Nkorho cam sightings/observations Tuesday 28 August 2007

Bokkie at 10 o'clock and a Jackal trot-by!

It appears to be an owl in the finger. Just saw him spread his wings and turn. Look out mr toad, your days may be numbered

  We can only hope Lyn....hearing Jackals and snorting...love those Jackals!!!  (just a bit maniacal though)

Jackal serenade just now.

I guess we are all awake and alert after that

Is that our Duiker?  I've been away so long I'm forgetting

bokkie at the finger silently drinking. what is making that whistle noise, it descends in scale? some sort of bird?

Lyn, I think the whistling sound could be a juvenile Verreaux's Giant Eagle Owl.  Maybe he's waiting for mum to come back and bring breakfast.

Thanks Ingwe, that most likely was the case. Owl was here the whole time that was going on. Once the owl left, the whistle went away. Perhaps that was mom here then. I've heard it before, but never quite as clearly as tonight.

Calling again.

He sounds really close now Lyn...

Yes, it is him. I found the sound file -

 Juvenile Verreaux's Giant Eagle Owl

Thank you Ingwe, that's definitely what I've been hearing.

That's a sound I haven't heard.  Now if he would make an appearance... 

Yes he does!  I think it was Mum that left the waterhole  

We're not seeing anything but the sounds are great!

Hyenas after the owl?

big slurpper, and one went round the back.

Hyaena head at the finder...coming round the front and there was one that went around the back of the wh...

Did anybody snap a pic of the owl?

I think that is the owl over on the bank at 2 o'clock, just in front of the ellie dung.

I noticed that just after I posted...I'm not taking my eyes off that spot til he flies.

Why is the owl so still over there?  Toad hunting, perhaps? 

Or perhaps just waiting for the pussycat?

We can but hope 

I can hear the Fiery Necked Nightjar (aka wedding song bird, aka three stooges bird).  I feel as if I haven't heard it in quite a while.

Whoa and thanks! Haven't heard that since I was a nipper. I can almost hear my mother's voice reciting:

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!'

Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?'
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.

'Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.'
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

Hi...I can hear the scops owl

Marblehead...I used to love hearing that when I was young...still do come to that...Edward Lear, right?  We used to sing it...loverly memory!! thanks.

That's great Marblehead!  Did you recite that from memory?  I don't think I ever knew the whole poem.

 Lana - I heard the Scops, too.  They started up just after the hyenas made all that noise.