This is the second of the two posts for the Kwando Safaris October monthly sightings. In this installment, we'll be covering sightings from Kwando Kwara and Little Kwara Camps, Nxai Pan Camp, and Kwando Lebala Camp.

Nxai Pan Camp

Big numbers of elephants are attracted by our waterhole in front of Nxai Pan Camp. Very nice to relax one afternoon in the pool and have a gin and tonic for sundowner, watching the elephants.

We’ve been lucky with the predators this month. Lions were seen with their three month old cubs. Leopard and cheetah are also on the list.

General game was good too; wildebeests, zebras, impalas, springboks, honey badgers, black backed jackals, steenbucks, kudus etc

Birdlife was also very good, with excellent raptor sightings.

Kwando Lebala Camp

Kwando Lebala Camp sightings - Included in the general game was sightings of sable and roan! That got everybody excited, almost more than the Aardvark sighting, or the pair of porcupine with two young ones. Elsewhere, the hyena had a feast on a hippo carcass not far from camp. On the birding front there was a pair of wattled cranes with a tiny flightless chick spotted as well as Ostrich with nine offspring.

Chameleons were spotted a several times on the night drives, together with honey badgers, servals and African wild cat.

Wild dogs were seen on several occasions, hunting and having some interesting interactions with hyenas.

The two cheetah brothers were seen regularly, and also one shy female. Let’s hope there is love in the air…

Lots of elephant herds to see now and big herds of buffalo. The waterholes in the woods are all but dry and all the animals have to come to the rivers, which makes them more visible to us.

Lions are plentiful, with cubs, kills and large roaring males. One couple appears to be on honeymoon at the moment, so we are expecting more babies.

Leopards were sighted too. There are several males and females in the area and one very relaxed male has been sighted several times, including one occasion where he was spotted with an impala in a tree.

Kwara Camp and Little Kwara Camps

General game is very good. Tsessebe and impala normally drop their young at this time, and in the next few weeks we’ll see a lot of newborns. On the elephant front, we can report that there are not only numerous bachelor groups around camp, but also many large breeding herds. For the birders, the migrants have arrived in force including carmine bee-eaters, woodland kingfishers etc. Secretary birds were spotted a lot, as well as wattled cranes, saddle-billed storks and lots of raptors. And at night time the frogs sing you gently into sleep.

One of our three cheetah males have become fathers. We saw a female cheetah with four cubs on a few occasions.

Other predator sightings included lots of lions, leopards and also the rare wild dog. The lions killed a pregnant giraffe, near to Kwara camp and resulted in a large and often messy meal, which was not for the faint hearted.

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