Cattle and hornbeam

Top photo: proof that Belted Galloway also come in dun and white as well as black and white; bottom photo shows the hornbeam that grows on the top of the hill taken looking south towards Barrow Wake and Birdlip. Any readers who are taken with the Belted Galloway breed can acquire their own from the members' pages of the Belted Galloway Society. They thrive on poor pasture.

Just beautiful ...

More views from Crickley yesterday afternoon, together with a couple of shots of the Belted Galloway cattle which are currently adorning the slopes on the approach road. There is clear evidence everywhere on the top of the hill that they have recently been carrying out the duties imposed on them there by the Cotswold wardens: keeping the grass down and preventing the spread of scrubland.