2011-05-27 – Masai Mara N.R.

A day at the Musiara Marsh is always full of nice encounters. Surprisingly, the marsh is full of animals, including Zebras and Wildebeests from the northern population that are finding fresh short grass around the Bila Shaka lugga and up to the Topi plains. The Marsh Lions are doing fine, they seem extremely well fed. Nonetheless, we caught up with them at first light and they were already completely asleep, in a tight bunch along the Bila Shaka lugga. Later in the day, they moved to deeper shade and one of the one year old cubs caught a Banded Mongoose to play with. In the evening we found three Lionesses with four cubs and a male eating a Warthog. The females left to go and fetch the other cubs as the male made sure the cubs did not attempt to get a bigger share of his meal. Later in the evening the females returned with three more cubs, while a single female Cheetah attempted to hunt a herd of Impalas. In the afternoon it rained all over the Mara, in particular in the west.