Handsome Storm was looking at another stallion and band with utmost concentration. He’s fully in his prime, and smart (and younger) stallions don’t mess with him! He doesn’t have the biggest band in the basin … but close.
Full alert
25 05 2023Comments : 14 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Waiting and watching
24 05 2023
Looks like the mustang fairies missed a couple of spots in Mariah’s mane during their nightly rituals. Maybe they just had a lot of mustangs to attend?! With a passing shower or two (or more), and attending winds, it’s a busy season for keeping mustangs looking their best (which likely could be said for all seasons … and yet, they always look marvelous!).
Mariah and her band were standing on the bank of a small pond, and I’m not sure what had caught her attention. There was another small band grazing some distance behind them, those horses having already been to the pond.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Movin’ on
23 05 2023
Sweet Winona … on the move from there to somewhere farther over there.
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Loveliest of lovelies
22 05 2023
Lovely, lovely, most lovely Temple.
Really?! What else do you say!!?
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The nose knows!
21 05 2023
For your morning chuckle, you’re welcome. 🙂
Shane grazing, while Odin was feeling playful.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Passing by a passerine
20 05 2023
Speaking of “bright eyes” (yesterday’s post wishing I could see more of Sundance’s eye through his forelock), this little fellow’s bright eyes are literally masked by his markings, and in the overcast light, they weren’t bright enough to reflect light (at least from the distance at which I was in my Jeep). I heard him rather than saw him and backed up to hear more!
He’s a loggerhead shrike, known for impaling their prey, all the better that it doesn’t get away while feasting!
Handsome little songster!
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wild birds
Foxy
19 05 2023
Some mustangs have evolutionarily developed longer ears – the better to hear danger with – but Sundance’s little ears, poking through his thick mane and forelock, are decidedly foxy. One of his many endearing attributes!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
At rest
18 05 2023
A little green, a little gold. A little black, a little white. Our Corazon.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Out of the wind
17 05 2023
To continue the grey theme, pretty Mariah looks curious but not as wind-blown as her name suggests. Her band was in a little cove on the north side of a long hill, and they were quite happily grazing and napping there.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Playing catchup
16 05 2023
Terra catches sight of her pals in the band she and her stallion travel with, across a little drainage on another ridge. Time to catch up! (Love her still-present winter beard. :))
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Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 