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Salt Wells Creek youngsters, caught in mid-scamper!
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
Four horses, chestnuts and a bay, are in animated motion, walking together towards the camera and looking curiously at the photographer. They are on a hilltop plain of grass and low sagebrush, with a darkish cloudy sky above them.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Wild horses among the dunes of Sable Island National Park Reserve: you might sometimes notice the island on the flight tracker map on transatlantic flights - it is about 180 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia in the North Atlantic. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A small but stout bay horse is standing in the lower left of the frame, somewhat small in the image, and a very tall grass covered dune rises in the background. There are a couple of out of focus horses high on the dune, grazing.
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Assateague Island filly N2BHS-APV Little Acorn, as a youngster in winter 2023 #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A head and shoulders shot of a bay pinto filly in a winter coat, in motion as she walks from left to right in the frame. She is mostly brown with small white spots in her coat, and the image has a warm tone. The bay pinto filly is standing on a road with barrier-island vegetation along the side of the road - scrubby pines, bayberry shrubs, and grasses. With this whole body shot we can see her tall white stockings. A head and shoulders portrait of the bay filly, as she faces left to right in the frame, with a backdrop of a tangle of winter-brown shrubs.
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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This little character is a wild burro living in Arizona's Lake Pleasant Regional Park. #photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros
In a Sonoran desert landscape, with a gravelly ground, tufts of dried brown grass and surrounded by low mesquite trees, a dark brown yearling burro is standing facing the camera and looking off to the left of the frame.
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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A black tailed prairie dog, Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota #photography #wildlife
Sitting up on its haunches with front paws extended out ahead, a prairie dog is facing left to right in the frame, on a dirt covered gentle slope and a clear blue sky above. The prairie dog is sitting upright on a dirt slope with sparse brown vegetation, holding its paws up in front of its chest, and facing left to right in the frame. It is somewhat small in the top right quadrant of the image, and there is a blue sky in the background
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Cosmo and his bachelor bros, Salt Wells Creek
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A red roan pinto stallion who looks very stout is walking in an oblique angle towards the camera, looking casual. He is accompanied by his bachelor stallion friends including a black, a chestnut with a blaze, a bay with a blaze, and another black horse behind them but mostly obscured. They are walking through sagebrush with a low mountain ridge in the far background and a clear blue sky above.
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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This spectacular stallion lived a distinguished long life in McCullough Peaks HMA in Wyoming. I got to see him during his last spring and felt so privileged to make his acquaintance.
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
In a sagebrush steppe landscape with a distant background of snow-capped mountains, a black and white pinto stallion with a blaze, and with mud on his coat, is in the right side of the frame walking somewhat towards the camera. A black and white stallion with a blaze and a good layer of mud on his coat walks animatedly from right to left in the frame, in a sagebrush landscape with a low badlands ridge in the background and a clear blue sky above. This is a head and shoulders view of the black and white pinto stallion, still covered in mud! He is walking from right to left in the frame, with his right leg forward and looking where he is going. There is an out of focus ridge of badlands formations in the distant background.
November 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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A white mare with a mottled pink muzzle is standing in a grassy meadow alongside a curve in a small river, with a line of green oak trees in the background. It is a sunny day. The mare is facing right to left in the frame and we see part of another gray/white horse grazing behind her. A head and shoulders close-up of a white mare with a mottled pink muzzle, looking right to left in the frame, with an out of focus bend in a river and oak trees in the background. The mare is looking alert with her ears pricked forward.
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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A sandhill crane in flight at Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge #photography #wildlife #birbs
A sandhill crane is flying with wings swept up, from left to right in the frame, against a backdrop of a cloudy sky
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Racing your herdmates just for funnies, at McCullough Peaks HMA
In a setting of sagebrush with a low mountain ridge in the far background and somewhat stormy sky, a black and white pinto horse is shown galloping in the foreground, left to right in the frame. He is overtaking a muddy bay pinto stallion. In a setting of sagebrush with a low mountain ridge in the far background and somewhat stormy sky, a black and white pinto horse is shown galloping in the foreground, left to right in the frame. He is overtaking a muddy bay pinto stallion.
November 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Best #Caturday wishes from Garak! He has 27 toes and loves playing with his fuzzy toys.
A gray cat with yellow eyes and a white patch on his chest is sitting poses against a plain black background .
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Wild burros up on top of the mountain at California's Box Springs Mountain Reserve are gathering to head for a drink together. #photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros
About 8 wild burros have converged together alongside a dirt road in an arid mountaintop landscape. the prevailing color tone in the image is brown. The burros are variously looking at the camera, snuffling at the ground, and looking at each other. There are rocky hilltops in the background under a white-cloudy sky.
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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One of the dreamy white mares of Missouri's wild horse population in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A white mare with a pink muzzle is standing in a grassy meadow, relaxed with one hip relaxed, and facing left to right in the frame. The background is a line of oak and evergreen trees.
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park and color-coordinated blue roan mares: Cassie and Dawn's Early Light #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
Two blue roan mares are in the center of the frame, trotting side by side from left to right. They are in a setting of rolling prairie with the slope of a badlands formation in the background. A blue roan mare trots right to left in the bottom right corner of the frame, with her ears pricked forward and a swish to her tail. Her setting is rolling prairie with interspersed hills and badlands in the background.
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Brewer's sparrow, Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge
#photography #birbs #wildlife
A small sparrow with mottled brown plumage and a light cream underside is perched on the tippy-top of a sagebrush shrub. the bird is small int he frame and the background is an out of focus river and green vegetation on the banks.
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Bandmates having a little moment together, in Ruidoso, New Mexico
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A chestnut horse with a wide blaze is making a mild face at a bay horse with a big star marking. The bay horse is just starting to wheel away. They are in a meadow of brown grass with a pine forest in the background.
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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A colorful morning at Salt Wells Creek with these two bandmates #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
In an arid setting amid tall sagebrush, a several months old chestnut foal with a blaze is standing facing right to left in the frame and looking at the camera. There is a low mountain ridge sloping up in the distant background, and the sky is stripes of bright orange and clouds. A roan two or three year old filly is stepping curiously towards the camera. She is in a grass and sagebrush landscape with a low mountain sloping behind her in the background, and the upper left corner of the image shows the bright orange sunrise striped with darker clouds.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Scenes from the coalfields of Breathitt County, Kentucky, where free roaming horses (as well as some cattle) have been scratching out a tough living. 1/2 #photography #wildhorses
A dark brown horse looks intently at the camera, while assorted other horses graze on green vegetation in the out of focus background, with a treeline of pines behind them. A dark brown stallion is standing such that he is facing right to left in the frame, so we see his left side. He is alert but not alarmed, and looking at something out of frame to the left. He is in a field of sparse green grass and weeds, with a treeline of pines in the background. About 7 chestnut and dark bay horses graze in a field of sparse green grass and weeds, with pine trees behind them in the background.
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Cole Run Falls in Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands is such a magic little place when it's snowing. #photography
A waterfall tumbles into a wooded valley of eastern hemlock and rhododendrons. It is snowing, and the ground, rocks, and trees surrounding the waterfall are all covered in a layer of snow.
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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A buckskin mare and her three year old colt head for a drink of water in the Little Book Cliffs HMA, Colorado #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
In an arid canyon dotted with sagebrush shrubs and juniper trees, two buckskin horses are walking left to right int he frame towards a small creek that flows among the light brown rocks, their heads low as they are looking for a drink.
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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White tailed prairie dog family members checking out the world outside of their burrow complex, in Salt Wells Creek, Wyoming. #photography #wildlife
A prairie dog is standing up on its hind legs in the left side of the frame looking towards the right. Her front legs and paws are hanging down in front of her. The setting is the dirt front porch of her burrow, with short sparse grass in the background. A white tailed prairie dog is sitting upright on her haunches, nestled in a low sagebrush shrub. She is in the right side of the frame looking to the left, and there is sparse green and brown grass in the background.
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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This dynamic dude was prancing around having big feelings after another stallion had looked at his mares - at the lower Salt River in Arizona's Tonto National Forest #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A chestnut stallion stands on a shoal of gravel in a river, with desert trees in the background. He is standing in the left side of the frame and looking towards the right, alert and intent. The chestnut stallion is now trotting from left to right in the frame, along the gravel shoal in the river. He is looking dynamic with his neck high and arched. The chestnut stallion is trotting in a way that the dressage folks would describe as collected trot, with his neck arched and head held high, and putting some real bounce in his step. The chestnut stallion has wheeled around and is now moving intently along the gravel shoal from right to left in the frame and he is snaking his mares who are out of frame to the left, with his head low and ears pinned back.
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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A little wild horse family in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest #wildhorses #wildhorsepc #photography
We see three horses shown standing close to each other side by side and generally head-and-shoulders and facing right to left in the camera. Nearest is a bay horse with his ears slightly back as the buckskin foal next to him is about to touch muzzles. The buckskin mare farther back is looking at them both. The background is out of focus piñon-juniper forest.
November 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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A couple years ago, these Theodore Roosevelt National Park characters were running together as a little gray bachelor stallion band: Wildrye, Anthem, and Arcola. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A gray horse is shown head and shoulders, facing left to right in the frame. His mane and forelock are dark gray and tousled in the wind. We can see the muzzle of another gray horse and the butt of another under his neck in the background. Farther back the background is an out of focus steep slope in sparse green vegetation. A gray horse with a blaze and darker mane and tail is standing in tall grass with a steep hillside behind him. He is facing right to left in the frame and looking at the camera. Three gray horses are walking side by side together as they graze in prairie grass as a grassy slope rising behind them. A gray horse with a faint blaze is walking at an oblique angle towards the camera, right to left in the frame, in a setting of prairie grass.
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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I'm headed for a couple weeks at Catalina State Park near Tucson next month and CANNOT WAIT to see these lil piggles again. Javelina aka collared peccary.
#photography #wildlife
A javelina or collared peccary is part of the broad pig family of species so we see a dark gray-brown peccary facing the camera with its head down as it snuffles the ground. The setting is brown and green grasses, and there is a javelina in the background out of focus and facing away.
November 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM