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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: &BEYOND Ngala by Ray Hume, Date: 22 October 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: &BEYOND Ngala by Ray Hume, Date: 25 September 2008
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We headed out this morning with high hopes of finding some of Ngala’s big cats. Many leopard tracks had been seen the previous day but nobody managed to locate these elusive and secretive cats. We made our way west along the boundary and it wasn’t too long before we struck gold. The drag-marks across the road clearly told us that a leopard had made a kill...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngala by Ray Hume, Date: 19 August 2008
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 We’d spent the afternoon looking for rhino and as a last measure we headed down to a nearby water hole before the sun set. As we approached we noticed two eagles feeding close to the water’s edge. We first set about identifying the eagles and then turned our attention the prey on which they were feeding. It was two juvenile Bateleur eagles, still without...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngala by Ray Hume, Date: 27 July 2008
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With winter in the air we left the comfort of the fireplace and headed out into the crisp morning. The mission this morning? Leopard! We knew of a female, with a young cub, who had been seen with an impala kill on the eastern boundary. There was a good chance they would still be in the area as there was much meat left on the carcass. When we arrived they...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngala by Ray Hume, Date: 12 June 2008
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It’s been months since we last saw wild dogs at Ngala so there was much excitement around camp when it was rumored that they were on the property. We headed to the south where they were last seen and got there just in time to see them running and playing in some clearings. Suddenly a scrub hare took off from under a bush and the four wild dogs took off...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngala by Ray Hume, Date: 7 June 2008
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It’s been months since we last saw wild dogs at Ngala so there was much excitement around camp when it was rumored that they were on the property. We headed to the south where they were last seen and got there just in time to see them running and playing in some clearings. Suddenly a scrub hare took off from under a bush and the four wild dogs took off...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngala by Ray Hume, Date: 7 June 2008
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It was fairly early in the afternoon when we came across a female steenbok browsing alongside the road. She was clearly relaxed as she fed when suddenly a male duiker came charging in from the side which startled the steenbok sending her running for safety. The male chased after and refused to leave her. It almost appeared as though it were courting her...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngala by Ray Hume, Date: 29 March 2008
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It was early evening and the sun was just resting on the horizon as we arrived at the watering hole. We had no guarantees but were hopeful that we might find something drinking in the last light of day. Our initial finding was that of a solitary hippo in the water and nothing else...this soon changed. A herd of elephant approached and started drinking and...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngala by Ray Hume, Date: 26 March 2008
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We were sitting with a pride of lions in the dry Timbivati River bed, when Jimmy turned my attention to a small spot of red in the tree above. We were sent clutching for our binoculars to get a closer look. The crimson underparts with bright green throat made it nearly impossible to confuse with any other bird species...this was, unmistakably, a Narina...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngala by Ray Hume, Date: 23 March 2008
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