Windy hill chickens - first flock(s) of my own

[BDutch]

Oh sorry, and there's me posting loads and loads of photos. Hope you enjoy your holiday!

Yes. Don’t be sorry. I enjoy your photos. Viewing photos is okay.
I love it here. I just don’t want to upload 5 Mb photos from my camera.

This photo, our tent on the campsite, is made by mdh, it went through whatsapp and is only 1Mb. Unfortunately you can barely see the chickens and the alps.

 

[kattabelly]

Yes. Don’t be sorry. I enjoy your photos. Viewing photos is okay.
I love it here. I just don’t want to upload 5 Mb photos from my camera.

This photo, our tent on the campsite, is made by mdh, it went through whatsapp and is only 1Mb. Unfortunately you can barely see the chickens and the alps.

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It looks beautiful.

Since moving to Orkney I'm always really jealous when I see big trees like that!

 

[BDutch]

MDH and I have been following a crime series of Shetland lately. I presume the Orkney landscapes are a bit similar. Is that true? Anyway Shetland is beautiful in its own way. I bet Orkney is too.

Found a solution without installing an app: screenshot.
This is how the chickens look like here.

The view on the alps just before sunset.

 

[kattabelly]

MDH and I have been following a crime series of Shetland lately. I presume the Orkney landscapes are a bit similar. Is that true?

No, they're quite different! Shetland is much steeper and wilder and the mainland is quite a bit bigger. Orkney is more rolling hills and fertile agricultural land except for one island, Hoy, which is more mountainous. There aren't many trees in Orkney, and they don't get very tall except in a few very sheltered spots, but there are even less trees in Shetland.

 

[kattabelly]

Clearly the pullet is reading this thread and knows I want identical eggs for the show next week, so today she laid this (next to yesterday's which has been her normal size so far).

Big lesser black-backed gull on the hunt overhead most of this morning - I saw it carry off a huge dead rat that I'd left out as a message to the others - but the two oldest cockerels were really good about alerting everyone. All but the rock pullet and B knew to run for cover and it didn't take much encouragement from me for them to join the others.

Spent a good hour handling all the Shetlands and Rocks, and the big boys were in a sociable mood too.