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EXETER WEEKEND

It has been a rather interesting week at the Exeter lodges ( Dulini, Exeter River and Leadwood ) with exceptional Leopard sightings; including a female scaling a number of trees in a short period of time, and a male meandering down a scenic riverbed only to drink at regular intervals. But the animals that have capped this week off have to include...

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Andrew van den Broeck, Date: 21 February 2012

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VANTAGE POINT

After spending three hours tracking this female who somehow managed to evade us, we found her on the way back to the lodge, on a termite mound right next to the road! Then she moved off up a tree, giving us a real show for almost an hour which we spent mostly alone. What a special Christmas treat!

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Laura Dyer, Date: 23 January 2012

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MISTLETOE?

It may not have been mistletoe dangling above the head of the female Speke’s Hingeback Tortoise, but the male made sure he capitalised on her slight entanglement amongst the brush. After following the female along the pathway at Exeter River Lodge , the pair eventually came to terms with their natural reproductive urges, and on a number of...

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Andrew van den Broeck, Date: 16 January 2012

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ABUNDANCE

It is not only leopards and lions that tickle us at Exeter, as we were spoiled for choice this morning. During the long haul down to the South of the reserve there is plenty of opportunity to see a cornucopia of different animals. Whilst sitting with a small herd of elephants that were gracefully marching through a large clearing, we noticed a trio of...

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Andrew van den Broeck, Date: 14 January 2012

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RANGER CHASED BY BULL ELEPHANT

I had guests for 4 nights,who had seen virtually every thing there is to see.This afternoon we found a female leopard on a young impala lamb kill. While we were watching her an elephant bull in must came and chased us away from the sighting. My guests were guite excited because it as it was also the first time in the bush for two of them.

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Patrick Mthabine, Date: 13 January 2012

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NEW BORN!

I'm a bit late at writting this WILDwatch story, but as they say "better late than never". It was a couple weeks ago when we headed out for the afternoon drive and we had a group of 10 guest which were here three years ago. We decided to head to the South of the reserve to try find the big herd of buffalo. The animals were out in force that...

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Craig Parsons, Date: 11 January 2012

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AS YOUNG AS THEY COME

Seeing a leopard in the wild is always a special sighting, especially when the leopard is behaving in the same manner as she would if the vehicle was or wasn’t there. This evening we had that kind of experience coupled with the unveiling of this particular leopard's brand new cub. We were following up on tracks around Dulini Lodge during our...

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Andrew van den Broeck, Date: 5 January 2012

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NEW MALES!

I had guests for six nights, which had seen pretty much everything except male lions. On their second last morning we found fresh tracks for two of our three male lions. We started following them. The guests were quite excited because it was also two of my guests from the previous morning, but while we were tracking these two males, another ranger...

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Craig Parsons, Date: 26 December 2011

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BIRD UPDATE

Summer is now in full swing and all the regulars are back from either their winter quarters, for the intra-African migrants, for their summer quarters, for the palearctic migrants. The last to arrive are those beautiful red arrows, the magnificent Carmine Bee-eaters, sadly also the first to head back north. Rainfall has been low so far this year, but...

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Andre McDonald, Date: 22 December 2011

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LIFE LESSON FOR PYTHON

Not long after leaving the lodge, we came across a scene involving an African Rock Python and a scrub hare. The python was not very large, maybe a little over a metre, and was clearly struggling to swallow the very large scrub hare. For about half an hour we watched the snake aligning himself and dislocating his jaws to start the swallowing process....

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Andre McDonald, Date: 22 December 2011

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