00:28Transcription by CastingWords
00:31Okay, hello my friends, I hope you're all doing well. You find me back in the pop-up hide, and
00:38this afternoon I'm at a location down on the lake delta, along a stream, where a friend of mine called
00:49me this morning to tell me that there was a, what remains, of a water buffalo carcass, and that jackals
00:56were feeding upon it.
00:58So, I've come down this afternoon to stake it out. I found the location, found the carcass and everything.
01:07The only problem with the spot that it's in, is it's in sort of a, the stream that runs through
01:13here is in a little gully.
01:16So, the only view, so from the sides, the, I have no view of the, um, the water, uh, and
01:23the carcass itself.
01:24So, I've had to come downstream from it, uh, and to get a shot up the stream, uh, and be
01:33at a, as, as eye level as I can to the water and the carcass, uh, to get a decent
01:39shot.
01:40Um, the only problem is that I am quite close to, uh, the carcass. I'm probably, what, 50 meters away?
01:4760? Something like that.
01:50Which means that, potentially, my presence here will put them off coming.
01:55Um, but like I said, it's the only shot that's worth getting.
02:00Um, and, um, so I thought it's worth a risk. Why not?
02:05I mean, if I do put them off, the carcass is still there. They can always feed on it later
02:11when I leave in the night.
02:12So, it's not as if I'm depriving them of anything.
02:19It's, uh, just about four o'clock right now.
02:25Um, and it's about 38, 39 degrees. Super hot. I'm absolutely leaking everywhere.
02:31I have a liter or so of, uh, iced coffee to keep me going.
02:37Until 8, 8.30, when the sun goes down.
02:41And the light becomes golden. Hopefully I'll be able to get a few shots at that time.
02:45When the light is beautiful. We shall see.
02:48So, that's the setup. Um, and, uh, fingers crossed, uh, despite me being quite close, they will come back.
02:58So, I shall catch up with you in a bit, hopefully, with, uh, some jackals in the shot.
03:02So, see in a sec.
03:03Okay.
03:05I've just opened the side window of the hide and there's some jackals just watching me from over here.
03:12He's just crossed the stream.
03:15He's just not sure what to make of him.
03:24Because the wind is blowing a little bit now as well.
03:28So, it's rustling the, uh, camouflage.
03:30So, it's rustling the, uh, camouflage.
03:36Okay, he's coming.
03:44He's coming.
03:45He's coming.
03:56He's coming.
04:06He's coming.
04:12He's coming.
04:25Okay.
04:30I say he could very well be a sheep.
05:25Actually, I think it's a sheep.
05:26I think it's a sheep.
06:07First one is having a tug of war pulling the buffalo from the snout, trying to drag it
06:13out of the water it looks like.
06:38I think it's a sheep.
06:46I think it's a sheep.
06:48I don't know if you can hear the beeping, that's the buffalo herdsman, he's further
06:57around there with the hud of buffalo, that's the lazy way of herding, basically they follow
07:04in their car and they beep the, beep the herd to move them on.
07:33The other one is just lining the grass further up, the embankment.
07:48Leave this recording a little wide for a second to get an overview of the situation.
08:02I'm going to try and get a couple of shots on the stills as well, if I can.
08:16This camera is going to make a noise.
08:34She looked at me for a moment there, she could definitely hear the noise, but she's taken with
08:43them.
08:51That's what I was relying on.
08:55They'd be so involved with the actual carcass that they wouldn't bother with my presence
09:00here at all.
09:06Let's just take a break now, Sally.
09:13Okay.
09:16She's gone.
09:18What the hell?
09:19I don't think it was related to my snapping away.
09:29The other one is joining here as well, it seems.
09:38I'm loath to follow them with the camera because they're almost more sensitive to movement.
09:47So because the lens is sticking out of the hide I don't want to move it in case they see
09:51the movement and get more suspicious of that.
10:00She does look like she's coming back again.
10:08And she's not in any hurry that would indicate that she's been unnecessarily spooked or anything.
10:45It's the buffalo because they're accompanied by dogs as well.
10:52So that's probably what's doing it.
11:03She definitely looks like she wants to come back.
11:07Here she comes.
11:32She's thecrosstalk.
11:46That the apologize with the beeping is very annoying me now.
11:56He's ruining my background audio.
12:02I think I'll get some more shots from the stills.
12:06I was just sat there facing me, having a feed.
12:53I've got a feed.
12:58So what I'm trying to do as well is alternate shots between tight and wide and mid so that
13:08it helps in the edit as well.
13:11The other one is turned up as well.
13:13Okay, see for this I'm going to switch to wide.
13:20I guess there's a sort of a hierarchy between who's allowed to feed first.
13:33Okay, I'm going to carry on filming the Jackal for a while.
13:37Hopefully more will turn up and we'll get some interaction between them as well with any luck.
13:46So the two returned, the female and the younger one.
13:51And they were having a bit of a to and fro over the carcass.
13:58And now the third one has just turned up.
14:01And he's kicked them both off the carcass.
14:03Or she.
14:04I think they're all females actually.
14:19It seems there's no easy bits left on the carcass.
14:22It's all just really tough.
14:26Tough skin and bone.
14:28And having a real tug of war with it.
14:32Trying to get any morsel off it.
14:40And the other one's gone off into the distance there I can see.
14:49So I don't know, I've lost track of which one's which, but there's only one around now.
14:55It's still just the one.
14:58I think it's the younger one of the three.
15:03And she's really having to work for her meal.
15:11There's one tough enough love.
15:30Okay, the sun briefly disappeared behind the cloud and this looks like there's more clouds
15:35over there.
15:39So I'll probably stay out for another hour or so, but I don't want to drag this video out
15:44for you too long.
15:46So I'll wrap it up here.
15:48It's been a fantastic afternoon watching the jackals feed on the carcass of the water buffalo.
15:57And like I mentioned in the previous video, all of this is going to go back to making up
16:01a complete story on the jackals.
16:05But I'll try and put together a little sequence of what I filmed this afternoon and the photos
16:10as well at the end, which I hope you'll enjoy.
16:14So it just remains for me to say thank you so much for following along.
16:18Especially if you've lasted this long into the video, I really do appreciate it.
16:21And I hope you've enjoyed watching.
16:23So until next time, thanks again and bye for now.
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