The Big 5 highlight of the week was to see Shadow, the female leopard, stalking and killing a young impala on Marula Bult South
Monday, 8 July 2013
(25ºC)
- A breeding herd of about fifteen elephants feeding on A-main close to Ncombe Road
- Three buffalo bulls resting in the mud wallows north of Treehouse Pan
- Kurula, the female leopard, scent marking around Baboon Pan
- Wabayiza, the sub adult male leopard, resting in the Mlowati river bed
- Twelve buffalo bulls resting close to Serengeti Pan
- One of the Majingi male lions chasing the sub adult lioness out of the Tsalala pride around Nyati Bamba Road
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
(22ºC)
- Salayexe, the female leopard, moving east on Robson’s boundary
- A breeding herd of about twenty elephants moving south from Boundary pan
- One Majingi male lion resting west of Boundary Pan
- Four Tsalala pride lionesses resting at Simbambili Dam
- Another breeding herd of about sixty elephants feeding around Pommies Pan
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
(22ºC)
- A breeding herd of about thirty elephants moving south from Zebra Drive
- Salayexe, the female leopard, stalking impalas on EP floodplain
- Tingana, the male leopard, mating with Shadow, the female leopard, on Wetpatch open area
- Four Tsalala pride lionesses moving east from Serengeti Pan
Thursday, 11 July 2013
(23ºC)
- Salayexe, the female leopard, moving west from Rampan
- Tingana and Shadow with an impala kill on Marula Bult South
- A breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding on Seepline Road
- Another breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding on EP open area
Friday, 12 July 2013
(21ºC)
- A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Wetpatch Road
- Tingana and Shadow still with the impala kill on Marula Bult South
- A breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding on Madash Road
- Lamula, the male leopard, moving east on Seepline Road
Saturday, 13 July 2013
(22ºC)
- Salayexe, the female leopard, hunting impala on EP airstrip
- A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on EP delivery road
- Another breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding around Shirley’s Crossing
- The Styx lion pride stalking impalas on Chitwa Chitwa old driveway
- Wabayiza, the sub adult male leopard, with a juvenile kudu kill in a marula tree south of Mhisi Mati
Sunday, 14 July 2013
(26ºC)
- Wabayiza, the sub adult male leopard, still feeding on the kudu kill south of Mhisi Mati
- A breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding close to EP Lodge main gate
- Another breeding herd of about 20 elephants feeding close to Nyati Bamba Road
- Tingana, the male leopard, and another unknown male leopard having a stand-off close to Kraaines