You followed them on the BBC'c Big cat Diaries, now catch up with this update from Governors Camp in the Masai Mara, Kenya.



The Marsh/ Bila Shaka pride of lions have had lean times of late spending the first couple of weeks of the month coursing the plains, looking for prey. The arrival of the Loita migration has brought new prey to their area and they have settled in one area. One of the lionesses has two new arrivals, tiny one and a half month old cubs, which she is hiding in the long grass. The two pride males are spending more of their time with the pride as one of the males is mating with one of the three sisters.



Shakira and her three cubs are still doing very well, she has been working hard to keep all her cubs well fed and out of harm's way. During the month she made a Grants Gazelle kill but the moment was short-lived as unfortunately for her, before she or the cubs could tuck in hyenas sleeping in the nearby grass caught sight of them and she had to forego her meal and take her cubs to safety.



Kijana, the young male leopard has been seen regularly between the forest and the Marsh. He is good condition, although has a small flesh wound on his left fore-leg. He was spotted hunting a Dik dik in the forest fringe with-out any luck, maybe his inexperience or just a smart Dik dik.



There has been a leopardess close to Kijana's territory. She was seen twice in the month the first just relaxing near some croton bushes and then slinking away, the second with a reedbuck kill up in a tree which was very fortuitous.



We have had another sighting of a separate pair of leopards, a male and female near the river line. Generally this indicates that they are more than likely a mating pair, but due to their elusiveness no one will ever know.