Spring Creek Basin Mustangs

Prettily blurred

16 05 2020

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This may be one of the worst pix I’ve shared on this blog, but I was so excited to see this little hummer – checking out the newly blooming prince’s plume! – that I thought I’d share this other cute little critter with all of you. 🙂

The hummer is terribly out of focus. This cute critter was even faster than the last cute critter I posted on the blog! You can’t even see its wings, they’re such a total blur.

We have lots of cute critters in Spring Creek Basin. Fast or slow (yes, the slithery types also are out and about, too), they’re all part of our wild world.

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wild flowers

Spotlight, on

15 05 2020

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The handsome Killian always seems to have a spotlight shining right on him!

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The saunter

14 05 2020

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Corazon the plumpster walks into the sunset after his band.

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Cute critter

13 05 2020

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Who doesn’t love a horny toad?!

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I wish there was a way to show you all how tiny is this little critter. Probably not much bigger than a silver dollar. Just a little bitty, teeny tiny. And fast! And camera shy. 🙂

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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area

Gold from the sky

12 05 2020

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We did get some sprinkles yesterday in a couple of light waves, mostly in the evening.

It’s all welcome, and we’re grateful for even the smallest amount of moisture.

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Categories : Disappointment Valley, Rain, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area

Boulder magic

11 05 2020

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We have some cool rocks in Spring Creek Basin.

We have some cool mustangs in Spring Creek Basin.

We also have some magic, proved here by Skywalker, who used his Jedi mind-mastery to pick just the right time to look back at me as I was aiming my lens through the hole in this boulder at the base of Filly Peak. Because he’s just a cool mustang, and he’s all ours in Spring Creek Basin. 🙂

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

Happy Mother’s Day!

10 05 2020

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To all the moms who teach us all the important things in life … especially, that love is universal and magical.

Happy beautiful days, mothers! We love you!

Happy spring day to MY mom! I love you!

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In the red

9 05 2020

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Oh, the loveliness in the desert.

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Curiosity in a little package

8 05 2020

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Little Spirit-girl has the sweetest, most inquisitive nature.

Sometimes, I think she has no idea she’s a tiny girl. Other times, she thinks a mostly-bare juniper tree can hide her cuteness!

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Greying and blueing

7 05 2020

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People have been wondering (according to our news channel) if and when they can return to swimming pools this summer. The mustangs wonder whether they’ll have enough water to fill their pony pools.

Storm and his band and another couple of bands found a seep that has a nice little pony-size pool right in the middle of it, and, as the gnats are making their appearance (!), they’re using it as much as a wading pool as a place to drink.

It’s a bit mucky, and that’s why our boy looks a bit greyer than grey as he saunters after his band on a warming day in the springtime.

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