Found! The Missouri Wild Horses!

She found them! Hawkeye Sarah was able to track down one of the herds of wild horses in Missouri while she was in the state attending a conference this past week!

This is the Shawnee Creek herd, one of several that are roaming in the state.

The text she sent with this video had no other details but I am sure I will hear more when she gets home and has a chance to catch her breath and then sit down and process the photos she took.

Sarah's hobby is wildlife photography and these are not her first wild horses. A few years ago she photographed the Pryor Mountain wild horses and framed three of those photos as a Christmas gift for me.

They hang in my office now.

She also bought me the identification book

that is compiled by supporters of the Pryor Mountain herd. It was fun learning whose faces were hanging on my walls!

But Sarah is not the only family member who likes to find and see wild horses. 

Mountain Mama Jessica enjoys watching and advocating for the Onaqui herd in Utah. So much so that, as a surprise, I gifted her with Breyer's model, Jewel, last Christmas.

She was puzzled by the gift, but when I explained it was my way of acknowledging how proud of her I was in her advocacy for the Onaqui herd and social justice, she got teary.

Hopefully Sarah will send me some more photos of the Missouri wild horses soon. When she does, I'll share them here.

Stay 'tooned!

A (Very) Late Birthday Present

When Denver Daughter was here for Christmas, I told her how much I loved the Pryor Mountain mustangs that she'd photographed, framed, and given me for Christmas in 2019. (I can't help it - I must make the pun. She had given me these photos the PRYOR Christmas. Haha)

I said that my next goal was to identify who they were and then follow them throughout their lives.

Sarah looked at me in confusion. "Mom, just use the guidebook that I sent you for your birthday -that's what it's for!" It was my turn to be confused. The guide book had never arrived.

It's here now! Sarah called the Pryor Mountain Wild Mustang Center, explained the situation, and it arrived this weekend.

I've already read it cover to cover; now I am going to really dive in and see if I can figure out who she photographed.  

I had looked at online sites about the Pryor Mountain mustangs and have tentatively identified this as Titania but I am not positive that that is correct. I can't wait to see if that's who this is and who the other horses are that she was with.

When I think I have them correctly identified, I'll post them here.