The Bighorn Sheep had a good year. I counted 13 new lambs in Horseshoe Park, near Sheep Lakes. That’s a great crop. In recent years, we’ve normally seen only 3 or 4 new lambs. The wildfires didn’t seem to bother the sheep. That is mostly because the sheep graze the tundra and meadows and the fires were in the dense forest.
12-year old ram in the Big Thompson Canyon.
The top ram during the November rutting season.
Ram and ewe in the Big Thompson Canyon.
The Bighorn Sheep mating season.
Yearling lambs.
Rams on the tundra, near Rock Cut.
Rams wrestling.
Bighorn rams on the tundra, as seen from Trail Ridge Road at 12,000' elevation.
Ewes and lambs near Sheep Lakes.
A few of the large crop of lambs.
Bighorns in Rocky Mountain National Park.
This was a large, older ram near Sheep Lakes.