Welcome to another edition of A Week in the Bush – we hope you enjoy this week’s selection of highlights...

There has been a large herd of approximately 200 buffalo on the reserve, and with this, always brings lions! But unfortunately for the lions, and fortunately for the buffalo, the predators were not successful in taking down any buffalo.

Earlier this week we had a sighting of a lone sub-adult lion calling for the rest of his pride. We assume he met up with them as later in the week we located 11 sub-adult lions following the scent of the above-mentioned herd of buffalo.

Not only have the buffalo been out in numbers this week, so too have the elephants! You can literally sit for hours watching elephants go about their behaviour, and when around water, they are even more entertaining to watch!

A rare and special sighting of an African Wood Owl! A first for Louise and her tracker Mandla! Photo thanks to a guest, David Hollander.

Always an absolute honour to see – Wild dogs! A pack of four wild dogs were running around looking for something to hunt.

Another animal right up there of animals to see – the cheetah! One afternoon, shortly before sunset, we had a sighting of a male cheetah relaxing in a large open area. He was not completely sleeping as cheetah have to constantly keep a watchful eye out for danger.

We had an amazing sighting of the Xovonekela male leopard trying to hunt a duiker and out of nowhere the dominant male of the South, Kashane, came charging in and chased him away.

We are still unsure of the identity of this very handsome male leopard who was seen stalking a duiker but was unsuccessful and went to rest on a termite mound.

Franscois was extremely lucky to witness an incredible sighting of a Black Mamba who managed to track down a scrub hair and watch as he swallowed it whole.

A Hippo bull got himself comfortable by resting his head on a stump, ready to take a nap for the day.

A Scrub Hare found itself in the middle of some Dwarf Mongoose in the late afternoon as it happily fed away. (This is not the scrub hare which the snake ate!)

We end this week’s highlights with a wonderful sighting of the Little Bush female and her cub!

We noticed a duiker that had been hoisted up a Marula tree, but no sign of a leopard around. After some time, we located a female who was calling and out of the bush appeared her cub – only the second sighting we have had of this little one who is around 10-weeks old now. The following morning, we followed up on the sighting and enjoyed some wonderful interaction between mom and cub as the little one was playing and learning the tricks of becoming an adult by stalking mom and climbing trees! What an incredible sighting of these two!

Until next time...