Our favorite photos from our Halloween costume contest, trail rides, new calves and other fun activities at the ranch.
Change Your Lead offers therapeutic programs in partnership with horses. Our un-mounted sessions are not based on teaching horsemanship or horseback riding skills. Rather, they are focused on what individuals can learn about themselves through interactions with horses. Examples may include topics such as relationship building, non-verbal communication and mindfulness practices with the goal of…
New friends, fun activities, hard work and the best views. Looking forward to 2021 with our Arriba Vista family and friends.
We had a very blustery winter this year with rain and wind well into Spring. I did add two more nesting boxes so there were seven for the Bluebirds to use. I was gone much of of the spring into August so I did not monitor the bird activity this year. One box was populated…
The winning freestyle performance from Elisa Wallace and Fledge at the 2012 Extreme Mustang Makeover in Clemson, SC. You can see full video of Elisa’s win, including judging and awards in our original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icsV8M8sJuU
The bobcat is a North American cat containing 2 recognized subspecies, it ranges from southern Canada to central Mexico, including most of the contiguous United States. The bobcat is an adaptable predator that inhabits wooded areas, as well as semidesert, urban edge, forest edge, and swampland environments. It remains in some of its original range,…
On November 25, Greg and I were fortunate to have to opportunity to deliver 20 bales of hay and five bags of pelleted feed generously donated by Arriba Vista Ranch and Lin Wool of KLA Training respectively. Miguel Jimenez, Rafael Lozano and Gil Pedroza bigheartedly gave up some of their holiday time off to…
Photo by Charlie Hernandez Taken at Arriba Vista Five nesting boxes were installed along a fence line. We had 2 boxes unused,1 box with a nest but no eggs, 1 box with 5 eggs but abandoned and 1 box with 5 eggs that fledged 4 chicks. What happened? As I mentioned early on in this…
Nesting was a mess this year, our first year to have Bluebird nesting boxes. When it got warm in April the birds started to build in the boxes. But, some large animal went by the boxes and knocked a couple down and broke another. So I rebuilt the boxes with a different way to mount them, Success.…
BASIC DESCRIPTION by Cornell Lab of Ornithology In open parklands of the American West, brilliant blue-and-rust Western Bluebirds sit on low perches and swoop lightly to the ground to catch insects. Deep blue, rusty, and white, males are considerably brighter than the gray-brown, blue-tinged females. This small thrush nests in holes in trees or nest…
