I'm chirping while looking at these. Great stuff again and a really nice article... I really like your photography etiquette tips.

Absolutely beautiful!
We were in Ndutu in early Feb and didn't see a single cheetah there!! Just bad luck I guess!
All of your photos are incredible. Congratulations!

Absolutely beautiful!
We were in Ndutu in early Feb and didn't see a single cheetah there!! Just bad luck I guess!
All of your photos are incredible. Congratulations and thank you for sharing!

¡¡¡¡BRAVO!!!

Thanks a lot for sharing this wonderful images,you know how much most people enjoy them in this forum,fantastic.

Paco.

Absolutely fantastic shots - best I have ever seen of cheetah cubs.

Phil

These are fantastic. They are all wonderful. My favorite is also the photo with the cubs looking up at mom, trying to figure out what to do with the impala.

Can I go with you on your next safari? Obviously yours and Carolyn's skill comes through (again) in your photos, but you were also awfully lucky given the age of those cheetah cubs.

Bill-
These are just so totally stunning! Please pass along to Carolyn as well.

The photo with the solo cub by the tree and the photo with the cubs looking up to Mom for guidance are just too precious!

Wonderful photography along with wonderful luck with your sightings!

Audible gasp as your first picture came up. These are absolutely stunning. We were there, and saw these three at the same time, but didn't seem to get good enough pictures because I was at the end of my zoom length (X12 optical on my little digital!)

Just love the one where they seem to be asking mum what to do.

I agree with everyone else - thanks for sharing.

Your pictures are stunning. We were there mid March but didn't see these wonderful animals. We did see a lioness with her four cubs who were about 3 weeks old.

Thanks for all the kind words! We were indeed lucky to find this family (the first day we found them everyone else was chasing the mom with six cubs so we had them to ourselves all afternoon)

I just put up a page with a dozen or so shots of this same mother attacking a honey badger that she felt was a threat to the cubs. In all the reading I've done on the Serengeti and cheetahs I don't recall ever hearing a researcher like Schaller or Caro or Packer, or a ranger like Myles Turner mention seeing a fight between a cheetah and a ratel, so once again we were blessed.

On Friday I'll post a dozen or so pics of the mom with six small cubs.

Here is the link to the honey badger fight:
http://www.hiltonphotography.net/afr...z/hb-fight.htm

Bill & Carolyn

Again Bill, amazing shots; how do you get so lucky? I've been on maybe 20 safaris and only once did I see a honeybagder; she had a baby, so I was thrilled, but it was at night and a bit too far for pictures. That was in Zambia.

I appreciate your recommendations in reading. I'm halfway done with George Schaller's the Serengeti lion study and Myles Turner's memoirs arrived yesterday.
Thanks again for sharing, Kristina

Thanks for uploading the other badger photos. What an amazing sequence!

Bill, those are criminally cute cubs and the photos are incredible. After seeing the honey badger fight I wouldn’t be surprised if you’d show us a photo of a melanistic leopard.

The cheetah cub pics are just wonderful. My favorite one is of the cub peeking around the tree trunk.

The pics of the fight is amazing.

Thanks for sharing.

Linda

Bill, safarimama references your reading recommendations. Would you mind re-posting? I need an Africa fix! Thanks.

Thanks for the pic's.
They are wonderful.
Hope that one day i could take some that are half as good.
Thanks also for the advice re lodges/camps.
Baloubear.

Superb pics!!! Especally the cubs looking up!!!!