Helpful Posts: The rocky mountain bighorn sheep have returned to the valley floor of Jackson Hole Wyoming from their summer home in the high mountains. Two days ago a herd of fifteen ewes and lambs were on the National Elk Refuge. Yesterday these seven rams appeared. Within a week the rut will begin. The rams will start butting heads and pursue the ewes in heat. I plan to spend a fair amount of time observing and photographing this happening. Once the rut begins things get wild.
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Thread: Big Boys Are Back
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10th November 2017, 07:22 PM #1
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10th November 2017, 09:33 PM #2Moderator
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Nice image Chuck. It looks like these boys won't be hanging around together and acting like best of friends when rutting season starts.
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10th November 2017, 09:51 PM #3Moderator
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Lovely image. Nailed the focus and the background is beautifully out-of-focus. The pose of those we can see is excellent, really excellent.
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10th November 2017, 11:15 PM #4
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Nicely captured.
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11th November 2017, 05:27 AM #5
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Well done image. I look forward to seeing what else you capture with these wonderful animals.
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11th November 2017, 08:44 AM #6
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Very, very nice indeed Chuck.
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11th November 2017, 11:35 AM #7
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Very nice image. You say there are seven rams in the photo. I an only see four. Is this a case of counting the legs and dividing by four?
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11th November 2017, 01:23 PM #8
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Chuck, beautiful photo. Strangely, I have yet to see one in the Bighorn Mountains.
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12th November 2017, 02:46 AM #9
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Thank you all for the comments. John, I liked your question. I counted the legs and when I divided I got six and three quarters sheep. I don't know what happened to the other 1/4. There really were seven. It was a good day.
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13th November 2017, 07:49 AM #10
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Nice one, Chuck.
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13th November 2017, 10:18 AM #11
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Same here, I can only count 27 feet.
Originally Posted by Teton Chuck
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13th November 2017, 03:58 PM #12
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Wonderful capture... Looks like they were posing for you
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