goosey

Not that close an encounter, though nearly as heart pumping: As I drove around the Park, not having sighted another vehicle for hours, a cheetah padded out in front of the car and we manoeuvered around each other; window partially down, camera on monopod, taking photos as he stopped (to investigate the possibilities of a quick lunch ) and posed for a while before climbing into a roadside tree to continue showing off for the shoot. Must see if I can find the photos or try and scan the framed enlargements on my wall to show you.

It will be hard to top my one-to-one encounter with a Cheetah in the Kruger back in 1996 but a good sighting (and photo) of Lycaon pictus - African Wild Dog would be memorable.

A 3 hour excursion over to Yateley Common and Minley Wood on Monday proved the ground is still well and truly saturated. But the sun was shining in a clear blue sky and temperatures eventualy approached double figures. The good weather prompted no sign of fungal activity, and today it's grey and dank again. Not to worry though as I am chained to the screen today putting the finishing touches to my holiday arrangements for South Africa in two week's time; organized around the occasion of my neice's wedding near Johannesburg. Mind you at the moment I'm suffering from chronic IBS - that's Information Bombardment Syndrome, just in case you were thinking something else (amounts to the same thing ) - but it's nearly all finalized: Flight to Cape Town, a drive around the Winelands and along the Garden Route to Port Elizabeth before flying to Jo'Burg for the wedding. Then Pilanesberg Game Reserve and return flight home.

David

It was well north and west of here. Thanks for the thought!
PS Don't know about Ren

No, it hasn't been published yet but the paper copy refers to the meeting and I recognise some of the language!

I haven't seen the electronic version but will have a look.

Bingo! Thanks for the tip off; I hadn't realised mine was cleared too.

Still laboriously uploadng single images I'm sorry to say; and no word from Stuart yet.

OK - will try that route and ask if it's possible for one of the mods to do this kind of routine maintenance. Thanks again for your efforts.

Hi Goosey,

Ahw, rats ... answer too long ... I'll send you a PM, leaving the first bit here for others to read too:

In general, choose your preferred language first (top right), then select "Overviews", "Areas" from the menu. Have a look at area Nationaal Park Zuid-Kennemerland or select one of the sub-areas defined within the park from this list.

Please keep in mind that waarneming.nl is basically a Web 2.0 site (community effort). Some groups (such as birds) are very well checked/maintained by a group of expert administrators, but in other areas (many insect groups for exampe) there are way too few admins and the database collects a lot of "questionable" (plain wrong) ID's/sightings.

I have this in my WAB Images



of a Pine Marten scat on top of a den box in Scotland. If you'd like any more I have quite a few!

PM scats look very similar to SM scats.