During the second half of July the weather got really chilly in the Mara. The few remaining Wildebeests proceeded heading southwest into the Mara Triangle. With my guests we caught a couple of days of beautiful river crossings. Unfortunately the spectacle is often ruined by the […]
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Another nice day and quite unexpectedly, another amazing leopard encounter, this time with the female who lives near the Mara river in some gorgeous last warm light. Some animals are gathering to cross the Mara heading south after a pause in migration activity. Still the water […]
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During my five years residing most of the time on the Mara I followed many leopards with cubs, Olive in particular. As much as I wished to, I never managed to see the mother carrying the cubs in her mouth. Today it finally happened, and with […]
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Another nice Leopard day, this time with Olive posing on trees and termite mounds while trying to hunt a herd of Impalas in the afternoon. The cub is still in the forest behind our camp, while the Cheetah Malaika was still calling for her lost cub […]
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We are following the Cheetah with her two cubs who is really facing a hard time. The location where we left her yesterday was full of Hyenas. So she moved away towards the Talek river, looking for food, crossing huge empty fields of long grass. She […]
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A quiet early part of the morning looking for Leopards. Olive has not been seen for weeks. Only now are vehicles starting to explore her territory again, but the vegetation makes sightings really difficult. After breakfast we headed to the Topi plains where the Marsh Lions […]
0 Read MoreToday we went to the Marsh to see the situations among the Lions. On the way we found four females of the Ridge pride accompanied by a handsome male. The day has been cloudy and drizzly since morning, but a few rays of sun filtered through […]
0 Read MoreAmazing day, with some extraordinary sightings for us. It all started as we looked for the two mating couple of Leopards. There we found a single Hyena starting to chase a small group of Wildebeests. As the chase went on, the Hyena singled out a Wildebeest. […]
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We headed straight out to where we saw the Caracal family yesterday, we searched everywhere but couldn’t find any sign of them. We watched some Lions on a kill, while the three male Cheetahs that we call Honey’s boys (from the name of their late mother) […]
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Today we caught up with Olive and her cubs Bahati and Pacha soon after they had killed a Wildebeest. It was actually Pacha who killed, and the whole family fed on it in the morning and late afternoon. It is a really rare and unusual Leopard […]
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