Antelope, possibly a Reedbuck coming to the pan. He is very nervous, and took almost 15 mins to come in, get a drink and then leave. I have seen this shot without the infra-red cameras, and it's pitch black there.
3/17/07 at 3:21am SAT:
Finally this poor Reedbuck gets his drink, but did you notice the Genet watching him from the right lower corner?
3/17/07 at 3:27am SAT:
After the antelope was gone for a few minutes this little creature comes to the waterhole for a drink. Not sure if it is the Genet or a mongoose of some sort.
3/17/07 at 3:31am SAT:
Then the cam was out for quite a while from electrical problems. After all this is a very small camera mounted on a dead tree sitting on a termite mound in the middle of nowhere in South Africa. Wires are running underground back to Nkorho lodge where they get the feed and upload it via satellite to a server somewhere who knows where in Africa. It is then fed to a server on the west coast of USA and managed for us by WaveLit out of Canada. I'm surprised we are getting a feed at all most of the time.
But finally around 8:oo SAT the cam flickered to life and they were experiencing the worst lightening and thunderstorm I have seen (and living in the state of Florida I see many). This last video was part of that storm that I captured when I got set up.
3/17/07 at 8:04pm SAT:
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March 15, 2007
The wildebeest and the zebra's drinking together at the waterhole. See the little
zebra foal. He is a week or so old here and still has that pink color to him. It wont be much longer and he will look just like all the other zebras, only smaller.
3/15/07 at 12:24pm SAT:
We began having feed problems with the cam freezing. I thought for sure I would have to get out to work before it came back on, but lo and behold it did. And this is what I captured as soon as it came on. This one tusked elephant just doesn't seem to like the fill pipe that the lodge uses to keep the level of the waterhole up for the animals. He proceeds to tear it up. Apparently he was working on this job previously (while the cam was froze) because you can see the pipe already up out of the ground. So we missed the first part of the action, but here is old one tusk doing his thing.
3/15/07 at 1:49pm SAT
Old one tusk finally left that job, went to the other side of the waterhole and proceeded to clean himself up a bit before leaving down the path next to the Marula tree.
3/15/07 at 1:56pm SAT
Then we were blessed with group of giraffes. They are so graceful in spite of their size and the length of their neck. I read somewhere that when they get their drink they throw back their head, not to get the water down that long neck, but rather to get the blood back down. It gathers at their head when they are faced down like that. And we all know how dizzy that can make you. :o)
3/15/07 at 2:44pm SAT:
Later in the afternoon we had 3 zebs all milling around together and making those funny noises they make. I think 1 was a girl and the other 2 boys and they were trying to convince her to be their girlfriend.
3/15/07 at 3:55pm SAT:
Finally later that afternoon, a lone bull elephant comes to the waterhole to take a nice leisurely bath and drink. He must think this is the African Day Spa or something.
3/15/07 at 4:06pm SAT:
zebra foal. He is a week or so old here and still has that pink color to him. It wont be much longer and he will look just like all the other zebras, only smaller.
3/15/07 at 12:24pm SAT:
We began having feed problems with the cam freezing. I thought for sure I would have to get out to work before it came back on, but lo and behold it did. And this is what I captured as soon as it came on. This one tusked elephant just doesn't seem to like the fill pipe that the lodge uses to keep the level of the waterhole up for the animals. He proceeds to tear it up. Apparently he was working on this job previously (while the cam was froze) because you can see the pipe already up out of the ground. So we missed the first part of the action, but here is old one tusk doing his thing.
3/15/07 at 1:49pm SAT
Old one tusk finally left that job, went to the other side of the waterhole and proceeded to clean himself up a bit before leaving down the path next to the Marula tree.
3/15/07 at 1:56pm SAT
Then we were blessed with group of giraffes. They are so graceful in spite of their size and the length of their neck. I read somewhere that when they get their drink they throw back their head, not to get the water down that long neck, but rather to get the blood back down. It gathers at their head when they are faced down like that. And we all know how dizzy that can make you. :o)
3/15/07 at 2:44pm SAT:
Later in the afternoon we had 3 zebs all milling around together and making those funny noises they make. I think 1 was a girl and the other 2 boys and they were trying to convince her to be their girlfriend.
3/15/07 at 3:55pm SAT:
Finally later that afternoon, a lone bull elephant comes to the waterhole to take a nice leisurely bath and drink. He must think this is the African Day Spa or something.
3/15/07 at 4:06pm SAT:
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