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At long last

After a long time waiting we have finally seen the new members of the Salati prdie. We have been waiting in long anticipation to see the cubs. We first noticed that two females from the pride where pregnant. They soon where absent from the rest of the pride and we new that they must have cubs. It took us three months before this day arrived, but it was...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Duncan Gordon, Date: 26 April 2008

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Wild dogs come pack

The wild dogs have been around again for the last few days. This time only four dogs from the original pack or 22 have been running around the Kirkmans area. This morning was exceptional as I was still on my way to work I came across four dogs running along in the road. I quickly left the dogs to and fetch my guests from the lodge. When we returned to the...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Duncan Gordon, Date: 29 March 2008

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The dogs return

It was early morning when we came across fresh tracks of a pack of wild dogs heading north along the road. We follwed the tracks for a while finding fresh dung and smells along the way. We turned the corner to find that the dogs had just caught an impala lamb and 14 dogs finshed it in no time. Just around the corner another two dogs had just caught...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Duncan Gordon, Date: 20 January 2008

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Water Monitor fishing

On afternoon game drive we came across this water monitor in a small pond in the sand river. We noticed that the monitor was using its tail and body to net the fish to the side of the bank and then catch them as he beached the fish or got them to shallower water. We watched him for about fifteen minutes as he caught about twenty small fish using his...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Duncan Gordon, Date: 2 January 2008

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Leopard update for november

Once again the leopard viewing at Kirkmans Kamp was outstanding. During the month of November we had 62 sightings of Leopards with onlt two days with no sightings. The most we saw in a day was 5..

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Duncan Gordon, Date: 27 December 2007

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wild dogs play with rhino

Once again this month the dogs returned to visit us. This time they where on the move. We followed them as they went along searching for some prey. They moved offf the road and in a few seconds they pulled down a male impala. Between the 15 of them this did not last long and they where soon on the road again looking. The next animal they found was a rhino...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Duncan Gordon, Date: 29 November 2007

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The story of the giraffe

The giraffe was first noticed on the 12th of November with no wounds on the body and no predators in sight. Cause of the death was unsure. The first to arrive at the scene the next morning was a single hyena. He was very nervous and I am sure could not believe his luck that he had a fully grown male giraffe to himself. He left and then two hours later...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Duncan Gordon, Date: 15 November 2007

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White duiker gives birth

When ever we go through this area we keep a look out for the illusive white duiker that we have seen on a number of occasions. Today we went to that area and wha we found was fantastic. We fisrt noticed the white body standing out from behind the bush. then on closer inspection we saw that this white duiker had a baby with her. The baby is of normal...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Duncan Gordon, Date: 13 November 2007

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Four Leopards for the day

It was another fantastic day as the Leopards offered us with some fantastic sightings. The first Leopard we saw was a young male that had never been seen bofore, and offered us with some fantastic viewing as he jumped up into a Marula tree and lay there for a while. The next Leopard seen was a young female Leopard chasing canr rats in the sand river. the...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Duncan Gordon, Date: 11 November 2007

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Mud bath

After having some good rain the last few days many of the little pand are now full and offer fantastic places for the animals to wallo and play in the mud. We sat at this one pan for more than an hour as we watched 3 different gropus of buffalo come and go. Then to finish it off came a white rhino.

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Duncan Gordon, Date: 5 November 2007

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