I have a friend from South Africa who nows lives nearby. He introduced me to a webcam that remains focused on a watering hole called Nkorho Stream. You can drop in at any time and see what wildlife happens to be happening by. At night, they switch to an infrared camera.

To get there, visit Africam and choose the Nkorho Stream. You’ll get a short commercial, but after that it’s just nature.

So, anyway, my buddy works at home and likes to leave the webcam site open on his browser for much of the day. With the great climate here in So Cal, he leaves his sliding glass door open onto his back yard.

One day he was outside and heard the distinct call of a Loerie, aka the Go-Away Bird.

He assumed that call was coming from his office, but, no, he’d shut his browser down. Loeries are not supposed to live in So Cal. Intrigued, he got his binoculars and began hunting the source of the Loerie call.

He quickly found a mockingbird sitting in his tree, rattling off the Loerie routine. Apparently, he’d been tuning in the webcam feed himself and picked up some new tunes off the internet.