The Week in Pictures #491
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest …
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest …
Leopards have continued to take centre stage this this week. The Nkoveni, Ximungwe, Plaque Rock and Ndzanzeni females as well as the Flat Rock and Senegal Bush males were all …
It’s been a fairly heavy leopard week, with a couple of Londolozi’s better known individuals taking centre stage. As spectacular as isolated sightings can be, seeing the same leopard on …
True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A conversation I had recently reminded me the importance of living in …
This week has been an exciting one with the lion dynamics taking a very interesting turn. Lion viewing had been somewhat thin, with the Ntsevu pride seemingly having disappeared overnight, …
First up, the answer to yesterday’s Bird ID Challenge: The three birds in question were Amur Falcons. Almost all of them have departed now for their long migration back to …
This past week has been filled with plenty of excitement. Two leopard den sites were discovered on Monday afternoon! The Nhlanguleni female’s den was found just west of our camps …
The highlight of the week must have been the Ntsevu pride taking down an adult wildebeest a stone’s throw from the Londolozi camps. It was almost completely devoured within 10 …
It was an elephant-heavy week, with young ones galore and breeding herds surrounding the Londolozi Camps practically every day. Lions have also been plentiful of late, with both Nkuhuma and …
This week was mainly about the north, which we can access again after some temporary repairs to the flood-damaged Causeway over the Sand River. The Nanga female was found with …
With February generally being our hottest month of the year, we have been relatively lucky to not have had many days warmer than 30 degrees Celsius. The rain has eased …
The rains continued to fall on Londolozi over the beginning of the week, adding to the already extensive rainfall this season. The waterholes remain full, the Sand River flowing in …
Having exceeded our seasonal average rainfall already, the landscape would now be unrecognisable for someone who visited a few months ago. The Sand River has continued to rise with consistently …
After three years of being a ranger here, and having ventured somewhat into the field of photography, it was time to contribute my first Week in Pictures… The bird life …
The fall-out of Cyclone Eloise is nowhere as bad as we thought it might be. Apart from some minor erosion to a few of the roads, we came out pretty …