Flavour of the Month - April/May 2020 H1-2 Skukuza - Tshokwane (incl all dams)
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Re: Flavour of the Month - April/May 2020 H1-2 Skukuza - Tschokwane (incl Leeupan)
Birders say Leeupan is a good spot to find Painted Snipe, Pygmy Goose, Dwarf Bittern, Allen's Gallinule and Lesser Moorhen (obviously when not dry).
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Re: Flavour of the Month - April/May 2020 H1-2 Skukuza - Tschokwane (incl Leeupan)
Leeupan is a huge seasonal pan with a long history as a prime tourist spot from the mid 1900s. It seems to have changed up and down over the years, as has the bush thickening around it?
As seen from the satellite view, some form of embankment has been excavated around it too, to help keep water.
It has water for most of the year, with two or three quite extensive parking areas around it, which get further from the action as the water recedes!
As Klippies says, good for waterbirds.
It has been used as one of the classic examples of a pan increasing in size as wallowing herbivores carry mud away on their bodies!
As seen from the satellite view, some form of embankment has been excavated around it too, to help keep water.
It has water for most of the year, with two or three quite extensive parking areas around it, which get further from the action as the water recedes!
As Klippies says, good for waterbirds.
It has been used as one of the classic examples of a pan increasing in size as wallowing herbivores carry mud away on their bodies!
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Re: Flavour of the Month - April/May 2020 H1-2 Skukuza - Tschokwane (incl Leeupan)
but what do you ever say!It has water for most of the year, with two or three quite extensive parking areas around it, which get further from the action as the water recedes!
Does it really make a difference?It has been used as one of the classic examples of a pan increasing in size as wallowing herbivores carry mud away on their bodies!
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Re: Flavour of the Month - April/May 2020 H1-2 Skukuza - Tschokwane (incl Leeupan)
Never seen much happening here
Next trip to the bush??
Let me think......................
Let me think......................
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Re: Flavour of the Month - April/May 2020 H1-2 Skukuza - Tschokwane (incl Leeupan)
Wallowing elephants may remove up to a cubic meter of pond sediments each time they visit water sources.
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... _engineers
Mud-bathing and wallowing
During the rainy season water collects in depressions, some as small as an Elephant tracks. These holes attract animals to drink and wallow, their activities further increase the size of these depressions. With subsequent cycles of filling and usage over the seasons it becomes a fully-fledged wallow and/ or waterhole.
https://www.hluhluwegamereserve.com/mud ... wallowing/
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... _engineers
Mud-bathing and wallowing
During the rainy season water collects in depressions, some as small as an Elephant tracks. These holes attract animals to drink and wallow, their activities further increase the size of these depressions. With subsequent cycles of filling and usage over the seasons it becomes a fully-fledged wallow and/ or waterhole.
https://www.hluhluwegamereserve.com/mud ... wallowing/
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Re: Flavour of the Month - April/May 2020 H1-2 Skukuza - Tschokwane (incl Leeupan)
Interesting
Next trip to the bush??
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Re: Flavour of the Month - April/May 2020 H1-2 Skukuza - Tschokwane (incl Leeupan)
Another spot along the road is the Kruger Tablets rocks (Halfway along). One may or may not get out there...
Discussion here: viewtopic.php?f=243&t=5320
More about albinos later!
Pic courtesy of Custos Magazine a few decades ago.
Discussion here: viewtopic.php?f=243&t=5320
More about albinos later!
Pic courtesy of Custos Magazine a few decades ago.
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