Jamie Paterson presenting with Bryan Joubert on camera.
James Hendry presenting with Jeandré Gerding on camera
Jamie,
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We start drive this afternoon
with Jamie. Today will be Jamie's first day on Cheetah plains she is on her way
there now.
James,
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James says his good afternoon
greeting with a painted lady butterfly.
He is planning on going to
Arathusa; three Birmingham boys have been reported as being there. Later we
will go see the Nkuhuma.
Jamie on Cheetah
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Jamie
is now on Cheetah plains however since she didn’t get her cell phone GPS
working she has to use a paper map.
She
passes three in a row pan
She is
now searching for the cheetahs but she hasn't yet gotten to where they were.
We see
the head of a rock or water monitor but he is a ways off
James,
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Has found one of the Birmingham
boy in the shade under a knob thorn tree.
On our way in for a closer view
of the male lions, we come across two very upset crowned lapwings and their
nest on the ground.
Three of the Birmingham boys are
under the tree but we couldn’t see the other two at a distance since they are
lying flat sleeping like the lazy cats they are. The third has his head up but
is mostly asleep as well.
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Ostriches. Ostrich flock. Yes
it's called a flock. They are across on
mala mala but this is another of the exciting sightings we were hoping for on
the new traversing area of Cheetah plains. We get to see them run but they are
a bit far away.
A warthog running like mad. way
off as well, however we can see so clearly with the clearing being so vast.
James,
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Yellow and a blue pansy
butterflies
Still with the Birmingham boys
who are sleeping
James is planning on leaving the
Boys to go see if he can find the ladies. Nkuhuma if you don't know what I
mean.
Before he leaves he moves to get
us a good view of the lion with the skin infection on his belly that makes it
look reddish and scaly.
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Jamie has found the male cheetahs
just a bit south of where they were this morning with James. They are on the
Mala-Mala border, lying under a tree in the shade just enjoying a nap.
James,
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He has found a fourth Birmingham
boy while driving away from the sighting of the other three.
He is only about 150 meters from
the other three.
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Still with the cheetahs. We still
have so much to chat about and learn about them, so even though they are lying
down we can stay with them longer and not run out of new things to discuss.
James,
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A large (well nine of them or so)
herd of Kudu.
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The
cheetahs are up and walking farther into mala mala so this will most likely be
out last view for the drive.
James,
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Buffalo in a pan with red-billed
oxpeckers on them, of course. A juvenile oxpecker is begging from a red-billed
to be fed, James thinks it's a yellow-billed oxpecker juvenile so he thinks
this is very odd since the yellow-billed are much rarer.
James pulls a violent move and murders/slaps
a biting fly on his leg before leaving to head to another dam.
Gracie ( a regular child viewer) wants
James to find her a flower so he says he will find her 10.
- 1. He finds one a white flower.2. Now a yellow ball shaped flower, it's an Acacia flower. (Gracie's second flower).3. Some kind of whitish flower that James doesn’t know and has no scent #3.4. Justicia flava #4.5. Flower #6 (hmm did I miss one?) is a white flower no scent
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Yellow-billed
hornbill with some large caterpillar like creature for dinner.
James,
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6. A blue plumbago flower #7 for Gracie.
7. A fluffy long looking flower that
looks like grass #8.
8. Waltheria flower #9 (so James says)
9. #10 string of stars.
An African monarch butterfly
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The sunset from Cheetah plains
James,
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We get to see the sky from
James's view, while he finds flower #10 in order to make us that think his
count was off happy.
10. Flower #10 for Gracie. Anise which
smells like licorice. Thank you James I am happy now. Ten flowers for Gracie
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On way to Sydney's dam because
there is a report the lions are there now and James doesn't have a spotlight to
see them with.
James,
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giraffe silhouetted in the African
sunset sky.
Jamie,
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Jamie on
Buffelshoek cutline with a sky view
James,
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James's
giraffe silhouette view again
Jamie says her goodnight from Bryan and The Thumb as well.
James says goodnight and thank you to all viewers and WildEarth
- Safari Live crew.
End of Drive
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