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A Noble Beast on a Ridge

One can not praise stoic mental discipline too much during the winter camping season.  You have escaped heat and insects.  Congratulations!  But you must lose on something else, such as neighbors and motorhead yahoos.  

Still, a person does have a bit of control over the situation.  In general, physical or geographical relocation does not help too much.  Rather than looking for a spot where you can get away from noisy neighbors, it might work better to be pro-active and give a welcome to good neighbors.  Encourage them to cluster around you.   Even more, maybe solar campers need to work as an organized group.

That said, I had a bit of luck at a place where you really shouldn't expect to have much luck.  I was geographically separate from the morons but didn't expect it to last for long.  Still, it lasted long enough for a pleasant surprise as I stepped out of the trailer one morning:


What was this beast doing a hundred yards from my front door?!  What a noble look.  I sometimes wonder how animals make a living in a vegetation-free, gawd-forsaken wasteland.  Do they eat rocks?  Maybe this small group of borregos was on their way to water at the river and lake.



Comments

Barb in FL said…
Wow! How cool. Good looking animal. That first photo is frameable.
Did you get to watch him long enough to see him chew on anything?
I have yet to see them eating anything. I really am curious about which ghastly plant is edible.
Ed said…
Some favorite shrubs for desert bighorn sheep are acacia or catclaw, encelia, sweetbush, and krameria. Generally, bighorn sheep are opportunistic feeders that adapt their diet to the forage available.
They are also rather light feeders with #3 of edibles a day being sufficient and can go as long as 15 days without water.