Short Tricks and Tricks

Tracking
If it's round it ain't a hound.
Feathers pucked = Bird of prey kill
Feathers chewed = Fox kill
Deer hair can be snapped

Photographing Dragonflies
Put a stick at an angle of forty five degrees at the edge of a pond. Dragonflies will usually land on it. Common darters will go onto your hand if you slowly push your finger towards its head.

Navigation
Point the hour hand towards the sun. Bisect the angle between that and noon on the watch face. The busected ange will be a North South line.

Time to dusk
A fist = 1 hour. Each knuckle = 15 minutes. Measure the horizon to the sun. If you know the time of dusk, you can work out the time or at least how long it is until dusk

Acreage
Multiply the length x breadth in feet
Divide the result by 43560 (the number of sq ft in an acre)
The result will be the number of acres.

Plants Use
Comfrey roots - Make a slurry of the roots. The paste will be like plaster of paris and will set hard. Boil leaves - like spinnach
Nettles - Young leaves for tea or soup. Remove inner pith and dry outer strands. Twist to make cordage.
Burdock - Pealed roots make starchy edible food.
Rose hips - Split rose hip, take out pips and hair. Eat (Rich in Vitamin C.)

Conifir Needles ID
Spruce = Single (needle)
Pine = pairs

Cooking
Baked egg - Crack the top of an egg and stir egg. Place egg in shell in hot ashes and stir occasionally. When egg is hard, peel and eat.

Axe work
Green wood - Chop
Dead wood - Split