The Rock & The Backyard & Pelican (again)

The lambs love the large rock in front of the barn.  They often play king (or queen) of the hill.

Meadowlark

Cormorant

Pelican & Adelie

Pelican is popular with all of us humans.

Barack O'Llama went on a tiny adventure this week-- he visited the "backyard."  He wasted no time getting comfortable. 

Lambs, Lambs, Lambs

Kestrel

Cormorant

Budgie

Cormorant & Sandpiper

Eagle

Oriole

Hawk & Merlin

Hawk

Meadowlark

Peregrine

Merganser & Meadowlark

Pelican & Friends

There haven't been a lot of lamb pictures on the blog.  It's hard to get good pictures when the sun doesn't come out, and it's nearly impossible when the sheep are in the barn--where they usually stay when it's rainy.  

The sun came out long enough for me to get pictures of some of the lambs (and a few older sheep, too.)  Pelican and I are pals so I have a lot of pictures of him.

Pelican is happy to see me.

Pelican

Pelican with mom Sequoia

 Oriole hangs around while her mom begs for treats.

Oriole

Oriole telling her mom to hurry up.

Some others....

Opal & Peregrine

Cormorant

The brown rams are hard to tell apart!  Merlin?  Budgie?

Pawlonia & Wren

Chamomile

Merlin hiding behind mom Tiffany.

Finally, Opal

And we're all done!  (Unless there were consequences for the ram break-ins.  If there were any, they'd be due in less than two weeks, and at this point, we'd usually be able to tell.)

Opal lambed right on time, but it was still a surprise.  I was expecting her to be late like most of the other ewes this year.

Opal's lamb is a ram.  He looks just like her lamb from last year, Bergamot, except that he's gray and black rather than tan and brown.  He seems like he's going to have an excellent fleece. 

We've named him Peregrine.  We haven't decided on whether he will have a nickname or not.