Alegre, flying through the air with the greatest of grace. Just for fun. 🙂
She was actually evading Grey/Traveler, who was trying to urge her back to the fold.
Big with baby; she’s due in May.
Flying!
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Categories : Alegre, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
It’s a(nother) girl!
10 04 2012First (known) baby of the season in Spring Creek Basin belongs to Houdini and Grey/Traveler! 🙂
Baby is boldly marked like sisters Terra and Iya.
Since 2007, Iya has had only daughters, all grey, all but one born reddish, like this beautiful girl.
Houdini is an awesome mama. Not only has she had only fillies the last several years, all her babies have survived.
Thank you so much, Roy and Sue, for passing on this excellent news!
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Categories : Houdini, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Gilded
10 04 2012
Chrome in the golden light of early morning.
Hayden and Terra – half-siblings. Daddy: Grey/Traveler.
Chrome was highlighted so gorgeously against the far hills, just-gilded with first light.
Alert Winona, watching something in the distance that I couldn’t see.
Gorgeous stallion, perfect backdrop … and he paused in his grazing only to amble to the next tasty tidbit.
Still gorgeous. Still perfect. 🙂
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Categories : Chrome, Hayden, La Sal Mountains, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Terra, Winona
On the run
9 04 2012Bounce is looking fairly lean these days, roaming the sidelines of Seven’s and Aspen’s little bands and ducking Storm along the way, who also is on the outskirts, having lost Shadow back to David. The old boy has new scars, but he’s alert and handsome as ever.
Here, he’s trotting down a hill to follow after the other horses.
On this day, at least, Storm had the upper hand, err, hoof.
Lots of new scars on the boy.
Wild black stallion!
Always handsome.
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Categories : Bounce, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Storm
Happy Easter!
8 04 2012Happy spring and hope eternal. 🙂
The message of Easter. Something a bit surprising that renews your faith, eh? Big baby Asher, tough kitty Wyatt and animal angel Tif.
Enjoy the day – I hope it’s beautiful, wherever you are!
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Categories : Adoption, Advocacy, Asher, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
Seven, oh Seven
7 04 2012
In a word: Hand…….some!
They went behind a hill, and I went around, thinking they’d graze their way on down the other side, but they were RIGHT on the other side.
Handsome Seven, who looks so much like Grey/Traveler (I’m sure he’s his sire), is 12 this year. After a few months of bachelorhood, he has his mare Roja back, as well as their son Killian, who will be a yearling in May. Seven also is the sire of Ze, star of the last post, and Miss Liberty, adopted by artist Alice in Ridgway.
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Categories : Seven, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
April 6
6 04 2012In memory of a beloved horse who has been gone nearly 20 years now, a photo of a mustang boy who shares his birthday and is named after him:
Ze, adopted by my beautiful friend Tif and doing so amazingly well.
Today is a day that always brings me a little sadness, for the loss of my horse … a lot of celebration, for the wonderful years and adventures we shared … and a lot of hope, that everyone can experience a horse like him during their lifetimes. It’s also a day when our fortunes shifted for the better, when we met someone who altered the course of our mustang management for the better.
Happy Friday, folks. 🙂
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Categories : Adoption, Advocacy, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Ze
Kes & Juni
6 04 2012
Juniper and Kestrel, standing just off the road.
Earlier, racing to catch up to Comanche, who was grazing on the other side of the road.
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Categories : Juniper, Kestrel, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs
We interrupt this program …
5 04 2012… for some non-horse critters.
People ask about what other kinds of wildlife we have in the basin. Deer, elk, pronghorn, coyotes, badgers (I saw one big as a small dog the other day!), rabbits (both Jack’s and Peter’s families call the basin home), chipmunks, ground squirrels, lizards, all kinds of birds! I don’t often get photos of them, but they’re great to see!
I always forget to include these guys in that list:
A horned toad! Isn’t s/he awesome? I “caught” him as I was walking back from checking on Tenaz.
The bellies on these girls are showing signs of growing life, too. They were just up the hill and across an arroyo from Grey/Traveler’s band. I don’t know much about pronghorn: They make a sort of twangy-banjo-like barking noise as an alarm (at least the bucks do?). They don’t jump fences, so if they can’t get through or under, they’re stymied. In Wyoming, they’re called “speed goats”! (Thanks, N, for that tidbit!)
I mentioned the phlox blooming – more and more coming on every time I’m out, it seems. And the Indian paintbrush is getting started, too. The grasses are greening up along with other things. It’s very dry, but there are signs of spring all over!
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Categories : Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Wildlife
Overdue
5 04 2012Hadn’t had a sighting of these horses in a couple of weeks. Thought they must be the first back to the east pocket – and there they were!
From left to right: Seven, Killian and Roja, Mona and Aspen, and Storm. Not seen up the hill to the right: Bounce and Tenaz.
Tenaz gave me a massive scare earlier this day; I found the horses – except him. I spent a fair bit of time with them while they grazed their way from an arroyo to some hills and over – not a sign of him to be seen. The photo in the previous post of Poco and Roach I got after walking out to see if he was with them and I had missed him when I saw them first – from a distance. (He wasn’t.) But when we came back around a few hours later, there he was, unscathed and perfectly fine. No idea where he was earlier.
Seven seems to have Roja and Killian back – which I thought was the case when I last saw them, from a distance. Seven actually chased Mona back to Aspen a couple of times. Bounce and Storm are fending each other off, and Tenaz seems to stick close to Bounce (which he has been doing for the last several months, and which is why it gave me such a scare to NOT see him).
I’ll have some more pix of these guys, but this one shows most of them together. Bounce is fairly lean and has quite a few new scars. Roja is just as pregnant as all get out. She’s not due till May, but until last year, she had been my first foaler (early April).
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Categories : Aspen, Killian, Mona, Roja, Seven, Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area, Spring Creek Basin mustangs, Storm
