Since time flies incredibly fast, and we often fail to truly appreciate the value of the moments we experience, it has become a habit of mine to summarize the most beautiful moments spent in nature at the end of the year. I don’t do this for views or likes but so I can return to these moments in the future and relive them in my thoughts. This year was, once again, completely different from the previous ones. I started using trail cameras more often, which helped me document shots even when I didn’t have time to go out and photograph. For the first time in my life, I had the chance to observe hoopoes and badgers. I even managed to photograph hoopoes in flight, something I never thought I’d accomplish this year. The roe deer rut turned out well for me, but due to traveling, I missed the red deer rut and only attended the fallow deer rut once, which I regret (though it wasn’t entirely up to me).

Next year, I’d like to focus more on filming videos, perhaps at the expense of photography, so I can put together what I’d consider a “proper” film. I hope you’ll enjoy this recap of 2024. If you have any constructive criticism, I’ll greatly appreciate it because that’s the only way to improve.

I was driving with my roommate to a friends late at night, I missed the turn and so had to keep driving for a bit each house has quite a bit of land, rural but not farmland. As driving at the side of the road we both saw a creature’s silhouette looked about 3-4 feet tall, pill shaped but fuzzy/furry, had a beak and skinny chicken like legs. It walked into the grass with a bit of a bounce in its step. We drove by it seeing it I was slowing down the car but didn’t stop. We both saw it both described it to each other the same exact way. Neither of us on any sort of substance. Telling the friend that lived in that area looked at us if we were crazy. Definitely would feel crazy if she didn’t see the same exact thing. Anyone know what that could be?

Last night my parents and I were in the northern Pennsylvania part of the Appalachian mountains, we were camping out on private property so I know no one was there but us. when we got to the campsite earlier that day the grounds had a weird Erie feeling almost like there was some sort of ghost or spirit. Middle of the night probably around 1 am. We were sitting by the fire when we all felt like we were being stalked. About 20min goes by and we look in the distance and see 2 massive green glowing eyes probably about 6-7 feet off the ground the eyes were big round and very far apart probably 8 inches apart. My father told us to get in the car and he proceeded to try to communicate with whatever this was, “saying hey get out of here.” It did not respond. My dad shined a flash light in its direction and saw a big humanoid looking creature And the creature immediately started running erratically. that thing was fast like tiger speed. We all hoped in the car and drove out as fast as we can. I don’t know much about what it could be if anyone has an idea lmk.

I was wondering if every creature had a different number of chromosomes.