Catching a couple of early Swales up on the moor. #farming #lambing2022

1st bun out of the oven. 2nd due anytime 😊 #lambing2022 #sheep #Ilkley #Yorkshire

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Mr T wanting to be back in the porch!

The day before the snow arrived. Good job they're strong lambs. #lambing2022 #sheep

Delighted to have a couple of my photos included in this exhibition. Looking forward to paying CC a visit once lambing is finished 🙂

The Lambcatcher #sheep #lambing2022 #Ilkley #Yorkshire

A current work in progress. May put it into print. The light in the lambing shed is really lovely first thing in the morning. The sun streams through the big windows, and those lucky enough to have a shaft of warm light in their pen soak it up gratefully. #sheep #lambing2022

Lambing now finished in Sheep Dept No.2. Dept 1, (Badgers), finished a few days ago. 2 remain in Dept 3, (Texel x mules), and 32 in Dept 4, (Swales). Nearly there! #lambing2022 #sheep #Ilkley #Yorkshire

Am waiting for Mitchell's to arrive. #farming #lambing2022

Sheep in wolf's clothing

3mth old texel x swale lambs. Pleased with this year's crop, they've filled out well despite the lack of grass. These are grass fed, no creep feeding here.

Tinderbox Farm.

Taking 12 Greyface Dartmoor shearlings to the rare breed sale at Skipton. Going to sell in pairs, as is a tradition with this breed. Sorted them in to lots this morning before it got too scorchio. (Pic taken a few weeks ago)

2 animals did this in the middle of one of the worst #droughts on record. No machines, no disturbance, no diesel or fuel, just 2 pairs of hefty incisors and engineering skills to rival the world's best civil engineers. #Beavers #nature #FabulousFriday #NatureBasedSolutions

Fantastic show of heather this year. The #Ilkley landscape looking and smelling fabulous. The scent is quite intoxicating. #YORKSHIRE

Two of the reservoir inlets dried up completely weeks ago. Water supplies to our land at Langbar dried up last week so we're lugging 1KL containers to the cows twice a day. Sure they drink double when it's being brought by human!

Shorthorns and sunshine. Teensy bit of rain overnight, still dry enough under foot to walk the shepherding route in holey trainers.

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Greyface Dartmoor hoggs. Can't keep them all...