Bee, the first foal born in 2021, is now a happy and healthy colt!

Bee as a yearling [Photo courtesy Corolla Wild Horse Fund Facebook]
We have some very exciting news to share today: We finally have proof that Bee, the first foal born in 2021, is alive and well and he’s a colt!

Bee was born far out in the marsh and his parents kept him back there for an entire year! We saw them from the helicopter in May but there were no sightings after that. We were beginning to think we were hallucinating. But yesterday, almost exactly a year after he was born, he and his dad showed up in a yard not too far from where he was first seen. He looks great; healthy and thriving and nearly a carbon copy of his sire Cobb.

The horses have about 7,600 acres of land to roam, and the majority of it is not easily accessible by humans. Even from the helicopter it’s often impossible to see horses because of the tree cover and even the marsh grass. It grows taller than a horse in the summer! Finding them can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. There are several horses we only see maybe once or twice a year because they do not venture out of the marsh.

Nice to officially meet you, Bee! Thanks for proving we are not, in fact, hallucinating foals.

A birds-eye view of Bee from the helicopter: He’s the one in the middle, running back to his mother. Sire Cobb is the black horse. [Photo courtesy Corolla Wild Horse Fund Facebook]