Post by Debbie on May 23, 2018 13:16:09 GMT -1
I tried to get a photo of the elk as they roamed through the main field in the morning, with my blooming rhodies (or possibly azaleas, not sure which one it is truthfully). The camera couldn't decide what I wanted as the focus, so it chose the cheerful flowers instead. If you squint, you can see the big brown blobs in the background.
The teenagers have finally matured after around 5 year's into young adults. They still can act like teens, so we continue to call them that as a herd identification. They've gradually become our resident elk herd, while the original herd moved northwards. The teens rotate, mostly bedding in our fields, though they will walk over to the ocean periodically, or up the headland. We've kept the grass tall in the summer field since that's their favorite bedding place.
I usually see them in the mornings near day break. They wander the main field, slowly on their way towards the ocean. In the evenings they slowly wander back to the summer field.
Our flowers have finally decided Spring has arrived and everything is dripping in layers of pollen. At first we couldn't understand the excessive road dust on our trucks, until we realized it was pollen. Everyone's sneezing and even ponies have red eyes. Thankfully saline solution helps bigtime and the pollen is temporary.
