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Sighting Report

19 - 25 January 2009

Monday, 19 January 2009
(28º)
  • A large herd of about 120 buffaloes on Ellie Alley
  • Three buffalo bulls feeding around 2nd Windmill
  • A breeding herd of elephants on Nyati Bamba Road
  • Four buffalo bulls resting in the mud pools at Nyati Bamba Road
  • Safari resting in a Marula tree just south of Central Road
 
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
(25º)
  • Two rhino’s feeding on Magic Willy open area
  • A breeding herd of about 15 elephants playing in the mud on the link to Zebra Drive
  • A herd of elephants on the EP open area in front of the webcam
  • A big breeding herd of about 30 elephants feeding on Rocky Road
  • A rhino bull rolling in the mud on A-main/Grasscut Junction

 
  Nyaleti's cub. Picture by Morne Fouche
  Nyaleti's cub. Picture by Morne Fouche

 

Wednesday, 21 January 2009
(29º)

  • Four lionesses and six youngsters of the Kuhuma pride feeding on a young giraffe on the Simbambili/Safari cutline
  • Three buffalo bulls resting in the water at Simbambili Dam
  • Two rhino’s resting in the mud pool south of Boundary Pan
  • While lions were enjoying their kill a herd of about 15 elephants chased them away
 
Thursday, 22 January 2009
(32º)
  • The Kuhuma pride resting on the firebreak east of Simbambili Dam
  • A breeding herd of elephants playing in the mud on Boundary Pan
  • Mafufunyana resting on first Windmill Road
  • Two buffalo bulls feeding on Ngala open area
  • One buffalo bull walking in a southerly direction from Boundary Pan
  • One buffalo bull resting at Rampan
 
Friday, 23 January 2009
(36º )
  • The Kuhuma pride resting at One Eye Pan Road
  • Two elephant bulls feeding around Boundary Pan
  • One buffalo bull resting at 2nd Windmill
  • Salayexe moving southward from Pungwe open
  • Londoz, the rhino bull, moving southward on Rhino Ring South
 
Saturday, 24 January 2009
(24º, 3mm rain)
  • Five rhino’s feeding on Robson’s boundary
  • A breeding herd of elephants moving southward on MMM South
  • Two buffalo bulls resting on Rocky Road
  • Nyeleti and her cub playing on Kudu Drift
  • Two elephant bulls swimming in Big Dam
 
Sunday, 25 January 2009
(28º)
  • Mvula with an impala kill west of Boundary Pan
  • A large herd of about 180 buffaloes resting on One Eye Pan Road
  • A herd of elephants on the EP open area in front of the webcam
  • One of the Stix females hunting impala on the Safari airstrip
  • Three rhino’s feeding on the southern side of Safari airstrip
   
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