This has been a good season for hanging out with Bighorn Sheep. In October there were three postings (portraits, wooing, mating), followed by another in December (roadside sheep). Now, this one.
What is interesting to me is that the October, December, and January postings are of three different local herds, not a revisiting of the same group of animals.
About two dozen bighorns were milling around: males, females, juveniles.
“The two of us are alone together in a crowd.”
It takes a herd to raise a lamb.
Hi Alistair,
I’m curious as to whether you’ve seen any wolves or wolf tracks on your journeys. It’s good to see a healthy sheep population.
Lorna, I have not.
It’s lovely to see all these wonderful bighorn images including a lamb. They’re so close up it’s like a petting zoo but so much better because they are free.
Christine, close is a good descriptor as none were more than a couple of metres from me. And yes, they were certainly free to wander at will.