, young folk who showed a video of the lynx they had seen the previous evening giving the location. After scanning our passports they sent us on our way with Mark determined to spent some time where they had seen the lynx. Such was his enthusiasm that we finally returned at 3am, and no lynx. A large herd of boars, several ural owls and a hazel grouse, which I’d never heard of, made up for it.
I managed 6 hours of deep sleep, felt a bit jet lagged this morning but soon revived after scrambled eggs and instant coffee. It’s now around 2pm on Monday. We spent the morning birding with Jan, good to see grey headed woodpecker, exclusive to Eastern Europe. I need to get some more sleep now ready for a lengthy session tonight.
Tomorrow we move further north, our accommodation has no Wi-Fi and because we will still be close to the border probably no mobile either. Vodafone Ukraine charged us all an exorbitant amount yesterday to use the Merlin bird app, in Poland obviously. I will need to do some retrospective blipping when I get back to Krakow on Saturday.