This may have been the longest day ever, judging by how long it has taken to get the pix selected, tweaked and posted.
When I left Bounce’s band, the youngsters were moving from grazing mode to play mode.
While I sat with Bounce and Alegre, the babies had grazed their way farther along the slope. I turned from the ultra-relaxed mare and stallion to see the three playmates kicking up their heels down to what must have been a crossing spot over a shallow arroyo that ran just behind Bounce and Alegre and come back toward us on the other side. I wanted to include these couple of pix to show some behavior but also again to show the size difference between Whisper and Liberty.
This “initiation” has been going on since Molly briefly lingered with the band. What is it we say about human little boys who “torment” and harass human little girls …? 
Meanwhile …
Mama and Daddy are nearby and unconcerned. Alegre was a few feet behind Bounce, but I liked the juxtaposition of their faces, so I cropped in.
I had seen most of the horses I had particularly wanted to see – not Poco and Roach – and I think they remain the horses I haven’t seen in the longest time, since early winter. I headed out of the basin and saw Grey/Traveler and Houdini and Terra on my way out. I debated driving down the county road to try to spot the pintos again – and/or David and Shadow and/or Bruiser, Twister and Cinch. The sun had dropped below clouds, and end of the day in the basin is always so gorgeous …
I thought, no way will I get lucky two visits in a row and see the pintos right off the road, but I decided to drive down anyway, just to see what I could see.
Deer were out by the hundreds, at least – all does and last year’s fawns from what I could tell. With the lack of snow, the Disappointment is a friendly place for them right now.
Shot right through the window of the Jeep from the Disappointment Road.
I drove on down … and who do you suppose I saw, not only right off the road again but even closer to the road this time??
Kiowa leads Milagro and Copper through the mud, which was sloppy-messy in the southern part of the herd area.
Chipeta was buzzing around trying to incite jealousy or I’m not sure what … Mesa was mostly just annoyed …
… especially when it worked on Ty, right (this pic taken immediately after the pic above).
She calmed down a bit when she got back around to Kiowa and nursing Milagro. That’s almost-3-year-old Reya in the background.
Spook in the middle now (isn’t she a big girl? 2 in May) and widened to include Copper.
Sometimes the older “babies” just aren’t ready to give up Mama … Spook, cutting off Milagro to be close to Kiowa.
Corazon is still with the band; I just realize he didn’t make it into my pictures this visit.
And there you finally have all the pony sightings of that lovely day last month (can you believe it’s March?!)! The horses are all wintering extremely well, I think, as you can tell by their luxurious coats and ripe little bellies!
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