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Once a year we get to go birding - BIG birding. This year was brilliant until 10am when the 40+ degree heat stifled any opportunity to see many more birds for the rest of the day. the morning provided some great highlights amongst the 100's of buffalo we kept seeing and then the leopard in the late afternoon. It started with calling Monotonous Larks,...
Posted: Ngala by Alastair Kilpin, Date: 30 November 2008
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I was incredibly lucky to day, as I was lucky enough to witness, a truly amazing sighting more than once, the morning game drives went out, and it did not take long for the reports of wild dogs on the airstrip to filter back to the lodge, so as soon as the last vehicle returned, I took a vehicle and told the lodge staff to climb on to go have a look. I...
Posted: Ngala by jonathan bozas, Date: 24 November 2008
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We picked up guests from Ngala tented camp for game drive at 16:00, everyone was very excited!! We had not been driving for long when the call came in over the radio that the Phelwane pride had been found, near buffalo flats. So Barney told the guests about the sighting and asked if they were keen, “of course” was the reply, so Barney headed towards the...
Posted: Ngala by jonathan bozas, Date: 17 November 2008
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We headed out just before sunrise so there was still a fresh chill in the air. Not too from the lodge we saw a pair of Wahlberg's eagles perched at their new nest as well as Crowned and Blacksmith plovers on the clearings near the airstrip. Just as we were about to get going a pair of Yellow-billed ox peckers flew over us, a rare sighting at Ngala and a...
Posted: Ngala by Ray Hume, Date: 22 October 2008
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It was early morning no clouds in sight. Close to the Ngala tented camp. Driving at a slow pace in search for lion tracks. A figure ahead caught my eye. Walking calmly across the road 40 meters in front of us was a caracal. Carrying a scrub hare from its mouth swinging it from side to side as it strides off into the thickets on the other side of the road....
Posted: Ngala by jono harper, Date: 29 September 2008
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At Ngala, on the first game drive, we saw LEOPARDS! We saw leopards several times at Ngala. The safari before last, we saw and photographed a beautiful female leopard at Ngala. We had the same tracker -- Richard -- this time and he found us the very same beautiful female leopard and she had two new cubs. We couldn't photograph...
Posted: Ngala by Mary Robbins, Date: 25 September 2008
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We had finished our sundowners and started a way back to the lodge. As we were crossing the Timbavati River bed, there in the beam of the spotlight, was an old lioness and her young male cub. She had something in her mouth, which at first I thought was a civet, but upon closer inspection saw that she had picked a fight she was unlikely to win. In her...
Posted: Ngala by Ray Hume, Date: 25 September 2008
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It was an overcast day but still no rain. We set off along the Timbavati River in search of elephant breading herds. We had a great sighting. Then went to go relocate a crash of four. Coming into a large clearing we could see a rhino half tucked behind a spike thorn thicket. But what caught most of the guests eyes were the five giraffe feeding on the...
Posted: Ngala by jono harper, Date: 17 September 2008
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 On our eveing drive Solly, our tracker, picked up tracks of lions which went off the trail and into thick mopane woodlands.After a few minutes we found a single female resting under a mopane tree then Solly said that we should go deeper into the woodlands where we found the rest of the pride. Three large males, 3 females and 8 cubs of all ages. Sipho,our...
Posted: Ngala by Jared Liam Curran, Date: 8 September 2008
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 Late afternoon we were heading up the dry Timbavati River when all of a sudden a leopard cub appeared in front of the vechicle and quickly run into the thickets of a wild dat palm. We could not see the cub at that point but found the remains of an impala which had been killed the night before. We waited a few moments for the cub to come out but just as we...
Posted: Ngala by Jared Liam Curran, Date: 7 September 2008
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