ditchdigger Loc: Boulder City NV

Drove over to Hemingway park yesterday where a herd of desert big horn sheep always spend their summer vacation. They stay in the River Mountains behind Boulder City most of the year, but come down during the hot months to lounge under the shade trees and munch on the grass. The park (about a mile from my house) is located right at the foot of the mountains and the sheep come down almost every day around 10am and stay until dusk when they go back up to their natural habitat. This makes it easy for the Nevada fish and game dept. to capture a couple of dozen of them to start new herds in places as far away as Texas...by the end of summer they are almost tame.

I shot a few photos out of the car window while I was there with my Sony RX10IV. Here are two of them (jpegs right out of the camera...one slightly cropped and the second heavily cropped).

Aside: I,ve Always wondered why they are called sheep when they look and act more like goats. Unlike sheep, they poop little round hard pellets like goats or deer. Just ask anyone who gets on the grass after they have been there...
LOL.

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UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Nice set! Cuts down on lawn mowing.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

I just mowed my lawn. Darn. I've been thinking of buying a herd of goats to eat all the weeds and unwanted small shrubs. Nice couple images, by the way.

Jay Pat Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA

Nice catch!!
Pat

ditchdigger Loc: Boulder City NV

Thanks, Mac...you catch ‘em and I’ll rent them to you.

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

That's a nice series. Good work.

ditchdigger Loc: Boulder City NV

I don’t know, Mike. With these lawn mowers the grass goes in one end and comes out the other as fertilizer which grows more grass that makes more fertilizer which grows more grass...ad finitum.

fourg1b2006 Loc: Long Island New York

A playground for sheep. Very nice.