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Bighorn Sheep Count 2011

dsefcik

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7/10/2011

dsefcik

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This was my first year participating in the Bighorn Sheep count for the Anza Borrego Desert State Park. We were required to attend a half day orientation on learning about Bighorn and how to distinguish sex and age. It was very helpful but for a first time counter I had a hard time determining all of those different factors quickly while watching the sheep graze and disappear down into the watering hole areas. My counting partner and I counted a total of 18 unique sheep over the three day event. Mostly it was one large herd that showed up every day. We were about 800-1000' up on a ridge so observing and counting them was difficult without high powered optics. My camera was limited in power so most of the below images are cropped heavily to zoom in.

All of the pictures from the trip are http://www.darensefcik.com/Photography/Anza-Borrego-Desert-State-Park/Bighorn-Sheep-Count-2011/17979989_KMNvQj

You can read the full Trip Report on my blog http://www.sefcik.com/2011/07/bighorn-sheep-count-2011-abdsp.html

Here are a few pictures from the trip. I spent three nights at Culp Valley and one night at Blair Valley.

A Ram, a yearling and an Ewe it looks like. There is actually a forth sheep behind the Ram