Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

The incomparable Kestrel: epitome of wild wisdom and grace. 🙂

If this pic looks similar to the one of the pronghorn buck a few posts ago, it’s because she’s watching him head down the hill from very near where he stood to “pose” for the pic.

Pronghorns – in Spring Creek Basin at least – try very hard to warn their mustang cousins about the dangers of the two-legged in their midst with a “bark” or more strident “huff” sound than what the mustangs make as a warning snort. … But really, it just makes the mustangs more curious about their pronghorn cousin and what all the fuss is about. 🙂

As a bachelor lieutenant stallion, one of Skywalker’s duties is to protect the band as a whole from unwanted incursions by *other* bachelor stallions. When he’s not harassing the main stallion, Skywalker takes that pretty seriously.

Buckeye searches for the grasses that just received a slurp of rain under those mammatus clouds. He’s already taken advantage of the damp ground to try to deter the bugs, which also were taking advantage of the humidity to come out in force!

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Happy Fourth of July! Not a splash-of-color image, but I hope it’s one that invokes some of the independence and freedom this country was founded upon.