Post by prizmbluekigers on Aug 24, 2009 12:48:12 GMT -5
No kidding, we saw more horses this weekend than I have ever seen out there. Saturday morning we saw 6 on the hillside between the main road at about Wood Camp reservoir and the Lambing Grounds. By the time we could get near we could only see 2 duns. We hiked over the ridge to where we could see the water hole on the Lambing Grounds and spotted 4 more, 3 duns and a grulla. I think a stallion, mare , foal and perhaps last years foal. We lost them in the back corner of the grounds. We saw the same band of five males that we saw in May & they were between the Ant Hill and the lower road. The one lagging behind is the lame one, but two of his friends came back to escort him away. We compared video so I am sure it was the same band, including one with a concave place on his left hind cheek and this time we could see a scar running from his withers on the left side all the way down his shoulder line. He has a freeze brand. Anyone know his story?
Saturday afternoon we were on the main road almost to Wood Camp and grazing across the road were 23 or 24 horses ;D I counted 7 grullas, 14 or 15 duns, a red dun and a bay. There were 5 foals, 3 duns a red dun with a blaze face and a bay. The red foal looked a couple of months younger than the others. We identified one grulla stallion, a dun stallion and a stallion about the color of Dino (kind of a coppery darker dun if you don't know Dino). There was one grulla mare lighter than the rest and the grulla stallion was very dark. Rick was able to film for quite a while. They moved off up the hill to a plateau but not before some of them came closer to look at us. He filmed again on the plateau and was challenged by a dun stallion who came closer and close and closer, snorted and huffed a little and then walked back to the herd. He must have given a sign because they all moved off up and over a ridge and we lost them. We never saw the whole herd a once on Sunday, but there were hunters around. It was the same herd in the you tube video from the hunters.
Sunday we saw a band on the same hill near Wood Camp as on Saturday. We were further along the main road where it travels around a big hill on your left and a big drop to the valley below where you usually see cattle and a water hole. We looked off across that valley and on the hill opposite we saw a Claybank & possible a claybank foal and 2 more duns. We also found a lone stallion next to a Roaring Springs fence, hanging out with a herd of cattle. I am posting pics of the band of five and of the stallion. Do you think he is Kiger? Sorry about the quality of the shots of the stallion. It was cloudy and I had the camera on the wrong setting for the conditions.
They all looked healthy, except for the limp. What a treat
. I kept the binoculars trained on the herd, counting and looking a colors and markings. I saw very little white on them, except for the blaze face foal and a blaze face mare, an occasional white hind sock and a few with a white spot on thier foreheads. I'm curious to know more about the freez branded male and the solitary stallion so I'll let you know if I find out more.
Saturday afternoon we were on the main road almost to Wood Camp and grazing across the road were 23 or 24 horses ;D I counted 7 grullas, 14 or 15 duns, a red dun and a bay. There were 5 foals, 3 duns a red dun with a blaze face and a bay. The red foal looked a couple of months younger than the others. We identified one grulla stallion, a dun stallion and a stallion about the color of Dino (kind of a coppery darker dun if you don't know Dino). There was one grulla mare lighter than the rest and the grulla stallion was very dark. Rick was able to film for quite a while. They moved off up the hill to a plateau but not before some of them came closer to look at us. He filmed again on the plateau and was challenged by a dun stallion who came closer and close and closer, snorted and huffed a little and then walked back to the herd. He must have given a sign because they all moved off up and over a ridge and we lost them. We never saw the whole herd a once on Sunday, but there were hunters around. It was the same herd in the you tube video from the hunters.
Sunday we saw a band on the same hill near Wood Camp as on Saturday. We were further along the main road where it travels around a big hill on your left and a big drop to the valley below where you usually see cattle and a water hole. We looked off across that valley and on the hill opposite we saw a Claybank & possible a claybank foal and 2 more duns. We also found a lone stallion next to a Roaring Springs fence, hanging out with a herd of cattle. I am posting pics of the band of five and of the stallion. Do you think he is Kiger? Sorry about the quality of the shots of the stallion. It was cloudy and I had the camera on the wrong setting for the conditions.
They all looked healthy, except for the limp. What a treat
. I kept the binoculars trained on the herd, counting and looking a colors and markings. I saw very little white on them, except for the blaze face foal and a blaze face mare, an occasional white hind sock and a few with a white spot on thier foreheads. I'm curious to know more about the freez branded male and the solitary stallion so I'll let you know if I find out more.
I can't wait to see more!
. Next year I vow to do this on horseback, hoping we can get closer and follow them further. 
