Today's walk....sheep.

 

Sheep and lambs. A dark and frosty start to the day, however, neither the sheep or lambs seem to be bothered by the camera flash. I mentioned this before but it's worth repeating, the eyes of sheep and lambs are made for good night vision and are therefore constructed differently to ours. As a consequence of this, when a camera flash is used it's not red eye but blue eye that results.

 

Today's walk....sunrise and new lambs.

Another dull start to the day, not the best time for pic's but makes them bifferent.LOL

These lambs were actually born much earlier in December but have only just be allowed out. I have mentioned this before, due to the construction of sheeps eyes to give them great night vision, when you use flash you don't get red eye but blue eye!

Red sky over the Clwydian range.

 

New born lambs.

Shot these at 6400 ASA with flash as it was barely light. You will notice that sheep and lambs don't exhibit red eye. Sheep have enhanced night vision and for this they sacrifice the ability to see in colour, thus the construction of the eye is different to ours, hence no red eye.

 

Sheep and new lambs on a very frosty December morning.

Lambs can handle the cold no problem, it's rain that can be a problem.

Twins.

New lambs that were actually born in December but have only just been allowed out because of the weather. It was only just getting light when I took this on my walk so used the on camera flash. You will notice that sheep and lambs get "blue eye" with flash unlike us who get "red eye". This is down to the different eye construction, sheep have brilliant night vision but have to sacrifice the ability to see in colour, not heard them complain. LOL