Zambia

Off out with Phill & Vernon (Guide and Escort) at 16:00, though not expecting to see much really simply checking previous locations of Lions and Leopards

However, we first sighted a mother and her new born Giraffe which was quite moving, she was tiny alongside her mum and clearly recent as there were signs of the umbilical cord still apparent, absolutely breathtaking! Shortly after we saw a much older Giraffe with some injury to his left front leg giving him some difficulty

Further alongside the river we found the single Lion from this morning, asleep after an exhausting time following the ladies no doubt who seem to have given him the slip

At that point we were heading back to camp when Phil suddenly took us off track ending up in front of a tree and he said, ‘There, Charles, Leopard in the fork in the tree’, at first I couldn’t make out what but then glancing up I saw a Leopard with her kill, a Velvet Monkey, sprawled out in the fork of the tree! My response was, ‘How on earth did you see that!?’ It seemed impossible but…then after spending time with this sighting we headed off and, again, almost immediately Phil went off track behind the tree, my first thought was to see the Leopard from a different viewpoint but then he pointed down along the bush and there was a second Leopard, he had heard a growl as I was taking photographs! He was unsure which Leopard had made the kill as the possibility was the female had ‘taken’ the kill from the smaller male but, equally, he could have heard the kill and come to see if he could benefit…who knows!?

After this fabulous 1.5 hours, we returned to the Lodge and enjoyed a ‘large one’ listening to the calls of birds and Hippos followed by a shower and a quiet dinner on the veranda of our lodgeЧитать далее