It will be three months on Tuesday, since a vandal released Flaco from his cage. Monday night, he explored the construction site before going to the compost heap, as he has been doing. I had him perched on the construction site dam for the first time but otherwise the evening was like many from the previous two weeks.
I arrived after fly out on Thursday night, to find Flaco in the construction site for the new rink/pool. He was on a few walls and we could find him about a third of the time. We didn’t see him for about twenty minutes, and he then started hooting, changing trees and finally going to hunt up at the compost heap.
He was on a concrete pipe a few times, on the ground, perched on a rock and on the small excavator, on a dumpster and a few trees. It was a nice variety of perches and made for an enjoyable evening.
These Cheetah photographs from the Mala Mala Game Preserve in South Africa and the Qorokwe Camp in the Okavango Delta of Bostwana. They were taken in the first half of March.
The first set are of a mother and two adolescents and hadn’t been seen since Christmas week at Mala Mala.
The second set of a mother and six much younger cubs was at Qorokwe Camp. They were being seen every day, and were sandwiched between two prides of Lions. The camp guides were amazed at how well the mother was doing keeping all six fed and safe.
I arrived after fly out to learn Flaco had eaten a Brown Rat he had roosted with just before leaving for the evening.
He was in a tree over the drive when I arrived and quickly switch to a tree he likes to use a little bit up the road. He then spent over two hours in the construction site. The construction is happening at a fast past, and every evening we see changes. New walls, new materials and new locations for the excavators. Flaco ended up on familiar perches but newly constructed ones as well. I can keep track of him only about 25% of the time, so he could be hunting and eating out of sight.
Later in the evening, he hooted from a tree for about ten minutes before settling down in a tree overlooking the dumpsters at the compost heap. He was comfortable staying on the same perch for over an hour.
I’m slowly going through my pictures from my March Africa trip. I’ve finally gotten to my Lion pictures. These are from the Mala Mala Game Preserve in South Africa and the Qorokwe Camp in the Okavango Delta of Bostwana.
I finally had a chance to go out to Governor’s Island and see the new and very active Red-tailed Hawk nest. It has two eyasses and is easily seen as it is fairly low. It’s much easier to watch than the Coast Guard tower location that had been used in past years.
