Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Waterbuck youngster

A few pics of the Waterbuck young, it is growing to be so pretty and fluffy!
Pics taken from the video captured by Gerda.
http://www.africam.com/wildlife/babywaterbuck0









rubbing against mom

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Sound of Southern Ground Hornbill

Southern Ground Hornbill - Bucorvus leadbeateri

Mystery sounds

Since last year I have been capturing mostly bird sounds from an internet site about wildlife at www.africam.com .
Can you help me find the sounds included?









Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Nyala

10 February 2010
Back to the animals. I did not watch the cams for long as I was busy with sorting my sounds files, sounds I captured on the cams. The best on the cams today for me was the nyala.






Tourist view?





How did he manage to hang there like that?


All pics today were taken at Elephant Plains.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Brussels for Sunday

7 February 2010

No plans for the day and it being Sunday, my intention was to spent the day camming. It was all stopped short when my son suggested we go to Brussels for the afternoon to look at the Horta Museum. Not being such a fan of my son's driving skills I was only persauded to go with him, because I always wanted to visit the museum or his houses. It was one of those plans I always wanted to do and mostly forgot about it.
We got a surprise at the Horta Museum, there was quite a queue in front of the museum and while we watched they let in only very small numbers of persons. We could be ending waiting for an hour or more. I was not really dressed to stand in the cold for that long, neither was David or Raf.
We decided to go for a walk, Brussels has beautiful old houses. I also remembered that now I can make photo's with my cellphone and I can download it to my computer. Normally I would have brought my camera along, but it was such a bleak and dreary day outside that I never thought of carrying the camera along all the time.
The first building we visited was Old England, a "grand bazar" built in 1899 in the art nouveau style designed by the architect Paul Saintenoy.
Spectacular building!


This is what real Brussels waffles look like!


And then there is Manneke Pis of course.


My son David next to a chocolat fountain. How many kilo's of chocolat will you have to melt for this fountain?


Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrikx


On the one corner was the house of Pierre Marcolini ....


red hearts for Valentine


On the next corner is the house of Godiva


who "Let love bloom" with strawberry hearts

around the corner was a shop of Neuhaus and on another corner was the shop of Coto D'or, all chocolats! I feel very sweet.


Hippo, 7 February 2010

Early morning started with a hippo grazing at EP. Hippos are not often seen in daylight on the cams, so this was a rare sighting and I captured the pics from a video by Sassabuck which can be seen at
http://www.africam.com/wildlife/hippograzingandwadingearlyam






Buffalo, 6 February 2010

And then there was a buffalo!


Elephants, 6 February 2010

The cam panned from the Waterbuck newborn to a herd of ellies.






This looks like elephant heaven, walking knee-deep in food.

Waterbuck close-ups, 6 February 2010