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Birding Safaris Victoria Falls

This is the beginning of a very special and exciting birding safari looking for the elusive African Pitta and many more other interesting species. Today was our first full day birding and already our guests,Dereck Adams , and myself have had a wonderful pitta sighting ! After walking in and just missing a pair of lions . A very exciting start to the trip 115 birds from the day before on our way in up to now. African pitta, thick-billed cuckoo,livingstones flycatcher, three banded courser, red throated twin spot, western banded snake eagle,orange winged pytilia, broad billed roller, pennant winged night jar, kudu, 60+ Elephant etc absolutely beautiful 😃👌.!
🐦 Birding Safaris Victoria Falls

Nothing beats the dust at Chitake.

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I’ve just been private guiding in Chitake for a few days and have a short break before another trip to the spring. Now to do some photograph editing!
Who wants to see some more pictures?

This is most certainly one of my best highlights of the season so far.
What an incredible sighting here at Bushlife Safaris, Vundu camp Mana Pools. Stunning Leopard. I can’t wait to see him again!

If you haven’t met him already, I’d like to introduce you to Tusker. One of Mana’s gentle giants. He’s a regular and it’s always a pleasure to spend time with him while I’m guiding for

Excellent morning guiding for Bushlife Safaris, watching the wild dogs hunt and chase impala at incredible speeds through the Mopani forest. This is a photograph of the Alpha pair waiting and listening to relocate the rest of the pack.

These past three days have bean absolutely amazing with unreal sightings everyday of multiple leopard! Leopard swimming across the channel in the Zambezi, leopard kill, leopard on the ground, up trees, mid day and afternoon sightings. Lioness, male lions, lions killing hyena and wild dogs, amazing last three days guiding for Bushlife in Mana Pools. I can’t wait to see what’s to come over the next couple of days! More pictures to follow!

Can you see what I see?
This is what happens when you go fishing without your camera!
Excuse my iPhone picture, lessons learnt!

It’s warming up, which means the tiger are too!
I hope you’ve got your fishing rods ready ladies and gentlemen!

My what big ears you have!
Mana Pools is one of the best places to view Wild Dog.
Who wouldn’t want to photograph these tie-dyed master hunters?
The experience and photographs are even better if you can get down on their level!

Caitlin and I have recently returned from a famil trip to Gonarezhou National Park.
We spent a wonderful 5 nights in the park, exploring, walking, birding and hiking. It was a magnificent few days and we are so excited about bringing people to Gonarezhou to experience the magic we saw there.

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A huge thank you to Ant Kashula for sharing his time and knowledge in showing us Gonarezhou, and to Simon and Emily from Gonarezhou National Park for welcoming us and hosting us.
It was a real privilege to experience bush so wild.
Thanks to Neil Fairly for the awesome photographs!

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Back-lighting can add so much interest to a photograph if you haven’t experimented with back-lighting yet, now you have something to try on your next safari!

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Leaping into the weekend like this young lion. Swipe to the end to see real proof of lions walking on water😂

It's Fishing Season and it has started out with a bang landing my biggest Vundu yet. Who can Guess how many kilogrammes this Vundu was? Biggest tiger yesterday was 5kg.💪😉

Smile cause it’s Friday! 🐊

A standard elephant pose for Mana. It’s a photographers paradise. There’s always something to capture in this special part of Zimbabwe.

Sometimes you come across wild life at tough times during the dry season, where they have lost condition to the point of no return and nature takes it course which is difficult to watch, but at other times is amazing to see how they are able to bounce back and survive a tough drought.

Mana is a special place!

Looks like they had a rough night!
Sometimes you spot hyena heading back to the den in the early hours of the morning. They aren’t always wearing grass hats though!

Chitake Springs has been on my bucket list for a long time and I was lucky enough to do some guiding there recently.
Chitake has a reputation for lions for a reason, so my job was easy!

Who else has Chitake on their bucket list?

Always be aware of what may still be on its way down to the Zambezi River when you are on a morning activity in Mana Pools!

The early mornings are freezing, with 5° yesterday when we arrived to launch but with perseverance and over 1000 casts it payed off and turned out to be a beautiful winters day catching some nice bass!