Leopard News from Kicheche Camp

Leopard, Kicheche, Kenya

Sightings of her first born Nuricu (there are rumours she is pregnant) are still good and of Supuu's young daughter, but the mother and son are behaving as leopards frequently do. Other leopards have been good, the family in the conservancy and also a couple of shy ones along the Southern Talek but it was Olive - the Mid Talek female that reaped a harvest that is unlikely to be bettered.

In September the flutter of excitement rippled through the camps as someone had tracked her down to her lair where they found two very young cubs. Throughout the next two months she delighted the camp with amazing sightings almost every other day, some of them quite remarkable. The sashay along the Talek with both young and the open feeding on a Grants Gazelle were particular highlights. In fact if anyone had just spent eight weeks next to smelly crossing they would have had constant leopard action, which culminated in a 11am kill of a wildebeest in broad daylight, a mere thirty five metres from two patient Kicheche vehicles.

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