Mission accomplished

Last week on a beautiful spring day, which was also my birthday, I decided to undertake one of my favourite walks.

This is from Rye through the fields to the Norman church at Peasmarsh.

I was enjoying watching the baby lambs frolicking in the fields, when to my dismay I saw a lamb stuck in a dyke.

Its mother was frantically trying to pull the lamb out by its neck, but it was slipping further in. As it was on the other bank I rushed to find a crossing point, and reached the distressed pair.

I managed to lift the baby from the water and laid it on the bank with its mother. The mother started to clean its offspring while I stood back. However the lamb rolled back into the dyke again. So I lifted the lamb out again, and laid it higher up the bank. The mother cleaned the lamb and this time it stood up and started feeding.

Mission accomplished, I left.

This was definitely the highlight of my birthday.

Image Credits: Michael Holloway .