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November 11, 2011
Bighorn Rams Fighting in Clear Creek County, Colorado

Bighorn Rams Fighting

Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA

Canon EOS 1D Mk IV, 500 f4, 1/1500 sec, f8, ISO 320

Image taken on November 10, 2011.

We hung out with a group of bighorn sheep yesterday in Clear Creek County, Colorado. It's the beginning of the rut and the rams are getting excited — literally. :) We saw lots of typical rut behavior: lip curling, low crouching, attentive following, attempted mounting, and head butting. The environment was a little messy for this image of two rams head butting, but I like the diagonal and fully-outstretched rear legs of the ram coming up from downhill.

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Wildlife, Fur (North America), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA, North America

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November 16, 2011, 4:07 PM
by Gordon

It may be messy but really does show the environment they live in and the terrain that they do their sparring in.
I like it.

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