Disappointment murmuration

2 03 2017

Birds over Spring Creek Basin.

As has been observed (audited?), Disappointment Valley is a pretty quiet place – except when the wind is howling, which is fairly often. But on this particular evening, it was only slightly breezy, so when an airborne cacophony reached our ears, we all looked to find the source.

Birds over Spring Creek Basin.

The foreground hills are slightly outside Spring Creek Basin.

Birds over Spring Creek Basin.

This was one flyover that didn’t cause the mustangs to run. 🙂

(Does anyone know what kind of birds are these? The common term might be LBBs – little brown birds. 🙂 Dictionary.com defines a murmuration as the act of murmuring or a flock of – specifically – starlings. ARE these starlings … or just an ordinary flock of (extra)ordinary birds?)





Happy day

1 03 2017

Aurora

Peace reigns in at least one place on the planet.





Stout (lite)

28 02 2017

Comanche

Comanche has been making regular grocery runs this winter. 🙂

In the background are members of another band.





Poser

27 02 2017

Skywalker

Skywalker the stunning. He’s such a poser … in the very best way. 🙂

Those are the rimrocks of Spring Creek canyon in the background.





Itchy

26 02 2017

Storm

Storm found a couple of trees the other day with multiple branches that were good for scratching multiple itches. Check out the lip. 🙂

As you can see from the trunk of the tree and the ground around him, we got a bit of snow. Most of it didn’t last long, but in the upper parts of the basin (and greater Disappointment Valley), there was up to an inch or so of dusty white stuff.

Before our little cold snap, the horses were starting to shed!





A little light

24 02 2017

Piedra, Brumley Point

Our famous Colorado sunshine has been a little lacking this winter, so we enjoy every bit of it (well, we do that anyway, but it seems particularly valuable this year). 🙂





Sunshiney days

23 02 2017

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Disappointment Valley had rain during parts of three consecutive days several days ago. And then we had sunshine. 🙂 It was a muddy hike that led to finding Seven, but seeing the boy was well worth every messy step!





Two bay mustangs

22 02 2017

Tenaz and Madison

Tenaz and Madison glow on a spring-like February evening in Spring Creek Basin.





Fringe

21 02 2017

Hollywood

Hollywood’s mane catches the evening light as he follows his band through the winter-golden grasses.





Marvelous muleys with a view

20 02 2017

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Aren’t they handsome? That’s Brumley Point at back right.