March 24, 2016 Sunset Drive

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On one vehicle we have Brent Leo-Smith presenting with Wium Dornbrack on camera.

On the other vehicle is Jamie Paterson presenting with Dave Eastaugh on camera.

1. Jamie with female leopard track
2. Brent with female juvenile Red-backed shrike
3. Jamie with Lilac-breasted roller
4. In same tree Starling (which kind?)
5. Two Bee-eaters (which kind?)
6. Brent - White-backed vulture flying off
7. Brent - Impala
8. Jamie - Kudu
9. Brent - Nile or Water monitor
10. Jamie - Adult Antlion in its last few hours of its life.
11. The little mounds the Antlion makes (book picture)
12. Picture in her book of Antlion larva stage
13. Brent found a Side-striped jackal family 3 pups 1 adult at the Arathusa airstrip. Rare sighting!
14. Warthog sounder (family) with the Jackals
15. Brent - Waterbuck
16. Brent at the old Buffalo kill from the other day
17. Surprise there is still a Birmingham boy at the kill, under a bush
18. Jamie - Impala
19. Jamie - Two go-away birds
20. Jamie - Guineafowl
21. Jamie sky
22. Brent - African or Cape buffalo
23. Jamie at hyena den (A school class starts watching)
24. Brent - Elephants
25. Back to the Spotted Hyena den. It's getting dark.
26. Brent sky - then lost signal  Tech loop
27. @18.22 Some kind of grasshopper on Jamie's vehicle.
28. Fiery-necked nightjar in road with Jamie.
29. Serrated hinged terrapin with Brent.
30. 18.36 Scrub hare
31. 18.37 Jamie with Millipede crawling on her hands. Creepy!
32. @18.40 Brent - Moreau's Tropical House Gecko
33. Bushveld gerbil (I never saw it.)
34. 18.46 Brent sees a female leopard (he only shines the light on her for second or two because he thinks she is hunting impala.
35. Jamie with a leopard also. A female walking down the road.
36. Back to Brent we see a few seconds of his leopard as he talks on radio.
37. Crash cut to Jamie we see the last few minutes of her leopard. She is headed right to the entrance to the DRC camp where the staff live. Jamie tells us Brent claims he is with Karula so then which female it this?  She is headed down the road that the ladies from FC walk every day. Jamie sees a herd of Impala that she is headed towards so goes all dark, turning off all lights.
38. So we look at the moon while the leopard hunts.
39. We go to Brent who is all dark also. The female leopard he is with is stalking Impala as well. (Not the same leopard or Impala herd.)
40. Back to Jamie Moon view still dark.
41. Back to Brent Moon in the bushes. Brent thinks one of these two is Karula and the other Shadow.

 I took a lot of shots of the moon not only because it's awesome looking but it separates the two viewings or the separate leopards. 

   42. 19.14 Brent fins the leopard lying down and it seems to be shadow maybe with a wound on her stomach. VIDEO. He decides to not follow further.

Karula was near the DRC with Jamie and Shadow was closer to Quarantine Clearings with Brent.
 

Good Night from Brent and Jamie.

End of Drive.

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