Every little wild girl should have a little mountains in her background. 🙂
In front of our eyes
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spots and not
27 04 2012More of the spotted ponies seen about a week ago close to the Disappointment Road:
Peek-a-ponies! Chipeta and daughter Puzzle, trying to hide behind the greasewood.
Corazon was being standoffish. He’s usually right in with the band.
Big guy Copper was very relaxed and comfortable.
Mr. Ty, easy-going. The storm brewing to the south never made it to Disappointment, but it made for a nice background over the far cliffs!
Little Maiku is such a sweetheart. He likes to stick close to big sister Reya.
Pretty Puzzle, striking her glamour pose!
Chipeta. Isn’t she lovely?
Leaving you with a shot of the expectant girl, Reya.
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Categories : Chipeta, Copper, Corazon, Maiku, Puzzle, Reya, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Ty
Kestrel at rest
27 04 2012This beautiful buckskin girl is getting close, too.
Kestrel, looking at Comanche, with her almost-yearling daughter, Juniper. I love that spattering of dark dapples on Kes.
Stunning Comanche, gorgeous in any light. Keeping watch over his girls. He is the sire of Juniper and Kestrel’s baby-to-come.
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Categories : Comanche, Juniper, Kestrel, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Roja, soon
26 04 2012
And yes, the girl’s udder is big. Much bigger than Raven’s, even though she’s actually due a week after Raven – in mid-May.
You can see a bit of her udder in this one.
This will be her fourth foal, all sired by Seven. Speaking of whom, though he managed to get her back from Aspen, he lost her (and Killian) to Storm … who also has Mona, stolen from Seven by Aspen.
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Expectant girl
23 04 2012
Friends spotted the spots yesterday, right above the Disappointment Road. After seeing quite a bit of them this winter, I’ve barely seen them this spring. Reya was heavy pregnant last year during the Four Corners Back Country Horsemen’s annual wild horse count, but then she lost the foal (her first), so I don’t have an exact due date on her. Late May/early June is my guesstimate. That’s her grazing with band stallion Ty. Bachelors Corazon and Copper are still with the band.
Better o’ da belly. (OT: Isn’t it interesting how most of the the pintos’ tails are mostly white at top then go to black and Ty’s tail is dark (greying) at top and goes light ? :))
She’s definitely in the mode of nap more, move less!
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Categories : Reya, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Ty
Almost-ready mama
22 04 2012
Oh, the girl is tired. She is ready. She is due in just a few weeks.
Napping in the warm sunshine.
Can’t resist throwing in a pic of this handsome mister:
Apollo, Raven’s big yearling boy, is a full brother to baby-to-be, sired by Kreacher.
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Categories : Apollo, Raven, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
SCB mustangs in the spotlight
22 04 2012Most readers of this blog aren’t local to this neck of the woods, but if you are, I’d like to invite you to the “Southwest Colorado Spring Creek Basin Wild Horse Management Program” at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango. It’s part of the center’s “2012 Program Series: Celebrating the Preservation of our Natural and Cultural Heritage.”
Guest speakers will be Fran Ackley from Canon City; Tom Rice from the Tres Rios Field Office in Dolores; and Kathe Hayes with the San Juan Mountains Association. Our Disappointment Wild Bunch Partners will represent our member groups – National Mustang Association/Colorado, Mesa Verde Back Country Horsemen, Four Corners Back Country Horsemen and SJMA – during the event. It’s a great way to let the public know about our groups individually and Wild Bunch as a whole, and educate people about our Spring Creek Basin mustangs and how we help, including being part of the Director’s Challenge award that netted our BLM office $25,000 for projects for the horses. We’re excited to be part of this educational series hosted by the Center of Southwest Studies!
The event will start with a reception at 5:30 followed by the program at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in the center’s Lyceum on the Fort Lewis College campus.
If you are local, or even passing through, we hope to see you there!
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Categories : Adoption, Advocacy, Disappointment Wild Bunch Partners, Education, Fertility control, Gaia, Houdini, Mariah, PZP, Roundup, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Wild horses in the news
Face to face
21 04 2012
No words, just love.
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Categories : Piedra, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Morning
20 04 2012Don’t you love surprises?
On my last visit to the basin, I found Grey/Traveler’s band – and Mariah – pretty quickly, about where they’ve been the last week. Not too far, but I thought I should be looking for Piedra. I almost kept driving, but Houdini and Mariah were so temptingly close …
Bounce and Tenaz were below.
Chrome’s came into sight above.
After I spent time with Grey’s band, I went up to Chrome’s.
Hayden and Terra at the top of the finger hills.
Chrome, looking so handsome and relaxed in the morning light.
Winona was almost out of sight, taking her own little nap:
🙂
And it was about then that I looked west and saw Hollywood’s band. He was standing, napping; Shane was lying down. Piedra was standing a short distance away … and there were ears at her feet. Oh!
Oh, how glad I went for a hike.
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Categories : Chrome, Hayden, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Terra, Winona
I love my mama
20 04 2012
Mysterium gives mama Kootenai a nuzzle. Who can resist that sweet baby?!
I hung out with these ponies for a while – it was mostly sunny, and it was warm – just enjoying being in the basin with them. Then I walked on around Round Top to look for the pintos. I didn’t find them, but I did see David and Shadow. The last time I was in that area, the last time I saw David and Shadow, it was snowing! Spring is here, and it is wonderful!
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Categories : Kootenai, Mysterium, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 