Wednesday, 24 June 2015

23 & 24 June


23rd & 24th June 

Afternoon

- Two Styx males resting in the Rupapi drainage line.
- Big family group of elephants feeding east of the lodge.
- Young male leopard caught a pangolin and finished everything but the tail.

                                                                                                                                                              Morning

- Two Styx males and the two adult females with the sub adult females where resting near Graveyard pan when the two Matimba males burst in and chased them. We not sure what happened but we found the two Matimba boys after that with bloody faces but could not find any of the other lions.

Tuesday, 23 June 2015

22 &23 July

22 & 23 July 

Afternoon

- Big herd of Elephants feeding West from the lodge moving slowly North.
- Another herd of Elephants drinking water joined by a small herd of Buffalo.
- Had a quick visual of some Wild Dogs moving over a boundary South into Mala Mala.
- Last night on our way back to the lodge, we came across the two Styx females with the three cubs resting on a road. Unfortunately we couldn't view them with the spotlight because the cubs are still to young and we left them.











Morning

- Herd of Elephants feeding around the vehicle.
- Saw Tingana around a termite mound waiting at the entry of a Warthog burrow.
- Two Styx males resting East from the Lodge.

Nkorho Rangers

Sunday, 21 June 2015

20 & 21 June


20 & 21 June 

Afternoon

- Big herd of Buffalo resting east from the lodge.
- Four sub-adults from the Nyaleti pride resting North-East from the lodge not far away from the Buffalo.
- Thandi's cub resting on top of a termite mound.
- Herd of Elephants West from the lodge feeding.

Morning

- Tw
o sub adults from the Nyaleti's resting South form the Lodge.
- Female Cheetah West from the lodge moving North.

Nkorho Rangers

Wednesday, 27 May 2015

26 & 27 May

26 & 27 May 2015

Afternoon
- Went to go and have a look at the hyena den, was lucky enough to see a few of the youngsters out of the den and playing around.
- Lone male elephant drinking water at one of our pans.

                                                                        Morning
- Saw some giraffe browsing on some acacias close to the lodge.
- 2 Matimba male lions and 2 females of the Styxs pride close to one of the lodges.

Tuesday, 26 May 2015

25 & 26 May

25 - 26 May

Afternoon

- Big herd of Buffalo moving North over the main road.
- Tingana around of whats left of the kill he made two days ago, just resting about.
- Elephants joining in on our drinks break yesterday afternoon.
- On our way back to the lodge last night we found Shadow and her cub moving north.

                                                       Morning

- Big herd of Buffalo found just West from the lodge.
- Herd of Elephants also found not to far from the Buffalo.
- Wild Dogs found this morning moving West.

Nkorho Rangers

Saturday, 23 May 2015

22 & 23 May


22 & 23 May 2015

Afternoon

- 2 old male buffaloes resting in a mud wallow.
- Thandi female leopard calling her cub after a while the cub joined up with her and they moved north in to a drainage line.










Morning

- 11 Giraffe feeding just south of the lodge.
- Zebras and wildebeest feeding on the open area.
- Big herd of elephants feeding next to our game viewer.

Friday, 22 May 2015

21 & 22 May

21 - 22 May 2015

Afternoon
- Pack of 5 wild dogs resting near the lodge.
- Thandi female leopard resting.
- 2 old male buffaloes resting in a mud wallow.
- One big male elephant moving towards a big dam.



Morning
- Followed up on some cheetah tracks not to far away from the lodge but with no luck looks like they moved off in to the Kruger.
- Found the same pack of wild dogs again feeding in a fresh Nyala kill in a drainage line.