Wild Horses

Yesterday, while Brian was way up in the divide between the ranch and the Owyhee desert fixing fences, he came across 4 different groups of wild horses. One of the groups had 34 horses in it. Most of them, when he got very close in the quad, would run the other way. However, in one of the groups there was a black horse with a white star on his forehead that stood his ground firm face to face with Brian while the rest ran off. Brian was about 20 feet from him before he finally turned and went the other way. Brian spent much of the day fixing fences that the horses had destroyed.

Sometime this summer, the BLM will do a wild horse round up, similar to what they do around Burns in Eastern Oregon, and bring some of the horses in for auction. They do this to keep the population of wild horses under control.

I wish we had pictures, but Brian didn't take the camera with him yesterday (among all the other tools and fence paraphernalia he had strapped to the quad). So I'll put up a few

random pictures of some cool birds we've seen. With the flood irrigation we use, it makes much of the fields around the house like a wetland, and we hear and see hundreds of birds everyday, many that I have never seen before. Brian said he's seen more doves here

than he as ever seen elsewhere.