The Week in Pictures #464
The proliferation of life at this time every year is utterly astounding. It’s the birds that have really stolen the show over the last ten days; nests have been discovered …
The proliferation of life at this time every year is utterly astounding. It’s the birds that have really stolen the show over the last ten days; nests have been discovered …
Having been out of the ranging team for around year now, making a move into the finance department, my time spent in the bush isn’t as frequent as it used …
First up, the answer to yesterday’s Bird ID Challenge… It was a Lappet-faced Vulture. It was a tough one as there are a number of big brown birds flying around …
Well, they’re not. In appearance, anatomy, habitat, size… literally nothing about them is similar apart from the fact that they are both organic life forms. BUT…when their place of residence …
There has been enough written about 2020 and the pandemic to keep us reading for years. The whole world has been affected in one way or another. On our side, …
A new litter of wild dog pups is viewed on Londolozi; 11 in total (more on this story next week)! We have a serious scare at the den of the …
Life has been a bit different during lockdown for us rangers. Normally we have a vehicle with up to six guests and a tracker on the front. At the moment …
The big news this week is that the Makomsava female has given birth to her first litter in the northern parts of Londolozi. She is using a rocky outcrop that …
Every week on the reserve seems to have a theme, although it might not be reflected in the pictures. This week was definitely buffalo, with some wonderful sightings taking place …
The Ntsevu pride have been in and out this week, walking right across the reserve on an east-west trajectory, but as far as the actual sightings go, they have generally …
James Tyrrell said it himself to me this week. “If we knew what was going to happen out here, we would all have grown bored long ago…” There’s one thing …
The life of the Mashaba female is probably one of the most documented of leopards that we get to observe at Londolozi. A few weeks ago we were thrilled to …
Male leopards are well-known to practice infanticide, i.e. killing cubs that are not their own offspring. This is well documented across large cat species. Once the cub has been killed, …
To co-inhabit an area with another species for over a decade without even seeing it is testament to how rare Cape clawless otters are at Londolozi. This is the track-record …
Recently we have had some spectacular cheetah viewing, with seven different individuals being seen in areas all over the reserve. The most exciting was the discovery of a female cheetah …