Lion sands Day Two

Another glorious day and not too cold.

Today we all had a fantastic sighting. Our first indication was a lot of vultures in trees. A dead giraffe had also attracted lions and hyenas. At one point there were 21 hyena all making excessive noise and one lion eating on the carcass. The hyenas kept inching closer to the kill and then started to eat. The lion would growl and they would back off. But eventually the lion ignored the hyenas and they started eating at the opposite end of the giraffe. Then suddenly another lion charged out of the bush and hyenas scattered very quickly. Then the lion went back to the bush and the hyenas returned. We sat watching all the action for quite some time.

There were reports this morning of three young male Lions that have never been on this property before. Plus yesterday another lone young male killed a cub . There are two resident big males that are brothers that are right now over on the Kruger side. They will not like these young males in their territory. The rangers heard the big lions calling so they will probably come back to chase off the young males. We have seen these two big lions before, they are huge with really dark manes. So that is exciting.

Also visuals on two different leopards. That is what we are going to focus on this afternoon