Fun Friday: No Egg on My Face … Just Snow!

By James Braswell | Published November 21, 2014

This Bighorn ewe had a bit of snow on her face after eating some snow. The Platte River, which lies just a few feet behind her, was frozen, so her and the other sheep would eat snow for moisture intake. And when not eating snow, they would forage in the snowy areas for grasses. Photographic […]

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Let the Games Begin!

By James Braswell | Published November 20, 2014

Shortly after seeing the first of the Bighorn Sheep in Waterton Canyon, a small group of us were standing on an access road photographing the sheep on the snowy slopes. Movement from our far left caused us to turn our heads in time to see a group of Bighorn Sheep rams chasing a ewe. Here […]

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Encountering the Rams

By James Braswell | Published November 19, 2014

I’ve just returned home from my trip to Waterton Canyon to photograph the Bighorn Sheep in the rut. My first encounter with several rams was within minutes of finding the first herd of Bighorn Sheep (Bighorn Sheep Herd #1). There were several large rams along the slope. Here are a couple of images captured that […]

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Bighorn Sheep Herd #1

By James Braswell | Published November 17, 2014

Today’s post is the first of the Waterton Canyon Bighorn Sheep. On my first hike into the canyon, this was the first herd I came upon. There was a single, rather large ram, along with several juvenile rams, lots of ewes and even some first-year lambs. They were busy grazing along the snowy slope of […]

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Rocky Mountain High

By James Braswell | Published October 4, 2014

On the last day in Rocky Mountain NP, on my recent trip there, I decided to take Trail Ridge Road all the way to the top and over to the west side, near Grand Lake. I’ve never been all the way over to the west side, so wasn’t sure what to expect. Probably the “best” […]

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Glacier’s Bighorn Sheep

By James Braswell | Published July 10, 2014

I was beginning to think I would not see the Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis) that normally are found around the Continental Divide area of Glacier NP, but on my last day in the park, I was finally able to spot and photograph a group of sheep that were crossing a snow-covered slope at Logan Pass: […]

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