So begins the worst, busiest, most anxiety-inducing week of the year in Disappointment Valley: third rifle season. Deer and elk are the targets.
Third
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wildlife
A little yellow flash
14 10 2018
Possibly the worst bird photo ever.
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But I LOVE that eye!
This little bird – possibly an immature yellow warbler? – fluttered down to the ground behind where I was sitting, watching a band of horses. When I turned around to determine the cause of the soft ruckus, this little beauty was hopping on the ground … then flew up to a sagebush. Of course, it managed to alight on the far side of the stalks, where it watched me watching it. 🙂 Love these littlest gifts from heaven.
When it flew away, I swear it did somersaults. Even Sundance turned to watch with what I can only assume was immense admiration.
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wildlife
Big bad bobkitty
12 10 2018
OK, not “bad” at all – it just went with the headline. 🙂
SO COOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wildlife
Prongs on the hill
11 09 2018
Our mustangs aren’t the only ones taking advantage of the basin’s water catchments. This handsome fellow waited on the hill for Comanche’s band to drink at the corral catchment (built just two years ago). The horses were VERY interested in him.
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Water catchment, Wildlife, Work projects
Passing through
3 05 2018
I did a little traveling the last week.
Saw a few handsome critters along the way. 🙂
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Categories : Wildlife, Wyoming
Stopover, Spring Creek Basin style
4 03 2018
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.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte, Water, Wildlife
We have the coolest neighbors
31 12 2017
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!
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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Wildlife
Poised prongs
1 09 2017
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.
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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Temple Butte, Wildlife
To arms
28 05 2017
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.
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Categories : Advocacy, Education, Fertility control, Mustangs, Partnership, PZP, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Wild horses in the news, Wildlife
Double the lovelies
9 03 2017
Ah!
Ah ha!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Wildlife
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 