Yearling

Yearling

Up again on Mt Evans (I took a few days off work and couldn’t think of a better place to spend my time). The weather was kind of, well, bad. It was overcast, temps again in the mid-twenties, gusty winds up to 15mph, for a wind chill of about Holy Crap.

Of course the weather didn’t effect the mountain goats. This was a little over 14,000ft. I ran into a group of 6 yearling kids and 2 nannies. Unusual for there to be that many kids with that few nannies – I suspect some of their mothers are about to give birth and they’re temporarily hanging out with other families.

The large group of kids was behaving like any other group of youngsters – butting, displaying, and running all over the place. The adults would tolerate it for brief periods of time, and then do some posturing of their own after being bumped into several times.

This little guy went running up the side of a mountain to escape the posturing of an adult, and soon came running back down to join the other kids.

Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus)
Mt Evans, CO
Sony a700
Sigma 300/2.8
Giottos tripod, Acratech ballhead, Wimberley Sidekick

ISO00, 1/5000sec, f/5

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