21^st April was World Curlew Day, which coincided perfectly with a trail camera capturing one of our adult curlews incubating her clutch of eggs. These eggs are incredibly precious and thanks to extra monitoring from the South Lakes Curlew Recovery Partnership, chicks will hopefully be fledging later in May.   

The pretty wild primroses adorn the damp banks and the bluebells carpet the woodland floors. There is new life coming into the world everywhere we look and we’ve been lucky with a dry spell of weather for the start of lambing time.

We have 600 sheep in the flock, which should bring around 1000 lambs. All of the sheep lamb outside, checked twice a day by our shepherdess and are ideally left to get on with things by themselves.

The Belted Galloway and Blue Grey cattle are just coming to the end of grazing their winter ‘allotment’ grounds and will soon be moved to lower, summer pastures.

We’ll be back to update you as we move into the summer months and the farming cycle continues for shearing and haymaking.