March moments

Tup pedicures with D's help.

Kale surviving the winter. 

Herdwick hoggs overby. 

Starlings are back. 

Feeding the Herdwicks. 

 

The New Year

The weather after New Year enabled me to get the drone in the air.  Firstly over Calgary Beach, looking at the sands again and how they have shifted in the storms.  

Then over Haunn, the bird's eye view reaches to Calgary and over to Ardnamurchan. 

 

Moving sheep and feeding sheep

The young stock over on the rented fields at Ensay have to come back to Treshnish for a few days at the end of the grazing agreement each year, so Farmer has to entice them up to the Ensay farm yard where he has erected a corral of flakes and gates to lead them in to, so he can load them into the trailer and bring them home.   It is a bit of a palaver but he has a good system.   On this occasion they seemed to know where they were going and were not following the bag (in his hand!). 

 

December day skies

These extraordinary clouds are Nacreous clouds.  They are formed in the lower stratosphere over polar regions - so very unusual here, so far south.  A bit like Noctiulcent clouds the clouds are illuminated by the sun which is just below the horizon.  The colour is formed by the sun hitting the ice particles in the very cold clouds, which can be between 70,000 and 100,000 feet above sea level. 

The word Nacre comes from an old English word meaning Mother of Pearl.

What a treat to see this.  I stood and watched the colours change before my eyes, until the lower clouds obscured it completely. 

 

Walks and views on the farm

 

A March storm

The weather this winter has been pretty grim at times, lots of rain and wind but not many big storms.  This windy stormy day was a delight - no damage overnight and sunshine accompanying the wind. 

And as I walked away from the shoreline a beautiful Hare..