A Feast For All !!

The Migration has now finally arrived in the Northern Serengeti to everybody’s relief. Camps, guides and managers don’t have to think of reasons to tell their guests why the migration is not here yet, with thousands of Wildebeest in the area and with many more to still come in everybody will now enjoy a couple of months of great wildlife sightings, Mara River crossings and some good predator action.

Beautiful Photo taken by Mollel, guide at Ubuntu camp, Leopard feeding on young Wildebeest

I think the happiest of them all that the Wildebeest have arrived is the predators of the Northern Serengeti. They have waited a long time for the Wildebeest to come back to the area and although there has been other game to hunt, hunting has generally been tough till now. For the next couple of months almost every predator and scavenger will be thinking, eating, breathing Wildebeest and why because there is just so many of them and they are easy to catch especially at night. They don’t call the Wildebeest “the clowns of the bush” for nothing.

Even though many Wildebeest will be caught by predators and many will die of naturally of old age or disease or just wounded from their attempts at crossing the Mara River it does not make a dent in their population and every year there are new babies born to replace the ones lost during the great migration.