She gets a perfect 10 for nailing her landing. 🙂
And she totally knows how to rock a pose.
Not quite synchronized, but we’ll give them props for interspecies partnership. 🙂
Two bands were at the pond with the goose (and though I called it “her” and “she,” I don’t actually know its gender), and they were very interested in her bold vocalizations. She was by herself; hopefully her mate (?) will join her soon. Tis the season.
Isn’t this little guy/gal gorgeous?!
It’s a “common gray fox,” and my Field Guide to the Rocky Mountains says they eat rabbits, rodents, birds, grasshoppers, fruit and berries. They “often climb trees, unlike fox and coyote”! They’re found on the “lower slopes of mountains, wooded canyons and scrubby plains” in “southeastern Wyoming (rare), western, central and southeastern Colorado.” The book also says they’re “mainly nocturnal, year-round.”
Fortunately for my camera and me, this one didn’t get the nocturnal memo. 🙂
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Happy New Year’s Eve!
Cool, right?
Pronghorns are fairly common in Spring Creek Basin and lower Disappointment Valley. But some people are surprised to learn that.
Just another feather in our healthy-range cap.
By now, you all must have heard about the explosion of disbelief and outrage about the 2018 budget proposal. No one seems to be happy … and wild horse and burro advocates are no exception.
My friend Pam Nickoles has a succinct post with pertinent links on her blog.
More information is available on all the major advocacy sites, and news sites are covering the issue as well.
Surely we can work together for better treatment and management for our wildlife.
Ah!
Ah ha!
Aren’t they handsome? That’s Brumley Point at back right.
Even knowing something was there – because the mustangs all had alerted – it took a while for me to locate these two coyotes on the snowy hillside of bachelor ridge in Spring Creek Basin. They’re hunted mercilessly in this part of the country, but I enjoy seeing them. They’re no threat to the wily mustangs. 🙂
Because it was less full of distracting vegetation for the resident paparazzo!
OK, full disclosure: These turkeys weren’t in Spring Creek Basin. But they were/ARE in Disappointment Valley, very close to the basin. And who doesn’t love turkeys?!
They have some gorgeous feathers, don’t they?
Another note: It’s hard to get in-focus photos of turkeys. Those little heads are harder to focus on than, say, big mustangs. 🙂
This totally cuuuuuute local guy walked by in Spring Creek Basin the other day. I was smitten at first glance, but he kept on a’walkin’. 🙂
Here’s to peace.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 