Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Rituals

14 11 2025

A nap, a drink, an evening mosey.

Ah, the life. 🙂

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Categories : La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Spring Creek canyon

Another something a little different. You’re supposed to at least see the subject’s head/face in wildlife photography, let alone a “catchlight” in the eye (at least one of them). A pic of a tail probably isn’t, um, traditionally considered a successful pic? 🙂

Just call me a photography rebel!

And let me know if something, anything, about this pic appeals to you … or not!?

(For photography nerds, this pic is nearly exactly as it came out of the camera. I cropped out a bit of the extraneous (?) darkness, and I applied some “sharpening,” and that’s it.)

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Napping warm

12 11 2025

The days are still fairly warm; the nights are cold enough for a coat (hair, fur, feather or otherwise!). During the short, sunshine-filled days, if it’s quiet enough, naps are almost a must-do.

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

More than service

11 11 2025

So we may remain a country of free citizens, thank you, veterans, for your dedicated service.

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Categories : McKenna Peak, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Temple Butte

Chamisa glow

10 11 2025

Could Piedra be any more unabashedly beautiful?

No. The answer is no, she absolutely could NOT! Lovely girl. 🙂

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Spring girl in fall

9 11 2025

Maia is as pretty in the spring of her birth as she is in the low autumn light with a fuzzy coat and the rabbitbrush already puffy.

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Cavorting

8 11 2025

It has been an incredibly busy fall season already. Third rifle season descends on Disappointment Valley (and every other bit of public land in Colorado) today. Apologies to good, ethical hunters, but it is THE WORST week of my year. So partly to set the tone for a hopefully OK week (and a safe one), and partly because I mostly forgot these images (!), let’s start it with some golden eagles.

The above image was taken more than a week ago (on my mom’s birthday, actually!), as you can see by the phase of the moon (wow, has it been BRIGHT!). But see that little speck right of center? That’s an eagle, and THAT is what I spotted that made me stop and scramble to get my camera out of its pack.

Two of the three eagles I saw were flying (cavorting?!) together above Spring Creek Basin’s western rimrocks. I like to think they came flying overhead to see what the crazy two-legged was doing, and I was glad to see them so close in all their majesty.