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 …
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 …
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 …
Yet another eventful week at Londolozi has passed. The landscape is now beautifully green, the wallows and pans are full and there is an essence of new beginnings in the …
It was the final morning for guests Shaun and Carolyn, who had flown 22 hours from America to stay with us for 4 days. While sipping on a hot cup …
We continue where we left off last week, on site with some members of the Nkuhuma pride near where they had their buffalo kill. The we join some Nyala, some …
It’s been an exciting few days around the reserve but there are few things that excite me more than seeing new cubs for the first time. Things were starting to …
There had been a few very brief sightings of the Piccadilly Female and her cub. She has been denning in the rocky outcrops in the north-eastern part of Londolozi. I …
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 – …
It’s getting tough to choose what to look for on drive these days. With an active wild dog den, at least two female leopards with cubs (that we know of), …
For once I’ve remembered to include the answer to the mystery bird without being reminded a few hours after publishing: The correct answer was a Magpie Shrike, which many of …
With the Sand River barely trickling and temperatures still rising, we patiently wait for the returns of the rains to wet the scorched earth. In the heat there has been …
Firstly, the answer to yesterday’s Mystery Bird challenge… The answer is a Green-backed or Striated Heron. There’s not a lot to go on, but the long legs and long crest, …
Occasionally we’ll re-run similar posts or at least come up with a new take on them. Sometimes old posts get buried in the archives but the information they contain is …
We often talk about the large predator hierarchy of Londolozi, with lions at the top, cheetahs at the bottom, and the rest filling in the space in between. What we don’t often talk …