All in the Family

 Here we do not witness the large pronghorn migrations that they get in the southwest part of the state involving hundreds of antelope. But we do have a pretty healthy resident population that hangs around for much of the year. In the winter they will gather in bigger groups but this time of year we see individuals or small family clusters. It has been a real treat to see quite a few young this year. Still - seeing this group of two mamas with five youngsters yesterday was wonderful!

If you click on this photo you will see the youngsters exhibiting the "warning" behavior of fluffing up their white butts even though the mamas seem pretty calm. I am not sure if it is more a sign to warn others - like a white tail deer does when it throws up its tail - or an attempt to make them seem bigger than they are - like a cat.

 And, of course, I had to include a shot with Heart Mountain. Two of the babies had wandered off a little ways in this photo.

Ken and Allmon (our grandson) took a three day trip to Deep Lake and back, arriving home yesterday. I have to share this shot Ken took at Deep Lake of a snowshoe hare in the middle of his transition from white winter wear to brown summer garb. I wish I had seen it!!