Tuesday 22 June 2010

New day and new challenges, but first, we had to do our rounds...
... checking the roads for fresh tracks, visiting the camera traps to see who was around...

  

On our way looking for fresh tracks....

Let's first see what the camera traps recorded?

Warthog taking the easy route again...

Blue Wilde beast doing their inspection...
It is amazing to see how alert they are by immediately
recognising a foreign object in their habitat.

Monday 21 June 2010

Checking the photos taken by the camera traps on a digital camera...

After a good night's rest, all were excited to see what the camera traps photographed during the night and which of the predators roamed where during the night.

Off we went, early the morning before other vehicles could drive the roads and wipe the night's tracks...

Nice shot of the young Mr. BA Boon....

The warthog family moving along...

Pilot Study: Day 2 - Sunday 20 June 2010 (rest of the day)

I have been away for a bit more than a week and that is the reason for the silence on the blog. But, I did not forget about the rest of the blog or where we left the study, so here we continue with the pilot study on Kamonande.

The rest of the Sunday was mainly spend walking and driving on nearly all the roads and various game foot paths where we expected to find predator tracks.

Busy looking for predator tracks... → 












Tracks are usually the first indications of the predators are actually in the habitat and this is what we found during the day:

• Various red (black backed) jackal tracks in 4 different location on the reserve.
• Caracal tracks – a female with a cub.
• Civet tracks at three different locations.
• Genet tracks at two different locations.
• Brown Hyena tracks at two different locations.

We recorded the exact GPS locations where we came across these tracks.