In this vertically oriented image, a wild burro stands in golden post-rainstorm light, in an oblique angle towards the camera, looking very cheerful and relaxed. She is in a landscape of rolling prairie hills, and behind her, a rainbow arcs into the sky against a dark gray-blue sky.

The happy rainbow represents how I feel any time I'm basking in the presence of a wild burro.
Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota
#photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros

In an arid setting, with a rocky mountainside in the background and a general dark tone of a foggy morning, a wild gray burro standing in the right of the frame is facing the camera and looking directly at the photographer. her foal is standing next to her, butt to the camera.

A wild burro jenny and her kiddo, at Box Springs Mountain Reserve
#photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros

A knees-and-hocks-up close-up of a gray burro who is standing in left of center in the image, facing the camera while looking towards the right side of the frame. The background is an out of focus steep slope covered in green desert vegetation.

This darling is a wild burro living in Arizona's Lake Pleasant Regional Park #photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros

A burro with prominent zebra stripes on her legs stands in the left foreground, facing the camera and gazing intently at her bandmates who are off frame to the left. Behind her, two other bandmates are face to face and doing a combo of snuggling and mutual grooming, smooshing their necks together. The background is the arid rocky top of Box Springs Mountain.

A few of the wild burros of California's Box Springs Mountain Reserve #photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros

In a foggy scene, a wild burro with a standard gray coat is standing in the lower left corner of the image, looking to the right side of the frame. The landscape is arid, with sparse short vegetation; there is a mountainside covered in light brown boulders riding in the near background.

A wild burro in her rocky domain up on Box Springs Mountain in Riverside County California #photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros

Amid sparse desert vegetation with a dirt covered slope rising in the near background, two burros stand together. There is a very young burro foal, and her older sibling is resting her head over the foal's back affectionately.

Wild burro siblings in Lake Pleasant Regional Park, Arizona #wildburros #bonkersforburros #photography

In an arid brownish rocky landscape, up against a hill with a very big boulder in the near background, a wild burro in the classic gray coat color stands facing the camera and looking at the photographer with mild curiosity.

A Box Springs Mountain wild burro is curious about what this photographer is up to.
#wildburros #photography #bonkersforburros

A dark gray burro jack is standing looking alert in the lower right of the frame while a white yearling and a medium gray jenny hang out with him. They are in a grassy prairie with rolling hills, and the sky is a stormy dark blue-gray with a rainbow rising up in the upper left. The quality of light is the golden glow you get just after a thunderstorm.

I just remembered that today is my 1 year blueski anniversary. I'd arrived with a rainbow wild burro post to observe the Feast of the Ass, and here's another, a whole wild burro family plus the rainbow they farted out.
#photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros

In this head-and-shoulders closeup, a gray burro jack, is BRAYING and stomping from right to left in the frame. His setting, the out of focus background, is a desert scene with sparse grasses and cacti.

HEEE HAWWW says this disgruntled burro jack in Arizona's Lake Pleasant Regional Park. His suggestion is to put the entire "homeland security" apparatus into one of those Nevada lava tubes they use for nuclear waste.
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Wild burro foal, Bullfrog HMA, Beatty, Nevada
#Stunday
#wildburros #photographersofbluesky #photography #burro #wildlifephotography

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Black and white portrait of a wild burro named Melon.

Once upon a time, I gentled and started wild burros into domestic life. I enjoyed making portraits of them. The portraits really captured their character. Since there are no rules for #ArtAdventCalendar, I give you my portrait of Melon. #EastCoastKin #Photography
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A fuzzy dark gray burro is standing on the right side of the frame looking to the left, on one side of a grassy valley with ponderosa pine trees dotting the slope in the background.

A wild burro during morning nap time, Custer State Park in South Dakota's Black Hills
#photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros

In a Sonoran desert landscape, with a gravelly ground, tufts of dried brown grass and surrounded by low mesquite trees, a dark brown yearling burro is standing facing the camera and looking off to the left of the frame.

This little character is a wild burro living in Arizona's Lake Pleasant Regional Park. #photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros

About 8 wild burros have converged together alongside a dirt road in an arid mountaintop landscape. the prevailing color tone in the image is brown. The burros are variously looking at the camera, snuffling at the ground, and looking at each other. There are rocky hilltops in the background under a white-cloudy sky.

Wild burros up on top of the mountain at California's Box Springs Mountain Reserve are gathering to head for a drink together. #photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros

A wild burro, or wild donkey, foal stands in sunlight brush. The burro foal looks into the camera. The foal is framed by the golden bushes around it.

A wild burro baby in late afternoon winter light for #Stunday.

Taken outside Beatty, Nevada, Bullfrog HMA, December 2024. I do not know if this young wild burro is still wild and free given the recent roundup in that area.

#wildburros #wilddonkey #wildlifephotography #photography

Oatman, Arizona

Follow the road that asks nothing and gives everything. Its turns carry the breath of old stories, where towns are joined by spirit and the soft steps of quiet companions.

#photography #Oatman #Arizona #burros #wildburros #route66 #route66arizona

Oatman, Arizona

Embrace the road and each town will open like a story, its history, heart, and creatures stitched into the land’s quiet song. When you travel with your heart, every step becomes a welcome.

#photography #Oatman #Arizona #burros #wildburros #route66.

We have a close-up head and shoulders view of a fuzzy wild burro, lit with a warm light, who is situated in the right side of the frame and looking to the left, relaxed and alert with her big ears pricked forward. She is standing in a landscape of rolling hills covered with prairie grass. The sky is steel-gray-blue with a rainbow rising up behind the burro.

A wild burro, and a rainbow
A rainburro, if you will
#photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros

In Arizona we have wild burros wandering the desert. This is near Lake Pleasant, in December 2020. #birds, #wildlife, #nature, #photography, #wildburros, #burrosdonkeys

Route 66 Oatman, Arizona

Visit Jackass Junction, where the burro’s tongue is more expressive than the road signs.
He doesn’t blink, just judges.
The tongue? Pure performance art.

* Oliver, The Oatman Burro

#photography #Oatman #Arizona #burros #wildburros #route66.

Oatman, Arizona

Sunlight, shadow, and a soul too graceful to be hurried. This is how legends linger. On the historic road, travel becomes memory and the adventure quietly grows around moments like this.

#photography #Oatman #Arizona #burros #wildburros #route66.

Route 66 Oatman, Arizona

The road opens like a breath.
Steady souls walk beside you, calm and kind.
Each step carries its own story.
Just the rhythm of wandering.
And the moments that become yours forever.

#photography #Oatman #Arizona #burros #wildburros #route66.

Route 66 Oatman, Arizona

The road opens like a breath.
The wild walks beside you, quiet and sure.
Each step carries its own story.
Just the rhythm of wandering.
And the moments that become yours forever.

#photography #Oatman #Arizona #burros #wildburros #route66.

Route 66 Oatman, Arizona

The streets open like a story.
The wild moves softly—never far.
No rush. No end.
Just the rhythm of being here.

#photography #Oatman #Arizona #burros #wildburros #route66.

A dark brown-gray burro jenny stands in the lower-center of the frame, with her young foal alongside her and a yearling farther to her left. It is a foggy day, the grass is brown, and a hillside of cream-colored boulders rises behind the burros.

A wild burro family follows their band up on top of the hill in the Box Springs Mountain Reserve in Riverside County, California. #photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros

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Portrait of a wild burro, or wild donkey, from Bullfrog HMA, in Nevada. The burro is gray with a light colored nose and rust or chestnut accents. The burro is looking directly into the camera.

A portrait of a wild burro of Bullfrog HMA in Nevada. I love the coloration this burro has with the rust accents against the gray.

#burros #donkeys #wildburros #longears #wilddonkey #wildlifephotography #portraits #photogrsphy #stunday

A mother wild burro, dark brown, and her foal, stand on a wildlife trail in the Nevada desert. There are mountains in the distance behind them. Both burros look off in the distance.

Last December I went exploring and found myself photographing the wild burros of Bullfrog HMA near Beatty, Nevada. You can find some burros in town. Continued in comments. ⬇️

#wildburros #burros #donkeys #wildlifephotography #photography #art

Route 66 Oatman, Arizona

This historic town holds more than memory.
The wild still walks here—soft-footed, unclaimed.
Let its spirit rise through the dust and light.
Take a walk. Let the past move with you.

#photography #Oatman #Arizona #burros #wildburros #route66.