L! Challenge: Leader

Pronghorn, a photo by Fergiemoto on Flickr. (Click on image to enlarge).
Linking up with Camera Critters, Nature Notes and Our World Tuesday.

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Secluded mingling
Deftly allures a harem
Twilight sentiment
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About a half an hour before sunset during a road trip last week, we noticed this herd of pronghorn antelope females and one buck in a desolate, isolated, and lonely desert area. (We only saw one other vehicle the whole day!) The end-of-day sun provided gorgeous lighting of these animals despite the dry landscape. There were also two other females that weren’t captured in the photo. The group dispersed quickly after seeing us, so we only took a few quick snapshots and were on our way again!

According to Wikipedia, “A pronghorn male will defend a fixed territory that females may enter or it might defend a harem of females” and “When courting an estrous female, a male pronghorn will approach her while softly vocalizing and waving his head side to side, displaying his cheek patches.”

I’m posting this image for the “L” Challenge by Frizztext (“L” is for Leader)

29 responses to “L! Challenge: Leader”

I learned a lot. Both animals and human beings need their friends, family and leader.

lovely!

What a lovely group to see. And yes the lighting was perfect. Fantastic!

Your haikus and photos are amazing. I always look forward to them!

nice to introduce the leader of a harem 🙂

Hi,
Sounds like you had a lovely drive. It is amazing sometimes what we see when driving. I love the photo very nice.

Beautiful image and haiku! The light is perfect!

The ideal’Family Man’ ? Love the light, nice image

Beautiful!

They’re beautiful animals!

I’m grateful that you were able to snap a photo! Great post!

Perfect lighting and a beautiful shot! They seem to be very aware of your presence 🙂

Gosh … I loved this. First thing I thought was, I want to be there. What an opportunity to be somewhere that you could catch such a shot. Beautiful

You go to beautiful places and you bring home beautiful photo’s and stories to share. Thank you.

Awesome! I think you were lucky to capture them in a photo, they’re beautiful.

A beutiful photo! The dominant male and his harem. Wonderful

‘L’ is for Leader … I like that.

Great photo. Perfect timing of taking the photo with that stunning light showing up each animal.

I love to watch them run, especially in dry areas where they can kick up dust. Pretty!

Beautiful photo.

Regards and best wishes

I see antelope sometimes on the prairies and grasslands of Colorado. The lighting was perfect for your capture!

It is a beautiful photo…a harem…I guess that is a good deal for a male and maybe not so bad for the females..such graceful animals..Thank you for linking to Nature Notes…Michelle