in the Park

It was Pronghorn Day in Custer State Park 7/13/13! Big ones, little ones, curious ones, hungry ones and disdainful ones! The buck just stood like a statue for several moments, like we were supposed to pay homage and admire his elegance.

While I was taking pictures of the doe and the fawns, I was using a road sign as a kind of monopod for the camera with the telephoto.  Apparently, this youthful mountain bluebird thought I was part of the sign. He landed, chirruped for a few minutes, looked down, realized I was not road sign, screeched in alarm and fled. I got just one shot of him just as he discovered I was there.

on the way home from School...

other kids were on their way home, too. Pronghorns are very wary of Subarus and camera lenses, they were not going to let me get very close. What a neat thing to see along the roadside on the edge of town. Bighorns to the west side, pronghorns on the east side.