Not the best of pics, but this is a recent supplemental feeding of over 120 mares in a pasture during a snowstorm. You can get an idea of how hard the snow was coming down if you can see the limited visibility in the pics.
That’s Frank back there. Doing what he has been doing for decades. Taking care of the Nokotas. No matter what mother nature throws at him.
I have been totally fascinated by watching a Weasel that lives here. Two days in a row he kept popping out of a spot near one corral where Frank was dropping in a hay bale. I checked the spot but could find no den. I was looking for weasel on the third day, but he did not appear. Then I looked at the bobcat skid steer and who’s head do I see in a small hole in the side ? Weasel ! He was riding in the Bobcat doing chores. 
Patrick got his photo while he was here.
A few of the faces of the twenty one Foals. Blink ! Don’t burn your eyes out staring at the cuteness.
Click here ! Click here !………Nokota Horse
A lot of migration and a lot of nest building going on. I have been watching two improve on this existing nest. This one swoops in to steal some of the material. You never know what happens while you are away do you.
Some days it just snows more than others.
Photos by Patrick Lanham at this link here…...Patrick Lanham Photography
Earlier in the week I only saw a handful in formation. It has been several cold months since I heave heard their voices. Made me happy. They are all basically headed Northwest towards the Missouri river it seems. Yesterday the numbers have increased with flocks of several hundreds moving at a rapid pace. Several flocks in the air at once. The Northern plains and it’s great openness allows you to be a visual witness. Then last night they were heard but not seen passing overhead. Many calling in the darkness as they passed overhead. You could almost feel the movement.
So my brother Patrick and a long time family friend Ben decided they wanted to get into their creative side by coming to North Dakota. Patrick is a photographer and Ben shows his World with video. Both amazing at their craft, they came to apply it to the horses I have been hanging out with for months.
They showed up and went right to work spending several days shooting from first light well into the evening. Kind of what I expected from them both. Frank was very accommodating, which helped them get some pretty amazing stuff !
I am excited to see what comes of it all after they return back to their cities and begin the post production.
Was great seeing you both !
Check out their sites
Patrick’s : Patrick Lanham Photography
and Ben’s: Civil Sea Films
And of course the Horses: Nokota Horse
Hitching Post in North Dakota.
Good luck to all those getting “Hitched ” on Valentine’s Day
Chips on a barn.
Here is Reporter KXNews Mike Chaussee’s story about Frank Kuntz and the most amazing Nokota Horses
Click this link…….KXMB 12 North Dakota
Then meet me back here and click this one…Learn more about Nokotas
In The Middle of Somewhere 