More snow but some new lives!

The weather this week doesn't know whether to be Winter or Spring as you can see from this picture of the Kirkstone end of the valley.

It's been very cold and they are forecasting further frost and wintery showers.

Spring is definitely on it's way though as we could tell from the number of new lambs. There's nothing unusual in seeing new born lambs at this time of year in the Lake District of course.




What was slightly more unusual was to see a new born calf at Long Green Head farm. It looked as though it had only just been born and that if we had happened along a moment or two earlier we might even have witnessed the birth. It was stumbling around trying to work out where to feed for a minute or two before finally latching on to it's mum.

A bit further along we saw Nature's answer to the weaker new arrivals soaring around above us. Troutbeck has a fairly big population of buzzards and they can often be seen flying around over the fells.