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Another for flighty Flyday! Very common in farming areas. Adults are mainly carnivorous, catching smaller insects, but they also eat nectar. As their name suggests, they lays their eggs mainly on cowpatties. Five image handheld stack.
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Another hard year for farmers and my best wishes to them this Christmas.
Photo taken through the window of an Avanti West Coast train to Glasgow.
A hectic few days for us, as some family and friends can only do some or part days due to work commitments. I won't be back for more than a few minutes until after Christmas.
Finally, I'd like to wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
Have fun!
Gasa Valley, Bhutan, 2018.
A glimpse of rural Bhutan with its characteristic terraces.
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
Hoxa Head. The end of the peninsular on South Ronaldsay has no roads so walking the farm track is the only way to the get to the end.
The Broads are manmade waterways. Along with many other mills, Horsey Mill was built to drain the water to create more farmland. Here are some facts quoted from. www.nationaltrustscones.com/2019/10/horsey-windpump.html?m=1
“Here are some historical facts:
There has been a drainage mill on the site since the early 1700s
There are similar mills dotted all around this part of Norfolk - by draining the land using wind power, landowners could make more area available for farming
Drainage continues today - there's an electric pump doing all the work these days, but if it wasn't there then the area would be flooded:
The area used to be an island used for grazing or keeping horses (hence the name), with one access road that regularly flooded
The current windpump structure was built in 1912 on the foundations of the 19th century mill
Horsey Windpump was working until 1943 when it was struck by lightning
It was acquired by the National Trust and has been restored - its sails were set in motion for the first time in 76 years in May this year, which must have been a great moment
As with all mills, it's not the most accessible property - there are several floors and 61 steps to negotiate to get right to the top, most of which are very narrow (I can report that the young sconepals cared not a jot about this and were scampering up the stairs like squirrels)”
A cowbell (or cow bell) is a bell worn around the neck of free-roaming livestock so herders can keep track of an animal via the sound of the bell when the animal is grazing out of view in hilly landscapes or vast plains.
Hanging from each cow's massive neck is one of the most recognizable symbols of Swiss farming culture: the Treichel. The northern German-Swiss farmers call it a Kuhglocke. Others simply know it as a cowbell.
The next morning we were off for a walk to another lake.
First we went from our holiday home to the ground station of the cable car. On our way we passed the farmer of the farm below us at Clavaniev, mowing his large meadow with a handheld machine.
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