Borrego

/ santinacooper

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A lone ram looking over Palm Canyon.

“Borrego” is the Spanish word for the bighorn sheep which also happen to be the stars of California’s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

And on my several hikes with fifth graders this last February and March, we got lucky enough to see the sheep – including their lambs – several times.

A herd of penninsular big horn sheep quenching their thirst.

A herd of peninsular bighorn sheep quenching their thirst.

But this spring in the desert was also great for wildflowers.

wildflowermosaic

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