Dry Clough, Lancashire

Bringing down the sheep

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The woman on the quad bike is, with her husband and her sheepdog, bringing sheep down from the high moors for lambing. Moorland sheep lamb a few weeks later than lowland sheep so that they have a chance to eat nourishing new grass before lambing, which starts growth later on the moorland than on the grasslands below.

Uploaded to Geograph by Philip Platt on 9 April 2015

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