Saw these two young bucks in the neighborhood today, and was curious that they both have ear notches. The best reason I’ve heard so far is that the bucks do a little scrapping, and ears take a bit of a beating. The notches are not research-related. I’m still open to other theories if anyone has …
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Frosty mountain
I don’t usually shoot scenics, but yesterday afternoon’s frost-covered trees with the moon lingering above simply couldn’t be neglected. This photo was taken in the area of western Wyoming known as the Hoback Rim.
Counting blessings
Today, I left the ranch in the wee hours, with the heater blasting in the truck in the -12 degree calm night. I turned up the county road in the dark, and my headlights fell on a white animal in the roadway ahead. It was just the size of a jackrabbit, and that bright white …
Surveying the winter domain
Jim and I drove over to Riverton today to visit with our nephew, Kyle, while he was in town for a few days. This fun young Marine has served in Iraq and in Afghanistan, so talking with him was fascinating. On the way over this morning, we saw this rather photogenic scene of a coyote …
Winter migrants
Today, Jim and I decided to twist off, driving to Mitch’s restaurant in Farson, Wyoming for breakfast, before hitting one of our favorite feed stores (Southwest Wyoming Wool Warehouse) and the grocery store in Rock Springs. It ‘s an 80-mile trip down to get groceries, but when you know the golden eagles that summer in …
Learning to be nice
Off duty
Vega heads back to Pete’s sheep herd this weekend, south of the Great Divide Basin, near Wyoming’s border with Colorado. She has weaned her babes and here they are, taking over the house. Since Jim has named them after his siblings, he likes reporting that “Bill pooped on the floor, and Laurie ran through it.” …
Bitterly cold
When a winter storm hit Tuesday morning, mule deer came pouring down the migration trail from the mountains, crossing what has become a very famous migration bottleneck, Trapper’s Point outside of Pinedale, Wyoming. Here’s a group of deer traversing the bottleneck between two rivers and crossing U.S. Highway 191. It is -32 degrees this morning …
Cattle Mutilations
…have started ocurring again in Las Animas County, Colorado. This is apparently not the work of animal predators, as there are no tracks or footprints at the scene, there is no blood around the carcass, and the meat is removed with straight cuts as if with a knife. This has been in and out of …
Lauren’s photos.
The last is a banquet in her honor, sheep, tea, vodka, and more.