Horny sheep? (no pun intended)

Last weekend I was in eastern Yosemite for a field seminar chasing Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. Biologist and seminar leader John Wehausen has been studying them in the eastern Sierra for 30 years. Above Mono Pass Wehausen spotted not one, not two, but four ewes, a young ram and a female lamb along the ridgeline. Maybe 30 people from other trips and individual parties stopped at the pass to look through John's two spotting scopes and my lens at the sheep. It was like Grand Central - John said he'd never seen so many people there. I was a little too far away:
http://www.mountain-and-desert.com/Wildlife/Mammals/Horned/ML-HD-SN0037-5.htm

This is how close I like to get. This shot's of one of Glacier National Park's Rocky Mountain bighorns:
http://www.mountain-and-desert.com/Wildlife/Mammals/Horned/ML-HD-MB0002-5.htm

The next day in the Sierras we saw no sheep. The pass was deserted so a pika and several golden-mantled ground squirrels were out foraging:
http://www.mountain-and-desert.com/Wildlife/Mammals/Voles%20&%20Shrews/DML-VS-PK0001-5.htm
http://www.mountain-and-desert.com/Wildlife/Mammals/Squirrels%20-%20ground/DML-GS-GM0051.htm
The last guy's copping Paul McCartney's pose on the Red Rose Speedway album cover.

All comments welcome.

Mark Bohrer
www.mountain-and-desert.com
Adventure travel and wildlife photography 


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