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surprise after the rain

February has been very wet at Kirkman’s Kamp. This hot afternoon ended up in a huge thunderstorm with lighting and enormous rain pouring down. A fantastic game drive exposed itself the next morning with all the rare animals coming out to be seen. Tortoises (leopard and hinge-backed), Terrapins, different types of frogs and also this rare visitor that we...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 13 March 2010

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dwarf bittern caught on camera

The dwarf bittern was one of the summer’s birding highlights at Kirkman’s Kamp. After only one sighting of the bird in the last wet season, the early rains this year promised us a lot more. We were very lucky on this trip to spot the bird as we left the lodge on a dried up watering hole. And again, Wally got a fantastic picture of a bird that he hadn’t...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 13 March 2010

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Challenges of life.

This time of year is an exciting one as the impala rutt is nearing. This means that the bush will be filled with the bellowing and roaring of the impala rams as they do battle to hold the breeding rights of the herds. While on game drive yesterday morning we saw hundreds of vultures circling and descending into the tree tops, we approached the area...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Anton Walker, Date: 12 March 2010

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New wonders of Kirkmans Kamp.

One of the most fantastic things about working in an unfenced environment like Kirkmans Kamp is that we often see individual animals that we have never seen before. The other day it was a giraffe bull that was so dark it was almost black. This morning we saw a hippo sighting that was different to all the rest… this individual, who was feeding on the...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Anton Walker, Date: 12 March 2010

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A rare kill

It was late in the morning at Kirkman’s Kamp. After a couple of nights with rain this morning the sun showed its power and heated up the area quickly and intense. We came across three white rhino snoozing inside a mud wallow on the side of the road. They were happily cooling of in the water, after the morning sun had warmed them up. The next minute...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 22 February 2010

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Update on the little legend

Our residential pride of lions and their cub are doing well. A couple of weeks ago we have seen the three dominant males, four females and the by now +- 5 months old cub walking over the open area and realized that the youngster had a bad limp on his left hind leg. We couldn’t see any injury and assumed there was an internal problem. Since then I have...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 22 February 2010

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Easy pickings

A few evenings ago we where following the big dominant male leopard at kirkmans(Tjellahanga male). It was just after dark, and he was on the hunt. He walked up to a mud wallow, where two Egyptian geese were swimming. He looked at them very intently, and all the sudden started running around the mud wallow, and past the geese. The two weeks before, we had...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 17 February 2010

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Leopard in the rain

Yesterday afternoon dark clouds where approaching us as we started our afternoon drive. Once again we where looking for leopard, and drove along the river, to look for a female leopard seen earlier that day. Elvis our tracker spotted her from a distance. What a sight. She was lying up in a Marula tree, scanning the area. Loud thunder was coming closer, as...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 15 February 2010

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Hyena takes over

A few mornings ago we where looking for leopard, as it was getting hot. We where already on our way back, when we came across some fresh tracks, of a female and her son. We started following and shortly after came across fresh drag marks on the road. We followed the flattened grass and found two leopards on a kill. The young male leopard was feeding, but...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 13 February 2010

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Leopard update

At Kirkmans we had a good start into the new year 2010. The marula fruits ripened and brought a lot of elephants with them. The river is flowing nicely and everything is lush and green. All three leopard cubs have grown to sub adults and are thriving. We still see them all regularly, which is very nice, as we have watched them grow up. January has been a...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 12 February 2010

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