Olivers Camp
It’s been a good week of gameviewing, nightdriving and walking. Beginning of the week we had 12 elephants running through camp, in between the mess and tent number five. They were in a serious hurry and one of them charged and trampled one of the tsestie fly traps. Five more followed but were too scared to walk through camp.
Special things seen on the drives have been:
· Two cheetah feeding (brothers by Silale)
· 20 lions were spotted by the Lamakaru swamps on the way to Boundry.
· Black neck spitting cobra spitting at the car
On the nightdrives:
· Leopard with a cub by Silale, walking along the road, very good clean sighting
· Aardwolf
· Serval cats
· Genets, white tailed mongoose
· Huge herds of buffalo
· Chameleons
The walks have been fantastic. The two cheetah in our area have been very active (mother and offspring). We bumped into them again at Minyonyo pools. They crossed the river and we watched them hunt half heartedly some impala. There have also been a lot of zebra around the pools as well as giraffe, kongoni, waterbuck and secretery birds.
There have been a few encounters with elephant breeding herds on the walks as well as some friendly bulls. I’ve been finding quite a few lower jaw bones of baby elephant around camp which is really strange.
This morning we had a good sighting of a lone buffalo, tawny eagles cartwheeling, pelicans, yellow billed storks and a saddle billed stork.
THE SAYARI WILDLIFE REPORT
This week’s wildlife perspective! The sites were magnificent as usual with , the lion pride seemed to be doing great with the area {LAMAI}. Breeding herd of elephant and Buffalos. Alot of Zebras,Topis,Thomson gazelles.
Wagakuria copjes have seen Leopard killed Bushback.
The most facinating a lion on a tree of about 20 feet/Rhino/ migration at Bologonja.
At lobo there are almost 500'000 of wildebeest heading bologonja.
Looking foward for the amazing report next week.
Olakira Camp
-Lamai pride cubs of different ages, 10 in total. Shading themselves under bushes right after recieving new clients.
-Two male cheetahs in Lamai plains, devouring a tommie so quickly as the vultures perched in a near by tree.
-The male Rhino in korongo la vichuguu near sandriver busking in sun.
-The great migration just arrived around Nyamalumbwa hills all the way to Kunga circuit.
-Two mating cheetahs near olakira kopjes just finished up their ‘’honey moon’’ a lady getting a bit grumpy towards a male soon departed,
And a lady soon hunted a reedbuck right infront of clients, mmmmh! exiting!
-Two new male lions the age of 4-5years in sandriver plains, which we suspected they moved from Kenya.
-The lady cheetah in Lamai plains resting under the shade in serious sun, soon tried to hunt but didn’t succeed.
-The male cheetah named ‘’Mark’’ seen just a hundred yards from Olakira camp.
Dunia Camp
About the game viewing around the area it was good in general, like five day ago we had a good rain from rongai hills all the way to moru kopjes which make the area back green so the all game is around Dunia!
All in all we saw many Leopard, cheetahs, pride of Lion, Elephants, Buffalos and so many others. Wilson family stayed with us for three nights managed to spot eight cheetahs in different areas and three leopards just in one day! Of course with about twenty eight lions in different area in central of the Serengeti!
We had two highlights of the week, that was on Monday very early morning we found a male lion eating a Topi just 50 meters away from the camp we caught client say “we’re sharing breakfast with a lion, this is the camp to come bark again”! The male lion walked slowly, majestically towards tent no 7 up to the front veranda, stopped there, drinking some water for almost five minutes, then walked in the bush!
The game or match of savanna monitor lizard and a black neck-spiting cobra this went 40 minutes. Just watching cobra need to survive while a lizard wanted to eat, finally monitor lizard won the game after cobra decided to disappear in the bush!
We hope to have another interesting and exiting week!
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