Chipeta, by looking back at her admirer, invites us all to look at and admire her loveliness and that of the world beyond (southeast of) her Spring Creek Basin range.
Aren’t they lovely? 🙂
Oh, girl
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Stash in the arroyo
20 05 2020
Winona looks like she’d rather not share her secret stash of green in a little arroyo in far eastern Spring Creek Basin. The rest of the band was napping while she wandered up a narrow, curvy arroyo and had it all to herself.
There’s some green out there, but the WIND … ! The howling wind is stirring the dust and leaching out the moisture we do NOT have any more of. And not a single sprinkle on the horizon.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Seasons turn
19 05 2020
Maiku and his band were practicing social distancing from another couple of bands in the area on this beautiful, golden evening in Spring Creek Basin.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Just that beautiful
18 05 2020
Storm was peacefully grazing along, and I was patiently watching to catch him in a better “pose” with that spectacular background, looking across Spring Creek Basin and Disappointment Valley, all the way to Utah! Maybe looking back to his mares or something.
Suddenly, the “something” happened, and he stopped with his head up, then performed a neat turn on the haunches and headed in the direction of the trees to the right. I never did figure out what caught his attention. But it gave me a nice little photo op of one of my very favorite boys with the La Sals still gleaming under a bit of snow in the distance.
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Bright critter!
17 05 2020
Continuing the theme of interesting critters (besides the mustangs!) in Spring Creek Basin …! This guy or gal isn’t my first sighting of a collared lizard this season (it’s my second in just the past couple of days), but it’s the first one that was bold and willing to pose (momentarily).
It’s a total miniature dinosaur! Look at that face!
Do you think the dinos were so wonderfully, brightly colored? I’ve never really understood the environmental benefit to being SO bright in our drab desert land. Ma Nature made ’em very fast, so at least they’re likely challenging for aerial predators.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wildlife
Prettily blurred
16 05 2020
This may be one of the worst pix I’ve shared on this blog, but I was so excited to see this little hummer – checking out the newly blooming prince’s plume! – that I thought I’d share this other cute little critter with all of you. 🙂
The hummer is terribly out of focus. This cute critter was even faster than the last cute critter I posted on the blog! You can’t even see its wings, they’re such a total blur.
We have lots of cute critters in Spring Creek Basin. Fast or slow (yes, the slithery types also are out and about, too), they’re all part of our wild world.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wild flowers
Spotlight, on
15 05 2020
The handsome Killian always seems to have a spotlight shining right on him!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
The saunter
14 05 2020
Corazon the plumpster walks into the sunset after his band.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Cute critter
13 05 2020
Who doesn’t love a horny toad?!
I wish there was a way to show you all how tiny is this little critter. Probably not much bigger than a silver dollar. Just a little bitty, teeny tiny. And fast! And camera shy. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area
Gold from the sky
12 05 2020
We did get some sprinkles yesterday in a couple of light waves, mostly in the evening.
It’s all welcome, and we’re grateful for even the smallest amount of moisture.
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Rain, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 