Bighorn Sheep on trailcam, Summer 2010
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:01 pm
The goal of getting these guys on camera started a long time ago. I got serious about it this spring, when many of you posted sightings on Ontario Ridge. Now I had a specific place to try!
Icehouse Canyon is kind of far for me to drive for a day hike. So the first time up, I made sure there were fresh batteries, and a good location, and planned to leave the camera out for about 6 weeks or so. Came back a month later (zero patience) only to find NO videos had been taken. Thought I had a bad batch of batteries, so I replaced them...then got to worrying something was actually wrong with the camera itself, so I had to go up there again after about a week. Everything checked out, and the following is the result of four trips up the ridge, the help of several friends, and the cooperation of this group of bighorn rams (the big boss seems to have a nice red radio collar too!)
There is about 11 minutes of footage of them. I'll upload the whole thing if anyone is interested. They do a lot of posturing in between actual sparring. They rub their heads together, and tense up and stare at each other with their noses out straight, heads parallel to the ground. And a lot of the time, they simply stand around doing nothing.
Thanks Jane, Archie, Camille, Norma, Zach, Turtle, and Matt!!
Icehouse Canyon is kind of far for me to drive for a day hike. So the first time up, I made sure there were fresh batteries, and a good location, and planned to leave the camera out for about 6 weeks or so. Came back a month later (zero patience) only to find NO videos had been taken. Thought I had a bad batch of batteries, so I replaced them...then got to worrying something was actually wrong with the camera itself, so I had to go up there again after about a week. Everything checked out, and the following is the result of four trips up the ridge, the help of several friends, and the cooperation of this group of bighorn rams (the big boss seems to have a nice red radio collar too!)
There is about 11 minutes of footage of them. I'll upload the whole thing if anyone is interested. They do a lot of posturing in between actual sparring. They rub their heads together, and tense up and stare at each other with their noses out straight, heads parallel to the ground. And a lot of the time, they simply stand around doing nothing.
Thanks Jane, Archie, Camille, Norma, Zach, Turtle, and Matt!!
