The Hill Is Alive

I nearly broke into the Sound Of Music song while feeding the main herd across the river. It looked like the whole hillside was swarming with the big herd of elk.
If I could of captured a panorama of the hill the elk would be showing en-mass nearly filling a football field across two ridges that range in elevation more than 200 feet with a canyon in the middle.
The herd moved (it really did look more like a swarm rather than 60 individuals) first to the left then to the right before one of the leaders decided that it was time to move on and they took off with great speed over the rough terrain and disappeared over the horizon.
It had to have been the largest of the three herds even though counting individual animals was not possible. I am happy that they decided,for now at least, not to come down into my fields to eat all the grass that is finally starting to grow.