The Week In Pictures #659 – Londolozi Blog

After a lazy morning resting in the grass near his mother, the male cub of the Nkoveni Female yawned before tucking himself up for another snooze.

At the backend of his yawn, his snarled lip exposed a pretty serious set of canines for a small predator.

While mum catches a much-needed rest the cubs can’t help but move around, stalking each other constantly intrigued by everything that moves nearby.

While following the Xiomungwe Female on a morning territorial patrol, she eventually settled on the side of a termite mound to rest. Still alert to her surroundings and her head held up it just made for an unusual shot of a leopard.

The first view of one of the little wild dog pups. Such cute little grumpy-looking balls of fluff.

The adults were super excited to have the pups outside of the den and came bounding across to see them.

While sitting with the Three Rivers Female, hoping that she would lead us back to her cub, she had settled upon a bank perfectly at eye level. Just before she got up and did not return to her cub like we had hoped, she yawned.

The intense stare of the larger Ndzhenga Male resting on the airstrip.

Misty sunrises in the middle of winter.

Fresh tracks in the sand, a male leopard had walked through this area early that morning and we were set on trying to follow him.

The close of another unbelievable day in the African Bushveld.

Two young male giraffes pause for a moment during their gentle bout of necking to allow me a chance to snap this image.

After a herd of elephants had quenched their thirst at a waterhole, this youngster felt that it had not quite had enough and constantly tried to get some milk from its mother.

A bird that has caused quite a bit of hype around the Londolozi camps, a Chorister Robin-Chat. Previously not recorded in the region around the Kruger National Park, we might have to be changing the distribution maps of this bird, now that we know we get them here.

A Plains Camp Male at the Causeway! These enormous ferocious males are pushing further and further east. Drawn in by the scent of a dead hippo, these males then picked up on the presence of the Ntsevu Pride in the area, enticing them to venture further east, encroaching deeper into the Ndzhenga Males’ territory.

A substantial wake of vultures finished off the rest of the hippo carcass. Making very short work of what was a lot of meat.

After charging east, almost as far as Plaque Rock, the Plains Camp Males then settled down for a short while before marching back to the hippo carcass.

A stunning Little Bee-eater entertained us for a while, taking off from this perch to catch multiple unsuspecting insect victims.

As the sun approaches the western horizon and the afternoon’s light transforms into stunning rays of gold, orange and pink, a large kudu bull walks through the frame.

Initially darting into the safety of a log as we drove past, these dwarf mongooses couldn’t resist the urge to poke their heads out to see what was going on.

Two of the elephants stand close while drinking.

In the early afternoon, a herd of elephants came past a prominent waterhole, that is home to a solitary hippo bull. Quenching their thirsts, the herd then continued on to feed.