Gross!! What a shot! We
start the drive zoomed in on the chewed face of a female buffalo carcass. Jamie Paterson at the buffalo kill of the Birmingham
boy coalition, and Wium Dornbrack on camera. One of them is right next to the
carcass. She tell us all five are there
laying in different areas for shade. They have another School class which is
wonderful I bet that grossed them out.
We
stay with this first lion called Scapper for awhile. He seems over heated and
Jamie discusses why. He also is very skinny with spine and hip bones sticking
out and a swollen left eye. Jamie is convinced he was recovering from an injury
and that is why he looks in such bad condition, but she is sure he will improve
now that he has a good meal and is with his coalition.
All
five of them are here although we are only able to see three since they are
spread out sleeping in different shady areas.
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Brent,
We go to
Brent to say good afternoon, he has Dave Eastaugh on camera today.
(2016/03/21 16:11) He is with a large
breeding herd of cape or African buffalo 300 or so.
He
moves the vehicle loops around to the front of the herd so they will graze past
him hopefully
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Jamie,
(2016/03/21 16:17) She is going to
have to leave the lion sighting so she gives us one last look at Scrapper.
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Brent
,
(2016/03/21 16:18) 10.18 With the
buffalo
(2016/03/21 16:24) Brent says good bye
to the class
(2016/03/21 16:31) He decides to move on
from the buffalo herd.
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Jamie,
(2016/03/21 16:34) A bird of prey on a
termite mound she is trying to determine which eagle it is, she thinks Steppe
eagle.
(2016/03/21 16:37) Another bird of
prey, in a tree, this one she thinks is a brown snake eagle.
She
is on her way to Arathusa dam.
(2016/03/21 16:39) A very broken wood
structure.. No clue what when where or why. She blames the damage on wood
gremlins.
(2016/03/21 16:40) WOW! Look at
Arathusa dam
(2016/03/21 16:41) Wium with the
great camera zoom, gives us a view of the impala on the other side of the dam
as Jamie talks to viewers.
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Brent,
(2016/03/21 16:43) Elephants he says the female is not comfortable with
their presence so we wont be following them. A lot of things musth bull can
cause that.
(2016/03/21 16:50) One young ellie almost
touches the vehicle Brent tells him no but it's cute he is just curious not
even big enough to be a rebel.
(2016/03/21 16:51) He leaves the elephants.
(2016/03/21 17:01) He finds a few buffalo
bachelors taking a rest to chew their cud in a mud wallow.
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Jamie,
(2016/03/21 17:04) Is on her way to
tree house dam and other various waterholes.
(2016/03/21 17:05) serrated hinged
terrapin
(2016/03/21 17:07) A water or nile
monitor in the water. He catches something, probably a frog, but we can't see
what it was.
(2016/03/21 17:14) A lapwing bird track in
the mud.
(2016/03/21 17:21) We look at the amazing
clouds. Then we see the water monitor closer up.
Brent,
(2016/03/21 17:28) kudu
He is back near Galago
and Vuyatela camps. He tells us that the report they got earlier was incorrect
that the Nkuhuma were with the Birmingham boys so he now thinks maybe the Nkuhuma
pride is around here so he is looking for tracks and listening for alarm calls.
(2016/03/21 17:30) Woodland kingfisher
(2016/03/21 17:32) African violet flower.
(2016/03/21 17:38) He shows us on his new
digital toy the skull of a spotted hyena as he describes the difference between
them and lions.
Jamie,
(2016/03/21 17:44) Jamie sees a flock of
Bee-eaters flying above; it's a fairly large flock starting to gather because
the migration is getting close to starting.
(2016/03/21 17:47) Impala females
being chased by the rams.
Brent,
(2016/03/21 17:49) Brent is with a group of
Nyala. We get to see a couple of the bulls jump the fence into the camp area. A
couple other younger bulls consider jumping but never get their nerve up. Then
the whole herd comes up to the fence and considers jumping but again they get
to scared and eventually wander back off away from the fence.
(2016/03/21 18:00) A pale morph Wahlberg's
eagle in a tree and I tried to get a couple shots of him flying off.
(2016/03/21 18:03) A large impala herd with
some three young zebra stallions with them.
The wind is making the impala skittish and some of them run, then a ram
chases a female.
Jamie,
(2016/03/21 18:07) At the hyena den but it
seems it's too windy out for the cubs to be out and no adults laying around
either.
She tells us the holey eared naughty
elephant bull is nearby and she had to go around him earlier giving him a wide
berth, apparently he doesn’t mind vehicles driving past him but if they stop he
starts his non-sense.
She also tells us that lighting is
dangerous is so many ways to them in these vehicles so if it gets worse they
may need to go in for shelter.
(2016/03/21 18:11) LOL Jamie hears an
elephant somewhere turns her head to look around and Wium tell her its right
ahead of them.
Brent,
(2016/03/21 18:16) He is still with
the Impala and Zebra in Quarantine clearing.
Then leaves to go investigate some alarm calls.
(2016/03/21 18:17) He stops to show us
the difference in the book between rock and monitor lizards that Jamie asked
him to show us earlier.
He
now has his spotlight out and is searching.
(2016/03/21 18:22) A tiny terrapin in
the reddish colored water.
(2016/03/21 18:41) A different
terrapin this one bigger then the last hunting under water.
(2016/03/21 18:44) Bush Baby
(016/03/21 18:47) He tells us that Nikki
Austin and Scott Dyson are watching and have tweeted that they miss us all.
Brent says
good night to us.
(2016/03/21 18:58) A twin spotted
ground beetle.
Jamie says
good night.
End of Drive.
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