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February is suppost to be our heaviest rainfall month of the year and yet this february we have had no rain at all. Everything on the reserve was extremely dry and the water level of the Sand River very low. As we set of on game drive yesterday afternoon the clowds where getting very dark and it looked like rain. This morning at around two it finally came...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 13 April 2008
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Everything on the reserve was still wet after last nights rain when we came across a little animal that was foraging in the high grass. As we looked at it carefully we identified it as a honey badger. Wow. He came out of the long grass into short grass smelling around and foraging for something. He was wet and the top white stripe was dark with mud ftom...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 13 April 2008
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We where aproaching one of our river crossings, when we spotted a Goliath Heron. He had just caught a fairly large Tilapia, which is a common fish in the sand river. The fish was still alive and jumping around on the sand. Than the Heron used his beak like a spear, and speared the fish right behind the gills. When it was dead he took it, put it back into...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 7 April 2008
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Yesterday afternoon, we set of , looking for leopards. About half an hour into our game drive , Elvis our tracker spotted a leopard, on a termite mound, about 300 metres away. It was a big male leopard, and as we aproached we saw that it was the large male that had been mating for the last few days, but he was alone. Shortly after, he got up and started...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 1 April 2008
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A few days ago, i described, as we found a male leopard and a female together. The female started to aproach the male and was than attacked and treed. For the last two days we have been seing male and female tracks together, but no sign of the leopards. Today, finaly on the fourth day, they where spotted, and mating. We made our way in to the area and...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 31 March 2008
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 It was just after my guests (James, Jeffrie, Shelby & Parker Dixon) and I finished our morning drive, when we came across the tracks of a male leopard, as well as a female. We started following the tracks and shortly thereafter we found a big male leopard. When we approached him, we saw that a female was in the same position. She was slowly...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 28 March 2008
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We set out looking for lions this morning, when someone reported lions roaring not to far away. While we where on our way into the area, we found a lioness stalking a fairly large heard of impala. She stalked very carefully and managed to get within twenty meters of the impala. All the sudden our tracker Elvis spotted another lioness stalking the impala...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 21 March 2008
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We where driving along the sand river, in the late morning, when our tracker spotted something on the far bank of the river. This thing kept on jumping in and out of a little patch of reeds. We all fetched our binoculars and started focusing on the patch of reeds on the other bank. Eventually it came out again, and we could identify it as a cape claweless...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 25 February 2008
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It was a rather slow morning, and it was slowly getting hot when we noticed a woodlands kingfisher, that had gotten stuck in a knob thorn tree. The thorns had gotten stuck in its chest plumage and it was flapping its wings to free itself. Another two woodland kingfishers, came and tried to pull this poor bird on its wings and feet to help free it. It was...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 20 February 2008
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This morning we found our dominant male leopard, and even better, he was together with a female. After watching them for a while, the female got up and started growling, rubbing herself against the male, and seducing him, needles to say that he got up and mated with her. Now both leopards where growling. It was very itimidating to listen to the noise of...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Markus Schroeder, Date: 19 February 2008
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