What a morning

This mornings game drive was amazing. Saw an Hammerkop (aka Hammerhead) bird gorge on about 8 frogs it picked out from the mud remaining in one of the dry water holes. Later on we came across a small breeding herd of elephants with a couple youngsters (~10 months old) . To where we watched one of the youngsters try to feed on a small acacia tree, then mimic mom.

That was soon followed by radio calls from some of the other game drive vehicles (from the lodges) that spotted Tingana (meaning the shy one) a female leopard. So we went to check her out before she lived up to her name sake and walked off. After a little bit more driving we came across Tingana's grandmother Safri who was sitting on a termite mound before she wandered off.
Safari is a leopard that got into a fight years back with a lion and lost eye sight in her right eye which is swollen.It was then back on the road to let the other vehicles take a look. To where we stopped to look at a male giraffe before continuing on.

We were driving one of the main roads and spotted another leopard sitting down and thought it might be Tingana again but it turned out to be her mother Karula (means peace) who got up and walked off with a pregnant belly. We followed her for a little while and let the other game drives follow as time was getting close to the end. On our way back we managed to spy Safari again and followed her to yet another termite mound. But this one was right next to us so she was only a few feet away, and stayed with her as long as we could before heading back for WE walk.

So it was an amazing morning with 4 leopard sightings (3 different leopards).