pronghorn – On the Road with Buki-6

Yes, I did. It wasn’t a buffalo or a pronghorn, it wasn’t even Roy. You ask who or what was it then. My resident burro stalker. The only Jack in the herd had to have a crush on me. I am not sure that burros can recognize cars or people my bet they do. He was the first burro I fed, and I only did it to get close to the baby he was protecting. Every time that we fed them there, he was on my side of the car. I would get out of the car and there he was. I will come back to my kiss later on.

Our day started early we were on a mission to find where the whole herd of buffalo were hiding and to find and feed the burros again. We also had a chance to have a scout for a small group of pronghorns and then the small group crossed in front of us.

So, about the buffalo I have to say it was one of those times when it seemed most of the herd was in one place. Everywhere you looked you could see buffalo. I caught them rolling around, coming towards us on the road crossing in front of us. After we turned around to head out of the herd, we have a car speed by us and park in amongst the herd. As you can see from the video I think they are a special breed of stupid. When we drove past the car we did see that the crew were from the park. I guess they have to get in among the herd to get those epic shots people enjoy. Speaking of shots here are a few of the ones I took that day.

After the herd we took a short cut to see if the burros were where they usually hang out. This was where we were lucky enough to watch the pronghorn scout turn into crossing guard.

After we got back underway again, we found the burros. The baby is learning the art of begging early as you can see. Here are a few photos of Roy feeding them. The last picture he ran out of carrots.

So, about my stalker. I was out of carrots and wanted to take some pictures because other people had stopped to feed them and that act always make for good photos. I get out of the car and he starts to follow me. I decide to ignore him, as you can see from the video, he did not like that.

After a full morning of animal fun, we decided to grab a bite to eat then head home. Looking at each other we said the only thing missing from the animal sightings were the big horn sheep. Ask and look what appeared around the corner. Our day was complete.

stupid

the animals shined this year. I will be summing up my nighttime adventures soon. I will say that it was nothing like Joshua Tree. After striking out in the Badlands we lucked into seeing deer in the daylight as we headed out in search of the burros. I was only able to get their little white tails though. The deer do move fast especially when someone has to change camera settings. (Yes, I had to do this.)

We did not find any burros that day which was good because we would not have been able to feed them, we had no carrots. As you know if you ain’t got the carrots they ain’t got the time. We did have to do some errands and stuff so we grabbed lunch and then headed around Wildlife loop. We thought maybe today might be a bust until we came upon the most reliable animal in the park the buffalo. This year it has been funny they have been turning up in so many places you would not expect. It’s good because it keeps me on the look out. We saw them just hanging out near the road and hurrying across it when they did cross. So, there was not an endless buffalo jam. I think they were on a mission.