Death Valley 2022/23

[John Morrow]

Very well could be.  The “drinking” part is damn tiny though, only a couple of feet long with barely room for a sheep to get its nose in.  Listed on the side (in case it’s too small) “Arkfeld waterer”.  It had a float in it to turn water on & off but it was dry. 

Just seems like those 3 big tanks is overkill for such a tiny water trough.  And definitely the 2nd time tanks were installed.  The first set of three was wiped out in a flood, their concrete base was also smashed in the canyon.

I haven't visited many, and even then paid little attention but there are drinkers to target smaller game and even avian species.  Not sure of the shape and size of each type of drinker.  Could be small to reduce undesired evaporation.  On GE it seems all these guzzlers have two to three very large tanks.  Somewhere uphill may be a giant capture field.  I think the idea is capture or deliver as much water as possible to avoid running out and requiring frequent visits.

birds: https://www.birdandhike.com/General_Info...-quail.htm
sheep: https://www.birdandhike.com/General_Info...-Sheep.htm
pics of big tanks: https://www.birdandhike.com/Hike/Sloan/P...ppyGuz.htm

http://theguzzler.blogspot.com/2009/08/w...ntain.html