A lone Giraffe bull makes his way across the open areas of the reserve. This male was on quite a mission, potentially trailing a herd where there may have been a female in oestrus. Male giraffe have no active role in the rearing of their young, they will simply find a female who is in oestrus, mate, and then move on.

The largest of the eagles we get at Londolozi. The Martial eagle. You can always sense that these birds know they are the biggest in the area, they certainly carry an heir of confidence with them.

The Tsalala female and her youngster. I had written cub and erased it to rewrite youngster, as she’s certainly not a cub anymore. Having viewed the Tsalala pride for about 6 years now, the success of the current Tsalala female and her youngster has brought about a serious sense of joy within me. At one stage we were all very worried about the future of the pride, but the mother has done an incredible job at raising this young female, let’s hope the future is bright for the two of them.

Just as we were leaving camp a few afternoons ago, we noticed two fish eagles interacting. The action was over extremely quickly – but I managed to take a very quick shot before they flew out of sight. It’s certainly not the best photograph, but from what I managed to capture, you can see it is an adult and a juvenile. The interaction was extremely aggressive, the most aggressive I’ve ever seen, so we assumed it may have been a youngster getting chased out of a territory by an adult.

A large elephant bull pauses in the Sand River to quench his thirst. These massive animals need to drink a large amount of water each day, males of this size will probably consume more than 100L a day.

The Three Rivers female watches a herd of impala from the cover of a fallen over Marula. It had been raining most of the morning, soaking this fallen over Marula tree, creating a beautiful contrast between the leopard and the tree.

A Crowned Lapwing keeps a very close eye on me whilst I move around the area where their nest is located. The commitment to protecting their nest is admirable. With their nests built on the ground and very exposed, they are often seen throwing themselves in front of animals as large as elephants to ward them away from their nests.

A pack of wld dogs reacts to a disturbance in a watering hole they were moving past. We couldn’t quite see what had made the disturbance in the water, either a crocodile or a fish, but the dogs were onto it in a flash and even let out a few barks to make sure whatever it was, knew that they were there.

A Ntsevu lioness moves with purpose. This pride is always a privilege to see on the move. This particular afternoon they were in search of some food, walking and stopping to listen and smell. We left them before they managed to find anything, but I’m sure they were successful during the darkness of the night.

A Wahlberg’s eagle takes some time out to preen its feathers. This was quite late in the afternoon; the eagle had more than likely had a busy day feeding and most likely building its nest. Preening is a very important part of a bird’s daily ritual as it keeps its feathers in tact and healthy, essential for the bird’s survival.

The Maxims male jumps away from the thrashing claws of the Nkoveni female as they separate from mating. We were very fortunate to find the pair of leopard together one afternoon. We had originally set out to try and find the Nkoveni female, and were successful after a lengthy tracking session.To our surprise, she had been doing some tracking of her own – we found her mating with the Maxims male. Hopefully in the next few months we will see her with a new litter of cubs…

A hyena pokes its head out of the long grass after hearing some impala alarm calling in the distance. Hyena have incredible hearing. They will often respond to herbivores’ alarm calls, knowing that there may be a predator in the area, particularly leopards, and therefore the chance of stealing food.

The Makomsava female and one of her cubs. We had followed the Makomsava female back to her den where she settled on a rock where she was keeping her cubs. We waited patiently for about 30 minutes and eventually we were rewarded with a phenomenal sighting of her and her two cubs.

This particular sunset a few days ago was somewhat indescribable. The colours were extremely intense. We paused for a moment to watch the sun set and were lucky enough to have a few subjects in the foreground to make the scene even more spectacular.