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Baby birds, new born buffalo and ravenous baboons

The last few days of guiding from Uplands Homestead have been filled with action and unique and interesting things. Just outside the lodge, Andy noticed a Fork-tailed Drongo nesting next to the road. We eagerly watched 2 little eggs every day, one day we saw some little balls of black, and only a week later they had grown into convincing little birds....

Posted: Kwandwe by Toast Seagers, Date: 31 December 2008

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A quick check up

While on a training drive tonight I drove past Kudu Run Dam again and was delighted to see a second Blue Crane chick! It was amazing how much smaller it was in comparison to the chick I had seen the day before. I hope I can keep going out there to see how they are doing while growing up.

Posted: Kwandwe by Abigail Crisp, Date: 17 December 2008

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Steenbok

As steenbok are normally solitary animals I was pleseantly surprised when we found a young steenbok suckling from its mother while the male stood no more than 2m away! You could almost call them a herd :)

Posted: Kwandwe by Abigail Crisp, Date: 17 December 2008

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Little ones :)

Out on drive in the South Eastern corner of the reserve we can aross a den of Bat Eared Fox. It was so nice to see pups after a large percentage of the population was killed my canine distemper. The mother was very nervous and moved away from the vehicle but the pups were very interested in the vehicle and sat watching us for a while before they too moved...

Posted: Kwandwe by Abigail Crisp, Date: 16 December 2008

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Back from the Brink

Coming round the corner to Kudu Run Dam we were delighted to see a single black rhino on the northern edge but even more interseting was what was in the dam! A pair of blue cranes with a chick! The chick could hardly walk and must have just hatched. It kept tripping while trying to follow it's parents. They finally guided it into the bushes and we lost...

Posted: Kwandwe by Abigail Crisp, Date: 16 December 2008

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Night Drive

Going out on night drives you never know what you might find out here. We started the drive just before the sun set and were lucky enough to sit with a herd of elephant till it became to dark next up was a small herd of buffalo drinkiing in a near by pan, so far so good. Then driving down one of the more main roads and Aardvark crossed the road 10m...

Posted: Kwandwe by Abigail Crisp, Date: 15 December 2008

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Unfortunate Event

Aardvark are still a rare sighting even at Kwandwe so it was with heavy hearts that we look on as a black backed jackel ate at the carcass of an Aardvark early this evening. We don't know what killed it or how it died but unfortunately there is now one less on Kwandwe.

Posted: Kwandwe by Abigail Crisp, Date: 10 December 2008

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Playful fellow

After making a quick stop at Kudu Run Dam to see 3 of the beautiful but shy north pride lion cubs we sped off to Galpin Dam looking for the south prides cubs hoping to get some photos of them. We were birding at the same time so when we got to Galpin Dam we stopped on the wall to push our numbers out with some water birds. Knowing Galpin has no fish we...

Posted: Kwandwe by Abigail Crisp, Date: 3 December 2008

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Heads up!

We had been following a female cheetah and her four sub-adult cubs for most of the afternoon, hoping to see them hunt. Before we knew it they were off, after some Impala. When we found them again, they had killed a baby, and were about to start feeding. It took them about 5 minutes to finish it, and each of them had their own piece. What was amazing, was...

Posted: Kwandwe by Victor van den Berg, Date: 27 November 2008

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Such diversity

Since arriving at Kawandwe as a trainee ranger I have been amazed at how much I have ssen. Sightings have started witht the smaller things like leopard tortoises, snakes and flowers to the bigger animals. I have been lucky enough to have seen both lion prides ,including cubs, most of the properties cheetah, black rhino, and the elephant herds, one with a...

Posted: Kwandwe by Abigail Crisp, Date: 23 November 2008

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