Still here

Hi Everyone Watch this space – we have been quite for a while but new exciting stuff coming up… Stay put.

Little Cat Diary

Hi Everyone Last night we went out an hour later to search for the Blackfooted cat. As we approached the location as indicated by the tracking device, it was like ringing Pavlov’s bell – she came running through the grass towards us! Ewann gave her the first mouse and off she went! We found the [...]

Little ones everywhere !!

Hi Everyone Almost all animal species that we spotted at Telperion have little ones – some recently born and others already steady on the hoof. The warthoggies (from pinklets to piglets) are all over the grassland running and hopping. We also saw a lost Blesbuck lamb running up and down the plains searching for someone [...]

Blackfooted kittens !!

Greetings from Telperion at Ezemvelo! We arrived at Ezemvelo this morning. At the office we received news from Maroti Tau that one of the Blackfooted cats that was released here during June-August 2011, gave birth to two kittens! (See our posting of 3 June 2011 for info on their release). Late this afternoon we hopped [...]

TELPERION

Good day Everyone! Last week we spent a day at Telperion (a Diamond Route property). As we drove through the reserve, Nicoleen counted a total of 34 warthog piglets and numerous newborn from Impala, Blue wildebeest, Zebra, Waterbuck, Baboon and Kudu. And where were our cameras? Don’t ask. We will be back there this coming [...]

2012 – 366 days!

Hi Everyone!! Welcome back to our blog – we hope you are having a prosperous new year so far! Fortunately this year has one extra day – we will need every minute for our plans to fit into 366 days: 1.  Our Diamond Route book project is picking up speed. We have started with the [...]