California Bighorn Sheep

Posted by PopeShawnPaul on Tue Oct 18, 2016 9:13 am

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This is the California subspecies of the Bighorn Sheep. Shot in the high sage desert in eastern Washington out rutting a female in a sage flat. These are hunted sheep so I had to work it and have some mm's to get the shot.

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by Carol Clarke on Tue Oct 18, 2016 5:12 pm

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We're spoilt for choice with Bighorn Sheep this week! Another really nice portrait of these photogenic creatures.

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by john on Tue Oct 18, 2016 9:54 pm

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A nice portrait poking out through those oof grasses.

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by Cindy Marple on Wed Oct 19, 2016 7:30 pm

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Nicely framed with the soft out of focus grass. Brings you right to the subject.

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by John P on Thu Oct 20, 2016 7:50 am

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Beautiful portrait of this Ram, I like the OOF foliage!

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by Mike in O on Fri Oct 21, 2016 12:28 pm

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People are spoiled by sheep shots in National Parks, good find and shot. A little more biology of this subspecies to the canyon lands of the northwest...after disease and overhunting killed off the Bighorns of Oregon and Washington, a reintroduction from the Williams area of British Columbia to Hart Mountain in SE Oregon became the mother herd for Oregon and Washington, how they got the name California Bighorns I don't know. There is a Sierra and Desert Bighorn in California.

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by Tom Reichner on Sat Oct 22, 2016 1:19 pm

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It's nice to see this little-photographed subspecies. They sure are skittish, and a lot harder to work than wild sheep usually are - they don't just let you walk right up to them and shoot 'em with a short zoom. I like the way that your image shows the tallgrass and sage habitat in which they live. Your patience and stealth paid off!

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by TerryWSmith on Sat Oct 22, 2016 4:39 pm