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Hyena Den

Over the years hyenas’ have been a much persecuted species in Northern Natal and in particular on farm lands around Phinda. Hyena and leopard are the 2 species never to be reintroduced back onto Phinda. Due to our conservation efforts and the available protected land the hyena population is slowly recovering. Sightings in the northern woodlands are on the...

Posted: Phinda by Philip Mortlock, Date: 13 March 2010

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INCREDIBLE

INCREDIBLE On this day, we went on early morning drive disperately to found north pride lionesses witch was repoted going north/west on previous nigth, after unsuccesfull attempts on the area we decided to go somewhere else, and for surprise, just in front of us 2 birds was chaising one another then I stoped a car to ID the interesting birds in...

Posted: Phinda by walter khoza, Date: 28 February 2010

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Back to Back Spotted Hyaenas

On Phinda its always been special seeing Hyaenas. Recently there was a Spotted Hyaena den discovered in the southern part of the Reserve. In General the Hayenas on the reserve is fairly shy but normally at dens is where one can have great sightings. This afternoon in particular we planned to go on a boat cruise and then follow up at this den afterwards....

Posted: Phinda by philip de bruyn, Date: 23 February 2010

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Henis dam butle

Henis dam BATLE On sanday morning the 14/02/10, myself and Sam were watching 2 lionesses at Henis dam, when a heard of +- 25 wildbests arraived at full speed on the dam, unaware of big cats presence. Then the hunters started what they know best. The yonger lioness stoked for short time and run down from the dam wall chasing the wildbests to the water,...

Posted: Phinda by walter khoza, Date: 14 February 2010

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Lioness and Cubs on a Zebra kill:

At last, after 2 and half months of waiting in anticipation, tracks of the young North pride lioness and 3 distinct cub tracks. We follow the tracks and to our delight find a sub adult zebra kill. As the heat of the day gave some relief she brought her cubs out of their hiding place. Three very young, inquisitive healthy cubs stared at us as we did them....

Posted: Phinda by Philip Mortlock, Date: 12 February 2010

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Single Lioness kills giraffe

On the 11th of November the youngest of the north pride lionesses left to go den a liter of cubs. Still today we don’t know how many she has. Sighting of her have been rare and evidence of her killing even rarer. This all changed yesterday, just before sun set my guests marveled at a young giraffe making comments like ‘ahh cute and that’s adorable’. We...

Posted: Phinda by Philip Mortlock, Date: 25 January 2010

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Chased from the pride

Separated from his pride, for 2 days the a young male lion stayed in the Zuka plains in a catch 22 as he make low contact calls trying to reunite with his sisters but instead drew in the attentions of the new comers. The Tswalu males are bigger than him, 3 year old males and there are 2 of them. We watched as the 2 Tswalu males closed in on him. The 2...

Posted: Phinda by Philip Mortlock, Date: 21 January 2010

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North Pride Kill at pipeline Pan:

Notorious for killing in the day the north pride had us on a mammoth tracking session. I had a group of Indians whose comments and accent kept the motivation going. When I though I knew where they where heading I had it wrong but in the end they must have been hungry and we found them at their favorite hunting ground pipeline pan. The guest hadn’t had the...

Posted: Phinda by Philip Mortlock, Date: 5 January 2010

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North Pride kill

Notorious for killing in the day the north pride had us on a mammoth tracking session. I had a group of Indians whose comments and accent kept the motivation going. When I though I knew where they where heading I had it wrong but in the end they must have been hungry and we found them at their favorite hunting ground pipeline pan. The guest hadn’t had the...

Posted: Phinda by Philip Mortlock, Date: 5 January 2010

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Young Cheetahs vs Male Reedbuck

Two weeks ago a Female Cheetah with 3 sub adults (16-18 months old) came all the way from the southern parts of the reserve (more than 25km) up to the northern part where the marsh/grassland is situated. It only took the mother 2-3 days to cover this distance and I think she knew exactly where she wanted to go with them. When they arrived on the...

Posted: Phinda by philip de bruyn, Date: 10 December 2009

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