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Wild Horses

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Posted by Michael Schlansker on October 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Wild Horses
Not much of an art photo, but it will give you the idea of what is available. We saw these and many more wild horses on our way to the petroglyph site described below. This pair was part of a larger herd of about a dozen horses.

The creek provides an isolated patch of drinking water and green growth in a very dry desert climate.

The mare on the right was not happy with our presence at all. She soon escorted the entire herd away to safety.
Posted by David Page on October 4, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Beautiful horses. From this photograph it looks like you were pretty close.

- DMP
Posted by Michael Schlansker on October 5, 2009 at 3:17 PM
We were quite close. We were about 15 ft up vertically on top of the creek bank and maybe 40 ft away. We had to get close to look over the bank.

Canon 50d and 100-400L.
Posted by Paul Breitkreuz on October 8, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Very cool, Michael. :cool: I can tell you that I live in a horse lover family on all sides. Although, admittedly I'm not involved at all myself many of my family members are. These are two wonderful looking animals and I can only hope they do not fall prey to auctioneers as sadly many of them do. Overall, there is A LOT of support from various groups including the BLM who try their best to keep up the support and protection with annual roundups and public adoption programs. Thanks for sharing these, I'll pass this link on to my family too. :wink: