Watering hole chat site!! saturday 27 6 2009

thanks for the new day

** HENRIETTA arrived walked across
the deck and tapped on the door so the grizz put
out some feed

a rancher stopped by that has wild turkeys

he lives 5 miles from us he said * henry - is a henrietta

i took both pics - -

HERE IS A PIC OF HENRIETTA   ( 2 YEARS OLD )

AND A MALE                          (2 ) YEARS OLD

Ta for the new day here on Wildest Africam, Alison.

Since the cams are down at the moment some of you may enjoy this instead.

Someone has put the whole of 'Born Free' 1966 version on You Tube here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRdi7KhAPm0

Surprise, surprise!

Well, Barry, you can still call her Henry for a nickname, seeing as you're used to calling her that. How long has she been visiting you anyways?

henrietta has been here for 9 months now

today she came up on the deck ran over

to the door and pecked on it them

marian wen tout and put  some feed

10 ft off the deck  - the bird chirped all

the time and came right to marian when

she dumped the feed

Thank you for the new day Allison

I'm off to find some dinner (somwhere!)

I've decided that I don't like living in Oklahoma in the summer   We were looking at apartments all day for no 1 son for the fall and it was HOT.

See you all later on!

This is one of my flower beds: white Feverfew on the left with red Geum in front of it, tall Foxglove in the middle, and white and hot pink Rose Campion on the right.

The Foxglove is at least 6 feet/1.82 meters tall! They're Burpee Excelsior mix - never had any tall ones before.

Well, Ingwe, Massachusetts wasn't much better today!

Hi Howwa!

Haven't seen too many butterflies yet, Howwa, but the bumblebees and hummingbirds are out in full force!

For those of you just joining us, the cams have been down for a loooong time now!

I agree, Marlene! I bet they're laughing at us, too!

Hi Sue, Marlene!

Roger!!! Where the heck have you been? Retirement must agree with you!

Mostly working my butt off!  Check in here once in a while, but usually nobody here I know.  Cams down most of the time, it seems, not like the good ol' days!

Well, I'm glad you're here now! EP seems to go down more than NK. NK hasn't been down for a long time - when I've been on.

Here I am - nice and early for my tweep time and there is obviously not going to be anything to tweep about.  

Mavis, you can tweep about me!

LOL Sue.  OK, how about

Tweep - SueW is at wateringhole, with or without cams!

Sounds good to me! Hee, hee!

Fighting: The longest recorded fight between

two elephants was recorded at 10 hours and 56 minutes.

to find out more about this  amazing animal

go to the last posting in the  AFRICAM BOOK

wow what were the elephant fighting over!!!

musth

Bull elephants entering maturity will begin to experience a yearly condition known as "musth." It is basically a hormonal overload of testosterone which creates heightened aggression. It does not coincide with any particular season, but is individual to each bull. It will generally set in once a year and last from 1-6 months. Musth does not trigger breeding. Although musth bulls have the best chance to fight off other males and win breeding rights. Musth will serve to advance a bull`s rank within a group of bulls. This is evidenced by small musth bulls challenging and beating much larger, older non-musth bulls. Usually only one or two high-ranking bulls will reserve the right to breed any estrus females in a herd.

Hi...just passing through, seeing if there's any cams up yet.  I'm not stopping...will check back later...have a good day all

I'm going to bed. The storm last night had me up later than usual. Hope the cams come up at dawn. Have a good one!

Hi Janice, Mavis, Roger, Sue, Barry Allison and anyone I missed.  I'm guilty of Post and run, tonight.  My phone keeps ringing!

So, who broke the cams?

Hi Janice, Mavis, Roger, Sue, Barry, Allison and anyone I missed.  I'm guilty of Post and run, tonight.  My phone keeps ringing!

So, who broke the cams?

Oops! Double post.  Sorry 'bout that!