Fresh Crab For Breakfast
The causeway that crosses the Sand River is always a hive of activity. It is essential to take a slow drive across and spend more than a few minutes scanning …
The causeway that crosses the Sand River is always a hive of activity. It is essential to take a slow drive across and spend more than a few minutes scanning …
The rain came in full force last night with a good 20mm soaking the reserve. This is nowhere near what we can get in one downpour, but it certainly gives us …
First up, the answer to last week’s Mystery Bird Challenge #27. The bird – which a number of you got correct – was a juvenile African Hawk Eagle. Here is …
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 …
The Tsalala female is a lioness that continues to defy the odds. We follow her story as closely as nature allows, and like a lot of people who have read …
The biggest event of this week was actually a non-event: no longer do we have an active Wild Dog den on Londolozi. The two adults from the pack that have …
It’s been a very unseasonal week, with rain rolling in and dampening the reserve. Wildlife activity was slowed as a result – at least the activity we could find – …
Black Collared Barbet was the answer to this week’s mystery bird challenge, so congratulations to those who got it right. To be fair, the two with their backs to the …
It’s just too tempting to sit with 22 lions, even when there is so much going on on the reserve. The Ntsevu pride and usually attendant Birmingham males have been …
Wildlife photography is not easy; subjects often don’t do what we anticipate, right-place-at-the-right-time is crucial, and knowing your gear and how to react when things don’t go as planned are …
The Tsalala female has been conspicuous by her absence. We ran a story on her a couple of weeks ago featuring a big altercation between her and a clan of …
We continue with our 5-years-ago-this-month series, although I have to admit, I sometimes struggle to remember what exactly was happening in a sighting from the archives. I usually pride myself …
First things first; the Mystery Bird was a juvenile Black Crake. This was a tricky shot to work off as the bird’s angle made assessing its general shape and size …
We haven’t done a memory lane post for a couple of months; we’ve skipped ahead to January 2015. November and December 2014 we’ll get to sometime in the next couple …
On a warm afternoon we set out with the specific intention of finding and appreciating some of the smaller inhabitants of the bush. The Sand River was running strongly, and …