A summer evening

There have been relatively few evenings this summer where it has been lovely and warm right until around 10.00pm when the sun is setting.  Thursday was a lovely day and the evening turned out to be pleasant and warm too with only a few flies to bother the boys!  Normally we put hay in their buckets during the evening and they like to help themselves.   Fyta (left, above) has a thing about lifting them and throwing them around and here he is with Wee Eck having lifted and dropped the bucket, startling Eck.  We didn't manage to get a good shot of the bucket mid-flight unfortunately regardless of how many times we tried.

As ever, Faro is watchful, checking on the activities of the photographer.  Gully is in the background.

Further up the paddock are Rufus (front), Fergus and Fidget in the background.  Fergus is nibbling at the grass as he lies in the sun and we find that lots of the boys do this - even eating out of their bowls whilst lying down.  They appeared very contended doing this.  At this time of year however with loads of flies around, the boys will often lie down to stop the flies getting underneath them and this seems to work well for all of them.

Gully has sensitive skin and hates flies!  When they are around he often goes into a shelter, eats his hay or lies down and watches the herd from there.  

Faro stops the annoying flies getting underneath him.

And finally..........at the end of a lovely day, a lovely sunset.  At this time of year the sun sets in the north west around 1000pm but in mid winter it sets in the south west about 3.30pm.  We are already beginning to see the daylight shortening - unfortunately.