5 November
PM
10 Buffalo drinking at bush lodge.
Elephant bulls feeding, 2 fighting.
Tracks of a cheetah crossing into Kruger.
Glimpse of a female leopard at buffalo dam.

6 November
AM
10 giraffe feeding on eastern side of bush lodge.
2 impala lambs, first ones of the year outside bush lodge.
Breeding herd of buffalo south of 3 in a row pan heading south.
Raining hard.

PM
Impala lamb outside bush.
Old male lion sleeping at cheetah plain pan.
5 rhinos at kudu corner, feeding.
Hyena den has moved back to old site close to Gowrie main. 7 puppies, 4 adults.
White tailed mongoose mating on main road.

7 November
AM
Breeding herd of elephant approaching second rock from the west.
Hyena carrying carcass (steenbok). Walking in direction of dam.
2 buffalo bulls drinking water at twin dam.
Far visual of some rhino inside MM.

PM
Very windy, cold. Didn't see much.

8 November
AM
Sandy patch lying at spot where cubs are. Mother was feeding cubs.
Skuthane pride found lying on western side of rhino pan.
Elephant bulls feeding to the south from Philemon's dip.
Rhino bull, short horn - lying down east of long pole - sleeping..

PM
1 leopard, male, Mafufunyana - south of Gowrie gate hunting.
1 rhino south of Gowrie gate.
Male lion lying at same spot where he killed buffalo calf before.
Skuthane pride, one with a slightly injured foot, drinking and heading towards the big male.
White tailed mongoose mating at Gowrie main, close to Djuma entrance sign.
Hippo in dam, Buffelshoek.

9 November
AM
Male lion linked up with female from Skuthane pride, trying to mate close to Nkorho.
2 cubs sleeping at their spot, no adults around.
Hippo in Buffelshoek dam.
Breeding herd of elephants, MM boundary.
Hyena at the den.
Band of dwarf mongoose feeding and hunting.
Band of banded mongoose running away from us, east of Bush Lodge.

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