Jamie Paterson presenting
with Jeandré
Gerding on camera.
Brent Leo-Smith presenting
with Bryan
Joubert on camera
Jamie, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
It's
draw a bird day she shows us her drawing of a hornbill.
Brent, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
A
little acria and African vagrant butterflies
Mating
African monarch butterflies
A
white and a yellow butterfly
Wandering
donkey butterfly
A
tiny fast blue one and sheraxies??
Hawk
moth
Elephants
in the distance along the power line he is getting closer for us to view. He
finds us a cow to view
Brent
tells us that tomorrow will be our first drive on cheetah plains property Woo
hoo! That is so awesome.
Broad
banded grass yellow butterfly
Jamie, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
Terrapin
tracks in/on a mud wallow
A
few magpie shrieks in a tree
African
hoopoe
Brent, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
Kudu
herd
Brent
got a report that one of the Birmingham boys is in very bad health they think
possibly a snake bite they think he will die in the next day or two. One of his
coalition mates is still with him, but the ill one is laying down not moving
breathing very heavily.
Impala
ram
Jamie, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
Greater
blue eared starling
Male
grey duiker
Yellow-billed
hornbill
Buffalo
bulls
Brent, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
Brent
with a close up of a buffalo bull he is at tree house dam. Bryan shows us the
thumb who is dressed as a bird today but which kind. I say red billed oxpecker.
He
says he had a talk with the ranger who saw the sick Birmingham boy, his main
symptoms are milky eyes and heavy breathing. He is still calling which is a
decent sign but only time will tell.
Jamie, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
White
berry bush
Blue waxbill
Jamie
welcomes a class from a high school class, for the next half hour.
Dwarf
mongoose
Brent, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
White-backed
Vultures in a dead
knob
thorn tree
Impala
in a thick brush area
Jamie, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
Scares
off a steenbok
Brent, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
Sunset
and mountains
Jamie, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
buffalo
and oxpeckers
Two
spotted hyenas show up at Jamie's Buffalo sighting Clan male # 15 spiral and
unknown hyena was seen once before at Djuma pan cam on January 23, 2016. Other than
that we don’t know the hyena that runs into the bush first.
Sunset
Brent, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
17:54
Brent has a surprise for us. Oh a branch
in the road sign means BIG CAT!! Into the bush we go! Oh no we have to wait a few more minutes
until it's our turn.
As
Brent takes us into the mystery sighting he tells us he got an update from the
Sabi Sands management who went to investigate the Birmingham boy who was
reported as deathly ill, and they said he is just very skinny not dying so
Great news there.
17:58
It's a leopard in a tree but which one?
Hmm short nose I say Thandi but could be shadow I think to dark for Thandi,
but wait which one is darker OH NO I need to learn the difference between the
sisters better. I don’t see the
"WOW" Karula has on her forehead, although I haven’t seen the face
straight on yet, and I am not a leopard identifying expert. Hmm first clue it's
a mommy so I am wrong must be shadow, Thandi doesn’t have cubs. She is too wide
eyed and alert looking with the shorter/smashed looking nose to be Karula to
me. (Just thought I would share my
thought process I am nowhere near great at identifying the big cats)
Its shadow well at least I was right that it
wasn't Karula. Yep Shadow!! And Brent says there is a hyena there but we
haven’t seen it yet.
18:06
Shadow comes down from the tree.
Jamie, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
18:11
We go to Jamie while Brent gets us a view of the hyena on Shadow's kill. She
shows us the amazing orange shy view through the trees.
Brent, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
The
kill is an adult male impala. Shadow killing this is an amazing feat for a
female leopard Great Job Shadow. She has a full round belly as she took one
piece of meat and wandered off so, she was probably mostly done with the kill
anyway, so why not help feed your neighbors good job Shadow LOL.
We see the horns of the impala ram when Brent
finds the hyena feeding on it. We are in
the Western Territory so these are not the Djuma clan hyenas that we all know
and most love. So I don't know age or anything on them. I did look carefully
and compare them to all my collages of the Djuma hyena clan just in case, but
none of them match.
One
hyena is eating on the carcass when another comes running in and kicks him/her
off the kill and take it over, the one who was eating (the 2nd to show up hears
the other hyena crunching something and does a little cackle as she runs over
to either chase off the other or make sure there wasn’t a better piece of meat
over there, then returns to the main kill to eat some more.
Then
a younger smaller hyena charges in and grabs the main chunk of meat without any
fight from the 2nd one that was eating it. The sub-adult gets the big chunk and
runs off after a few seconds and the other continues to eat his/her small chunk
of hoof, and skin. The hyena that is the
2nd to arrive and the last on the kill, has a damaged right eye it is blind in,
he/she is still eating at end of drive. Crunch crunch till the end.
Brent
says good night to all and says all the Thank yous and good job to and from the
entire WildEarth, Safari Live crew.
End of Drive
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