Saturday, April 2, 2016

April 02, 2016 Sunset Drive



 
Jamie Paterson presenting with Wium Dornbrack on camera.

James Hendry presenting with Bryan Joubert on camera

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We start drive today with Jamie driving to a waterhole to see what she can find. She arrives at tree house dam with some buffalo.
A grasshopper has been on Wium and has now moved to where Jamie can hold him and show us.

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15:45 James says good afternoon and the Thumb shows himself as well dressed as an owl today. James had no luck finding the hyena den on his walk-a-bout just now.
15:58 At Sydney's dam with an elephant on the far side

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16:02 Buffalo bachelors the one Jamie thinks looks so funny with his boss being so big and low over his eyes.
To James for a minute then right back to Jamie with barking impala

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16:18 James with two, One inch long bugs, he thinks frog hoppers. One flies then they are two mating pairs. He finds it in his book Giant jewel beetles
16:23 Elephants

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Back in the vehicle after walking around to see what Nyala were barking at but she found nothing but a bushbuck that we don’t see.

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16:42 Breeding herd of buffalo
16:45 Some elephants approach the buffalo sighting, they walk past in front of the vehicle.

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16:47 Natal spurfowl francolin

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17:00 At Arathusa lodge. Waterbuck and Impala
17:08 Squirrels
He is headed to the airstrip in hopes for seeing the jackals

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17:12 Jamie with Leopard tortoise

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17:14 Egyptian geese, crowned lapwing, Senegal lapwing.

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17:17 Jamie with a male coqui francolin up on a log calling

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17:21 Zebras and Impalas

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17:32 Dwarf mongoose
Sun

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With sky sunset view. I love watching the sunset with James talking in the background his voice is so calming for me. Well most times LOL.
17:49 He is very upset to find that the crab known as "Pinchy Weiner" his home has been ruined by a buffalo lying in the mud.

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Someone has found an active hyena den after all the searching they have not moved they are right where we saw them last, so she is driving madly to get there in time for us to see them. However it is already probably too dark to see much of them.

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17:57 Elephants. There is a bull with a torn ear who James says he might have to he is maybe 18 to 20 years old but James ends up having to hit the side of the vehicle to make sure he doesn’t get too close and as he passes in front of the vehicle he gives a quick head shake and moves on across the road.

Jamie,                              ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
18:07 arrives at the den but no one is out to say hi to us. So sad no cubs to see today. But at least we know they are still here.
18:16 Bushbaby!! Wow what an amazing bushbaby sighting, we get to see the little guy for over 10 minutes with great views of him looking around cleaning himself, and just not being concerned with us at all.

Jamie and Wium say goodbye for the night.

James and Bryan say their goodbye and goodnights

End of Drive



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