Here’s a current look at Sundance’s girls Raven and Kootenai:
Kootenai
Raven
Pretty, happy, healthy girls.
Girls
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Categories : Kootenai, Raven, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Pale on blue
10 04 2013
Soft colors complement Corona this cloudy day.
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Rain turned to snow – that stuck. It was light. It was wet. It is awesome! It won’t be as cold here as in the Denver area, which is good for the horses. The moisture is such a relief.
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Categories : Corona, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Some lovin’
9 04 2013
Well, it looks like some lovin’, but it was Skywalker’s sneaky (yeah, right) attempt to get stepdaddy Sundance to play with him. Which didn’t happen. The grass was too much to pass up for play time.
This doesn’t show Skywalker’s belly in all its little-boy roundness, but he looks about as round as his mama Raven and “auntie” Kootenai. I’ll post some pix of the girls soon and let YOU all be the judges. Maybe so, maybe no? They should be, they might be, they ought to be. We ought to see soon enough.
Raven still was nursing Skywalker a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t see him nurse in the short time I spent with them on this particular evening. She does seem round … but not huge? Same with Kootenai, who did not have a foal last year (not that survived), but who otherwise might not be due until August. Healthy, they are most definitely.
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WE GOT RAIN! Marvelous, glorious, lovely rain. Picture the world green. My favorite color.
Somebody upstairs is finally givin’ us some lovin’. And we are grateful!
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Categories : Rain, Skywalker, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Sundance
Where the water is …
8 04 2013… the wild things are:
Raven, Sundance, Skywalker, Kootenai and Mysterium drink at the trickle, which still is trickling. Corona was waiting her turn.
Lots of deer tracks here, too.
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Categories : Kootenai, Mysterium, Raven, Skywalker, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Sundance, Water
Background
7 04 2013
It’s hard to hide when you choose this kind of “camouflage.”
Seven, Puzzle and Shadow against the La Sal Mountains.
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Puzzle, Seven, Shadow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Lit
6 04 2013
If you haven’t noticed, I love shooting toward the sun – all the better when a mustang comes between us!
Handsome baby Kwana glows in the last light of the day.
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Happy birthdays to my departed Fredy, to Ze (named for Fredy (registered name)), to my dad’s cousin Lois Ann and my mom’s Aunt Norma.
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No births yet in Spring Creek Basin. 🙂
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Categories : Kwana, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Let’s go that way
5 04 2013
Chrome snakes Terra to follow Kwana toward Winona, who was grazing a little distance away.
The story behind the story involves the dots behind these two in the distance. See them? Way back left of Chrome?
When I first saw those two dots, they were three dots: two grey, one dark (bay): Chrome and Kreacher and Duke. And yes, they’re really about as far away as they appear, so Chrome had left his girls and his boy to have a little man-to-man-to-man chat. I parked not far away and walked out on a trail, and I was sitting on said trail at the moment I pressed the shutter on this shot. I reached his girls and boy before he did.
Kreacher and Duke went on grazing as peacefully as Terra and Kwana and Winona, even after Chrome returned to reassert his “dominance.”
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Categories : Chrome, Duke, Kreacher, Kwana, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Terra, Winona
Spots on the skyline
4 04 2013
Puzzle galloping along the skyline during a meeting with David.
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Categories : Puzzle, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Aglow
3 04 2013
Copper caught in the light looking toward David.
Some bachelors, like Copper, attach themselves to bands (and he seems to float between Ty’s and Corazon’s now that they’ve split). Some bachelors stick together, like Duke and Kreacher and Aspen, Hayden, Tenaz and Apollo. And some bachelors, like David and Poco, seem to like being by themselves – or like it better than being on the edge?
Not long after the horses watched David walk to water, Copper trotted on down the hill. But when I saw David later, Copper wasn’t with him. And Ty’s band was down the hill in the other direction. Copper likes company, though, so I’m sure he returned to one band or another.
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Categories : Copper, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Maiku framed
2 04 2013
Maiku, well-framed by the unnamed promontory, one of Spring Creek Basin’s dominant landmarks.
He and the rest of the band were watching David walk to water in the distance. David is alone since losing Shadow and Puzzle to Seven, but he looks like he’s doing just fine.
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Categories : Maiku, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, unnamed promontory
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 