Sweet Mariah is so lovely, but she’s with a new band now and eager to stay out of the spotlight. … Or at least, not so eager to be *seen* in the spotlight.
Fortunately for us, there’s no mistaking her loveliness.
Not eager to be seen
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Stripes
3 02 2023
While we wait for snow (that sticks), how about another pic of our lovely dun girls? While Aiyanna watches the pronghorns half a mile or so away, Dundee keeps her eyes on me. 🙂
Interesting how their dorsal stripes mimic some of the erosion ridges on far McKenna Peak, eh?
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Well suited
2 02 2023
With her perfect coat of winter finery, you could say that Seneca’s cold-weather suit is perfectly suited to her wild, wintry world!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Mouthful ‘o snow
1 02 2023
Winter time is snowy-schnozz time!
The mustangs make practical use of being surrounded by frozen water to “eat” it as casually as they graze. It’s very handy for them to graze and browse and nibble mouthfuls of snow along the way. They do seem to relish it – like ice cream, perhaps!?
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Squinty
31 01 2023
All that snow is BRIGHT under the Colorado sunshine! Alegre and the other mustangs do get a little squinty-eyed trying to keep out the glare.
Does she have some impressive wind knots or what?!
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Fine figure
30 01 2023
Elder Aspen cuts a dashing figure against the rimrocks of Spring Creek canyon in the far western part of Spring Creek Basin.
He’s starting to show his age, and he moves slowly and deliberately through the snow (not much *dashing* for him, really), but for a mustang that I’d guess to be in at least his mid-20s, he’s looking pretty fine, indeed.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Watching the horizon
29 01 2023
Interestingly, before I got out to Terra and her band, the mountains had been fully visible. Rather than clearing of snow clouds, the clouds were enveloping them (again). They look just about as fabulous as Terra in HER winter coat. 🙂
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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Invitation
28 01 2023
To enter his wintry world?
Invitation accepted!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Nap with a view
27 01 2023
Sleepy, sleepy Skywalker. 🙂
All that snow acts as a giant light reflector, and while the air is cold, it also serves to create a very real warmth. And after filling their bellies, they’re very amenable to nice little naps!
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Cover girl
26 01 2023
That face!
Chipeta makes me work for her glamour shots … and she always rocks it. She glows!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 