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Deschutes - Bighorn Sheep
Posted: March 25th, 2019, 1:18 pm
by drm
Re: Deschutes Goats
Posted: March 25th, 2019, 1:29 pm
by retired jerry
cool
I saw three herds on my side a couple years ago. They crossed the trail right in front of me. I was a bit scared, except they just continued on their way, seemed to be avoiding me.
Re: Deschutes Goats
Posted: March 25th, 2019, 1:33 pm
by adamschneider
Mountain goats?? Not bighorn sheep?
Re: Deschutes Goats
Posted: March 25th, 2019, 2:00 pm
by drm
adamschneider wrote: ↑March 25th, 2019, 1:33 pm
Mountain goats?? Not bighorn sheep?
To be honest, all I could think was that they looked like caribou! But if they do not have their big rounded horns this time of year, I guess they could be bighorns. None of my pics is any better than the one posted.
Re: Deschutes Goats
Posted: March 25th, 2019, 2:00 pm
by retired jerry
yeah, bighorn sheep, at least that's what I've seen before, never goats
Re: Deschutes Goats
Posted: March 25th, 2019, 2:04 pm
by adamschneider
drm wrote: ↑March 25th, 2019, 2:00 pm
To be honest, all I could think was that they looked like caribou! But if they do not have their big rounded horns this time of year, I guess they could be bighorns. None of my pics is any better than the one posted.
OK, sounds like it was definitely sheep then. They're tan with white butts.
Re: Deschutes - Bighorn Sheep
Posted: March 25th, 2019, 2:31 pm
by drm
Title and labels corrected - thanks.
Re: Deschutes - Bighorn Sheep
Posted: April 3rd, 2019, 2:41 pm
by teachpdx
My partner and I did an in-and-out to Gordon Ridge Rapids on 3/30 (just over 11 miles R/T)... in on the railbed and back out on the river trail.
We also saw the sheep way up on the ridge, only their silhouettes.
As well as a trio of river otters about a mile or so south of the trailhead.
It's generally much greener than this time last year, thanks to the burn. I plan to be back in a couple weeks for an overnight.
Re: Deschutes - Bighorn Sheep
Posted: April 4th, 2019, 8:06 pm
by Sean Thomas
Great sighting drm! The ewes(females) have much smaller/straighter horns than the rams. Bighorn don't shed their horns either, so it was probably a group of females.