Killian finds a particularly photogenic place to hang out in front of Temple Butte during a melty winter day in Spring Creek Basin.
Snowy butte
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The heart soars
10 01 2016
Is there any more immediate symbol of freedom than a mustang running with his mane flying?
Really, it’s hard to think of one.
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Friendly
9 01 2016
Sundance does like to wave at his fan club. Here, he’s having a little chat with his buddy Hayden.
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Zoomy girl!
8 01 2016
Seneca turns on the jets to fly through the snow!
(Lower) Disappointment Valley got a disappointing amount of snow from the last little system that floated over Southwest Colorado. In fact, because of the warm temperatures, we lost more snow to the soil (mud) than accumulated on top of the old snow. But it’s still early in the winter, so to get this moisture settling deep (hopefully) into the ground really is nothing to complain about! You can practically hear the guzzling of the life-giving moisture!
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Background
7 01 2016
Corona is looking healthy and relaxed in the late afternoon.
Her visitors also were very calm and peaceful.
What? You don’t see them??
Let’s zoom in.
It’s hard to estimate their numbers, but they may have been over AML. 🙂
There were quite a few more than shown in this image as the herd stretched out across one of the upper hillsides above Spring Creek canyon. The basin is a welcome wintering ground for mule deer and elk. When the snow in the high(er) country is very deep, these animals become our close neighbors again. After the pressures of hunting season, we’re happy to welcome them!
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Categories : Elk, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
‘PZP: Where hope, science and mustangs meet’
6 01 2016Thanks to Kat Wilder for her Writers on the Range op-ed in High Country News. 🙂
It’s getting harder and harder to deny PZP and its success!
This is Houdini, who, at best guess, is somewhere north of 25 years old. She shows her age but otherwise looks great. She has contributed her genetics to Spring Creek Basin and has daughters and granddaughters and grandsons (at least) still wild in Spring Creek Basin.
I’ve known at least two elder mares that have had foals in the spring and died that fall, leaving their weanlings as orphans. Houdini has contributed her genetics and deserves a long, healthy life as the wild, wise mustang mare she is, adding her knowledge to the whole herd.
PZP makes that possible.
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Categories : Advocacy, Disappointment Valley, Dr. Jay Kirkpatrick, Education, Fertility control, Mustangs, Partnership, PZP, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Wild horses in the news
Girls in blue
5 01 2016
The light on these grey girls is so warm, even as the shadows on the snow make it look so blue and cold. Alegre and Houdini are rarely far from each other.
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Pretty in white
4 01 2016
Ah, another peaceful sunny day in Spring Creek Basin, looking toward Shane and Utah. As it happened, it was the first day of a new year, and it was spent with many more mustangs. 🙂 It was an amazing blessing of a day!
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Light and bay
3 01 2016
Kwana and Duke in the last light of the first day of the year. How handsome are those faces!
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Sundance with a sundog
2 01 2016
Does it get any more gorgeous on the very first day of the very New Year?!
Sundance rocked the sundog that appeared over Spring Creek Basin late in the afternoon of January the very 1st, 20SIXTEEN! (Can you believe it?!)
From Wikipedia: “Sun dogs are a member of a large family of halos, created by light interacting with ice crystals in the atmosphere. Sun dogs typically appear as two subtly colored patches of light to the left and right of the sun, approximately 22° distant and at the same elevation above the horizon as the sun. They can be seen anywhere in the world during any season, but they are not always obvious or bright. Sun dogs are best seen and are most conspicuous when the sun is close to the horizon.”
I’d add that they’re also best seen while highlighting fabulous mustangs. 🙂
Oh em wonderful-gee. 🙂 What a beautiful day, the first of the rest of the year!
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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 