Globalti
Legendary Member
Over the weekend we have watched three cows give birth in the field behind us, the first spent a lot of time wandering around looking unhappy then we saw her hanging around a ditch that we can't see into. The farmer appeared, got down in the ditch and fished out a rather muddy calf, which he proceeded to wash down with a bucket and sponge. Poor wee thing must have thought life was going to be pretty grim if a muddy wet ditch was the first place it saw when it opened its eyes. Shortly after that we had two more pop out, quick and trouble free within yards of our fence. It's amazing how quickly the calves are on their feet and they're frolicking around happily by the next day.
Sunday morning out for a ride with my seriously fit neighbour, racing snake and former national hill climber. Managed to stay with him for most of the 48 miles; I'm sure he was going easy for me. Coming down a hill we were surprised when a large deer suddenly jumped into the road and over the opposite fence. A car coming up the hill also stopped and when a second deer jumped into the road it found itself sandwiched between two cyclists and a car and panicked, failed to get over the opposite fence, turned around, failed to jump back bouncing off the fence and then began a terrifying back and forth bouncing as it became increasingly desperate. After about the fifth attempt it cleared the fence leaving a huge cloud of dust, hair and debris floating towards us on the breeze. For a while afterwards I was spitting bits of vegetation and a couple of deer hairs out of my mouth!
On top of all that we've got the curlew in the fields, which is a beautiful bird with a lovely bubbling call. Ain't Nature grand!
Sunday morning out for a ride with my seriously fit neighbour, racing snake and former national hill climber. Managed to stay with him for most of the 48 miles; I'm sure he was going easy for me. Coming down a hill we were surprised when a large deer suddenly jumped into the road and over the opposite fence. A car coming up the hill also stopped and when a second deer jumped into the road it found itself sandwiched between two cyclists and a car and panicked, failed to get over the opposite fence, turned around, failed to jump back bouncing off the fence and then began a terrifying back and forth bouncing as it became increasingly desperate. After about the fifth attempt it cleared the fence leaving a huge cloud of dust, hair and debris floating towards us on the breeze. For a while afterwards I was spitting bits of vegetation and a couple of deer hairs out of my mouth!
On top of all that we've got the curlew in the fields, which is a beautiful bird with a lovely bubbling call. Ain't Nature grand!
