While Maia chose a whole-body rolling session to conquer her itchies, Kestrel took a more specific approach, using this old tree and its knobs and remaining branches to get just the right spot(s).
Check out that lip! 🙂
I think this might be the last of the snow pix (hopefully for *now* and not the whole winter!), and then I’ll get back to some more recent pix … and some from before the snow that didn’t get published before that auspicious event. … One in particular will be a little bittersweet.
When I went into the basin the other day, I was planning to check the mud-to-dirt ratio. … Nope, it was still in the snow-to-mud phase! While some parts of the valley have dried out fairly well, most of the basin ground – including roads – was still damp to downright muddy. In fact, one of those recent days, I took maybe half a dozen pix of Skywalker up on a ridge at a distance, but the rest of the 1,100 pix (I’m not even kidding) were of DEER. In particular, one rather, uh, randy buck keeping all of his ladies together from another, younger/smaller buck. If anyone thinks herding cats is difficult, I’d urge you to talk to that poor fellow! I’m debating whether to post any of those … at least yet … because I’m not sure that people aren’t still roaming the area with antlers in mind. But they’ll probably see the light of a morning post sooner than later. He *was* rather handsome – and one of the lucky ones.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
Those old snags are beautiful things! Such good scratching posts. I love Maia’s lip-rolling, “aw-that’s-really-good” expression. 😆
She came back to it at least twice – once from the other side and once from the other direction (hers – for butt scratches!). 🙂
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Ooh, satisfying an itch feels so good!
Yes, pictures of deer will be welcomed.
She was very slow and careful, especially as she scratched tricky spots on her face and ears. 🙂 What a sweetheart. The deer are finally out and about nearly all the time. Finally, we really do have some peace.