Well, let's hope Father Verizon, with the red hat and fur, treats you well this year! Do you have cable in your area that sells high-speed internet? I don't have DSL either - but 1/2 mile away in all directions they have it, so I got cable. My cable company claim 4MB download speed and I'm getting 3.86 consistently. Upload they claim 356 kbps and I do get that. You can check your true, vice claimed, connection speed on a website called Speakeasy.com My cable company is upgrading to 6MB in January. DSL claims 1.5MB so you might want to get a cable modem. They are faster, but it costs more. Worth it IMHO. My sister, who lives on a very rural horse farm, but is near Chapel Hill, NC has DSL on the farm (go figure). She also watches the Africam (and is hooked) on DSL and she gets freezing here and there, but not enough to make her not want to watch. Lately I've not gotten any freezing at all, but on the rare occasion when the site is extremely busy. CT

Wildebeests and various types of antelopes too. It's been an extremely varied bunch this morning! Does anyone know of a really good site with photographs of African animals to help ID those that I don't recognize? The different antelope/deer type animals are some I particularly have trouble with.

I believe hippos are nocturnal as the only time I've seen them is at night and they are usually in the water too! The first time - (only the one camera at that time...) I thought they had brought a huge boulder and placed it in the pond - then it moved!!!! lol

I saw them too!!! Last year, I watched Africam ,Phoebe the hummingbird and the WV Eagles. Well, the newly widowed male couldn't make up his mind between 4 females and never had any eggs and Phoebe lost two little ones within a week of fledging to a crow and then lost two more eggs to probably the same crow within weeks. She took some time off now that it is getting hot in Irvine, CA. Lots to watch at Africam and hopefully the cameras will be up and running to see the three cheetah cubs born May 2nd... I have a grandson I have full time that loves to watch all of these - he has ADHD...