Missouri Sherpa here, kicking off my 2007 hunting season. This year I am hunting on the Richard Johnson family ranch about 8 miles north of Wheatland Wyoming. Interstate 25 runs through the middle of it so you have probably seen it if you have ever driven I-25 out of Cheyenne to points north. This year I took a friend of mine on his first antelope hunt and this actually is his animal. Very nice goat for your first archery kill I would say.
The ranch is nearly 39,000 acres now with the addition of the Devil's Washtub ranch this year. There are some irrigation ponds on the ranch and we camped by this one. Lots of wildlife attracted to these ponds, including ducks, geese, cranes, mule deer and antelope.
This fellow also lives there. He is some kind of a leopard frog but of a different color than we have in Iowa so I wanted to capture a picture of him.
We had a daily rainbow every afternoon. Not so good for antelope hunting but good for the antelope having enough to eat. The forage was as green as I have seen in Wyoming for Mid-August.
I saw abundant antelope from my blind. These four yearling bucks came in every day.
This is another picture taken from my blind of the water tank where I sat. Lots of little birds all day long. Doves, meadowlarks, sparrows and several little brown and black birds I did not recognize.
There were several hawks hanging around too. Some would land on the post at the water tank. This one spent every afternoon perched on this irrigation pivot. One small hawk was hot after a little bird that escaped death by crashing into my blind.
I am sure he was really as surprised as I was to have him crashland into my lap. He was pretty well spent from evading the hawk. I let him catch his breath and released him.