Photo Blog: June 2025

June is the scruffy reindeer month! Perhaps, not their most photogenic season but still a wonderful time of year and I still managed to take lots of photos of course to fill the monthly photo blog . The cows and calves are all free ranging in the hills and we have around half our males in our hill enclosure here, growing lovely antlers and meeting our visitors.

1st of June: Elbe still with almost a full winter coat, but you can see the short summer coat around his eyes and on his nose. The ears back look is very common in Elbe’s family. His twin sister Alba also often has the same ears back rather grumpy expression!
3rd of June: Dr Seuss with his pink nose! Every June his old winter coat falls out completely before his summer coat grows through.
6th of June: Bond looking majestic! Sadly the very next day he had broken his antler and now looks a little less majestic.
8th of June: No reindeer, but a lovely view from the side of Silver Mount looking down towards Glenmore and Loch Morlich with the lovely cotton grass in the foreground.
9th of June: 99 sporting his yellow sun block!
9th of June: The handsome Akubra coming to say hello.
11th of June: On a warm day the boys can go back to the gate and cause a bit of a road blockage for our visitors wanting to leave!
11th of June: Trying to get a decent photo for social media to announce the arrive of our 2026 calendar. This is me showing Amur his page in the calendar.
14th of June: Choc-ice finding a good chin rest for a snooze.
14th of June: After a rainy night, Lupin looks incredibly shaggy – his winter coat is coming off in big dreadlocks!
14th of June: What a motley crew. From R-L we have 99, Rocket and Dr Seuss.
17th of April: Druid doing his best ‘wooing’ face after the Hill Trip. He’s quite a shy reindeer but after a Hill Trip he comes looking for the white bag and wins the hearts of our visitors!
18th of June: Scoop is looking very smart in his short summer coat.
18th of June: Busby lying down and looking very handsome after a Hill Trip.
19th of June: Harness training with some of our male reindeer.
20th of June: A sunny Hill Trip!
25th of June: Butter, one of last year’s breeding bulls, growing a lovely set of antlers.
25th of June: Morse has also been a breeding bull in his day, but is now one of ‘Christmas reindeer’ trained to harness.
26th of June: Ärta looking very scruffy.
26th of June: Paddock swap day! Taking the Paddock boys back up the hill.

Ruth

One Reply to “Photo Blog: June 2025”

  1. I think they look so wonderful being fluffy! They have such different looks just amazing! Tell Pukka hello for me and an extra snuggle for her!

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