Snowflake in the birdbath with sister Aurora watching (photo credit: Cassie Ibarra)
One of the joys of having animals roam free is getting to watch their explorations of the wide world. Here is Snowflake at 18 days old discovering the birdbath and figuring out what to do with it, while her sister, Aurora, looks on.
Not long before this, Aurora jumped up on her mother’s back (Fleur-de-Lys was grazing at the time) and wavered there, trying to keep her balance as her mother walked through the grass. I’ve never seen anything like it. My Columbian lamb Wonder didn’t climb the way these two Icelandic ones do—sometimes they seem more goat than sheep. I found Aurora on top of a stack of two bales of hay—no small height for a two-week-old lamb to scale.
At different times during the day, the animals come to the shade of the oak tree arching over the birdbath and the water bucket for a drink from either or both.
Ulysses coming for a drink
