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Big Horn Sheep Count [message #77163]

Fri, 12 August 2011 12:20

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Folks,

This has nothing whatsoever to do with IDL, except that I
wasn't doing anything related to IDL while doing it, but
I spent the past couple of days in the Rawah Wilderness
here in Colorado looking for Big Horn sheep as part of
the Division of Wildlife's annual sheep count. (I've
been doing it every year for the past 10 or so.)

Normally, we see sheep from a long distance away. In fact,
we usually need a spotting scope to separate the males
from the females for the count. But this year we ran
into a group of six rams who seemed totally unconcerned
by our presence. In fact, a couple of the younger rams
allowed us to get within 20-30 feet of them without
being concerned. I put a picture on my home page that
my colleague took with a small digital camera:

http:/www.idlcoyote.com/

The larger members of this group were HUGE and I'm not
sure I would have dared to get within 30 feet of those
awesome horns. I can see why these magnificent animals,
recently reintroduced into this part of our state,
are the mascot of the local University. :-)

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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