Another week has come and gone and with that, comes the next edition of “A Week in the Bush”. We hope you enjoy the highlights from the past 7 days on safari...

A great sighting of two bull elephants drinking water before moving off to join the herd that has passed by the same waterhole earlier.

These male buffalo spent a lot of time at a watering hole giving us great photographic opportunities as they rested before pushing and shoving around with one another.

A pair of Egyptian Geese chased a large flock of White-faced Whistling Ducks around a watering hole, allowing us to capture them in mid-flight.

This large hippo was showing off its displeasure of having to share its waterhole with another hippo.

A great spot as we found this Tawny Eagle on top of a tree busy finishing up its morning meal.

After scurrying into a log for cover, this Dwarf Mongoose together with the rest of its family, became very curious of us, popping out to investigate.

An impala uses a termite mound to her advantage.

A Smith’s Bush Squirrel peers out of a hole to check if the coast is clear.

This impressive male buffalo peered over the back of one of the many others who were all trying to get a drink of water in a small pan.

We made our way to a known hyena den in the hopes that we might see some activity. When we arrived one of the youngsters was suckling and soon the other made its way out of the den site to investigate us. We stayed for quite some time when we noticed a third older cub making its way towards us as well and we watched the interactions between the clan.

We found this Rock Monitor lying next to the road. It seemed to be very relaxed, giving us all a great photographic opportunity.

After finding tracks of these lions, we followed them for a while before locating the pride on a wildebeest kill. They had made the kill earlier and were finishing up before moving off to rest their full bellies on the road.

We found the four N’waswishaka male lions close to Bush Lodge. They were sleeping through the heat of the day and eventually started to move off through the night. The following morning, they were located on an elephant calf kill, trying their best to get through the thick skin of the elephant. All four were seen panting, trying to digest and occasionally one or two would move off in search of water as to not leave the carcass unattended.

We were extremely fortunate to find this cheetah and her cubs moving through the area. The female was definitely hungry as she would bolt off to chase something, leaving the cubs, but was not successful. Between all the action, the cubs looked happy and ran around their mother in the drizzle, often staring at her with the look of absolute love and trust.

Subsequent sightings of this female cheetah have only been of mom and one cub. They were seen often over the weekend. The female seemed to be constantly scouting around for prey, and we were lucky enough to watch her hunt on many occasions but unfortunately, she was unsuccessful.

Ntsumi female leopard and N’weti male leopard were mating on multiple occasions throughout the weekend. They were staying within the cover of a drainage line and didn’t stray too far from their initial location.

This young female leopard (Ntsumi’s cub) was trying to keep cool in the shade in an attempt to escape the heat of the day.

After finding tracks of a pack of wild dogs, we began to search. It was not long after their tracks disappeared into a thick area when we spotted the pack lying in the shade of some trees. We watched the pups play and the adults kept moving around possibly looking for their next meal.

Until next time...