We’ve had a productive day – collected eggs, listed, cleaned and maintained tools, ditto for gloves (but it involves more complaining as we pair them up and work out how many we’ve lost), admired lambs, written up project folders, sharpened massive numbers of coloured pencils, looked at goats, cut back old herbs and, in my case, been generally cheerful in the face of adversity (working with a bunch of sneezing hypochondriacs can be very wearing). I am very good like that.
Then we looked at the lambs again and checked them against the standard for the Badger Face Welsh Mountain sheep. One of them definitely has the black stripe along the belly that is distinctive to the breed. It’s a bit of a mess as stripes go, but it is there. It’s neither good news or bad, but it’s human nature to enjoy finding something new.
There was a buzzard sitting on a fence post by the side of the A46 this morning, looking very spick and span. We followed that up with good sightings of 30-40 Fieldfares and 10 Redwings. There were also about 20 Jackdaws in the same field and a handful of Starlings. The next field had a couple of pairs of red-legged partridges (there’s a shoot this weekend and one in two weeks, after which they will be safe for the spring and summer). Sadly I don’t have photos of the birds, which is something I will try to address this year.
Julia is currently showing a teacher round with a view to us having a visit in February, and I am sitting staring at the screen in search of a title.
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Love the pics and great title too. It sounds like it should be a name of a Half Man Half Biscuit song!
Thank you. 😉
So cute, so very cute :)! And there are goats too! I love goats, always funny creatures :).
Goats – full of character and full of ideas for escape attempts. 😉
They can happily chew through just about anything can’t they? 🙂
If they can’t eat it they jump over it, get their heads stuck in it, or on one memorable occasion, demonstrate their love for each other whilst standing on the corrugated roof of their ark as 30 seven-year-olds looked on.
:O! I really don’t know what to comment.
Neither did I, so we moved on swiftly. Never a dull moment when you have goats! 😉
Awwwww! They’re so damn cute! Title suggestion” “On the Lamb.” 😉
These are a particularly cute lot, and very friendly.
Just selecting from your various elements, how about ‘Sorting the sheep from the goats’?
I’d forgotten the goats…