I arrived in the Shawnee Creek area around 4:35 AM before sunrise to allow my camera gear time to adjust to the hot and humid conditions. The intense humidity and heat cause the lenses to fog, so it takes about a half hour for the adjustment to occur before I can use the gear.
The six horses from Rocky Creek (Lead Stallion Band # 1, Gray mare, her foal, and three other mares) are amazingly still in the Shawnee Creek area.
There is still no sign of the main Shawnee Creek herd, which last had 9 horses (with one foal) at the time of their last sighting on July 17th.
The Rocky Creek horses are still thin from the roundup and capture event they went through, but I see them putting on weight and looking better. The stallion looks the best out of all of them.
I strongly suspect the stallion will take his herd out of the Shawnee Creek area at any time, so I am monitoring them closely.
The blind mare and old lady from Shawnee were in the area but not very close to the Rocky Creek herd. The stallion continues to intimidate both of them which I suspect is a natural instinct to keep all threats as far away as possible from his family. He clearly views them as outsiders at a minimum based on my direct firsthand observations since this all started around the beginning of July.
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