In January we went up to the elk farm outside of Nachese to go watch the elk and the bighorns get fed.

This one practically walked right up to the fence. The feed trough was only ten to fifteen feet away from us. He must have broken his leg at some point because he walked very slow and had a very bad gait, that is also why his leg sticks out like it does. The rest of the sheep were hiding out on the hills and you could only see them with the camera's zoom lens, or the binoculars. But there must have been at least thirty bighorn sheep laying around.

So on the way up there I was thinking that there was only going to be around 50-100 elk. Well, needles to say I was way off. There must have been like 1,000 elk wandering around. And that doesn't include all the elk that were on the other side of the feeding station that was over the hill.

So in our wanderings around the walk ways, we kept counting the points on all the antlers that we could see and looking for the 7/8 point elk that was said to be up there.

We finally found him and also saw about 3 or 4 babies that had been born late and still had their spots.

There were also about 5 Bald Eagles that were flying around and landing on the rocks. We got a few pictures of them but they're not very good.