Head on with the big boys
Finally! It had been two years since I got some decent pics of Colorado's state animal and yesterday that streak came to an end. I headed to this spot southwest…
Little Bighorns
I took yesterday off and headed southwest of Denver in the hopes of getting pics of the Centennial State's official animal. Technically I succeeded but not the way I had…
Bighorn Sheep ram poses for (a belated) Colorado Day
August 1st is celebrated here as “Colorado Day,” the anniversary on which we officially became a state. President Ulysses S Grant issued a proclamation on August 1, 1876, “declaring the…
Bighorn Sheep ewe in the early morning light
Oh how I wish the ladies of this species were as striking as their male counterparts but they simply are not. They are far smaller and oftentimes look kind of…
“I got up here. Now how do I get down?”
This Bighorn Sheep lamb was proving itself to be quite the adept climber, as all of its kind are. It had worked its ways up the side of a mountain…
Bighorn Sheep lamb hams it up for its portrait
Just like a human child, young animals sometimes seem to revel in having their picture taken. Such was the case with this little lamb in the foothills southwest of Denver,…