Ladies And Gentlemen,

I have got a small Sony video camera - HDR-CX350 - which records in HD. It can record for several hours, and the battery is supposed to last several hours too.

I am thinking of putting up a waterhole when we go to Tanzania next month, and record the activities that occur on it.

I tried it on one of the feed stations we have for our animals here, and thought you might enjoy watching it.

Please right click and save the clip to your computer.

The young Dama gazelle you see towards the end was one of those born last year.

Trail cam video in HD

The camera quality is definitely good. It would be great to see some scenes from a watering hole, for sure.

What beautiful animals Saeed. That Ibex in the opening frames is unbelievable!

How do you like that camera?

What are the big white antelope?

Rich

Wow! Backyard zoo!

Saeed: What sort of feed or "lick" was so much tastier than all the green foliage that was getting so little dining attention?

Rich: Maybe the biggun was an addax like this?



They seem to bully the dama gazelles, but my how those have grown, tall and skinny!
Those dama gazelles can survive in the wild Sahara where all the others would die, eh?



Ibex was not getting pushed around:
Nubian ibex?

Rich,

They are Addax. They used to be common in the N. Africa desert but I think they are very scarce now. Of course you can take one in Texas any day.

Mark

That ibex is heart stopping. Reminds me of the Iranian herds of the 70's when Rashid was running the wildlife department & Prince Abdolreza was the patron of Iranian hunting.....

That Ibex . . . wow!

I also had no idea that the Dama Gazelles were that large. I always figured them to be springbok size.

The food they are eating is cracked wheat.

The camera is great, but the CX550 is better.

I am using the CX35o for this because it uses a lot less battery power.

I have setup a Nikon D300s camera with a timed shutter release, to take a photo every 15 seconds. It can do this for about 100 minutes.

A backyard zoo is one of things i need. Thanks for sharing, saeed

Thanks for sharing. Are the controls Walterable?

All I can say is WOW!

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Originally posted by .366torque:
Thanks for sharing. Are the controls Walterable?

So far we have not found any electronics that are Walterable.

cool

Wow,
What do you do with those animals other than enjoy looking at them?

Wow! The balls on that Ibex are almost as impressive as his horns.

Thank for sharing, Saeed. They are all beautiful animals. Great photography work.

Also, I was surprised to see Mourning Dove in the U.A.E. I that that was a North/Central/South American species only. The hunting season just opened up for them here yesterday!

GREAT video and GREAT photos! Thanks for sharing! I want a zoo like that in my backyard as well.

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Originally posted by Kenati:
Wow! The balls on that Ibex are almost as impressive as his horns.

Thank for sharing, Saeed. They are all beautiful animals. Great photography work.

Also, I was surprised to see Mourning Dove in the U.A.E. I that that was a North/Central/South American species only. The hunting season just opened up for them here yesterday!

I have seen mourning doves in many countries.

They seem to be as many of them around as normal sparrows.

wow those are some very beautiful pets sir!

Hi Saeed ..

That is VERY impressive .. both the digital medium you are using and also the animals on view ..

If you ever (consider exporting any species) in the future let me know as I can talk to my brother Alan in Africa as he is doing something similar BUT on a large scale (intensive breeding project) in Zambia.

He has developed multiple 5+ hectare pens within his (4,000 acre) private "Bird Wildlife Estate" with Sable Nyala Roan and including (disease free) cape buffalo ..

Cheers, Peter

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by Kenati:
Wow! The balls on that Ibex are almost as impressive as his horns.

Thank for sharing, Saeed. They are all beautiful animals. Great photography work.

Also, I was surprised to see Mourning Dove in the U.A.E. I that that was a North/Central/South American species only. The hunting season just opened up for them here yesterday!

I have seen mourning doves in many countries.

They seem to be as many of them around as normal sparrows.

We don't have many birds on Guam because of the brown tree snake, but we do have a limited number of dove.

WELL DONE !!! Thanks for sharing with us!
I will take up bow again if I may sit where the camera is!!!

Beautiful antilope. Poor lizard. Those crocs will get hungry sometime.

Wow! That ibex really is awesome. Great pics and video Saeed. Can't wait to see what kind of video you capture with it in Tanzania!

Best regards,
Chris

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Originally posted by Tom In Tennessee:
WELL DONE !!! Thanks for sharing with us!
I will take up bow again if I may sit where the camera is!!!

Walter has been trying to persuade me to let him shoot one. I told him I am the only oen sho shoots the animals that need to be shot - either wounded ones from fights or those that get too nasty and start killing others.

One day he was here and was behaving somewhat in a funny way. Then I discovered that he was planning to do a dry run.

I left him alone, and got one of the boys who look after the animals to hide in the backyard and phone me when he sees Walter.

Sure enough, it did not take him long before he called. He saw Walter going out towards the animals with a rifle in his hands.

I rushed back in side, got my shotgun, loaded it, and went after him.

I found him sneaking around the fence, walking towards some coconut trees with a lot of heavy brush next to them.

I got there from the other side and waited.

As he got about 10 feet from me, on the other side of a thick bush, I fired both barrels in the air!

He went ballistic!

"How, how did you get here?"
"My hidden sensors told me a poacher was loose. Next time I will shoot to kill"
"Damn! I was going to take photos of myself stalking the animals and show you what I can do when you are not around"

"Don't even dream of it! You know we have cameras everywhere"

"I thought I was invisible to your cameras"
"Try it again, you might find out you are bullet proof too"

"No no no more playing tricks with you. You are too nasty sometimes"

I expect Walter was in need of some freshly laundered underpants after that stalk.

Strange that Saeed has no use for double rifles, but he likes a double-barreled shotgun?
Is he a Cowboy Action Shooter?
Is that double gun what he will be ostentatiously cleaning in the parlor when Hessa's first date drops by to meet the parents?

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Originally posted by Saeed:
The food they are eating is cracked wheat.

The camera is great, but the CX550 is better.

I am using the CX35o for this because it uses a lot less battery power.

I have setup a Nikon D300s camera with a timed shutter release, to take a photo every 15 seconds. It can do this for about 100 minutes.

Saeed, what camera took these pictures?

The meercats were taken by a Nikon D3X and a 200-400 VR lense.
The rest were taken by a Nikon D300s and an 18-200 lense.

Thank you.

Saeed, go answer your phone---Stone and that kid who killed the Nyala are trying to reach you...I understand they have a 100,000R in their pockets....

didn't work for me.

Outstanding Saeed!! And as usual, another hilarious story involving our beloved Walter!!