Cotton grass in the late evening sun and the sheep up on the hill
Posts relating to crofting activity
Thought it was time I posted a pic of the geese with their goslings. This was taken a couple of weeks ago, when there were still 6 goslings. Unfortunately we are now down to 3, not entirely sure what happened to them but strongly suspect predation by crows/ravens/blackbacks. Given how aggressive the geese are towards us I’m surprised that anything got near enough to take and of the youngsters.
We have also lost one of the ducklings but that still leaves us with 15, so we’ll not want for duck meat over winter!
Lambing nearly finished – just one ewe left – so far we have 14 lambs from the 9 that have lambed. Had one problem ewe who had mastitis and didn’t have enough milk for both lambs, so we’ve had to start bottle feeding one of them. Lamb is now in the byre with another lamb from a friend as we didn’t want her to be on her own. They’ve taken to the bottle fairly well and are doing OK.
Sunny cloudless skies to say goodbye to April, and I’m on holiday for 2 weeks!
Planted out early peas and broad beans onto the rigs, late peas are not quite ready for planting out yet
Start planting prairie garden, day lilies which have been growing on in the polytunnel for the last year will now have to survive in the great oudoors. Also started clearing the mud and grass from the old well/spring but it will need to drain for a bit before continuing.
Wild flowers starting to bloom in the parks – here’s a picture of a violet