14 March 2010

Day 73:
Lambing season in the UK is a pretty big deal. In fact, this year the BBC decided to create a TV show called 'Lambing Live' hosted by Kate Humboldt where she spent a week on a British farm helping the farm deliver the lambs and look after the ones that had some problems. It's a pretty strange phenomenon as all of the ewes give birth during the same week (UK wide). On a walk with Jennie that was more 'urban' in nature than the true wilds that I normally escape to, we still came across plenty of fields fringing the greater Plymouth area full of baby lambs less than a week old. Most of the ones we saw were enjoying the lovely afternoon sunshine by napping with their twin, but a few more spry ones were out wandering about the fields, not straying too far from their mothers. However, there was a lamb in this particular field that had lost its mother and was baaaaing away trying to desperately find its way back to the milk source.