During the week my friend came to visit last August, we went in search of prairie wildlife for her to photograph. My two favorite natives of these eastern plains are the prairie dogs (they’re everywhere!) and the pronghorns (they are elusive).
We visited the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, but didn’t see any pronghorns.
Next we tried the Plains Conservation Center, which is normally a surer bet. Got some nice shots of an old warplane near Buckley AFB, but alas, no pronghorns.
We visited the Morrison Nature Center. Not much chance of seeing pronghorns there, but the trails are nice. The prairie grass was humming with little insect lives.
We checked out some local prairie dog villages. This is one of her pics, it’s cuter than any of the ones I got:
I was sad that she didn’t get to see pronghorns on her visit.
A few days after she left, I was driving out to see Mahogany and saw a bunch of them in the field next to the road. All I had with me was my phone, which takes terrible pics, but here is photographic proof that pronghorns do roam the plains of Colorado:
More to come!
An Invincible Summer 