Fighting male Wildebeest. Very close to Kicheche Valley Camp In Kenya’s Maasai Mara we came upon a rather dispersed herd of Wildebeest. Two males were have a major fight. The clashing of heads and the clattering of their horns made for quite a spectacle. Other...
Cheetah on the rocks worried by a Hyena. For some time we had followed this female Cheetah (known as Nashipai) through the thorn acacia and then on to some rocks in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. She was alert and wary because a Hyena had been...
Leopard and her young son feast on an Impala high in a tree. We had spent a few days watching this Leopard and her six month old cub in the Naboisho Conservancy in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. Having located a leopard kill in a tree it can often ensure reliable sightings of...
Leopard and her young male cub climb a tree to feast on an Impala carcass. The thunderstorm with heavy rain had been a feature of this game drive in the Naboisho Conservancy in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. The Impala carcass in the tree had been there for some time and had...
Male Leopard cub on a kill in a tree during a thunderstorm. In the Naboisho Conservancy in Kenya’s Maasai Mara the rain and thunder had been with us for the latter part of the afternoon. In these fascinating conditions we found a six month old Leopard cub (son of...
Lion pride on a wildebeest carcass during a thunderstorm. Storm clouds had been building all afternoon over the Naboisho Conservancy in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. The rain had started when we found some lions of the breakaway Enesikiria pride finishing up a wildebeest...
Lion pride feasts on a Wildebeest carcass. The news that the Lions of the Breakaway Enesikiria pride had taken down two Wildebeest reached us late in the morning in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. When we arrived on the scene theLions had been very busy and had bloodied faces...
Browsing Giraffes on a hillside with nice cloud formations. The clouds had been building up during the afternoon in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. A small journey of giraffes was browsing on some very low bushes on a hillside and stood out nicely with the striking clouds in the...
Puma on a Guanaco carcass in Chile’s Patagonia. We had been following this female Puma in on a plateaux in Chile’s Patagonia for quite some time and it was windy and cold. We had seen her try and fail to take a Guanaco. Suddenly she set off and ended up on an old and...
Guanacos in Chile's Patagonia. During our visit to Chile’s Patagonia and Torres del Paine we often encountered large herds of Guanacos in beautiful locations. This was great to see but also very encouraging for us as the main target of this visit was to see Pumas....
A charming two month old rhino calf. Early one morning in the Mala Mala Game Reserve, South Africa we came across this huge white rhino with her two month old calf. It was lovely to see the calf play with a branch of a bush and to watch it prancing around. The family...
Amazing Antelopes of the Kalahari desert. The Kalahari Desert of South Africa is home to a range of stunning animals, from meerkats to Wild Dogs and Black-maned Lions. But some of the most striking creatures are the antelopes. We had great views of Sable, Roan and...
Marvellous Meerkats. We spent a delightful hour with these charming Meerkats in Tswalu in the Kalahari desert, South Africa. They are such characterful animals and a joy to watch. Such fun to see the youngsters dashing around and the adults standing up and scanning...
Magnificent Meerkats. We spent a delightful hour with these charming Meerkats in Tswalu in the Kalahari desert, South Africa. They are such characterful animals and a joy to watch. Such fun to see the youngsters dashing around and the adults standing up and scanning...
A pack of wild dogs harass Oryx. In the Tswalu Game Reserve located in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa, we had been following this pack of wild dogs for some time. As heavy rain began the dogs spotted some Oryx in the distance and they set off at speed to confront...
Magical Meerkats in the morning light. In Tswalu in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa, we had been sitting quietly next to this Meerkat den for quite some time waiting for the warmth of the rising sun to stir this Meerkat clan to wake up and set off for their...
A polar bear and fulmars near a sperm whale carcass in the pack ice north of Svalbar. As we moved slowly through the pack ice well north of Svalbard we encountered a carcass of a sperm whale trapped in the pack ice. There were a couple of polar bears nearby. This bear...
A female Cheetah on an Impala kill. We had spent quite some time watching this six year old female Cheetah (Kulete) earlier in the day as she tried to hunt but on each occasion she was easily spotted. We decided to leave her and return later to establish if she had...
Hyenas, Vultures and Jackals squabble over a Grant's Gazelle carcas. As we passed a small herd of Grant’s Gazelles we noticed that a male was lying down. On our return we could see vultures, Hyenas and jackals squabbling over a carcass. It seemed likely that the...
A magnificent male cheetah (Milele) on the prowl. In Kenya’s Maasai Mara we were fortunate to find Milele looking as though he was hunting. He had been spotted by the nearby Grant’s Gazelles, Topi, Ostrich and Wildebeest so it didn’t look as though he would have a...