Skywalker.
Sunset glow.
No other words necessary.
Rimmed
26 04 2025Comments : 8 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Haze ahead
25 04 2025
Cassidy Rain, never one to get too close (or allow closeness) moseys downhill toward a little ridge, the better to hide behind. … But isn’t she soooo lovely. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Muddy buddy
24 04 2025
Very muddy Sundance, with the rest of his band, looks for green bits among the sage and shadscale. It IS coming up, slowly but surely.
There’s a pond fairly nearby where I found them that evening, and I hope that’s where he’s taking advantage of both the water and mud. It’s the only pond that has water currently in Spring Creek Basin.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Earth Day appreciation
23 04 2025
Late golden light frames Chipeta perfectly on Earth Day evening.
I hope you all were able to spend some time outdoors, appreciating the life and wonder of this big, beautiful globe!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Chunky little songbird
22 04 2025
The morning of the snow, this little loggerhead shrike was calling from a bare tree just outside Spring Creek Basin (the dark band in the background is the rimrock that forms the basin’s western boundary). The cold didn’t seem to bother him/her much, and s/he allowed me to approach fairly closely to capture his/her lovely portrait.
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Happy Earth Day! More than ever, we need to cherish, protect and honor our planet.
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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wild birds
Kestrels
21 04 2025I *adore* kestrels.
These pix all are significantly cropped, and as previously mentioned, I am no bird photographer! But wow. I’m extremely grateful to this extraordinarily handsome gentleman for perching close enough and giving me enough time to get several sharp shots before he took off (he dodged off to the (my) right, despite the fact that he launched first to the left).
I mean … I *ADORE* kestrels!
Just ask Kestrel. 🙂
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Categories : Colorado, Disappointment Valley, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Wild birds
Lookin’ ’round
20 04 2025
Looking in the opposite direction of Thursday’s post (and with a peek of sunshine), Terra ambles after the band, grazing along the way. That background is dramatic in its own, very different way!
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Can’t believe I forgot in the busy-ness of the past week and scheduling posts, but happy Easter, everyone! And particular congratulations to mama Savanna (not a mustang, not in the basin) on her own beautiful new precious baby girl. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
April good stuff
19 04 2025
Tenaz may look surprised by the sudden snow blanketing his previously very brown world … but really, he was looking down the ridge at another stallion.
We got about an inch and a half of the good, white wet stuff before it all soaked into the ground, leaving it as brown as before … but nicely more damp. 🙂
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Snow, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Rising tall
18 04 2025
Mariah does the mosey-graze along the edge of a hill that drops down to the Spring Creek arroyo. That’s Knife Edge looking dramatic in the background.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Prelude
17 04 2025
This was two evenings ago.
Last night, we had a couple of waves of over-too-soon rain (I’m not kidding; the first wave lasted about three minutes, and the second lasted about eight minutes). At least the top layer of dust was dampened.
More, please!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 