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sisterly love?

This evening on drive we were lucky to whitness something very unusual taking place. We had been watching two lionesses sleeping in the shade for quite some time and as it started cooling down, they started becoming more active. Then suddenly the one lioness got up and started growling a low growl at her sister, and she started waving her rump and tail...

Posted: Madikwe Safari Lodge by Claire Lacey, Date: 20 December 2008

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an emotional hunt

Last night we went on a game drive to find the wild dogs that where seen earlier that morning. They had not been successful in their hunting attempts so they where bound to hunt tonight. - We wanted to be there to see it. What we did not anticipate was the type of kill we where going to see!! On our way to the wild dogs we came across a band of banded...

Posted: Madikwe Safari Lodge by Mark Lautenbach, Date: 25 November 2008

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Fishing success

This evening on drive we were treated to a very special sight. We were watching a beautiful fish eagle in the setting golden sun, as it sat next to a watering hole. After a few minutes, we were just about to leave, when suddenly the fish eagle swooped down to the water and successfully grabbed a fish! He then proceeded to land back up on a branch close to...

Posted: Madikwe Safari Lodge by Claire Lacey, Date: 10 November 2008

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first leopard kill!

last night we saw a leopard kill!!!! it lasted all of 5 seconds. We pulled into the leopard sighting and could not see the leopard. the other ranger was saying that it was in the thicket stalking a baby steenbok...he was not lying. out of know where this tiny steenbok came crashing out of the bush with a joung leopard hot on its heels!! they where...

Posted: Madikwe Safari Lodge by Mark Lautenbach, Date: 26 October 2008

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Morning Choir

This morning on drive we had had a a relatively quiet star to the morning when we came across something rather sweet. In a small black thorn right next to the road there was a little choir practice going on. A crested barbet sitting on the top, a hoopoe in the middle and a crimson breasted shrike on the ground under the tree were all calling at the same...

Posted: Madikwe Safari Lodge by Claire Lacey, Date: 21 October 2008

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4 in a row

My guests and i arrived at Tshukudu dam to a wonderful sight of a herd of elephants cooling off in the slowly evaporating water. We remained with them for a lengthy period and after eventually deciding to move off we were caught behind another herd slowly walking down the dams access road. We had the option of turning around and going the other way but we...

Posted: Madikwe Safari Lodge by Paolo Slaviero, Date: 21 October 2008

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Night time surprise

We were heading back to the lodge after a fantastic sunset sighting of 8 White Rhino at Kolobeng dam when suddenly out the corner of my eye i saw that what i was least expecting, a Bat Eared Fox skulking along the edge of the road!! I knew it would be a brief sighting but at the same time an extraodinary one as these small guys are hardly ever seen here....

Posted: Madikwe Safari Lodge by Paolo Slaviero, Date: 20 October 2008

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walking with wild dogs

Yesterday we decided to go for a walk into the Tshwene valley in the Rant Van Tweedepoort mountain range which is the range that runs west to east cutting madikwe in half and creating a beautiful view from the star deck of our lodge. It is also home to our wild dog packs that has been breeding there for the last 3 or 4 months and have been making it very...

Posted: Madikwe Safari Lodge by Mark Lautenbach, Date: 17 October 2008

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Lucky eleven

I have guests who had never seen a rhino before, and it was all they had wanted to see. We had been searching for a few game drives with no luck. On their last evening drive we went to a small dam in the northern side of the reserve, hoping there would be a rhino drinking. No luck. I suggested we be patient and sit and wait for a while. Just as i was...

Posted: Madikwe Safari Lodge by Claire Lacey, Date: 15 October 2008

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summer has arrived

Its come to that time of the year when summer is on its way back. The temperature is increasing at a rapid rate and the waterholes are becoming great spots for game viewing. What confirmed summer was on it way this morning was our first sighting of a Wahlbergs Eagle and the beautiful sound of Piet My Vrou (Red Chested Cuckko) for the first time this...

Posted: Madikwe Safari Lodge by Marc Lindsay-Rea, Date: 5 October 2008

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