Saturday, April 9, 2016

April 09, 2016 Sunset Drive




James Hendry presenting with Jeandré Gerding on camera

Jamie Paterson presenting with Bryan Joubert on camera.

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We start drive today with James who is out of the vehicle on Cheetah Plains a new property to traverse. Woo-Hoo!
Wildebeest herd.
Lilac breasted rollers
James is on the boundary road of Sabi Sands and Kruger National park also the Cheetah plains boundary road, there use to be a fence there but it was taken down around 1994.
A butterfly
While James explores we go to see what Jamie has.

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Karula is in a tree with an impala kill under it. The cubs maybe close by sleeping we are hoping for them to come out to let us see them.  

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Still on the new and Fabulous Side stripped jackal let the fun new sightings begin!!

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Karula is still not comfy in her tree.  Her kill is under her in the tree it’s a male impala impressive kill for a female leopard, Shadow had one yesterday too, must be the male impala have lost their wits already from the rut.
Jamie is going to leave the sighting short one vehicle sightings is all they are allowing at this time because the cubs are so young and having them viewed is new to them. Karula comes down from the tree and lies down in front of the kill but still is unsettled and gets back up and goes over scraps a hole and urinates in it. Jamie is leaving the sighting so we go to James.

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James is taking us to three in a row pan.
Amur falcon flying off
pan one, terrapin head in the water
Pan two, foam nest frog nest and a blacksmith plover behind a bush.
Pan three , a female buffalo skeleton
We see the signal tower at a distance we see the tower up close, the tower is 21 meters tall, solar panels.

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Jamie is out of the Karula sighting she left immediately when Taxon pulled is there was radio miscommunication and he thought she had left the sighting but she was planning on leaves so she did.
She is showing us the Drakensberg Mountains in the distance

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A ground hornbill in a tree with red-billed buffalo weavers nest below him

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Buffalo lying in a mud wallow, chewing his cud.
Cape turtle dove
Impala bachelor herd

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Djuma dam on cheetah plains with a grey heron
James loses signal for the first time

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At the hyena den. Corky is quietly feeding her twins. Then ribbon comes up to say hello to her then madam and everyone has to stand and greet everyone else.
Corky, Ribbon, Madam, all five cubs and June. Later Nkombo (a clan male) are they hyenas we see at the den today.  

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Tawny eagle
Wildebeest herd
Black backed Jackals
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Meanwhile back at the hyena den.

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Sickle moon from cheetah plains
Cheetah plains pan

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Back to the den
Jamie makes an escape from the den while the cubs are busy playing.
Fiery necked nightjar in the road

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Flat necked chameleon On the cheetah plains driveway
Tribute to the Cheetah plains lodge sign
Then James and
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African vagrant butterfly sleeping on a leaf
Jamie says her goodbyes and Thank yous for the evening.

James makes a sad announcement before saying his Goodbye for the night…

Matty who was a long time viewer, and sadly, ill child, has passed away. There is nothing so sad as the loss of a child. Matty was Scott Dyson's best Buddy. May God bless you and give angel wings to fly to South Africa to visit Djuma!
A past blog post about the children they speak too http://blog.wildearth.tv/2015/10/we-need-everyones-help.html 

End of Drive



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