The Boma chit - chat forum Saturday 15 August 2009

Good morning Saturday

It was a very good cammingday , yesterday

and water at EP again !!!!!!

Hope this new day  will be as good as well

Welcome at the BOMA

Have to go now  zzzzzzzzz

Happy camming all.

Hi Hanneke and thanks for starting the new day threads.  Hope you have a good night.  Hopefully the new day will bring us lots more great sights and sounds.  Good camming all.

Thanks Hanneke. Rest well!! Looks like they fixed a nice long finger at EP. Should provide some good sightings when the critters find out about it.

THANKS FOR THE NEW DAY AND PHOTO'S

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for those of you that have not

put in your suggestion for the new bird perch

at  elephant plains-  this vidoe may help you

then take a BIG HAMMER- and smash the mother  lol

click here

Thank you for getting the new day going for us Hanneke.  Great pictures!

Thanks hanneke for our Saturday.

Hi everyone.....

Barry, smash what mother!!!!!!

It will be interesting to see the larger animals in the water as it looked at dawn when I was watching the start of water being added and some final grading being done, it looked like it has a shallow end to the left and it is much deeper (looked about 4-5 ft) in the center and right area toward the tree island.  I also found out that the inlet isn't from the area to the far left as I had thought before but was from the area on this side of the pan about center of this side.  I remember it had been noticed long ago about a cement block being seen in that area.

hi  - i was counting loader trips the last couple of nights

and with that being a 1.5 yard bucket( i think)

as i used to run a machine with a 2.5 yard bucket

I WOULD SAY THE BACKHOE HAS A  1.5 YARD BUCKET

FOR 1.5 HOURS IT MADE A TRIP EVERY 5 MINUTES

i counted  24 trips last night in a row by the loader

1.5 yard bucket  nk aug 13  2009

SO ROUGHLY   -  7   TANDEM DUMP TRUCK LOADS OF

DIRT WAS REMOVED

or more  in 3 days

Tman, it should be fun seeing the animals discover this new EP pond!!

I wish they ould have done something to NK.

Wow - thats a LOT of dirt!

WOW!!!!  that is a lot of dirt and mud!!

just looking at the pictures that were posted and the comment of it seemed like they smelled the water and the impalas were lining up to get to the fresh water when they were filling it again... I hope the elephants forget that it was empty last week and will return

I doubt that the waterhole is big enough, but hope that  the making it deeper will entice more hippos to at least stop by for a nice deep bath if not take up residency.  Baboons stiring at EP now.. hoep something coming that we can see.

last year a zoomi or ranger at e.p

told me that the water was pumped from the river

and the river is at the right end of the e.p. pan

he or she also said the river was 15 meters from the pan

but that is not the right distance from what i have seen

one photo from the air -  it looks more like

300 feet if that is the dry river bed to left

in this photo

the water hole is 60 feet from the cam tree

so 200 feet ?? to the dry river bed

Roughly 20 metres from the waterhole is a large Jackalberry tree. Fortunately for us it houses a large branch extending completely parallel to the ground, with nothing between it and the bush.

They certainly had the ideal time to work on the NK waterhole and I wish they had at least made it deep enough so the gucks could swim, instead of walking across it.

If they dredged NK I'm sure they would find bones.  We have seen hyena take "things" in there many times.

Hi Mavis!!  I wonder if the aminals would be more constant if NK were deeper and larger.  Sure would be fun.

yes hyena - left over - fish bones-  and one missing ranger

lol

Barry, you can see Howwa's dragon now.

Wildie alarms NK

I hope that maybe they will  put the dragon stick back or at least closer to the water so birds will perch there also.   What ever is to the right of the new perch (I vote for the name trident for that myself) looks like a critter so with they could remove it too since I keep thinking something is there lol.

Maybe we'll have to see if EP starts attracting more animals.  NK used to be much deeper and I would really love to see at least part of it deeper again.

Hahaha!!!  Oh and maybe 2 "clowns" as we don't know what happened to them.

thanks  i think i can make it out

just put up the cam  for a look

i wonder if the baboons and vervet will

use the new perch-  last night is the first time

i seen a vervet at the pan !!!

have you seen one their befor ??

Barry I see in your day by day sightings you have what the starling and the sandpiper were.. was those id's fairly sure?  I couldn't tell by the pic and the pic didn't say.  I didn't add those on the sightings log but will with those id's if they are correct.

eta:  I didn't put in the fork tailed drongo either.  On your list you are missing the word "zebra" most animals in a day I think for our lists , great day of sightings

Wood Sandpiper ~ Tringa glareola

is the only snd piper we have cinfirmed at being

at the pan

Burchell’s Starling ~ Lamprotornis australis

their is a

Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling ~ Lamprotornis chalybaeus ~

also but im sure thats not it from yesterday

Well I need to go get some other things caught up with.  I will be back later.  Good camming all.

Ty Barry, I will go ahead and add them as those then.

I've been lost in that thread for almost an hour now :-o  I'm not sure about that sandpiper.  It has a shoulder crescent that is fairly visible that would make it a common sandpiper, but I think we can ask the rangers or bushie.  There is a lilac breasted roller also in yesterday's pics.  What a great day!