September 2024 Game Report
We hope your September has been as diverse and exciting as ours has here in the Timbavati!
What a month it has been at Kambaku, the bush has not disappointed, and the guests have been treated to some truly stunning sightings.
LIONS
We’ll start off with the lions, as always the Sark-Breakaway pride have been ever present, making for some exceptional viewing. The pride’s four cubs have been spotted out and about a lot more recently and we have seen them on both buffalo and wildebeest kills. It has been such a treat to have all 17 members on our property!Â
We have also been seeing more and more of the River Pride and their four beautiful cubs, further north in our traverse! It always so nice to see a couple of different faces.
And last but not least, some good news for us, we have seen ten females from the Giraffe pride come onto Kambaku (this is the furthest east we’ve seen them in 5 or 6 months!)Â
The Birmingham Breakaway males have not featured as much this month, but we have been keep an eye out for their movements!
LEOPARDS
Moving on to the lion’s s spotted relatives, the leopards have also been less elusive than usual!
Starting off with a leopard that is quickly becoming a favourite between the guides and trackers in the western parts, the Nkhaya female and her cub. They have been putting on a show for us, with multiple kills close to Kambaku River Sands. We have seen her go from skittish to extremely relaxed in the last year, and she has been giving us better sightings every time we see her!
The Sunset female has been seen a couple of times and is as gorgeous as ever. As for Savanna female further west, we haven’t seen much of her this last month, we suspect she might be pushing further north, unfortunately for us!
Speaking of moving further north, Dzindza and Nyaleti have been putting on a show for us with some stunning sightings.
Lastly, we were all super happy when the infamous Ntsongwaan male made an appearance yet again, being a nomadic male now, we can go months without seeing him, so it was amazing to spot him.Â
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WILD DOGS, BUFFALO AND PANGOLIN
In terms of the wild dogs, we’ve been super lucky, a pack of eight have been coming through more often which has made for some good viewing. It has been fortunate for us but unfortunate for some unlucky impalas! It’s always a treat to see them when they come through.
The rains have not yet arrived, which means the bush is very dry and barren, this has made for some fantastic elephant viewing as they are forced to move towards the few dams that still have water.
The one animal we’ve struggled with this month has been the grumpy buffalo’s, for majority of the month we had not seen a herd come through, leaving us the tricky task of finding the old males (daggaboys), however they have started making their way back toward the end of the month!
And finally to finish the month off, we’ve been blessed to have seen the extremely endangered pangolin, any guide or trackers bucket list animal!! The short grass and dry landscape definitely helped us out with this one as it’s quite a bit easier to see further into the bush!
