Tag Archives: Goats

Kids tussling

Coming to get you.
Whoa!
OK, have some of this.
Well, that was fun.

I noticed these two young goats interacting on a little-traveled road and watched them for a while. They seemed to be having a good time. I think the captions say it all, at least they’re my interpretation of the exchange.

Three black goats

Three black goats in scrub land near Waimea, Hawaii.

I was driving down Old Saddle Road when I passed this tableau. I thought they’d take off, but I pulled over, walked back up the road, and saw the three of them still there. I took a few photos before the little one wandered off, followed by the other two. It was only as I walked back to the car that I realized there was a whole herd of goats mostly hidden in the long grasses.

A piratical goat

goat with strange horns eating

goat with strange hornsWhen I saw this goat, chomping on some bushes, my first thought was that it looked like a pirate. That’s certainly a mean-looking pair of horns. The curly one has pinned its left ear down, probably affecting its hearing. But the look in the second photo is hardly menacing. I wouldn’t mess with him though.

Signs: No goats

Signs-No goats

Signs-No goats hereThese goats, part of a large herd wandering in the environs of a heliport, weren’t authorized personnel. I wasn’t about to go out and point that out to them, in case they didn’t take kindly to the message.

Goats and nene

Goats and Nene

Three goats crossing a golf course fairway while a pair of nene head the other way. What I like about this image is that they all look very purposeful in their progress, as if they had an important appointment to keep. Only the saffron finch in the foreground looks like it couldn’t give a damn.

Goats hazard

Goats on the fairway

Here’s a view of part of the golf course at the Westin Hapuna Beach Resort on the Kohala coast. Besides the usual trees and bunkers to challenge golfers, there’s a generous sprinkling of goats. I liked the pastoral feel of this photo, but if I were a golfer and my ball came to rest within a club’s length of some of these goats, I’d be inclined to drop a new ball a safe distance away.