Virtual Safari: The Week in Video #46
In the wake of Cyclone Eloise things were tricky for a couple of days. A sodden landscape meant off-roading was limited, and with the long grass already being seen this …
In the wake of Cyclone Eloise things were tricky for a couple of days. A sodden landscape meant off-roading was limited, and with the long grass already being seen this …
When the lodge is quiet, the rangers will often go out into the bush by themselves or with a couple of colleagues to work on their tracking, birding, or simply …
We spend time with the Piccadilly female and her cub this week. Althought the cub is still nervous around vehicles, it is slowly starting to relax if we sit and …
It’s been a fairly slow leopard week, with long grass and only a couple of vehicles out making sightings hard to come by. Cloudy and windy conditions have made for …
One of my favourite things to do in nature is to just sit and listen, whether it be to hear the birds singing, a lion calling in the distance or …
A spectacular sighting of the Mhangeni pride at a waterhole (that somehow got overlooked in the archives), plenty of elephants – as is becoming the norm, although we introduce some …
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 …
The final TWIP of 2020! A year that has quite literally rewritten history and will be spoken about for generations to come. For us, it was the first time that …
We take an amazing peek inside the nest of a hornbill to see the newly hatched chicks, and catch up with the Tsalala lioness and her daughter on a wildebeest …
It was the sound of trumpeting that drew our attention. Often when encountering a predator, herds of elephants with young calves will trumpet, squeal and rumble loudly in agitation. As …
The week of the Woodland Kingfisher! In 2019, our records state that the first one was seen on 16th November. This year, it was Thursday 19th November that the first …
First things first: the bird in this week’s ID Challenge: It was a Thick-billed Cuckoo. Heard more than they’re seen, they’re a good tick to have on your bird list. …
We haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I was in the archives recently and happened across a photo I hadn’t seen in a year or so, so thought …
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 …