Reporting Date: 24.8.2012

Talek river is a bee hive of activity as the migration is at the heart of the mara where the river is located. Wildbeest big herds are roaming around  posee and burugat plains. On a full day game drive Daniel, Alex, Ferdinard and their guest had good moments along Talek river watching the river crossing. The herds at some stage got confused in between and were going hence forth while others continued to get into the river bank.

Reporting Date: 22.08.2012

It has been slightly over a month since the great wildebeest migration started and the some of the mara plains have already been grazed by the gnus.

On a full-day game-drive Daniel and his guests were thrilled to see thousands of wildebeest right from the main entrance of the National reserve. After driving towards Talek river they noticed the herds were getting bigger and bigger. On arrival huge herds had already gathered on the river bank as though getting ready to cross.

Reporting Date:  19.08.2012

By storing their kill under bushes lions are able to avoid hyaenas and vultures and can feed untill all but the skin and bones is left.

This morning while on a fullday excursionin in the masai mara ranger Alex came across a lioness dragging a wildebeest carcus into the bushes.

Reporting Date:  18.08.2012
 

Fullday game drive was very interesting when Alex and his guest came across two lionesses attacking a wildebeest. During migration the lions of the masai mara focus their attention on the zebra and the wildebeest.

Lions usually kill their prey by strangulation, but sometimes clamp the nose of large animals such as buffalos.

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Reporting Date: 16.8.2012

The great migration is trampling and mowing the long grass in the Mara Game Reserve at the moment and in some secrion where the wildbeest and zebras have not set afoot the grass is still high and giving the smaller animals tough time to graze. Daniel and his guests drove into two warthogs that heard the car arrive and were reluctant to give way meaning the food was too sweet to give way. 

Reporting Date: 13.8.2012

The arrival of the great migration into the mara brings alot of changes into pachyderm habitats. The noise made by the rutting ungulate and the young ones separated from the cows creates disturbance to the thick skinned mammals. This  rhino was moving away from a herd of wildbeest that was pushing its way towards Talek junction from the main road. The rhino moved towards the hills an area not preffered by the wildbeest as there is less water.

Daniel told the guests that the rhino population of late was increase as security measures have been put in place to protect not only the rhino but all wildlife in the country.

Reporting Date: 11.8.2012

After letting the young one drag the food by a the bushes mother cheetah went into one of the bushes and waited to recover from the terrefic speed. The young punky one was quick to open the tommy from behind and started feeding. After about half an hour the mother cheetah came for her round to fill. she continued and any moment she raised her head high to check any intruder she looked even more beatiful with the red lips and whiskers.

Daniel informed the guests that cheetahs never return to their meal once they are done and they feed quickly because other biggger predators steal from them easily.

Reporting Date: 10.8.2012

Before  full day game drive Daniels' guest asked the chances of seeing lions cub. Daniel informed them that the only pride nearby  with cub is the one near sand river kopjes. The journey started to the sand and on arrival the pride was not there. They opted to try leopard and cheetah country. The  leopard search rewarded yes, but was not as exiting enough like the cheetah hunting down the thompson gazzelle.

They  spotted it  and was thrilling watch it stalk, crawl at some point  and the chase from the start until it knocked it down. The young one helped the mother drag it into the nearby bushes before starting to feed.

Reporting Date: 08.08.2012

August is one of the dry months in the Mara but we have received a good amount of rainfall over the last three days.

Early this morning Peter, Japheth and their guests were headed down to Sand river and were hoping to see if the rain had attracted more gnus and sure enough they saw thousands along the river bank. As they were driving around some rocky outcrop they saw a lioness sitting on-top of the the rock and they knew she belonged to the Sand river pride. As they drove to the other side of the rock the rest of the pride was peacefully busking. To everyones suprise six cubs were sitted next to one of the lactating lionesses. The two youngest cubs caught everybodys attention because they kept playing with each other while other pride members were relaxing.

Reporting Date: 06.08.2012

The wildebeest migration has spread all over Masai mara with majority of the gnus hanging around Talek river.

Peter, Japheth and their guests were on a half-day game drive and within the few first minutes of their drive they came across two male lions feeding on a buffalo carcass. As they were proceeding down towards Talek river they came across thousands of wildebeest. A huge herd was gathering on the river bank and within afew minutes they started crossing causing a huge cloud of dust.