Spring is a wonderful time of year in the back areas of our national parks. There are so many wildflowers on display. Today was spent viewing habitat of the Rocky Mountain National Park. The seasonal conditions have not been the best in the area. However, in spite of that we were able to see a wide variety of wildlife.
The highlight of the outing would definitely have to be the Bighorn Sheep. Our studies brought us to the alpine areas of the park, where a stag party of the sheep were gathered sunning themselves on the side of the mountains. Most of the time seeing wildlife like this requires high powered scopes, lenses, and other visual equipment, but this group of bighorn seemed to find us a little interesting. They made their way across the roadway, some of them only a car-length away from us, and marched their way over the top of the mountain. Beautiful. A little later we also came across several ewes and their lambs feeding in the cliffs. The lambs couldn’t have been more than a few days old.
