 1 IMG 5436 7D Profile against blue. He was as high as he could go so he looked around to see things. This was taken 11-08-2011
|  2 IMG 8452 5D MKII This was a bear that ran when it saw my vehicle. It came down from the Book Cliff mountains to find something to eat. A late heavy frost in the mountains froze all the budding berry bushes. So the bears were hungry. This guy got a bee hive near by the day before this. He is the black dot in the middle of the photo running for the corn field.
|  3 IMG 9023 5D MKII This was a young bull moose on the west slope of Rocky Mountain National Park. It was taken September 28, 2014
|  4 IMG 5432 7D I had forgot about these photo's. Not sure how I did that but I did.
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 5 IMG 5442 7D He was getting ready to come down because he was at the peak of his upward climb.
|  6 IMG 5451 7D He is slowly making his way down. There was one way up and one way down for even him. The other side dropped off straight down for a 100 feet or so.
|  7 IMG 5339 7D My first ram I'd seen in Colorado National Monument in a while. He is pretty young because the end of his horns are not paint brushed yet. This was October 3rd of 2014
|  8 IMG 5390 7D This is him again. There was one in this bunch that had paint brushed horns but I never saw him again after this day. Maybe this young guy ran him off?
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 9 IMG 5396 7D The ram with paint brushed horns is in this photo.
|  10 IMG 5402 7D There the ram with paint brushed horns is now!
|  11 IMG 5407 7D This is a young ram
|  12 IMG 5440 7D Here is the brushed horns again. Guess I saw him another time This is was October 4th of 2014.
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 13 IMG 5456 7D This guy is joining the herd.
|  14 IMG 5672 7D So far these are of a Rocky Mountain Big Horn ram and his herd. We were on our way to Rocky Mountain National Park to see the Elk. These guys were just south of Kremmling, Colorado. We saw the elk later that day in the
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|  20 IMG 5681 7D They all went over that rail and down a long hill to the Colorado River below, he brought up the rear.
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 21 IMG 5722 7D This is the biggest bull I've ever seen on the west side of the Park. He had a small herd but all the younger elk that crossed the road seemed to be much younger than this guy. The 5 point bull they had was not a match for this big guy and they were separated by maybe a mile.
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 25 IMG 5800 7D This is the small 5 point bull but he would have been no match for that big one. The bull of this size usually do not take part in the rut because they would lose to a bigger bull. Maybe this bunch were not ready for the rut. More like a bunch of teenagers so to speak?
|  26 IMG 5819 7D Still there were a few full grown cows in this bunch and they seemed to have calves with them yet. They didn't seem to be interested in the young bull. Maybe the rut was about over for most of the elk already.
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|  30 IMG 5890 7D This the first new one.. those that follow are the other 47 that I just added. In case you can not see this ewes nose it in the grass and we are looking at her eye and left side of her face below her eye.
|  31 IMG 5892 7D This is probably one of this years lambs. The picture before this is the start of pictures taken the 3rd of November 2014 in the Colorado National Monument in view of the Visitors Center too.
|  32 IMG 5893 7D Again.
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 33 IMG 5897 7D Yum Yum .... dry grass and just who are you?
|  34 IMG 5898 7D How's his for a profile?
|  35 IMG 5899 7D More of the same?
|  36 IMG 5900 7D Ggain...
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 37 IMG 5906 7D Family
|  38 IMG 5907 7D O we have a visitor. What is that thing in your hand?
|  39 IMG 5909 7D The others were to busy doing what sheep do........ what ever that is.
|  40 IMG 5912 7D Another pose?
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 41 IMG 5913 7D Again?
|  42 IMG 5916 7D Wow I can see over the guard rail even.
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|  44 IMG 5920 7D More looking
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 45 IMG 5922 7D Hey are you still here?
|  46 IMG 5923 7D How about a few poses .... again? Now remember I'm not a ham..
|  47 IMG 5925 7D No I'm not
|  48 IMG 5927 7D At least the cars can hit me.
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 49 IMG 5929 7D Another lamb
|  50 IMG 5932 7D He can jump that any time.
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|  52 IMG 5935 7D They are checking me out.
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|  63 IMG 5958 7D The ram with the wide spread is quite a bit younger than the one in front of him. They butted heads once while I was taking these photo's but he didn't try it again. The real head butts are loud and this wasn't loud at all.
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|  71 IMG 5995 7D One last pose?
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 73 IMG 6010 7D One of the girls and the ram.....
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|  76 IMG 6042 7D Up close and personal yet at a safe distance... love the telephoto lens!
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 77 IMG 9090 5D MKII A few days later I caught the same bunch in another place. This photo and the rest of the photo's were taken of the same ram but on October 9th of 2014. There was only one herd that in the Frutia Valley during October and last time they were seen was November 9 by me.
|  78 IMG 9103 5D MKII This guy was all by himself. The bigger ram was down the hill and I never saw him again.
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|  80 IMG 9127 5D MKII Okay there is a ewe on that rock! Hey EWE!!
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