The storm in June not only destroyed buildings and cars.
The consequences of the brutal hailstorm are gradually becoming apparent in the animal world.
Wolfratshausen
- Jakob was in the juice and certainly still had a few nice years ahead of him at Gut Meilenberg.
Then the hail came.
With a violence that Markus Fagner has seldom experienced.
"After that, there were 20 to 30 table tennis-sized hailstones on the floor in an area of perhaps 30 by 30 centimeters," says the landowner.
One of them killed poor Jacob.
He hadn't made it to the safe shelter fast enough.
The fate of the ram is representative of that of many wild animals that did not survive the gigantic storm between Wolfratshausen, Icking and Lake Starnberg in mid / late June.
Fagner is also a hunter.
In his territory he recently found a small deer, as the hunters call an animal in its second year of life that was lying dead in a meadow.
“The hail certainly killed some goats too,” believes the 60-year-old, and now their fawns were walking around without a guide.
Some would join roebuck in their distress.
According to Fagner, the latter “play the kindergarten uncle, in a very unhappy way”.
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Markus Fagner, hunter and landowner
© Sabine Hermsdorf
Markus Binar is currently having similar experiences. “It is often the case, for example after traffic accidents, that motherless fawns seek the company of goats. They then unconsciously take the boys with them to their feeding places. ”The Wolfratshausen master hairdresser has been a hunter for 30 years, Markus Fagner once introduced him to the subject of hunting. On his first post-apocalyptic forays through his area of around 550 square meters - it is located in the high mountain area, which was badly affected by the hail - Binar found four slain fawns and a dead goat. The 50-year-old was particularly touched by the terrible fate of a roebuck that he and his son discovered around two weeks after the storm. That something was wrong with him could be seen from a distance by a strangely drooping ear. The look through the binoculars showed all the cruelty:The hail had completely shattered half of the animal's face. “It was just mud. The buck must have been in incredible pain for days. ”A shot from Binary's rifle released the animal from its suffering. The enormous force with which the lumps of ice must have thrown the flora and fauna can also be seen in the pulpits and manger: there are many holes in their roofs.
The buck must have been in incredible pain for days.
Markus Binar
Attentive forest walkers will also notice the eerie silence within the hailstorm.
Hardly a blackbird whistles, no woodpecker hammers into the wood with its beak.
The icy projectiles have massively reduced the population of songbirds, the two hunters agree on this.
In the past few years, Fagner had “eagerly hung up bird boxes, which were particularly popular with starlings.
But now there are no more starlings. ”Only the swallows were clever enough and sought refuge in the stables of the estate in good time.
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Binar also measures blackbirds, ravens, jays, great spotted woodpeckers and starlings. There are usually 20 to 30 ducks cavorting around the small pond in his territory, currently "there are maybe four or five". The 50-year-old has an inkling of where many of the birds have ended up. “You just have to go to the burrows. All the bones lie in front of it. ”In the first days after the storm, little robbers like Master Reineke and Badgers lived like in a land of milk and honey, the booty was served to them almost bite-sized. “At least they will benefit from this catastrophe,” says Binar. For him it is the first time that he has experienced something like this, "but I know from the stories of old hunters that something like this already existed in the 1950s and 80s".
The hunter points out another crux: It not only caught deer and birds, but also small animals such as rabbits and martens, which are now lying dead in the meadows.
This is a “huge problem” for farmers as soon as they cut the grass.
"Just a few remains of a carcass and a 600-kilo hay-lage bale is useless".
Markus Fagner ponders the fact that many people do not notice any of this.
In cities like Wolfratshausen and Geretsried, one sees above all the damage to buildings and vehicles, "but unfortunately a large part of the public does not notice how much the animal world has suffered".
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