The silence of the Lambs

July 13, 2007

On the plot next to ours there’s a hurd of sheep. By April/June their lambs were born. Cute little things, all white and very much alive. Over the months they’ve grown quite a bit and now almost look like grown sheep. However, their desire to have motherly contact apparently remains.

Generally at about five in the afternoon one of the lambs starts bleating for his mum… mum responds and another lamb remembers… “Ah… where’s my mum?”. Before you know it there’s this concert going on of lambs and mum-sheep trying to find each other and engaging in an impressive bleat ballad.

After about 20 minutes it quiets down… a true silence of the lambs!

Posted by roger | Filed Under About the house, Blog 

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