Sunday 28th January - All 19 seen - cow 215 has a scratch on her left rear leg

Steers 35, 217 and 228 plus cow 234 were having breakfast by Horse Pond at 09:55 this morning.  They were eating lots of gorse.  Youngster 228 was actually in the pond, eating from the bushes at its edge.  They were all looking well.

Yearlings 270 and 271 were busy eating grass in the pasture near the pill box on Sandy Hill at 10:20.  Youngster 219 was grazing a bit further along the hill, but soon wandered back.  Steer 33 plus cows 72, 215 and 940 were all deep in the gorse bushes.  At 10:30 youngster 228 appeared from around their favourite Sandy Hill corner, mooing as he came.  He wandered along to meet up with the others.  When youngster 215 emerged from the gorse bushes, I noticed she had a scratch on her rear left leg.  She was walking fine, and it wasn't causing her any issues.  The cows had come out of the gorse bushes by 10:45, and all eight continued to graze west along Sandy Hill.

Youngsters 214, 220, 222, 227 and 230 were all eating heather in the area around ///clear.refills.treat at 11:10.  Steer 20 was eating gorse on the opposite side of the track.  After a while, steer 21 emerged from the thicket to the east and joined the youngsters.  At 11:45 steer 20 went and lay down around ///free.situation.clear.  Steers 220, 222 and 230 soon lay down together close by.  Older steer 30 emerged from the gorse bushes way to the south at 11:55.  He walked over and lay down next to steer 20.  They were soon joined by steer 21.  Youngsters 214 and 227 were standing close by, chewing their cud.

I went to double-check the first three cows, as I noticed they had moved north-east and were getting very close to the motorcycle trial.  They were around ///lamp.cabbies.jots at 12:40.  Steer 35 had found the remains of the lick.  Cow 234 was standing close by.  Steer 217 was standing near some parked cars and was constantly mooing.  He soon wandered over, said hello and stood by me.  There were too many moving cars, people, dogs and motorbike noise for my liking, so I persuaded them to follow me back to Horse Pond.  When we got there, they seemed happy to continue, so I walked them along to ///weeded.blip.loose.  The other eight cows were grazing on Sandy Hill directly above them.   The group of three could sense them, but instead of climbing up the hill, they stood in the sun and began to relax and chew their cud.  I said goodbye at 13:20.

The cows were all good today.