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Survival Skillset

Lesson 4 of 12

Animal signs and digging for water

40 min

In wet country like most of Britain, finding water is rarely the hard part. Judging it is. But in a dry summer on limestone, in a drought, on a coast, or anywhere abroad where water is scarce, the land can look bone dry while water sits just out of sight: under the sand of a dry streambed, a metre back from a muddy pool, behind the first line of dunes,…

In this lesson

  • Birds as water indicators
  • How to read them
  • Common mistakes
  • Insects as water indicators
  • Animal trails and converging tracks
  • The tree pattern
  • Digging at the outside bend of a dry riverbed
  • Where to dig
  • How to dig
  • Seep holes beside lakes, ponds and muddy water
  • How to do it
  • What it does and does not do

The rest of this lesson is in the full course

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