Chipeta also likes to try to blend in. 🙂
Her unsolvable problem is that, as the only pinto member of an otherwise all-grey band, she stands out.
Also, she’s a standout. 🙂
Cliffside
15 06 2024Comments : 6 Comments »
Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
Nothing to see here
14 06 2024
Winona was trying to look inconspicuous on her mosey back to her band after grazing a bit away from them.
Really??
My darling, you cannot possibly go unnoticed. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Belly-riffic
13 06 2024
Apparently, she missed getting darted this spring. 🙂
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Wildlife
Claret among thorns
12 06 2024
As expected after the terribly dry winter, we haven’t had much of a showing of wildflowers this year. There ARE some (and not atop the prickly varieties of cacti), but I haven’t made as much of an effort to photograph them as in years past. These beautiful blooms caught my eye in northwestern Spring Creek Basin as I was moseying between a couple of bands of mustangs.
It is SO dry. And we’ve had temps of 103 and 101 (at least) already. And that ever-present wind sucks up the moisture we do NOT have to spare (or have, period).
My happy theme is mustangs.
My thing-I-wish-we-had-more-of – always – is rain.
Keep dancing, folks. 🙂 Clouds are building in the afternoons, and that’s always a good sign.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Family lines
11 06 2024
Mama Aiyanna, Daddy Buckeye and not-so-baby Bia. 🙂 Love.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
They ARE the view
10 06 2024
Sometimes (OK, all the time), you never know where you’ll find the mustangs when you drive into Spring Creek Basin. And even after all my years of driving into the basin, they sometimes (!) surprise me.
These horses are at the top of Spring Creek canyon, above the rimrocks. It’s not nearly the vertical wall on the other side, where it slopes into a little “bowl” of a hillside, so their approach is easy to fathom. And they must have had a nice breeze up there, keeping the descending gnats at bay, because they were up there for at least a couple of hours (before I arrived and after I left)! And the view – I can attest – is fabulous.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon
More besties
9 06 2024
Another pair of besties – and for a very long time, at least since Kestrel was just a wee weanling. Piedra has been with her or in a neighboring band for many, many years.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Trio of beauty
8 06 2024
Alegre, Maia and Shane: beautiful, wild, lovely girls.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Her best life
7 06 2024
Wild life agrees with Terra. … Wouldn’t you agree?
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Wrapped
6 06 2024
Is it just me, or is Master Odin growing up ever so handsome?!
He already has all his aunties wrapped around his hooves; it’s only a matter of time for some other lucky filly. 🙂
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 