Bighorn sheep sighting~a whole herd~Our World Tuesday~052714

We were driving down Highway 74 yesterday after our weekend in the mountains with our grown children and their families and as I came around a corner, I noticed several cars pulled over to the side of the road (which isn't an easy thing due to the LACK of turnouts).  But, I was able to pull over, too, to investigate what people were pointing to and lo and behold, it was a whole HERD of bighorn sheep!  I counted 12 of them, but I had no idea how many more were on the other side of the hill and NOBODY was going over there to count them!  These are an endangered species.  One guy, without a camera, headed over toward them and I yelled at him, "Don't go near them!  These are an endangered species.  We have diseases (pneumonia) that can kill them.  If you go any further, I'm going to call a ranger!"  He glared at me, but backed off.

In 30 years of going up and down that mountain, this is the first time I've seen a whole herd of bighorn sheep.  There must have been more further down on the other side of the mountain, because they were alerting to something over there.  Fortunately, everybody else stayed where they were and took photos.  I was talking to another man ( a nice one) who also commented that this is the most he'd ever seen in these mountains.  I'm glad we got to see them.  Our daughter and son-in-law also saw the herd when they were coming down the mountain about 15 minutes before we did.  Our World Tuesday for May 27, 2014.  To visit OWT, please go to:   http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/