Heidi's first 80m track was not an easy one for her, however at the end of the day she came through. The first problem we encountered just before I attached her tracking collar was that the landowner came along on his quad bike for a chat, and have a look at her. Then he requested that his wife was introduced to her at the farmhouse which was only a couple of hundred meters away, so we obliged by walking back to his house.
After about ten minutes we returned to close to the start of the track, which was now over an hour old. I put the Heidi's tracking collar on and we made a start. She was slightly distracted at first by the sound of the quad bike shunting around and driving off, but soon got down to it.
The whole track consisted of around 200ml diluted blood, with a small liver drag and again three small pieces of liver for motivation. there was a piece of skin at the end (more about that in pt2), and the wind was from behind us.
Sadly due to mechanical failure,( me being incompetent with the video on my mobile), it stopped recording, right at the spot where she lost the track, but I managed to pick it up again in pt2.
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