TLC: Video
Published by Wildcaster 6 months ago Tags: adventure, africa, african, african birds, animal, animal kingdom, animals, baboon, bird, birding, birding african birds, birds, blog, blogumentary, bush knowledge, chameleon, conservation, documentary, eagles, ecotraining, education, experience, flickr, fly, GLTP, gonarezhou, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, lion, lions, malilangwe, manyari, mashable, microlight, narrowcasting, Open Content Alliance, pamushana, peace parks, photo, photos, podcasting, predators, teach, ultralight, video, wildcast, wildcasting, wildlife, wildlife documentary, youtube, zimbabwe.I didn’t have any joy finding the lions first thing in the morning, so took to the air and picked them up a long way to the south west.
I’m bargaining on them being there this afternoon when we head out with them for the night.
Although it was pretty chilly flying so early, it was just magical to be up high and free as a bird.
Just as I landed the baboons came sauntering by on their way south and settled in the bush where many took time out and the alpha male got all the TLC he needed from his current lady.
I continued on east to Bandama but all was quiet and I needed to get back early to get Wildcast going so we can get out filming tonight.
I nearly drove over this chameleon but luckily its luminous green colour stood out from the brown grass. I was just surprised it hadn’t changed colour to the grass brown for camouflage. But then this time it saved him.
Not far from home this African Hawk Eagle came swooping from behind me and like a rocket was straight on target. A Giant Eagle Owl in a dead tree. The hawk eagle swooped just missing the top of his head as he ducked. The owl then flew into a tree with dense foliage. Again the hawk eagle bombed him and this was followed by the mate of the hawk eagle coming in from far in a flat out dive just over the owl’s head. He immediately went straight up above the owl about 30ft, folded his wings and dived straight into the bush, wrestled with the owl briefly and then took off.
These African Hawk Eagles are seriously aggressive eagles and probably were protecting a nest they had close by.
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I’ve always wanted to experience that open-air sensation of flight, so I plan to go paragliding soon. Sounds like another great day in the African bush.
Hi Kim,
Let us know if you spot any wild dogs or Whiskey for that matter on your new toy.
Ivanova
Good afternoon,
Maybe a stupid question: But what does TLC mean? I have searched on the Internet but I did not get a clear view on the meaning of TLC.
Maybe the reason for this is the fact that I am Dutch and the only thing that make sense for the Dutch, according to the world, are tulips, wooden shoes and dikes.
kind regards,
Douwe
What kind of plane are you using? Won’t the noise or the sight of it spook the animals? Eve
Tender loving care. That´s all we, animals need and can´t live without.
For Douwe : TLC is an abbreviation for the phrase ” Tender Loving Care”. Its and English thing!
Hi,
Thanks for the answers,
kind regard
Douwe
Eve: I’m flying an ultralight. I fly pretty high so as not to scare the animals. Couple of days ago when flying low over the lions they just watched me.
Thanks for showing us the ultralight! I wondered when we were going to see it.