I love it when other critters hitch rides on horses. Had a cat that used to do that where I grew up riding.
*gina September 4th, 2010 @ 1:04 pm
Thanks so much for this entry in the middle of a Saturday!! I DO so love to know what people I know are doing as the day goes on! Your blue sky is gorgeous! wish I were there!
hahaaa! birds & horses . . . back home when it rained, we had this one chicken that’d try to stay out of the mud by hitching a ride on my mare – she was havin’ none of it! it got pretty funny as the chicken would keep trying & my horse kept skedaddling away, with the hen yelling at her the whole time!
beautiful photos, views, & horses – thank you!
Hilary September 4th, 2010 @ 5:15 pm
Your horses are fat! ;) But they look healthy and happy and ready for winter.
Brandi September 4th, 2010 @ 5:17 pm
Nancy-
Looks like a female brown-headed cow bird. Had one hitch a ride on one of our horses.
I also thought it looked like a cowbird. They used to be called buffalo birds, when there were some left. They follow after the big critters as they kick up lots of good things to eat.
Farmer Lady September 5th, 2010 @ 9:22 am
The bird poo dries and is easy to brush off when getting ready for a ride, I’ve found. Starlings love to hitch rides on my burro and horse. They don’t mind at all. I wonder if they snack on any bugs while they are up there…
Jenny C September 5th, 2010 @ 9:59 am
I’m so simple – I just want to hugs those horses’ necks and feed them apples.
I love it when our cow bird do that. Hate brushing the poop off to ride! But they provide a valuable service!
Torchy September 5th, 2010 @ 12:32 pm
Shreve, what is the band of bright green in the background?
Gloria Spurgeon-Smith September 5th, 2010 @ 4:57 pm
Shreve ~ I just finished your book, in two days time. I love stories of our connection to the wild. Raising Charlie obviously opened a way into understanding the wild in us all. I loved where you began to identify yourself as “coyote.” And the quote from Salman Rushdie about being one of the non-belongers. I identify with that. I’ve kept moving all my life. I’ve decided to be cremated when I leave this body, since I’ve always lived on the wind, and it wouldn’t seem right to get “buried” in one plot of land. I’m 64 this year, which has raised its own challenges. Your story, and Charlie’s, sustain me. I belong to the group Defender’s of Wildlife and do what I can to support them, financially and by contacting legislators. After all, this land was theirs. We took it. Recently, out to eat with a family member, she commented that someone across the restaurant looked “foreign.” I reminded her that that we all are the foreigners; the only ones not are the Native Americans (my husband is Mexican/Native American). Thank you also for your clear writing style — a pleasure to read.
Gloria Spurgeon-Smith September 5th, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
And, I love your photography throughout the book, and continuing here.
Brandi, are cow birds the ones who lay their eggs In other’s nests? Just outside my office there is the nest of a tiny bird – a finch possibly – who is caring for these two enormous babies. They are already about an inch taller than her! Someone said they are cow birds.
Donna September 6th, 2010 @ 8:08 am
A friend of mine said she used to have a chicken that would sit on her horse. That would be a sight!
Brandi September 7th, 2010 @ 6:49 am
Assana-
Yes, typically they are nest raiders. I have to admit that I tend to destroy the cow birds when I see them out of protection for the blue birds, robins, and red finches. Starlings and black birds are the same way. Smart birds, but they toss out the nests yound to lay their own eggs and have the other bird hatch and feed them.
September 4th, 2010 @ 1:03 pm
I love it when other critters hitch rides on horses. Had a cat that used to do that where I grew up riding.
September 4th, 2010 @ 1:04 pm
Thanks so much for this entry in the middle of a Saturday!! I DO so love to know what people I know are doing as the day goes on! Your blue sky is gorgeous! wish I were there!
September 4th, 2010 @ 1:04 pm
Ha! Smart bird.
September 4th, 2010 @ 1:05 pm
and they both simply keep going on with their lives.
September 4th, 2010 @ 1:41 pm
I am sooooo jealous of that bird!!!
September 4th, 2010 @ 2:30 pm
Bird knows a good ride.
September 4th, 2010 @ 3:14 pm
Being a bird person, I’m going crazy trying to see what kind of bird it is!
September 4th, 2010 @ 4:05 pm
If that was just taken…it looks like your weather there is as awesome as ours is here in CO. Headin to Encampment soon! Love WYO
September 4th, 2010 @ 4:32 pm
hahaaa! birds & horses . . . back home when it rained, we had this one chicken that’d try to stay out of the mud by hitching a ride on my mare – she was havin’ none of it! it got pretty funny as the chicken would keep trying & my horse kept skedaddling away, with the hen yelling at her the whole time!
beautiful photos, views, & horses – thank you!
September 4th, 2010 @ 5:15 pm
Your horses are fat! ;) But they look healthy and happy and ready for winter.
September 4th, 2010 @ 5:17 pm
Nancy-
Looks like a female brown-headed cow bird. Had one hitch a ride on one of our horses.
September 5th, 2010 @ 7:12 am
I also thought it looked like a cowbird. They used to be called buffalo birds, when there were some left. They follow after the big critters as they kick up lots of good things to eat.
September 5th, 2010 @ 9:22 am
The bird poo dries and is easy to brush off when getting ready for a ride, I’ve found. Starlings love to hitch rides on my burro and horse. They don’t mind at all. I wonder if they snack on any bugs while they are up there…
September 5th, 2010 @ 9:59 am
I’m so simple – I just want to hugs those horses’ necks and feed them apples.
September 5th, 2010 @ 11:36 am
I love it when our cow bird do that. Hate brushing the poop off to ride! But they provide a valuable service!
September 5th, 2010 @ 12:32 pm
Shreve, what is the band of bright green in the background?
September 5th, 2010 @ 4:57 pm
Shreve ~ I just finished your book, in two days time. I love stories of our connection to the wild. Raising Charlie obviously opened a way into understanding the wild in us all. I loved where you began to identify yourself as “coyote.” And the quote from Salman Rushdie about being one of the non-belongers. I identify with that. I’ve kept moving all my life. I’ve decided to be cremated when I leave this body, since I’ve always lived on the wind, and it wouldn’t seem right to get “buried” in one plot of land. I’m 64 this year, which has raised its own challenges. Your story, and Charlie’s, sustain me. I belong to the group Defender’s of Wildlife and do what I can to support them, financially and by contacting legislators. After all, this land was theirs. We took it. Recently, out to eat with a family member, she commented that someone across the restaurant looked “foreign.” I reminded her that that we all are the foreigners; the only ones not are the Native Americans (my husband is Mexican/Native American). Thank you also for your clear writing style — a pleasure to read.
September 5th, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
And, I love your photography throughout the book, and continuing here.
September 5th, 2010 @ 5:57 pm
Easy Rider
September 5th, 2010 @ 11:43 pm
Brandi, are cow birds the ones who lay their eggs In other’s nests? Just outside my office there is the nest of a tiny bird – a finch possibly – who is caring for these two enormous babies. They are already about an inch taller than her! Someone said they are cow birds.
September 6th, 2010 @ 8:08 am
A friend of mine said she used to have a chicken that would sit on her horse. That would be a sight!
September 7th, 2010 @ 6:49 am
Assana-
Yes, typically they are nest raiders. I have to admit that I tend to destroy the cow birds when I see them out of protection for the blue birds, robins, and red finches. Starlings and black birds are the same way. Smart birds, but they toss out the nests yound to lay their own eggs and have the other bird hatch and feed them.