Mustangs Visiting the Fence Line....

The fenced -yard has turned the garden into a zoo for humans.  This is one of four small herds that visit during the early morning.   They stop to enjoy the salt lick, carrots and apples and stare of the dogs and me.  One of the mares allowed me to touch her filly as her youngster stood by the fence carefully eyeing the dogs.  Then as suddenly as they appear they continue on their journey down the dusty trail just beyond the fence.  We see them here staring in perhaps once a week.  Occasionally they come by after dark but I rarely venture to the fence line at night as the tarantulas are out on their nightly hunt.  Those huge hairy spiders are not poisonous (in these parts at least) but the sting hurts like heck.  At night the humans and dogs listen to the nickering from the safety of our house-zoo...