Desert Bighorn Sheep

[Art Eatman]

The Texas Bighorn Society has a website. Among other features are live-feed cameras at selected spots. From time to time, sheep show up in the cameras.

http://www.texasbighornsociety.org/index.php/photos-videos/bighorn-webcam

You can learn more from browsing around the website.

Once extinct in Texas (mostly from Blue Tongue from domestic sheep), they now number over 1,400 in several locations.

 

[climbnjump]

Camera 1: Ewe Alley - A couple of funny "gotta sniff the camera" photos there... Almost makes you want to go right back at 'em!

 

[LeonCarr]

Those guys are scrappers.

Look at the various cuts/scrapes/wounds they accumulate, and I am guessing not all of them are from rocks.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

 

[jim in Anchorage]

Those are called "mountains?"

 

[splattergun]

Those are called "mountains?"

Not everything is bigger in Texas.

 

[Art Eatman]

If you're down in a valley and it's a 45 to 60 degree climb up some 500 or so feet, it feels like a mountain. Low country elevation is around 2,500; peaks around 4,500.

Nowhere near the high Rockies for being way up there, but the rolling rocks, cactus, mesquite and catclaw make the walking rather interesting. Rattleworms, scorpions and spiders can make for interesting thoughts when camping out.

From about 4,000 feet above the Solitario:

http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=543&d=1042925259

 

[AKElroy]

If you're down in a valley and it's a 45 to 60 degree climb up some 500 or so feet, it feels like a mountain. Low country elevation is around 2,500; peaks around 4,500.

+1. I hunted in similar country, not to far from your neck of the woods about 40 miles north of Dell City. Closest we got to sheep was a mile or better on an adjacent hillside. We had no idea what we were doing, beyond under estimating how freaking hard it was to climb up and down those non-mountains. I nearly died.

 

[d2wing]

Nice.

 

[buck460XVR]

The Texas Bighorn Society has a website. Among other features are live-feed cameras at selected spots. From time to time, sheep show up in the cameras.

http://www.texasbighornsociety.org/index.php/photos-videos/bighorn-webcam

You can learn more from browsing around the website.

Once extinct in Texas (mostly from Blue Tongue from domestic sheep), they now number over 1,400 in several locations.

That's pretty cool Art. Similar to the reintroduction of Elk here in Wisconsin. We don't seem to be having the success you are tho. Part of the problem is the large areas of suitable habitat that Elk need is not readily available. So they put 'em on the the large tracts of public land where the habitat is marginal. I doubt there were ever big numbers of elk here and the reason they were eliminated so quickly and easily when the area was first settled. Still, it's nice to drive 20 miles and hear Elk Bugling in the fall as opposed to 1000.

 

[IdahoSkies]

That is really cool. We have peregrine nesting boxes on camera in downtown boise that are fun to watch, but nothing like "glassing" from the desktop while at work.

 

[Art Eatman]

Peregrines nest on high-up window ledges in downtown NYC and Atlanta, GA.