Alternative title for Raven: Black winter velvet. 🙂
Braids a’swingin’
15 02 2019Comments : 4 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Postcard from Disappointment Valley
14 02 2019Alegre and Maia pose for a pretty picture with some new snow last week.
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Happy Valentine’s Day to all who LOVE! 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Wind! What wind?!
13 02 2019Puzzle, ever the fashionista, rocks the winter wind with her wind-knotted wild mane. 🙂
Seriously, who needs Show Sheen?! Not this marvelous mustang mare!
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Going, going …
12 02 2019In yesterday’s blog post, I mentioned that it was windy. It has *been* windy … which is a bit weird in the winter here. We’re used to windy springs, but even the horses get tired of the wind, I think.
Tenaz was just trying to get out of the wind … and the photographer was on the wrong side of the wind break. 🙂
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Wind through his mane
11 02 2019Skywalker didn’t let a little breeze get in the way of a nap. He did sway a bit as the wind howled and pushed, but he kept his feet. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Elk friends
10 02 2019So I was just hanging out in Spring Creek Basin with my mustang friends when these guys showed up, moseying along, drinking at the same little pool of water in the rock arroyo. Super cool. 🙂
This fellow has had some kind of encounter that resulted in a broken main beam of his antlers.
And this healthy-bodied youngster has a great start on what will someday be a very impressive set of antlers!
There were about five bulls with a group of cows and calves. Because of the trees, I couldn’t get a count (and I never think about it anyway), but I’d estimate around 15 to 20 total. The boys usually disperse into all-male groups after the rut, but these elk were still hanging out together. And as you can see, they still have their antlers.
In my experience, elk are pretty wary and hard to get close to. These guys and gals were grazing through the snow near a band of mustangs when I first saw them, but unfortunately, I couldn’t get to my camera quick enough to document that. However, it may be why they were so calm; their equine friends were calm. 🙂
Later, when I looked across the little valley from the ridge I was on to the ridge they had been on, most of them had bedded down on patches of bare ground under pinon and juniper trees (which are sucking up that moisture like nobody’s business!). Nice and quiet on a very windy day!
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wildlife
Curiosity
9 02 2019Fuzzy grey girl Temple looks right at home in snowy Spring Creek Basin. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs