Archive for July, 2008

Clear skies all night meant a really chilly dawn. And I was wrong in thinking it would be warmer higher up as it normally is. Today the cold seemed to extend all the way up in the atmosphere and flying for a couple of hours proved a really chilly affair.
Flying was productive but no sign […]


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The weather didn’t play game today and definitely wasn’t up to the forecast of a bright sunny day.
Heavy clouds were already hanging low across the bushveld at dawn and with them came a very slight drizzle. I suppose more like a mist. Of course in this weather the animals vaporise never to be seen again. […]


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The hyaenas and vultures from yesterday were nowhere to be found, only a few bones and some skin remained from the eland carcass.

At first light I was at the wild dog den for a change. It was quiet. Not a peep from inside the den. I was hopeful that at last they had moved.

I waited […]


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I had checked on the eland carcass in mid afternoon and it was still untouched. But when I arrived in the evening it was obvious vultures had been on the carcass eating from the inside out but in the little daylight hours they had, they’d only managed to each part of the rump. A hyaena […]


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