Good
afternoon from Jamie Paterson with Wium Dornbrack on camera. Wium has suggested
that we have a Dr. Seuss theme since the other vehicle, again has been invaded
by gremlins and is in to see the doctors. Two of the Birmingham boys crossed
into our area straight through twin dams then right across our southern
boundary and laid down just 100 meters out of our area, just where we can't see
them. Two others are with three of the Styx pride females to the west of that
around Hoffman's and Tingana is over that way as well.
- (2016/03/20 16:05) Buffalo one with a Yellow-billed oxpecker on his shoulder.We move a bit closer so we can see the oxpecker digging in his shoulder would that we have seen before seems a bit deeper now. We get several good views of Red-billed oxpeckers and some juveniles as well who have black bills.
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Good afternoon
from Brent Leo-Smith with Jeandré Gerding on camera. His vehicle Windy is out of the doctors for
now and he is on the way to the western side of Djuma. (2016/03/20 16:16)
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Jamie,
(2016/03/20 16:19) African harrier
hawk they are nest raiders they use their double jointed legs to hang upside
down when nest raiding.
(2016/03/20 16:21) She shows us the
nest of the African harrier hawk in a beautiful torchwood tree or green thorn.
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Brent,
(2016/03/20 16:26) Hyena tracks in the
sand.
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Jamie,
(2016/03/20 16:28) Elephants in dense vegetation,
a tiny baby around 200 lbs is in the herd. Probably less then six months old or so, still
only drinking milk from mom, not old enough to be eating grass yet, and at the adorable stage of learning
to use its trunk better.
The
female is about 35 years old judging by her temples being dented and size. Another youngster is about 2 years older than
the calf so about 2 1/2 years old.
(2016/03/20 16:41) Jamie is headed to
Buffelshoek dam.
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Brent,
We
try to go over to Brent but his signal is bad and mostly black screen. So we go
back to Jamie and "Rusty" her trust steed.
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Jamie,
(2016/03/20 16:45) She finds more
elephants these ones have been playing in the mud what a great traffic jam.
(2016/03/20 16:48) great view of a
butterfly Jamie is trying to think of the name of it.
2016/03/20 16:53) Grey go-away birds
maybe juvenile being fed by adult.
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Brent,
- (2016/03/20 16:58) Brent has a couple butterflies. Missed the first one but second was a African vagrant.
- (2016/03/20 17:11) An impala ram running away. Then we see him look around cautiously, before Brent moves on to find us a special surprise animal.
- He shows us on a new technology toy, a foam nest frog.
- (2016/03/20 17:05) African vagrant feeding off
- (2016/03/20 17:03) Purple flower I missed his chat about it
- Yellow Justicia.
- (2016/03/20 17:09) Gremlins invade for a few minutes.
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Jamie,
(2016/03/20 17:13) Buffelshoek
dam with a hippo
She talks about cat fish and Tilapia and how the cat fish go into aestivation waiting for the water to come back and how they are probably in the water now.
(2016/03/20 17:17) Blacksmith
lapwing taking a bath.
(2016/03/20 17:18) yellow-billed
hornbill on the ground looking for food.
(2016/03/20 17:19) Blue-eared
starling
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Brent,
(2016/03/20 17:27) A little pearl
spotted owlet but not a good view of it and the gremlins are still abound in
his equipment. Signal cuts out and we go back to Jamie.
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Jamie,
She
tells us since Brent's signal is so bad she will head over to the surprise
animal in case Brent doesn’t have signal once it's our turn to get into the
sighting.
(2016/03/20 17:34) Louise from FC (final control) has a question. Why are certain snakes equipped with such potent venom, when their prey is generally something so small. Why is their venom so strong it could kill a elephant etc... I thought wow great question so I recorded the answer which goes into a very interesting 4 minute talk. The video is too long to put here on the blog so here is a link to it. 3-20-16 Sunset Drive SafariLive Jamie answers a good question. Why snakes have such potent venom?
(2016/03/20 17:48) Impala while she
fixes her wires pics of a male grunting.
(2016/03/20 17:53) Zebra foul in the
road, with two adults eating to the right.
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Brent,
(2016/03/20 18:03) Sunset neon pink
sky and the moon.
He tries to move testing his signal NOPE bad signal keeps the screen blinking black.
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Jamie,
We go to Jamie who was caught snacking on her burger. Opps lol! On her way to Arathusa.
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Brent,
(2016/03/20 18:14) At the hyena den
One
of the J-twins is lying at the entrance to the den trying to catch flies. One of
the Dec cubs comes out then the other J-twin and then other Dec cub with something
in his mouth. Basically all the cute one. I could sit and watch and talk about these little guys for hours so here is a clip so you don't have to listen to me go on and on about them. Also since the screenshots are too dark.
(2016/03/20 18:20) Brent talks about Hyenas in folklore and history.He says that In Africa witches don’t ride brooms they run around on the backs of hyenas. I looked it up hoping to find a silly picture like we in America have of witches on broomsticks but didnt find and but here is a quote I found.
"In
Tanzania, there is a belief that witches use spottedhyenas as mounts" copied from Wikipedia.
(2016/03/20 18:21) He then talks about an ivory carving. He shows us a picture of the Ivory Spotted hyena carving from 12 to 17 thousand years old south of France.
(2016/03/20 18:23) leaves the den.
(2016/03/20 18:29) Crab in water.
(2016/03/20 18:30) Fishing spider on
the water.
(2016/03/20 18:32) Gets out of vehicle
to try to find a frog.
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Jamie,
(2016/03/20 18:34) She tells us the
surprise was Tingana, he was on the western side of Arathusa, and right before she
got there he moved out of our viewing area. Awww that sucks.
(2016/03/20 18:36) She
sings the Swedish frog song. Great Jamie!! Love it! Gotta have a few silly moments, especially with James on leave who can be silly quite often. Aww now I miss James, oh no! and Scott!! *Sigh*
This video clip will cheer anyone up!
(2016/03/20 18:39) Scrub
hare
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Brent,
(2016/03/20 18:46) He shows us the foam nest frog
nest at Djuma pan,then takes down some of it, that has already hatched and brings it
to the vehicle to see close up.
Brent loses signal.
Brent loses signal.
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Jamie,
The
moon
(2016/03/20 18:50) We listen to the
sounds of the south African night.
(2016/03/20 18:53) The moon again as
she listens for a Scops owl, much better view of the moon this time.
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We
view Jupiter for a moment before going to Brent.
Jamie
says good night.
Brent
says his good night.
End of Drive.
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