Tuesday 14 August 2012

Marsh pride cubs,mating couple,a leopard and malaika,the cheetah -A mini book for Today's safari.


Marsh pride on 13th and 14th August 2012.
 Two of the three cubs by the plane.
 One of the cubs with mum
The accompanying female,checking on the tyre.
Yesterday we left the camp at 6:30 am and 30 minutes later we spotted a lioness,from marsh pride with her 3 cubs crossing Governor's airstrip.She was accompanied by another lioness of theirs and in there was one male,one of the muskateers.,she led the cubs to musiara marsh,we Guides from Governor's call this famous marsh,Lake Nakuru because sometimes back in 1990s two flamingoes landed there and it is Lake Nakuru National park that is known to be home to thousands of flamingoes,those guides at that time gave that name.

This lake nakuru of ours is where one of the females from marsh pride earlier this year,or late last year(i can not really remember well) but some of my colleagues spotted the action taking place,that she lost one of her two cubs to a martial eagle which is a resident there,the other cu dissapeared through uknown circumstances,could she/he has been taken by a martial eagle?Who was the mother of these cubs?,no clear records on this.Martial eagle is of no doubt one of the biggest eagle i know,they have big and strong claws and power to even fly a 3kg animal,my mum told me that it can even fly away with our babies that is human beings!!,then for sure if it can do this would a lion cub be anything to them?look at the photos of martial eagle below.In musiara marsh(Lake Nakuru),we now have two of them an adult with a juvunile.

Martial Eagle,look how big the claws are!!
Did the marsh pride lioness made a right decision?I would reply a big No if I was to be asked this question,with an automatic explanation of what it happened in the past through what I witnessed yesterday in the evening,although not bad news........On my afternoon game drive yesterday we left Little Governor's Camp,where iam guiding Lakey family there until friday,we drove through thousands of wildbeests who for the last 4,5 or 6 days have camped in the marsh to where this mum with the cubs was,we did not find it at where her cubs were hidden but through our binoculars we spotted her walking amongst the wildbeests and for sure she was hunting not succesful though,and at that time the sun was extremely boiling us.All this time that I did not how long ago she left,the cubs were on their own about 500 yards from the martial eagle's nest where the juvunile one was hatched,very frightening!.She later on walk back to where her cubs,just in the middle of the marsh amongst the papyrus reeds and a few metres from the big hippo and a Nile monitor Lizard!!,i asked myself one question that if a family of elephants that we spotted a few days ago feeding here would have been here at the time of the cubs hidding themselves,what would have happened?the anser would habe been.................,after she she arrived at where she had hidden the cubs she called them and two cubs turned up,where is the third cub?has anything bad happened to him/her? We watched them for about half an hour and we left with only two cubs there,and at this time I said or could this be another lioness?since marsh pride is abit complex at the moment with some saying there are more than six cubs,and therefore more than 4 mums!!!,and do not laugh at me because iam still trying to confirm the other 1/2 mums apart from Bibi who she might have had her cub/s adopted by sienna who for sure she has cubs or by this female we are 'talking' of at the moment,though now I know her now.
 mum with one of the cubs deep in the marsh,with a reedbuck kill.
Nile monitor Lizard not a dangerous one though!
 Elephants in the marsh few days before the lioness brought her cubs here.
A male hippo,near where the cubs are.
We decided to take a break and we stopped by the dam by the airstrip watched some hippos and ''marked our territories'',we left there and 4 minutes later we found the mating couple few yards after you leave Governor's airstrip on your way to main Camp,watched them doing what they had made them separate themselves from the rest of the pride,i did not have even tiny information of them that they were at this place because we had not spotted them in the morning,we had only spotted one male.This is great luck,having have watched the cubs and mating lions,one of the very rare day we had but this morning was even more of special.

The mating couple.
We left Little Governor's with picnic breakfast boxes(14th Aug),with one aim that we want to go and check on the lioness with the cubs on how she was doing,we were the first jeep there and very good news we found that there were 3 cubs,and for sure nothing bad had happened to him/her,they were all happy playing around her mum who she was feeding on a reedbuck,that somebody said she had it yesterday in the evening,and why was she hunting wildbeests if she had another kill?for sports/fun????.One very unique thing at this time as we watched this family,a leopard was walking on the opposite side of the swamp where we were,and we had no option but to try to get a better position of getting a good view of this elusive cat,that simion one of my clients,extremely wanted to see,asking fo it as soon as they arrived,but we got it,what a big luck,we saw her walking around and climbng up a tree after not finding thicker bushed to hide,but look the mum lioness with her cubs left the swamp walked with her cubs to a point which was directly opposite the tree that a leopard was!!,would this leopard spend the day up the tree?A leopard locked up a tree by lioness with the cubs in lake Nakuru,was the message that spread allover,every body was heading there,what a sweet coincidence for the safari tourists and bad luck for the leopard who had to spend the whole day there????,
 Mum with her cubs.
 One of the cubs
 mum cleaning one of the cubs after coming out of the marsh
 Half the photo!cub on mum's back.
Mama toto with her" sweeties"

A leopard locked up a tree!!
We stayed there for about 30 minutes and we set set off watched one lioness who she was accompanying the mama toto yesterday and a few minutes and about a kilometre from where this lioness was we spotted a male lion dragging a wildbeest,we headed there to discover that he was the matin couple we saw last evening and we did not even watched them for more than 4 minutes and the lioness spotted her female colleague and she fled leaving her man,and the male was in dilemma of what to do of to follow his princess or to protect the kill,he later on decided to follow her and at the time of watching these two running towards the female accompanying mama toto,Scarface turned up and too he was following them.we had no other option but to go back again and see what drama was developing there.
Very special,very special,they were all together;mama toto,two other females and the two muskateers.Scarface at one point was harrassed by his brother,but he was sooooo.. submissive.The lioness she was mating climbed up a tree there and his mate was waiting there,and one very interesting behaviour here was that not even one of the males checked on the cubs,and as all these happened The truoubled leopard watched this.What a lovely morning,we set off to go and look for Malaika,the cheetah,Giraffes and crocodiles who were on my list for that day.
 Male following his princess.
 He got her again
 But up on tree.
 sharpening the claws.
 waiting for her to come down?he is the wrong male,scarface
One of the female accompanying the lioness with the cubs yesterday on a tree.


Malaika the Cheetah and her cub on 14th August 2012.
After a lovely morning with the marsh pride we were looking for a cheetah and we found malaika who she tried hunting Grants' Gazelle unsuccesfully,she was In taller grass area and we decided to leave for breakfast and to come back later,we had ourbreakfast by mara river,watched the hippos and very lucky enough I ticked of Giraffes and crocodile drom my list,they were both there.we were done with our breakfast,drove towards where our cheetah was.This is the cheetah that we have been following for nearly two months from the time she had two cubs to-date with only one ,and almost spotted daily,she is a true angel for not all cheetahs exhibit this.We found her on top of a safari jeep,great shots we had and all those other people who were there,but for the first time we saw the cub trying to jump on to where the mum was,she was of no doubt learning,good luck on this,and very sure that in the next few months she would be doing like mum.
 Having  a rest,but the people under her can not take any photos.
 upright up there,any meal around?
 Looking in the other direction.
 The cub,trying to climb up,instead of jumping.
 Another cub she discovered on the mirrored vehicle!!
 Mum decided to come down.
 Cub watching.
 Last Jumping down
 I could not jump on that car but look this small croton bush is simple.

11 comments:

Rowena said...

What a great update. You guys must not know where to look first with all that's going on.

So the Musketeers don't know what to do with the babies? Guess they were distracted, hum?

That Cheetah cub is a smart girl/guy? And totally adorable. I read somewheres that Kike stayed on a car for 7 hours once. Brutal for the camera folks.

I think it was Sienna that lost her cub to an eagle last year. Hope the eagle leaves these cubs alone. Scary times, with the lionesses trailing cubs all over the place.

Mara Fan said...

hi alfred,
asante sana for your report.
you know that malaika is my love since I see her so near by me on my roof.
alfred, have sucessfull game drives this week ....

greetings
christa - my name is marafan by my blog !

Unknown said...

@Rowena,we are having best game sights at the moment and marsh pride is really amazing,the muskateers are planting their offsprings,making marsh pride grow as it was before.
with malaika at one time this month on safari with NOLL FAMILY,we had her on top of our roof and the cub taking shade,and we were locked there for almost 30 minutes,it was fan.

@mara Fan,guiding is my dream career for i love nature and people and i feel great when i update those people like me of what it is happening around where iam.I'll be updating you on your cheetah,malaika.

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