The Big 5 highlight of the week was to have seen one of the Majingi male lions in our area on a morning drive trailing the Tsalala lionesses!
Monday, 02 September 2013
(28ºC)
- Thandi, the female leopard and her cub, feeding on a bushbuck kill on Styx Shortcut Road
- Shadow, the female leopard, stalking impalas on MMM South
- A breeding herd of about eight hundred buffaloes feeding around Red Dam
- A breeding herd of about fifteen elephants feeding on Gowrie Main
Tuesday, 03 September 2013
(29ºC)
- A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Tsololo Road
- Six buffalo bulls feeding close to Zimba Bridge
- Another breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding on A-main
- Tingana, the male leopard, feeding on a juvenile bushbuck kill on Xinzele Road
- Another breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding on Xinzele Road
Wednesday, 04 September 2013
(29ºC)
- Styx lion pride, resting on Chitwa Chitwa open area
- Nkuhuma male lion feeding on a wildebeest kill on Gowrie Main
- A breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding on Zebra Drive
- Another breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding on Shirley’s open area
- Four buffalo bulls feeding on Serengeti open area
Thursday, 05 September 2013
(28ºC)
- A breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding on 15th Crossing Road
- Another breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding on Konkoni Road
- Nkuhuma male lion still feeding on the wildebeest kill on Gowrie Main
- Twelve buffalo bulls resting at Serengeti Pan
Friday, 06 September 2013
(30ºC)
- Five buffalo bulls feeding around Serengeti Pan
- Salayexe, the female leopard, stalking and killing a sub adult male bushbuck close to Tamboti Crossing
- Tingana, the male leopard, stalking a grey duiker on the firebreak
- Nkuhuma male lion still feeding on the wildebeest kill on Gowrie Main
- One elephant bull drinking water at Leeukuil
- A breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding close to Kimbians Crossing
Saturday, 07 September 2013
(30ºC)
- Three Tsalala lionesses and one Majingi male lion stalking impalas close to EP open area
- Moya, the female leopard, scent marking at Big Dam
- Salayexe, the female leopard, stalking impalas on EP/Shirley’s cutline
- Eight buffalo bulls feeding close to Serengeti/Manyeleti Crossing
- A herd of about thirty elephants feeding on Seepline Road
Sunday, 08 September 2013
(37ºC)
- Ten buffalo bulls drinking water at Big Dam
- Seven buffalo bulls drinking water at Rhino Pan
- A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Shirley’s open area
- Lamula, the male leopard and another young male leopard, having a standoff around Big Dam