Springtime is an especially great time to watch pronghorn, as the females normally drop their kids just before Memorial Day Weekend. I've had the pleasure of watching a mother lick her wobbly newborn with an Elderhostel group, and never fail to find groups of mothers and kids.
Young pronghorn are a kick to watch, tiny creatures that run so fast their feet are a blur.
Pronghorn are the fastest native land animals in North America, and nothing can catch them except by surprise. One fall, while walking in the refuge near P Ranch in late afternoon, I startled two pronghorn perhaps twenty feet away as I rounded a willow thicket. We stared at each other for at least fifteen seconds before they ran off. My camera, of course, was back at the Frenchglen Hotel . I had decided to take a break from photographing that afternon.