Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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21 mahogany trees wild fig trees gardenia tree, in fruit tawny eagle 2 warthogs, with whiskers. females. papyrus ground hornbill red-billed hornbill silvery-checked hornbill ebony tree 2 lions - female seen better, the male was lying down. These two were seen again on the return trip, with the male now more evident. Red bishop, a weaver, nicely seen. hammerkop, in flight We reached a smallish pool, prior to the main lake shore: Egyptian geese knob-billed duck/goose white-faced tree duck 25 hippos in pool Continuing toward the lake, with lots of wildlife here: giraffe and month old baby elephant, at a distance dik-dik 11 elephants 2 warthogs zebra 2 dozen impala, 1 male (pix) wild mango vultures crowned plover There was a field full of 100 or more baboons. white-necked cormorants, 75 of them African spoonbill African jacana, like a gallinule, with big feet wildebeest and yellow-billed stork (pix) zebras and storks white pelicans marabou stork Then we reached the lake and somewhat at a distance were millions of flamingos. These are lesser flamingoes. There are more flamingos in the Rift Valley than anywhere else in the world. The "Out of Africa" scene with flamingos was filmed here. Hundreds of pelicans also in the distance.
22 I took a picture, with yellowbilled storks, in the first (nearest) layer, with black wings, then pelicans (all white) in the second layer (middle distance), and pink flamingos in the further distance. more baboons. Return trip. Lions seen better now. We drove back up the scarp, and had lunch at the Lake Manyara lodge. Baboons were on the grounds at lunch. It became sunny in the afternoon. We drove on toward Serengeti. Reached the town of Karatu and the road improved some. This is a reasonably prosperous looking village, Peter's home. Wheat and barley in the fields. Much maize. There were lots of unfinished houses; people have to build them pay as you go and this can take ten years or more. We were to visit a mission dispensary (hospital) here on return. Still the roads have no sedans on them at all; they are all four wheel drives. We went five or six days without seeing a sedan. African fish eagle in flight; fine view with white head. We continued and reached rim of Ngorongoro Crater, but we were not to descend the crater until the return trip. The rim is 7,500 feet and noticeably cooler than the plains below. The crater is 102 square miles, some 10-12 miles across, and contains perhaps the greatest concentration of wildlife anywhere in Africa. No fences are around it and wildlife are free to come and go, though mostly they remain in the crater floor. From an overlook, we could see a herd of 150 buffalo in the distance below. This is the first time I have seen buffalo in the daylight. Continuing, on a road that skirts the rim. 1 buffalo in the brush, roadside, seen reasonably well. waterbuck. This one is the Defassa waterbuck, and has a white rump but not the evident white target on the rump of the common waterbuck. 8-10 in a field. Spotted hyena, coming down through brush at the edge of the road, 15 feet away. black-shouldered kite stonechat. White wing, neck, rump patches Continued, descending, reaching Masai country, which dries out. Battaleur eagle superb starling The acacia here is whistling acacia, Acacia drepanolobium, which is not flat topped. It commonly has insect galls on it, and the wind blows through them to make a whistle. Baboons like to pluck off the galls and eat them. Sausage tree, Kigelia pinnata = africana. 2 secretary birds
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Page 3 and 4: 1995 January 4, 1995. Wednesday. Ad
Page 5 and 6: "Winnow" - the root is wind, vent,
Page 7 and 8: Worker's Directory. He gave me a co
Page 9 and 10: 7 year. Leaving the hospital comple
Page 11 and 12: 9 Bougainvillaea. Many kinds, all w
Page 13 and 14: 11 Gerenuk - a very long necked ant
Page 15 and 16: 13 I took a bird walk on my own, as
Page 19 and 20: 15 francolins egret, unidentified e
Page 21 and 22: 17 2 males, old males 3 females, wi
Page 24 and 25: 19 somewhat better on the return tr
Page 28 and 29: Continuing, we crossed a long, flat
Page 30 and 31: 25 50 zebras 1,000 zebras on one si
Page 32 and 33: 27 impala giraffe and baby zebras c
Page 34 and 35: 29 Robin chat stone chat northern d
Page 39 and 40: 31 We drove back around in the lake
Page 41 and 42: 33 small park. Jane Goodall's resea
Page 43 and 44: 35 July 6. Thursday, continued. Met
Page 45 and 46: 37 July 10. Monday. Drove to Kruger
Page 47 and 48: 39 The guides go first, Jan up fron
Page 49: But it was getting dark and we didn
Page 54: 43 Lions roaring as we got up in th
Page 57 and 58: 45 little egret giant kingfisher pi
Page 59 and 60: 47 At Skukuza, I separated from Joh
Page 61 and 62: stand your ground. Be bold and nois
Page 63 and 64: 51 Red-billed woodhoopoe, with call
Page 65: 53 we found a rhino horn (pix), whi
Page 69 and 70: 55 giant kingfisher darter (anhinga
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Page 73 and 74: 59 We were visited that evening by
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63 University of Cape Town. Lovely
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65 the trashiest of all. Afternoon.
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67 August 16. Wednesday. Day of mee
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69 momentary. Went in to the Shelte
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71 on the limousine down. December
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73 birds than we thought we might r
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lawn). A near relative is Araucaria
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water supplies are put in a couple
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track in the snow. We left about 11
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4 coyotes in snow. 1 immature bald
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Two coyotes came down the road in f
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Spain, surprisingly, as there are i
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Australia July 1 - August 19, 1996
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July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Laming
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We drove through the rainforest and
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QUT. Elizabeth Saxon, sat beside me
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Eucalyptus trees here are often dea
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and barely survived. Antechinus stu
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floods and drought, much compacted.
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it later deteriorated. Wombat kille
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Seminar at 2.15 p.m Chris Mortenson
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Then to Murdoch University, lecture
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This cave is the pouch of the femal
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Huge streams pour off the rock in a
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ut not all that messed up. Turned a
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Trail Log 1997 February 22, 1997, S
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much better in the lower, protected
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To Tower Junction, then to Tower, l
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Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
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crows are unusual inside Yellowston
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as a bell in contrast to yesterday.
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I went up on a higher hill to try t
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Siberia and Lake Baikal June 15-29,
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Russia has an 80-year old system of
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In the dining car, there never seem
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Reached Zilovo, about 10.15, about
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City tour on a nice day. Population
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second oldest 2,000,000 years. It h
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Communism unraveled, and that, we t
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Thalictrum foetidum Grimmia calcare
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Walk to Shaman Rock. From the rock,
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Viola rupestris Euphorbia alpina Pl
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Lychnis sibirica Schizonepetala mul
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wapiti, elk (American term), red de
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July 16-18, 1997, Tuesday through F
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Events in Ft. Collins area: July 28
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Camped at Sarto Creek, in flats nea
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Shuttle back to Missoula, arriving
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Polygonum viviparum, Alpine Bistort
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