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[marg]

The Skimmer male at Duba Plains September 2013....

[Ona Basimane]

This was from my time at Mombo Camp during the festive period. This female has two cubs at the moment.

[theplainswanderer]

Playtime lion style!

 

Hi there - this is my first post on the forum - thanks to Geoff Gates for telling me about the forum - I joined sometime back but have finally managed to post.

 

This series of images of a young male and female ( our guide said they were brother and sister) I photographed at Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe last year whilst on safari.

 

Hwange was incredible and hope to begin to post some of the animals seen there, as well as Chobe, Kruger and Cape Town

 

 

Regards

 

 

David Taylor

Australia

 

[Game Warden]

@@theplainswanderer G'day and welcome aboard Safaritalk. Feel free to introduce yourself by starting a new topic here. And, I guess better get started on some trip reports?

 

Matt

[theplainswanderer]

Lions drinking at a waterhole

 

Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe September 2014

 

cheers

 

 

David Taylor

[Game Warden]

@@theplainswanderer Where did you stay in Hwange?

[theplainswanderer]

Bomani Tented Lodge - Near the Ngamo forest area - was fabulous.

[NJW]

A few cubs from the Mara North...November 2014.

 

Edited February 10, 2015 by NJW

[Geoff]

@theplainswanderer G'day Dave, welcome aboard. Very nice sequence. I expect to see that corker hammerkop image posted at some stage too.

[Game Warden]

@@theplainswanderer David, did you see this trip report from another Safaritalker who also stayed at Bomani?

[theplainswanderer]

Hi Game Warden - would have to say our stay at Bomani Lodge next to Hwange was absolutely first class - great company who run this and other lodges - terrific staff, accomm, food and we had an exceptional guide virtually to ourselves. Animals were amazing and generally lots of them on our drives - Multiple lion sightings day and night, 2 feeding Cheetahs, Black-backed Jackal, Hyena ( 5 second glimpse!) Elans, Buffalo, Giraffes, amazing Elephants including close up views from their underground bunker, Wildebeest, Zebra, Sable, Waterbuck, Impala, Hippo, Steenbok, Kudu, Bushbaby, Spring Hare, 80 odd species of birds including 7 species of Raptors .

 

It seems game results are so variable though - in our five days we saw so much yet a couple of departing groups said they had seen very little........... perhaps a bit of luck or the guide you have?

 

Hwange is beautiful - glorious afternoon light and vegetation that to us was the Africa of our imagination ( as opposed to Kruger or Chobe )

 

Lots to love about Zimbabwe!

 

Hoping to return to Africa next year to the Serengeti!

 

cheers

 

David Taylor

[theplainswanderer]

Male Lion

Greater Kruger

South Africa

September 2014

 

 

This male lion was on its own at a private reserve bordering Kruger National Park

 

I particlarly like image 2 with the animal staring to the skies

 

Cheers

 

David Taylor

[BotsGuy]

Dear Guys

I am conducting lion research in Moremi Game Reserve with the botswana predator conservation trust- http://www.bpctrust.org

I recently came across this forum thread which has some lion photos in my research area.

It is possible that your pictures could help me in my research particularly as it would allow me to piece together pride histories and lion relationships. and I was wondering whether you would be willing to send me some photos (preferably with information concerning the date and location).

No pictures will be used for publication, they will just help me piece together the history of the prides in Moremi.

If you are happy to do this, please message me.

Thanks,

BotsGuy

[Game Warden]

@@BotsGuy Welcome to Safaritalk. Please do take a moment to introduce yourself and your work by starting a new topic in the Introductions subforum. Members also help The Mara Meru Cheetah Project with identification photos, see here.

 

And, of course, would love to send you some questions for the interview subforum.

 

Matt

[Tania]

 

 

 

 

Taken in the Serengeti Central December 2014

[mvecht]

Kwara 2006

Kwara 2007

 

[Game Warden]

Now I know there are some great new lion photos to be added to this topic. So come on, add your latest lion photos...

[Kitsafari]

Gosh it's going to be so tough to come up to par with just these photos on page 14! such top notch pictures and I love them all, the subject, the composition, the framing, the unique settings.

 

@@Tania, love love that second pix when the male is in midair and snarling.

 

so my pix will bring the standard down a bit for a passing moment.

 

 

 

 

[graceland]

A couple of my favs from our recent Mara safari

 

Honeymooners

 

 

On the Rocks..

 

 

Blowin in the Wind

 

 

 

And way too many lion cubs so even choose

 

[Csaba]

Some lazy lions and a buffalo

 

 

Contain some mild swearing.

 

It was filmed in Queen Elizabeth NP in Uganda.

[savoche]

One from Etosha a couple of years back.

 

[theplainswanderer]

Coalition of youg males and one female seen a number of times whilst on safari in Hwange Zimbabwe in September 2015...... our guide was pretty sure they were three brothers and sister

 

cheers

 

David Taylor

[theplainswanderer]

Two males feeding on Cheetah kills leftovers at Hwange, September 2015 taken on night drive.

 

cheers

 

David Taylor

[Tom Kellie]

 

Photographed in Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya on 7 February, 2014 at 10:05 am, with an EOS 1D X camera and an EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II super telephoto lens.

ISO 200, 1/3200 sec., f/2.8, 400mm focal length, handheld Manual exposure.

Who couldn't relate to the drawn-out stretch of a drowsy lion?

Before going on safaris I hadn't realized how Panthera leo are highly expressive animals.

Every encounter with lions has been great fun, watching them laze away the day alone or with family.

They're demonstrative in both expression and action, reinforcing my own sense of kinship with the natural world.

[Geoff]

South Luangwa, Sept' 2008.