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Another brave mom

I have written a few times about seeing animal mothers seemingly ignore the danger of predators in order to try and save their young (almost always in vain). A lot of energy and time goes into raising a youngster and getting your genes out there to further the species is important. We watched again as a kudu cow stood no more than 5 meters from a...

Posted: Kwandwe by Toast Seagers, Date: 22 February 2010

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Digging Deep

We had been watching a pride of lions sleeping for a while when we decided to head around the corner for a quick cup of coffee. We chose a hill quite some way away from where we could still keep an eye on the pride with our binoculars. No sooner had we poured some sweet Amarula coffee than one of our guests, Bruce (who never took his eyes off the lions...

Posted: Kwandwe by Toast Seagers, Date: 25 January 2010

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Maggots

Just before sunset one evening, we visited a sighting of two lionesses feeding on a Zebra that they had killed. It had been a scorching day with temperatures definitely above 30 degrees Celsius. A fair portion of the zebra had been consumed already and both lionesses had distended bellies and that “about to explode” look that lions get after feasting...

Posted: Kwandwe by Toast Seagers, Date: 23 January 2010

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Bone Crunching Rhino Sighting

It is always fun to see black rhino as they are full of character and often doing something different. Either interacting with each other or curiously eyeing out you and the vehicle. We were surprised to find a black rhino in a relatively open area as they usually prefer thicker bush. As we watched him he headed directly for a day old lion kill. We...

Posted: Kwandwe by Toast Seagers, Date: 15 January 2010

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2 leopards, 2 lionesses, and new cubs

The afternoon started slowly as we picked up 2 lioness tracks that we were looking for because we knew one was suckling young cubs and followed for the next hour. Unfortunately we lost the tracks but continued into the mountains to look at the great views and scanning for the elusive leopard. Kwandwe has been very dry lately leaving just one dam in the...

Posted: Kwandwe by Brendon Dredge, Date: 23 December 2009

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Born to run

We started off wanting to follow up on a male cheetah that had been seen on morning drive and were very excited when we saw the silhouette of one on a nearby rise. However as we approached we soon saw that it was in fact a female cheetah and her cub that had been lying in the grass. Seeing as how our patience had paid off the day before we settled in for...

Posted: Kwandwe by Murray Tindall, Date: 20 December 2009

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Dinner buffet

Having seen quite a variety of game over the previous few days we were happy to sit and watch while a male cheetah dozed in the shade of a jacket plum tree. He looked a little thin and the consensus was that sooner or later he would go hunting. A mere hour and a half later he sat up abruptly and gazed over the ridge where a herd of springbok, a herd of...

Posted: Kwandwe by Murray Tindall, Date: 19 December 2009

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Lion and Rhino

We woke up this morning to lion roars down stream from Uplands. Whilst having our morning coffee on the veranda, their calling enticed us to go and look for them. Andy spotted a lioness not long after leaving the lodge; she was but a dot, shining in the sunlight. I am not exaggerating when I say that he spotted her from about one kilometre away. We...

Posted: Kwandwe by Toast Seagers, Date: 17 December 2009

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Young Lessons

Our evening drive turned out fantastically today. After a warm day, the wind had picked up, blowing a cool steady South Easterly in our faces. Cheetah have been elusive of late with mothers moving their cubs regularly and territories changing with the movements of prey species. Devin and Ernie located a mother cheetah with a young cub (I think he must be...

Posted: Kwandwe by Toast Seagers, Date: 16 December 2009

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Jacobin cuckoos versus sombre greenbul

Summer is the time of plenty and with summer migrant birds arriving we get to watch them building nests and occasionally for those that do not lay eggs you may be able to watch some interesting behaviour. Two Jacobin cuckoos (Oxylophus jacobinus) were seen chattering away whilst a very distraught sombre greenbul (Andropadus importunus) was being...

Posted: Kwandwe by Brendon Dredge, Date: 16 December 2009

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