Around 11am. The first cow hunt of the year! Wellies needed to go in parts of Western Fen, little chance of finding the relatively small cattle if all lying down! Luckily one stood up. But very timid, cannot get much closer than 100yds, so all you can do is count up to seven before they run off, legs are obviously working well! One cream one with big horns, rest black and one has a white face, 7 in all. Not possible to check ear tags, eyes etc.
Pasture pump is working, but not very efficiently, I suspect air in the pipe to the water source. This seemed to be the same last year. Maybe there is a leak in the pump diaphragm or in the water pipe, and air is getting in. However plenty of standing water over large areas of the fen.
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