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Hello All!!
I haven’t been able to update the blog in a while due to living in the middle of nowhere while poor internet! Well that and I just keep forgetting….
The last 5 months have been the best of my life!! It’s a shame that I’ve got less than a month left here, but all good things have got to come to an end; and there’s no doubt that’ll I’ll be back again soon 
There’s so much to talk about that I will have to limit myself to this week, which has been pretty animal orientated! As there are no courses in at the moment, we have been doing lots of admin work getting things ready for the future, and sorting out various things at the Crane Sanctuary which is where I am spending all my time this week! It is currently breeding season for the Wattled Crane who are currently ‘Critically Endangered in South Africa with numbers standing at around 249! At the sanctuary we have two breeding pairs, one of which have already laid two eggs! So my job is to observe their behaviour and to make sure everything is okay. This may seem like quite a simple job, buuuut it isn’t… I have to do this without disturbing the birds at all… So every hour from 7 to 5 every day I have to climb onto the office roof where I can see them from a distance, but they can’t see me. I do quite enjoy it as the views from the roof are amazing! But when there’s ice on there like this morning it can be quite interesting! And things got a little more interesting this morning with the arrival of an abandoned baby Servile (basically a mini leopard)! He came to us in the hands of our boss who found him by the side of the road. As I am apparently the ‘animal man ‘ at the centre he’s asked me to look after him! Which involves feeding him, checking on him and from time to time cuddle him to keep him warm, in fact I can hear him crying now, so I better be off! Photos will follow.
Till next time…