Day 4 and 5 – Final Days at Londolozi
On our 4th day at Londolozi we were well acquainted with the process and were out for our morning drive before 6 am. It turns out that this would be …
On our 4th day at Londolozi we were well acquainted with the process and were out for our morning drive before 6 am. It turns out that this would be …
This week has been full of ups and downs. It has been a week of birth and death. As the time of year has it, many new borns are out …
When a jackal makes an alarm call, it means business. It is not often that the rangers ignore the familiar yelp of a jackal in the distance and yesterday was …
A territorial anomaly has arisen in the lion dynamics over the last month or so. The Sparta and Mhangeni Prides have been operating in areas traditionally occupied by the other …
Summer is my favourite time of year. Or more specifically, November and early December are my favourite 6 or 7 weeks in the year, purely for the wonder of the …
Day 3 rolled around and it was another great day in the bush. Within the first hour we had already seen and photographed impala, a crocodile, a malachite kingfisher, an …
It has been estimated that roughly 50% of impala lambs make it through the year. At least that’s the figure I’ve heard. Once most of the females have dropped their …
Mike Sutherland ran a post a few months ago about the disappearance of the Ximpalapala leopard cubs. Since then one of the young females has been seen once more on …
I remember a sighting I had in the south of the Sabi Sands, before I came to Londolozi. We were looking for the Piva female and her cubs. Tracks of …
5:00 in the morning comes early in the bush. It seems that my head had just hit the pillow when the alarm rang. Time to get up, brush our teeth, …
The impala lambs are filling up the clearings faster than we can count them, which in turn has been providing a boon for the predators of Londolozi. One species taking …
Some of you may have noticed a new name appearing in the Weekly sightings list, and in his post The Life of a Young Male Leopard, Mike Sutherland mentioned an …
Since April this year we have been so privileged to have the ability to track, follow, photograph and view the female cheetah and her 2 youngsters, now aged around 14 …
The first time I saw the Sparta Pride they were lying prone on the Southern end of the Londolozi airstrip. There were 10 of them there, including the Tsalala young …