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anne catherine... what a nice specimen

@anne catherine - Thanx for posting! What a beautiful sighting of Miera. When you saw her she was approximately 22months old. Can I ask, what was she doing and how long did this sighting last?

@katydownunder and Panekoek - Lovely sightings of Khomani and Cagn! Thanx for posting!

Hi,

We saw this leopard on the 25th of February 2012 two kilometers north of Gemsbokplein. He/She was in a great hurry and went up the dune and came down later and tried his/her luck at some BWB calf, but never went into full hunt mode. He/She was quite some distance from us. We saw him/her in total for 30 minutes before he/she disappeared over the dunes.

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Sorry for the quality........had to crop the photos a lot...........my day of a close up leopard sighting in KTP still has to come................

wow lion queen also a splendid one

a lot of well-known names

Thanks very much Wanderw, so It's Miera..

First i saw her on the road, coming back from Gemsbokplein,no more than one kilometer north perharps.
There were two BBJ on the Auob side .
First,i thank she was going to chase them,one of the BBJ went quickly behind a shrub but the other was not too much afraid.At the end the two BBJ were calling and flouting Miera.Where they just playing ?

Looking at my two camera ,seems the were not exactly at the same hour,i would say i saw her no more than four or five minutes .She did'nt chased them at all, crossed again the road to go back in the rocks.
Here some pictures,sorry the first one was took very quickly through the front window of the car.















Lion Queen, very nice sighting

What lovely sightings everyone is having. Its so nice to see the KTP leopards amongst the flowers for a change.
What a lovely sighting of Miera you had Anne . If you want to find out more about the leopards in the park then you can download my guide (link at the bottom of the post).

Lion Queen....you also saw Miera. She really is becoming a star in the park and is being seen all over the Aoub river. As i said great to see her playing amongst the flowers

Thanks for your help Wanderv and AstroMatt.
AstroMatt,i will have a look (or several rather)at the Kgalagadi Leopard identification help,thanks for the link


I saw also an other leopard on the last two days,when alone on an evening drive.Unfortunately Anne-Marie did'nt came with me ,we surely would have had more pics if she did.
I was surely dreaming (or too much Leopard on this trip) and wasn't in a hurry to take pics when i saw him crossing the road...But he just crossed the road and jumped in that tree and i was too late to have a decent pic.
I saw him about four kilometers before Leeuwdril( south of Leeuwdril).
The tree was very bushy,and i wait ,wait,did'nt saw him well and after a moment i thought it would be possible to go to Leeuwdrill and see if some activity there and come back quickly...
But there were 6 lions drinking at Leeudril and when i came back i did'nt saw the Leopard...

The pic is not good at all,surely not the best for identification,but who knows..so i post it.



Thanks for the help,

Anne

@lion queen - great sighting of Miera!

@anne catherine - thanx for the additonal pix of Miera. Could be the jackals were taunting her, also the jackals were calling - they have a certain leopard call, so could be warning others that a leopard was in the area.

Your leopard you saw 4 km south of leeudril - I think this is Rooiputs, the female leopard that has taken over Maja's territory. She has recently been seen in the Auob, near Houmoed.

Thanks Wanderw for the explanations and identification.

Sure ,the Black Backed Jackals were partly taunting Miera

100% Correct Wanderw....Rooiputs female

You surely have had an amazing trip Anne Catherine, at the moment your count is at 7 different leopards from the one trip...if you saw all of Anne-Marie's reported ones!!!!! Can i join you guys next time?

exactly how I feel..............

Awesome photos and sightings!!!!

We have visited this lovely wilderness camp in Kgalagadi NP (Grootkolk) twice - August 2009 and again in August 2011. On both occasions we had fantastic leopard sightings at the waterhole. (We had Unit No 1 both years). I was wondering if this was the same leopard and am sure that our expert forumites will able to assist.

2009



I am having trouble posting the video clip here. Can anybody help (the clip is saved on Tinypic but I cannot seem to be able to transfer it to this page!

2011

AstroMatt,Lion Queen and Wanderw,

Yes,we had an incredible trip with a lot of beautiful Leopard's sightings without speaking of all the close sightings of Lions,Cheetah and more general game .
In comparison with February 2010,the sightings were very different ,even for birding.
In the wilderness camps,we had visitors nearly every evening and night in good numbers,and the meals were often quite disturbed ;but what can you say when you have so lovely visitors as Tsamma drinking at the waterhole and after chasing rabbits around your bungalow
The park was very dry last January,very few rains,and not at all green with a lot of flowers as last year,but nevertheless very beautiful

2011 - Beautiful pix of Kanna at Grootkolk waterhole! Her range is from Kannaguass to Unions End. What date in August did you see her, and at what time of day?

2009 - ? Sorry, can't help with the video clip. Hopefully someone will help out soon. Perhaps you can take a video still pix and upload it in the mean time?