Home Forums Gear Photography Cookie's Annual Pronghorn Run

Tough shooting this year as water and forage are near non existent here in south east Oregon. Cookie set up near some travel and feeding sites anyway, and did get to trip the shutter a few times. Nothing quite close enough for portrait type shots, but some fair pictures none the less.

A small group down on the flood irrigeted ag lands near Adel, Or. If one looks at the terraces on the center background slopes, he can tell there was lots of water around after the last ice age. A closed basin there with no water making it to the sea.


The same buck working up a scrape


Same buck again giving an accompanying doe a work out.


A near altercation out in the desert with some better bucks.


Mom and a couple kids again in the desert. These guys were literally digging for roots, so the coming fall and winter are going to be tough with not much in the way of herbage about. Thank goodness they are one of the few critters that can handle sagebrush in the diet. Taste a leaf someday, and one can understand why most herbivores won't touch it.


Last, an injured buck. Cookie said he was getting around just fine, simply had a leak on his upper left side. Don't know if it's a fence run in, recent hunting season injury, or a product of the ongoing rut.


Have a good one,

Nice pictures, looks like you could use some rain.

RNF:
Yes, some fall rains and a ton of winter snows. This region and our accompanying vegetation really lives or dies with snow. We've only had trace amounts for the last 3 winters. Essentially nothing has grown out in the deserts for the last two summers and our springs/streams are near dry except for the highest elevations. Twenty two of 24 habitual water sources in some of the country we frequent are completely dry and displacing a lot of wildlife.

GREAT Photos!

I sure enjoyed the post.

Nice pictures, your wife sure has a talent with a camera.

Never tire of looking at great wildlife photos, thanks for sharing!

Cookie just never fails to deliver the good stuff!!!