A Spotted-Tailed Quoll tries and fails to catch a moth. On the Central Plateau of Australia’s Tasmania there was a hint of movement in the darkness. Emerging from the gloom was a Spotted-Tailed Quoll. This is Australia’s largest Quoll and is also known as the Tiger...
Bison herd by a geyser. Yellowstone’s geysers are very impressive in the cold of winter. Giant plumes of steam are picked by the wind creating lovely swirling patterns. The perfect backdrop for a herd of Bison. A magical scene!
Sunrise with lions and hyenas on a wildebeest kill. The sun was just rising when we reached the plain in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy of Kenya’s Maasai Mara. In the distance we could hear quite a commotion with hyenas yipping and jackals barking. Was this the scene...
Lions on a wildebeest carcass with jackals and hyenas. It was still not quite light when we reached the plain in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy of Kenya’s Maasai Mara. In the distance we could hear quite a commotion with hyenas yipping and jackals barking. Was this...
Male lions tussle over a wildebeest carcass. It was still not quite light when we reached the plain in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy of Kenya’s Maasai Mara. In the distance we could hear quite a commotion with hyenas yipping and jackals barking. Was this the scene of...
Male lions see off an unwelcome lioness. It was still not quite light when we reached the plain in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy of Kenya’s Maasai Mara. In the distance we could hear quite a commotion with hyenas yipping and jackals barking. Was this the scene of a...
Leopard with her Thompson's Gazelle kill. A very memorable encounter with a female leopard in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy, in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. Early in the morning we found this female Leopard (known as Natito) high in a tree with a Thompson’s Gazelle that she...
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...