Good
morning from Jamie Paterson who is talking directly to, two science classes
from three oaks elementary school. She is looking for frogs and terrapin in a
natural water pan. Dave Eastaugh is on camera.
- She explains safari live to the children a bit.
- A foam nest frog nest.
- (2016/03/18 16:04) She shows the kids a terrapin in her book, and explains turtle vs terrapin vs tortoise.
- She moves on.
- Surprise for the kids tries to get them to guess
Brent
says hello to the children of three oaks elementary school. Wium Dornbrack is
on camera.
Brent,
(2016/03/18 16:09) He explains
herbivore and omnivore quizzes the kids, he is headed to an elephant herd.
(2016/03/18 16:13) Brent finds a
ground hornbill
Jamie,
(2016/03/18 16:14) Jamie with lions a
male and female. Male is asleep females head is up they are very close
together. As she gets closer the male picks up his head then lies back down and
rolls over back to sleep. Then the
female lays her head down and goes to sleep as well.
Brent,
(2016/03/18 16:23) Brent with
elephants. A youngish female cow is being cheeky and keeps trying to steal the show even though Brent is trying to get the calm mother and calf in view. The cheeky female mock charges shakes her head and even trumpets a couple times. She is young enough that he just ignores her bad behavior she is not threat and maybe just playing, although I agree she is not threat I think he was saying she is playing to the children from the school.
Jamie,
(2016/03/18 16:33) Jamie is with the lions and is moving the vehicle to try
to get a front view of the male.
(2016/03/18 16:35) in mid-sentence with Jamie talking about the male lion's size he opens his eyes but doesn't move and the signal goes out.
(2016/03/18 16:38) we come back Jamie
says the power went out for a minute.
(2016/03/18 16:40) Jamie says good
bye to the class
Brent,
(2016/03/18 16:40) Back to Brent with
the elephants he says his good byes to the class.
(2016/03/18 16:43) dwarf mongoose
spotted by Wium, but no clear screenshot of it.
Jamie,
(2016/03/18 16:47) With the sleeping
lions
Brent,
(2016/03/18 16:53) Signal issues so
right back to Jamie
Jamie,
(2016/03/18 16:54) Jamie, Crested francolin testing their luck with sleeping lions.
Brent,
(2016/03/18 16:57) Three African
green pigeons
Jamie,
(2016/03/18 17:00) The male lion has
his head up for a minute has a little scratch then back to sleep.
(2016/03/18 17:00) She decides to
leave them and come back later.
Brent,
(2016/03/18 17:05) Butterfly African
vagrant
Jamie,
(2016/03/18 17:12) Twin dams and its
history.
Brent,
(2016/03/18 17:22) Looking for the fungus or
mushroom Jamie found the other drive.
(2016/03/18 17:31) Ground hornbill in
a tree.
(2016/03/18 17:34) Looking at the fungus
that Jamie had found on sunrise drive. It is fermenting and been eaten some.
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| The fungus with Jamie on 3-17-16 Sunset Drive |
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| The fungus with Brent 3-18-16 Sunset Drive |
(2016/03/18 17:47) Brent on top of the hyena den off Aubrey's road. There are no hyenas or hyena tracks, but there are fresh warthog tracks he looks carefully in I took lots of shot of this because well just in case something came out?
(2016/03/18 17:49) Brent is not headed to see if he can find the other mound where James had found the hyenas last. It's just a drive thru some thick bush area.
Brent
answers a question for Gracie I tried to grab a shot of his "Gracie"
smile.
Jamie,
(2016/03/18 17:52) Buffelshoek dam
Red
billed buffalo weaver nest.
Brent,
(2016/03/18 17:57) Hyena den with
Brent
- First we see madam feeding the J-twins with D2 roaming behind and Pretty feeding November next to her.
- Dec1 is chewing on a stick and Dec2 is just about everywhere while we are there.
- Brent counts the hyenas. I count 10.
- D2 causing trouble tackles June.
Jamie,
(2016/03/18 18:05) Amazing sunset
Brent,
(2016/03/18 18:07) Mean while back at the
den… June vomited and the Dec twins are have fun rolling in it while she tries
to eat it again, one of the J-twins joins in the gross fun, but soon decides
running around is more fun.
Scarback comes in to join the clan. There
is the usual greeting party, during which you can see Scarback's scar very well
several times.
(2016/03/18 18:11) Impala alarm call snort
just behind the den which startles the cubs who all run to the den entrance for
great screenshots of all 5 cubs and June who I guess is still a cub too. The
impala snorts get all the hyenas attention but not for long however Brent still
wants to go see what is causing it, so we go to Jamie.
(2016/03/18 18:14) to Jamie
Brent,
(2016/03/18 18:21) back to the den
This time at the den we see Scarback and
her pink chewed and tattered ears one of her unmistakable characteristics. She
is lying with pretty who rolls over scratching her back. It's nice to see
Scarback with the main adult females again other then when she was asleep near
the den a week or so ago it has been since January that she was with the main
females. I think I saw a scab or maybe mud on her rear but, other then that her
wounds from the wild dogs seem gone. Dec comes and lies by her and tries to inspect
her teeth for cavities. June comes up and tries to suckle but Scarback nips her
leg to say no. Sorry Brent it was Scarback for sure. It was getting dark and we
have better views then him.
(2016/03/18
18:27) Brent leaves the den, and we go to Jamie.
Jamie,
(2016/03/18 18:29) Is using her spot
light to try to find the lions who are mobile.
Brent,
(2016/03/18 18:39) Shining with Spotlight
(2016/03/18 18:43) African scops owl
(2016/03/18 18:48) Back to Jamie who has found the lions. The female is out of view but for a minute we see the male lion walking.
Jamie's good bye for the night and Safari Live and WildEarth crew's Earth hour message.
PLEASE WATCH.
End of Drive.
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