Thursday, April 7, 2016

April 07, 2016 Sunrise Drive




Jamie Paterson presenting with Jeandré Gerding on camera.

Sam Chevallier presenting with Bryan Joubert on camera

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14 degrees Celsius 58 degrees Fahrenheit. A freezing cold good morning from Jamie.

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Sam says good morning to us and chats for a bit.

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Hyena den #2 no one is out here either.
Waterbuck
Some kind of large bone on the side of the road she thinks hyenas dragged it there and left it, and that is why we haven’t seen them much lately because they have been on a large kill somewhere for days.
On her way to Sydney's dam
Waterbuck with several calves cute as donkeys LOL some impala there too all mixed together.
Fish eagle but very far off, by the water.
She talks on the radio then tells us Tingana is right where we left him last night so she is going to help talk Sam into the area.
She is going back to the bone which she believes is from an elephant, to look at it closer. She picks up the bone and you can see in her face and she tells us, how disgusting it is and shows us how the joints work and what not.
She reminds us soon we will be able to go to Cheetah plains property for animal viewing which is so exciting.
Sam has made it to Tingana so we go over to his vehicle. 

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(HEHE )Sam introduces himself to Tingana. He found his way into the sighting and Tingana is sound asleep but Sam is talking to him anyway.
While Tingana sleeps we go to see what Jamie is up to.

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Jamie feels like she is at the arctic tundra looking at an arctic Impala.
I hate being cold too and I am sure I am more tolerant of it since I live in a cold climate so I make fun of them but also feel for them because I would be dressed for winter too probably.

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Tingana is now awake and licking his very sore wounds which are most likely from mating, which can be very violent. When he does finally stand up he is so sore he barley moves to lay on his other side Poor Guy, but I am sure he will be fine in no time.

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Giraffe with Impala by his feet just barely knee high.
Lilac Breasted rollers
Hornbill flying

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As we come over to Sam and Tingana, King T goes and lies down in a bush to help cover him from the wind.

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Giraffe, light colored; female with Zebra behind her, well near her once she passes by them.
A zebra walks past a giraffe calf and shows us how small the giraffe calf really is. Or how big depends on how u look at it.

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Tingana is still sleeping.

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Still with the giraffe and zebra.
Yellow billed hornbill eating all the "what nots" all around the ground.

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Sam is out of the vehicle to show us a millipede and some elephant dung        
OMG SAM NO Put that thing down!! He picks up a chunk of elephant dung with a scorpion in it. YIKES!!

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Elephants at a distance, they are upset so she is staying a safe distance away. They seem fine but closer they may not be.
Jamie moves on now that the elephants have moved she wants to go see if there is tracks of what could have upset the cow in that herd.
She runs into James.
Fork-tailed drongo in a far away tree and a bearded woodpecker
James calls Jamie on the radio and tells her where a nice elephant herd is to view so she is going there, and sends us to Sam until she gets there.

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08:12 Impala herd.

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Just next to the DRC sign Jamie is with the elephant herd. The herd seems unsettled and as she tries to get a good view they move again. So we wait for the cow to relax
Blue eared starling
Two of the calves, one a year or two old, then the tiny one play tug of war with a stick

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Sam with a three buffalo road block
Same explains and chats about his passion Biomimetics or biomimicry for awhile very interesting.

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Still with the elephants

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Very nice view of an impressive Impala ram

Sam says his goodbye for the afternoon.

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Jamie gets out of her vehicle to find heat from the termite mound vents

Jamie says all the Thank yous to the viewers and of course the fabulous crew & Goodbye for the afternoon.

Don't forget to keep up on SafariLive's Facebook page they are now doing "SafariLive Stories" with narrated clips of special sightings the videos are Awesome!

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