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A fantastic week with some superb sightings. 28/04 - Cheetah with 4 young cubs north of Nossob, 2 beautiful lions on the road near Polentswa road, lioness on road to Gharagab, Brown Hyena at Gharagab. 29/04 - 3 cheetah near Polentswa road and crossed the road, 1 warthog running down the road. 01/05 - leopard came to drink at the waterhole at Bitterpan at about 8am, brown hyena and porcupine during the night. 02/05 - Koakoveld Slender Mongoose near Dalkeith waterhole (KG are these mongooses seen regularly?), sunset drive- lots of bat-eared foxes, jackal and wild cats. During our week we saw 2 puffadders, 2 mole snakes, 1 cape cobra and a secretary bird with a horned adder. Bird list - 77 species (including the White Stork).

Sim what great sightings.

Hi there SIM,

We do not see the Slender Mongoose on frequent basis, I can count on one hand the number I have seen in the park.

Reading your post it seems you have had a great time regarding the sightings.

KG

wow Sim... what great sightings... I think of the Horned Adder, Brown Hyena, Porcupine
any pictures maybe

Thanks KG. We saw it very briefly but we do have a bad photo of it. It was an amazing orange colour and we identified it as Galerella flavescens.
Anne-marie - will try post some.

Hi all!

I managed to capture a picture of the African Spoonbill I saw on the sunset drive on Wednesday - thankfully it was still hanging around on Thursday morning!


TIMG_7496 - African Spoonbill by Miros Photography, on Flickr

I've also posted a whole bundle of pictures of things I've seen over in my trip report, as well as another bundle of pictures from my Nossob 4x4 trails. You can see them here:

Nossob 4x4 Eco Trail
Miros’ (ongoing) Trip Report: KTP Feb-July ‘12

Hi Sim, i was wondering if you wouldn't mind posting your leopard in the leopard identification thread, and if you have time downloading and returning a sighting form from my website (link below in my signature).

Would be really good to try and identify this leopard as i don't have many sightings from the dune fields.
Thanks

Sure Astromatt! Will do that (if I can work out how to post photos - technically challenged). If you email me (simone@multiweigh.co.za) I will mail you the photo and get some more from others.

I've been at Nossob since the end of April and i kept records of everything we saw on our drives. So if you're interested, this is what we've seen at Nossob recently:

April 29- My drive from Twee Rivieren to Nossob

African Wildcat
Springbok
Wildebeest
Gemsbok
Steenbok
Rooihartebeest
Lion
Meerkat
Kudu

April 29 Sunset Drive (Nossob)

Jackal
African Wildcat
Gemsbok
Springbok
Wildebeest
Red Hartebeest
Scrubhare
Bat Eared Fox
Spotted Eagle Owl
Mating Barn Owls!
Ostrich

April 29 Night Drive (NOS)

Jackal
Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
Spotted Eagle Owl
Wildebeest

April 30 Morning Drive (NOS)

Jackals
Ostrich
The Big 4 Antelopes


April 30 Sunset Drive (NOS)

Jackal
Puff Adder
Wild Cat
The ‘Big 4’ Antelopes
Scrubhare

May 1 Night Drive (NOS)

The Big 4 Antelope
Bat Eared Fox
Springhare
Honey Badger!!!

May 2 Sunset Drive (NOS)

Big 4 Antelope
Bat Eared Foxes being chased by Ostriches
Jackal
Spotted Eagle Owl
Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
Cape Fox
Lion

May 2 Night Drive (NOS)

Springbok
Steenbok
Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
Polecat
Wildebeest
Cape Fox
Bat Eared Fox
Springhare
Scrubhare


May 3 Sunset Drive (NOS)

The Big 4 Antelope
Jackal
Cape Fox

May 3 Night Drive (NOS)

Gemsbok
Genet
Springhare
Steenbok
White Faced Scops Owl
Barn Owl
Spotted Eagle Owl

May 5 Night Drive (NOS)

Springhare
Wildebeest
Gemsbok
Scrubhare
Springbok
Brown Hyena (plus pasting!)
Jackal
Barn Owl
Spotted Eagle Owl

May 6 Sunset Drive (NOS)

(How much did you want to be on this drive? GavinW and Wannabe Nerd were... )

Cheetah (2 on the dune as it got dark)
Lions (everywhere- we even had to turn around because of a lion roadblock)
Leopard (totally chilled, by the road at Rooikop)
Springhare
Bat Eared Fox
Jackal
Spotted Eagle Owl
Gemsbok
Wildebeest
Springbok

May 6 Night Drive (NOS)

Lion
Leopard (within 50m of Lion!)
Springhare
Bat Eared Fox
Red Hartebeest
Gemsbok
Wildebeest
Scrubhare
Springbok

May 7 Morning Drive (NOS)

Cheetah
African Wild Cat
Jackal
Big 4 Antelope
Whistling Rat


May 7 Sunset Drive (NOS)

The Big 4 Antelope
Tree Rat
Spotted Eagle Owl

May 7 Night Drive (NOS)

Cheetah
Lion
Cape Fox
Springhare
Scrubhare
Wildebeest
Jackal
Springbok
Spotted Eagle Owl
Verreaux’s Eagle Owl

And this morning I drove down from Nossob to Twee Rivieren by myself, and despite being in a hurry, I still had nice sightings of:

3 Young Lions (who surprised me coming around a corner on the Upper Dune Road)
Meerkats
Ostrich (with babies)
Four cheetahs near Montrose
Steenbok
Gemsbok
Springbok
Wildebeest
Red Hartebeest

and lots of fantastic raptors on the Dune Road as well

Stunning Moose

I bet GavinW & Wannabenerd were over the moon Hope they got good pics

WOW!!! Not only great sightings but great record keeping. Well done Moose
If you get any time amongst all this game driving could you possibly send me a full report of the leopard sightings for my records, pics would be great for identifications

welcome back Moose... to the computer
indeed superb drives, a lot of magnificent sightings

Today's sightings board:

Cheetahs at Batulama/Montrose
Leopard at Leeuwdril
Honey Badger at Leeuwdril
Lions at Eland and 13th

Sunset drive tonight