A European wildcat on the camera trap - heavier set and with a thicker tail than a domestic cat and with very distinctive markings.

 

Wildboars - a young mother and three young of about three years old (stripes barely visible now they're nearly adults).

Roof stripping finally starts

 

It's been a long hot humid/wet summer. 

We've lost four sheep, three to FCO (Donnie, Hopi and Puffle) and one to Piroplasmosis (Valentine). At least another four sheep have had FCO and are recovering. Bam-bam had a long form of the virus lasting over two weeks and his recovery is slow. The vaccine doesn't offer any of the sheep protection until late September.

All the kingpost trusses for the barn have been built and disassembled. There's a few days of pointing to do before I can start removing the old roof. Two weeks of rain are forecast so it might have to wait.