Saturday evening we started out our drive on a mission. Lucan heard that the northern pride of lions had brought down a Cape Buffalo and were feeding. We saw this beautiful male Kudu along the way.
And a Yellow-Billed Hornbill
It took us about two hours to get to the northern pride. Nearly everyone had eaten, so there were a lot of sleepy cats while a few feasted. Gore alert.
Waiting her turn.
Very close to the kill, a young Hyena was hiding out waiting for the lions to leave. I'm guessing he had a long wait. He stuck his head up for a second, but mostly was lying flat to camouflage himself.
And a special treat at the end was spotting a Civet in the road at night on our way back to the lodge. This is NOT my photo, but we got a very good look at the guy.
Another great drive.
This morning drive 6 ended up very different than planned. We started driving north again to see what was left of the Cape Buffalo. A beautiful bush sunrise as usual.
And, as usual, the first animal we saw was an elephant--one of 3 we sighted today.
Then zebras.
And finally a herd of wildebeest that was close enough to get good photos.
We got all the way up to see the lions and Lucan got a tip that there was a leopard in a different part of the reserve. We tore off to see this female. Leopards are much harder to spot than lions.
While the land cruiser was stopped she walked right next to the vehicle. Stunning.
We had our morning coffee with a herd of giraffe. Very nice!
On the way home, Lucan said he had a surprise for us. We came across this scene.
The southern pride--the one with the cub--had taken down a Cape buffalo.
On the way back, we saw this. Lucan said the pride probably attacked this calf and the mother died defending it. The calf had been injured and was wandering slowly looking for its mom.
Very sad, but part of life in the bush.
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