A Reunion

It was a blissful colorful Autumn day with a warm breeze and sunshine.  A wonderful day to get the chicken house cleaned out and refreshed before the weather gets too cool.  A benefit of free ranging the chickens is having them out and not inside, while getting their space spiffy.  Plus the addition of all natural lawn fertilizer.  The grass should really be green in the Spring. 

After some target shooting, two on lookers showed up and then there was; "What's that up in the woods?"  At first glance my eyes caught the movement of black fur, (bear? . . .) and then the animal came into full sight.  What the heck!  It is a rather young calf that looked very hungry.  My job was to get around it and drive it back to where all the Moms were.  Yesterday the cattle were moved and this little one was inadvertently left behind.  This calf was swift on its feet and in no time it raced its way to the fence where there was help to open the gate.  (It was more like me catching up, hee) But it ran into the barbed wire and with a little help successfully made it through the fence.  It came upon a black cow and asked;  "Are you my Mother?"  Nope with a rather sharp nudge received it continued to hang with her.  After some encouragement the cow and this little one, joined the larger group of cows and in no time Mamma Ghost made a bee line to the calf, sniffing and licking.  The calf was quick at getting to some nourishment.  It was quite a sight to see.