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 We had left one of our female leopards and her about 1 ½ year old male cub in the morning at a watering hole. Full bellies and the remains of a impala carcass they had left in the morning promised we would find them not far from their shady spot in the afternoon. The mother was still lying in the shade between some high grass, only some spots being...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 14 March 2010
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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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 February has been very wet at Kirkman’s Kamp. This hot afternoon ended up in a huge thunderstorm with lighting and enormous rain pouring down.
A fantastic game drive exposed itself the next morning with all the rare animals coming out to be seen. Tortoises (leopard and hinge-backed), Terrapins, different types of frogs and also this rare visitor that we...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 13 March 2010
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 The dwarf bittern was one of the summer’s birding highlights at Kirkman’s Kamp. After only one sighting of the bird in the last wet season, the early rains this year promised us a lot more. We were very lucky on this trip to spot the bird as we left the lodge on a dried up watering hole. And again, Wally got a fantastic picture of a bird that he hadn’t...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 13 March 2010
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 We were out bright and early this morning, and as the sun rose we headed eastwards along the road separating Ngala from the Kruger National Park. Our hope was to find tracks of a pride of lions that with any luck had crossed over to Ngala during the evening. Much to our delight we found tracks, Fanny our tracker hoped off the vehicle to inspect and...
Posted: Ngala by Dylan Davies, Date: 12 March 2010
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 This time of year is an exciting one as the impala rutt is nearing. This means that the bush will be filled with the bellowing and roaring of the impala rams as they do battle to hold the breeding rights of the herds.
While on game drive yesterday morning we saw hundreds of vultures circling and descending into the tree tops, we approached the area...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Anton Walker, Date: 12 March 2010
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 One of the most fantastic things about working in an unfenced environment like Kirkmans Kamp is that we often see individual animals that we have never seen before.
The other day it was a giraffe bull that was so dark it was almost black. This morning we saw a hippo sighting that was different to all the rest… this individual, who was feeding on the...
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Anton Walker, Date: 12 March 2010
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 The western side of Ngala is a special part of the property, with few roads and big blocks it has a wilderness feel about it, and often offers some of the most amazing and unexpected sightings.
This morning it was the lure of the unexpected that brought us to Big dam, a beautiful water hole in the west. On our arrival, a herd of elephants were there...
Posted: Ngala by Dylan Davies, Date: 9 March 2010
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 In the shadows near the Sand River, across from the HUGE Sycamore Fig tree. Taken at about 5pm. He had caught himself a mongoose and a water monitor and was playing by himself, probably waiting for Mom to return.
Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Bob Nixon, Date: 9 March 2010
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 We took off down south with the goal to find some lions that had been seen that morning. It had been a warm day so we suspected they wouldn't move far,but,as the clouds rolled in we started to wonder if maybe they would start moving into the bush. With the light fading, we managed find them,more or less in the same place where they'd been left. This...
Posted: Ngala by Ray Hume, Date: 8 March 2010
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