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| 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...
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| Nice shot of the young Mr. BA Boon.... |
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| The warthog family moving along... |
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| ...and the zebra family... |
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| ...and a squirrel.... |
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| ...the blue wildebeests checking out the trap.... |
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| ...and a duiker passing by... |
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| Excellent! a caracal! |
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| What animal is this? Can you identify it? We think it is a very close-up shot of a jackal, taken when it sniffed on the camera trap. |
Well, at least we managed to get a view of one of the predators whose tracks we saw the past few days.
We continue scouting the roads and animal paths in the veld for the rest of the day.
Guess what we found?
Caracal, again the female and the youngster
many jackal tracks
brown hyena tracks at various locations
civet
Genet
leopard tracks at two different locations on the reserve and what seems to be two different leopards, but the it was difficult to determine because the one set of tracks were in soft sand which makes it difficult to make accurate assessments.
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| The leopard's tracks at a different location than the previous ones we found! |
We also found cent markings on some of lower scrubs along the road where the leopard passed.
We decided to undertake a night drive later the evening. We might just be lucky and see one or more of the predators and we want to listen if we can hear any calls.
But more of that in the next blog...
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