Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:36:51 +0100, Joe Egginton wrote:

Last Sunday while walking over the Shropshire hills, I noticed two
sheep head butting each other. Yet both sheep didn't have horns. I
always thought that rams had horns.

Yews will have a go at each other like that as well. Was this just the odd
"gerroff my bit of grass" or something a little more serious with the two
animals squaring up to each other.

Yews also have horns, depends on the breed.


It was definitely a contest, they squared up to each other twice, and
had good go, several times in each of the two contests. They must have
given themselves one hell of a headache !

BTW last autumn when I was coming down off the Long Mynd, Shrops, I
heard a sound which I didn't recognise, I looked behind and sheep pushed
past me, nearly knocking me over, afterwards it looked towards me,
before it trotted off up the hillside. I presumed at the time it was
spooked by something, though perhaps it saw me has a threat and wanted a
punch up ! ;-)

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Joe Egginton
Wolverhampton
175m asl