Eirlys Enjoys the View
May 9, 2008 by Gwion
The picture above is Eirlys, our Welsh Black / Solair cross. Her calf, the black one at her heal, is called Eira (welsh for snow, it was snowing when she was born). The cows are all out of the cowshed now and enjoying the fresh new pasture. The hedgerows and the whitethorn are in flower, all the birds a busy finding food for their new chicks, It’s a great time to be on the farm. A pair of red kites are frequent visitors these days and a sparrow hawk made a brief appearance in our back garden on Tuesday. An impressive sight, but not good news for the young chicks perhaps.
I suspect there’s more new growth on the Oak than the Ash trees at the moment. ‘Oak before Ash only a splash’ would have us believe that it should be a dry summer. The weather this week has certainly been glorious.
So, having deprived Seren of her daily duck egg, Santi lovingly cradled the prize in the windscreen rag all the way home to Llanbedr. He was told to be very careful to put it gently on the kitchen surface. Mam went to save the washing. Dad went to change the baby. Iona waited til everyone was out of the kitchen to slyly steal the egg. Did it have a chick or not? There was only one way to find out. Mam spotted her with her dripping load. Nooo.. not the egg. A mad dash from the washing line saved the yolk…
It never made it to a cake. We fried it and had it for our dinner and a very tasty morsel it made!
It was a real pleasure being up there on your bit of hill.
Sheena, Gari, Santi, Iona and Tegid.xxx