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What a lovely cheetah sighting
Was in Berg en Dal on the 2nd and third
Was lucky enough to see leopard both days

We saw these on Friday morning



We spend an hour with them before they finally disappeared into the river (Near Gardenia)
The female stalked impala and crossed the road in front of our vehicle twice but the cub didn't want to follow and she had to go back



After breakfast we were lucky enough to spot a black rhino



The head down feeding on the ground had us fooled for a while

Sightings have been really good, I still cant believe its been a week since I was in paradise. On our last drive in the park we got really lucky and saw a pair of what I think are mountain reedbuck(after consulting all my books and the internet).. Unfortunately they were very skittish and I couldnt get to many pictures before they ran off. we saw them on the renosterpan turn off





From the 1st picture you can see the tell tale black mark under the ear and the 2nd picture is a front on picture.

Unfortunately we couldn't fill the rare antelope book out at berg en dal as we were on our way out.

Hi Spargish,

Thanks for sharing the nice pictures! However, I am not sure whether they really show a mountain reedbuck. The black mark under the ear does also occur in the southern (common) reedbuck. See some nice pictures and descriptions about the southern reedbuck in: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=10036" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The southern reedbuck is bigger than the mountain reedbuck and has a dark line down the front legs -which is absent in the mountain reedbuck. Otherwise the two species are not easy to discriminate. Without seeing the front legs I am not making a final judgement but due to the large size and the habitat shown on your pictures (mountain reedbuck occurs on dry, grass covered, rocky mountainous slopes) I would go for southern reedbuck.

For the mountain reedbuck see: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=11592" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Cheers
Manovo-Gounda

Good

here you are 2 bad pictures




sorry for the quality... but THE Aardvark of the night

a new message... a superb photo




Obby and Raymond

Good afternoon everyone!
We arrived yesterday at BnD and did a Sunset Drive with Jacob! Saw ellies, rhinos and a male lion! We are so happy to be back here!!

3 hours ago we met this beauty just 50 m out of the gate!!



Now we are looking forward to the Morning Drive tomorrow!!

Karin

Some pictures from Raymond
April
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Owl







enjoy
à suivre...

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some more from Raymond
May 2011

As I promised - some pics of the lions with the buffalo kill about 100-200m from Malelane Gate:

...And the leopards (female and a cub) with an impala kill in a tree on the Matjulu loop:

The cub with the kill:



Someone looking for some scraps to fall down...



The female...



...taking what's left of "the feast" and heading off:



Hope you enjoyed that!

I think it's ok

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June 2011