On my way to look for the elephants I found these vultures on the remains of a buffalo calf carcass. It was amazing that the vultures were already there at first light. Presumably they were roosting in the area and must have heard the kill at night, which got them going before there were any thermals to work on.
Mandlovu and her herd were right in the east near Nyamsaan. The only other company they had was a young bull.
They mingled around the area all day and didn’t move very far, but were later joined by another small herd.
Chipfongwe the brave threatened me several times today coming right up to the car all on his own. Something he’s not done before. It won’t be long and we’ll be head butting each other!
With them resting in the heat of the day I went round to Lojaan dam and with nothing there took a stroll. I was just on my way back when I heard the elephant coming through the hills. They came and drank and moved on with little ado and nobody even swam. This was unusual as it was quite hot today.
At dusk I left Mandlovu and at Nyamsaan pan found these giraffe drinking.
Then just at the sun was dropping onto the horizon 2 bulls started wrestling. It was truly stunning against the setting sun. A fitting end to any day!
I always love when you post your Giraffe videoss on here! This is very cool watching them in the sun but that is some interesting music! Never knew Giraffes were that active at dusk!
I just looked at your post. Just about the pictures of the vultures, there is a video. It is very difficult to tell what I am looking at, and a matter of fact, it seems unrelated to your site. Is it supposed to be there?
those vultures were feeding on the remains of a buffalo carcass.
I have linked to this blog on my classroom blog so that my 7th graders can look at it. The link was somehow corrupted because all of the videos were changed to something dark with words hard to read, and honestly appears to have a subliminal evil effect. Anyhow, I just scrolled up this page, and the video is of giraffes. I have since removed the link from my site, and re-installed it and it appears good again. I will have to keep an eye on it as I don’t know what changed the videos. I can see my earlier comments would have made no sense to anyone.
Deb
Thanks I got your weblink. Does somebody out there by chance have a backup mirror site or web link to another source? The web link definitely doesn’t seem to work for me.