The Week in Pictures #475
Wow the grass is long! Although that might sound as if it’s tricky to spot things (it certainly can be), we actually find that animals tend to be funnelled into …
Wow the grass is long! Although that might sound as if it’s tricky to spot things (it certainly can be), we actually find that animals tend to be funnelled into …
Barely a day goes by that my mind isn’t blown by some new thing I’ve learnt about wildlife. Either something I’ve seen or something I’ve read, or something I’ve been …
The Londolozi staff all love nature. Everyone living and working here is fascinated by its intricacies and the relationships it contains. Any time there’s a sighting – no matter how …
Seeing a male lion in the wild can be a truly awe-inspiring experience. These noble animals have captured the imagination of humans for millennia. A lion’s sheer size and strength, …
We throw a few smaller creatures into the mix this week; a beautiful but seldom seen kingfisher, a family of tawny eagles and some wildebeest. Elephants, as has become common …
This week has been incredibly fruitful with a wide array of sightings, from the big to the small, the cute, the ugly and the outright beautiful. With the amount of …
Andrea Sithole and I had been in search of wild dogs. We had driven practically every road until we met up on the last one, which neither of us had …
Lessons from 2020 came thick and fast (and I don’t think they are over)… but I have to say they were best summarised by Marie Martin; “The world can change …
An incredibly diverse week; we rediscover a missing leopard cub, try to measure the biggest and scariest lizard on Londolozi, and arrive into the most magnificent spectacle of elephants and …
My guests and I thought there was an African Spoonbill – which isn’t an uncommon bird in the area – but as we soon got closer out the waterhole, I …
“Like the seaweeds that cling to each other after each passing boat separates them, so too a family will come together with the passing of each crisis” Indonesian Proverb 2020 …
Crossing the Causeway over the Sand River on our way back to camp, we noticed something unusual. There is an island of trees in the middle channel of the river …
We have been seeing the Mangheni pride a lot more frequently of late, and long may it last. As a guide you sometimes try and tick all the boxes when …
In our latest Week in Video we featured a sequence of a small family of Southern Ground Hornbills foraging on a rainy day. We spent about 45 minutes with the …
It’s been just over three weeks since we first found the Southern Ground Hornbill nest in the south-eastern parts of the reserve. As per the protocol, we have not visited …