Where has October gone?! It was a pretty hectic month here with the rut in full swing, halter training the calves, free ranging reindeer keeping us busy, and three weeks of October holidays. But it’s been very fun and hopefully a successful rut – we’ll find out in the spring! The big news was that we managed to open the Exhibition! We did a very ‘soft opening’ just letting the October holiday makers have a look around to test things out. The best place to find up to date information regarding our Paddocks and Exhibition is still our website, or feel free to give us a call.
1st of October: Torch looking mega – she’s in great condition and looks particularly super for 13 year old.6th of October: Cowboy investing the bags – “any more food for me?!”6th of October: The gorgeous Winnie, she’s now 2.5 years old so was running with a bull this autumn. We’re so proud of our little hand-reared calf!7th of October: Handsome Jester.7th of October: Choc-ice has been one of our breeding bulls this year. He certainly knows where the lichen comes from – this was the face that met us most mornings.9th of October: Kernel looking for food. Kulfi and Christie are behind.10th of October: Reindeer on the skyline. 11th of October: Mother and daughter – Sunflower and Fika.11th of October: Zoom will be trained to pull a sleigh this autumn.18th of October: Feeding the herd on a glorious morning.20th of October: Dr Seuss posing beautifully. 20th of October: Wonderful Emm walking off Orinoco and Suebi – they’d be running with Jimmy the bull but after a few weeks Jimmy seemed to be done with the rut, so these girls got to go back out on the free range.21st of October: Bordeaux and calf.21st of October: Beret and calf – he has super cool face markings.22nd of October: Jester and Kernel chewing the cud together. 23rd of October: Dante and her beautiful dark calf.29th of October: Feeding the calves out of the bag. It’s turned them all into absolute monsters! 29th of October: Tap and calf. Two of the darkest reindeer in the entire herd.30th of October: Pinto and her son.
As I sit down to write this blog the current newsletter, October 2025, has just arrived at the Reindeer Centre from the printers and will be packed up and sent out over the next few days! The newsletter gets posted out to our wonderful reindeer adopters in June and October each year. This gave me the idea to dig out some of our old newsletters to see how much, or little, has changed. So here’s extracts from the newsletter 20 years ago – in October 2005.
The ‘featured reindeer’ on the front page 20 years ago was Shekel, a friendly ‘Christmas reindeer’. Shekel was part of the herd, long before I became a reindeer herder, but I’ve certainly heard of his name, meaning he must’ve been a big character! He certainly sounds it – if you can’t read the article below (sorry, if it’s too small!) it describes him as “a very tame and greedy reindeer who certainly isn’t shy and took to harness like a duck to water”. He went on to live to 10 years old, a fair age for a male reindeer.
Shekel was a very handsome fella!Extract from the October 2005 newsletter.
This October’s ‘featured reindeer’ is (…spoiler alert!…) an old boy called Stenoa, born in 2012. He’s a strong, well-built lad and always one of the first on the feed line. In his day he was a steady sleigh puller but now is enjoying retirement! I never met Shekel, so can’t be sure, but they both sound fairly similar to me!
Stenoa looking handsome in 2021.
The next article made me laugh as not much has changed at all. I’d say the only differences these days is that we no longer do a big tour of the whole of the UK, mostly just staying much closer to home in Scotland. And of course, we no longer use a “local phone book” to find a telephone number we’re after! Otherwise, nothing has changed. We still use afternoons in the autumn to sleigh train our new recruits alongside the older boys who have done it lots before. In 2005 there were 10 reindeer to train, and I believe this year it’s a fairly similar number which will include Scoop, Calippo, Kulfi, Zoom, Kernel, Sherlock, Spartan and Morse.
A wee article all about sleigh training – something which happens to this day, in a very similar fashion!Poirot learning how to pull the sleigh in 2022 with Lisette at the front.
Another little article also made me smile about two reindeer called Mystery and Mystique. It says “150 reindeer and we know them all individually by name. That’s true… well nearly true because this year a strange reindeer turned up who none of us can put a name too.” Hopefully you’ll be able to read the article below but in a nutshell – a little female reindeer turned up who couldn’t be accounted for so was later named Mystique!
Another wee article all about two mysterious reindeer from October 2005.Mystique in September 2011.
Whilst I’ve been a reindeer herder over the past 8 years ish (on and off), I’ve not known this to happen as such, although there’s a few reindeer which certainly got us guessing as to their origins. In summer 2023 Andi was out checking the herd on the free range and discovered Brie with a calf. Huh?! We didn’t run her with a bull last autumn? That was a surprise! Bond turned up in the autumn of 2018 as a four month old calf without a mother. By process of elimination the herders worked out that his mother must have been Lairig, who sadly died in September 2018.
Bond in Autumn 2018 when he turned up without a mother (and any antlers!) – who do you belong to?!
I’ve worked with the Cairngorm Reindeer Herd as cover staff since 2019, coming and going, never staying more than a couple of months. This year I finally joined the team as permanent staff, so I wanted to commemorate my little journey to becoming a full-time reindeer herder.
I first encountered the reindeer in April 2018 as a visitor on a Hill Trip. We had the wonderful Sheena as our guide. Standing in the snowy mountains, watching the herd mill around us, I fell completely in love with it all.
Meeting Oatcake on my first visit in 2018.A young Dr Seuss in 2018.
After visiting a few times that summer, I asked about work. The next spring, the team were kind enough to have me along for a trial day. There was just one snag… My partner had just been offered a very exciting job at the opposite end of the country. We relocated from Scotland to the South-West.
I spent the summer of 2019 travelling up and down the length of the country to do cover work with the herd. My standout memory from that summer was a day out on the free-range. A cow with a little calf appeared on the plateau – Hobnob and Minsk.
Minsk on the free-range as a calf, 2019.The herd on the move in the enclosure, 2019.
My plans to return in 2020 were a bust due to Covid, so when 2021 arrived I was desperate to get back. I signed up to a solid two months of work over the summer and ended up living in my tent. It was such a rainy summer, and the old tent slowly accumulated duct tape to keep me dry and cosy. A solid two months of work really helped me build confidence.
Relaxing with Dr Seuss, 2021.Emmental
In 2022 I was completing an ecology qualification and needed a field project. I took a break from herding and spent several weeks researching instead. I surveyed ticks in the enclosure and over at the farm. These parasites are a big issue for the herd due to the diseases they carry. I spent my summer following my GPS unit to random coordinates around the enclosure to conduct my survey, exploring all the secret nooks and crannies.
Lupin inspecting my wind speed metre in 2022.A tick sampling transect on Silver Mount, 2022.
When I arrived in May 2023, I had just missed the birth of the last calf. There was still plenty of calf action though, as we ended up with two hand-reared calves – Winnie and Alba. In early June we walked the cows and calves out onto the free-range. It was such a beautiful evening that I had a bit of a realisation… I really didn’t want to leave. This set the wheels in motion for us to move back to Scotland.
With Winnie and Alba in the woods, 2023.Walking Cows and Calves onto the free-range, June 2023.
April/May 2024 was my first proper calving season, getting out and looking for cows and their new-born calves around the enclosure. I was house hunting in the area on my days off. Slowly, everything fell into place. By September we’d found a house, and I also got my first proper experience of working during the rut. When I left, it was so exciting to think that when I finally returned to Scotland it would be for good.
Catching a calf in 2024.Moving the herd of the free-range, 2024.
2025 kicked off with two big moves! Me and my husband moved cross-country again, and the Reindeer Centre moved into the new building! I came back for some cover work in March, and in April I finally joined as permanent staff. No looking back now!
Moving the herd on a snowy morning, March 2025.Winnie and Alba, all grown up, 2025.
September is a beautiful time of year. We’ve had the first snow on the plateau and lovely autumnal sunny days. The odd soggy day too, of course! The reindeer look fantastic with fully grown antlers and fresh winter coats growing through.
We’ve been doing lots of free range missions to bring in the cows and their calves which is always fun. The bulls and cows have been stripping the velvet and getting a wee bit more feisty and hormonal in preparation for the upcoming rut. We split the first bull, Choc-ice, with a small group of girls on the 22nd – exciting times!
The calves have also been given a name but as always we don’t post any names online until our adopters have their newsletters. Maybe by next month’s photo blog!
1st of September: Cheer and her daughter Chai in the background. 1st of September: The time of year when the bulls start stripping the velvet. Here is two-year-old Limpopo looking very handsome. 3rd of September: Emmental and her calf back in the enclosure after a summer of free ranging. 3rd of September: A family portrait! Irish, his wee sister, and his mum, Helsinki. Since Helsinki has been back in our enclosure, one-year-old Irish has become rather attached to his mum again! Helsinki is very tolerant and shares her pile of food with her teenage son. 4th of September: Bordeaux and her son. These two didn’t come in for their breakfast so I got a lovely walk up Silver Mount to find them and return them to the herd. Both were completely fine and clearly just having a lie-in. 4th of September: Elbe, a twin, is looking phenomenal! He’s two years old and has a really lovely nature! We’re all very fond of him. 4th of September: Peanut’s male calf is looking great and is already quite tame. 4th of September: Two freckly white noses trying to get into the hand feed bag. Sundae on the left and Beanie on the right. 9th of September: The calves in the enclosure have quickly learnt what’s in the bags! They get allowed to feed directly from the bags which encourages them to be tamer and so they can get some extra mouthfuls without a bigger reindeer stealing it from them. Zoom and Choc-ice are circling the bags like piranhas! 10th of September: One of our gorgeous calves. This wee one belongs to Hopscotch. 10th of September: Glacée and her daughter. She’s done so well as a first time mum!11th of September: Lotti and Kate feeding the herd. 11th of September: Moving some of our free rangers from outside the cafe on Cairngorm Mountain! Sunflower, Fika and Solero are the three closest to camera. Fika and Solero are stripping the velvet from their antlers. 15th of September: Old girl Ryvita on a very soggy day. She’s now back out free ranging but came into the enclosure for a few days for a health check and vaccination. She’s looking great for 16!16th of September: Brie posing beautifully on a lovely autumnal morning. 16th of September: The calves are allowed to feed from the bags before we put it out on the ground for everyone else. You can see the older reindeer lurking around the edge and Cameron and Kate on guard duty!17th of September: Amazon is now two years old. Her mum Dante is just behind. 17th of September: Christie has done it again! She looks phenomenal and has produced yet another lovely, chilled-out wee dude!18th of September: Jimmy looking very handsome.22nd of September: Winnie looking gorgeous in the beautiful autumnal light! She was hand reared in 2023 and has come back into the hill enclosure after almost a year out free ranging looking amazing!23rd of September: Morven and her calf. Both have ridiculous antlers!24th of September: Marple and calf. Her calf has turned into a greedy food monster!26th of September: After a week in our Paddocks Dr Seuss is now back in the hill enclosure ready for the 11am Hill Trip and hand feeding!
This summer I have had a lovely spell of catching up with our cows and calves out on the free range. After missing both of the nights that we lead the cows and calves out onto the free range a small group decided that I couldn’t miss out and were found loitering outside the hill enclosure the following morning, it was a glorious morning to be moving reindeer and allowed me to spend some time with the group before they went to higher ground.
Thankfully for Amy the second batch of cows and calves to leave the enclosure didn’t go far and she was able to go catch up with them the following day just outside the hill enclosure.
My first trip out to see the free rangers was at the end of July, heading to an area that the herd frequent through the summer; this is an area of the hill that I’ve heard a lot about, but hadn’t seen it first-hand. After a bit of a slog going up hill due to the heat, the temperature began to decrease, it became windier and a whole lot more comfortable (no wonder the reindeer like the top of the hills!) after a short period of time I stumbled across a group of cows and calves and began to identify them. I would say this is the most overwhelming part of heading out onto the free range as you want to try and document as much as possible so we can keep track of who we have seen and also take lots of pictures and videos to reference in the future. We are also trying to make it around the group to see what condition they are in and see if everyone is well in themselves, since the summer is when there can be long spells between us catching up with the females. I have included a few pictures of some of the girls that I caught up with on this trip. Due to the time of the year, they’re very scruffy as they are moulting out of their winter coat still and I could already see some impressive antlers. As I was enjoying my time with the herd, another group of older girls joined us – at a distance. Even at that distance you can see how epic Spy’s antlers are.
Cheer and Chai – mother and yearling daughter still hanging out together.Vienna and Scully – still looking rather scruffy but you can see their smart summer coats beneath the tatty old winter coat.Tap’s calf closest to the camera.Beret’s calf, much paler than Tap’s above, showing the variety in coat colour.Marple having a good summer and growing her usual lovely antlers.Spy on the skyline – even at a distance her antlers look epic!
I am continuingly amazed at how much the reindeer move around on the free range and it definitely becomes more apparent during the summer; we can head out to different areas on the free range and still come across the same reindeer. Just over a week later, I went back out onto the free range and caught up with a smaller group of cows and calves (on another warm day, much to my dismay), but having these warmer spells means that you can almost guarantee that the reindeer will be higher up and lazing around rather than travelling great distances; making my life easier. It was a mixed group of reindeer I had seen the previous trip and some other cows that I hadn’t seen since they had gone out on to the free range, which was lovely as I could appreciate how the calves had changed in the week or so since I had last seen them.
Marple and calf a week or so later – you can see how much Marple has moulted in that time.Brew – a cheeky yearling.
The people of the northern hemisphere and reindeer have a long-interconnected history. In the days of the ice ages reindeer were known as far south as Spain and as one of the larger and least scary animals roaming the land (compared to cave lions and aurochs), they made natural prey for humans of all kinds. Reindeer antlers and bones found in archaeological sites in France age the Reindeer-Homosapien relationship at least 45,000 years old – although it is argued there is some evidence of Neanderthals hunting reindeer 60,000 years ago!
‘Bone cave’ in Inchnadamph where many reindeer bones were found alongside early human remains.
In the 40ish thousand years reindeer and humans have been in contact, our relationship has evolved. From hunter-gatherers hunting reindeer with spears and bows to rifles or to our Reindeer Centre in Glenmore and our Christmas Reindeer pulling sleds. In this blog, I am going to focus on how we lived with reindeer pre-domestication.
One of the more interesting sources we have on how people of the reindeer live with undomesticated reindeer are the peoples that still live or until recently have lived with the Caribou – most notably the various groups of inland Inuit in North America. (Note: Caribou and Reindeer are the same species, but the north American caribou has never been domesticated). For these people, as many other people of the reindeer, reindeer are the lifeblood of their communities.
Reindeer tend to be migratory animals (one subspecies of reindeer in Canada makes the largest migration of any land mammal!) and the humans around them have tended to take on nomadic or semi-nomadic habits as well. In many places, they haven’t needed to be with the reindeer the whole time but moved between pinch points of the migration routes – narrow mountain passes or land bridges between great lakes that the seemingly endless rivers of reindeer would be forced to cross, into the waiting arms of the local hunters. Life like this is boom and bust. A few times a year, the community will catch the great river of deer and during these times will feast. Much of the meat will also be preserved for the many winter months when the reindeer no longer pass through (as they are less mobile during the winter and stay hidden in wintering grounds). Outside of the major floods of reindeer, the odd one is to be found wandering, and much time is spent looking for fresh meat to aid hungry bellies. During the winter, in the coldest places, people in history have been known to survive on semi-frozen dried meat.
A group of our reindeer weathering a winter blizzard. Cairngorm reindeer don’t have a huge migration, but they do come lower down the hills in winter.
Many of these people lived almost exclusively on deer produce. In a carnivore diet, fat becomes essential; it contains much of the necessary vitamins for life that aren’t contained in meat alone. Thus, much of the animals were eaten, not just the finest cuts rump. In fact, those rump stakes we prize so highly are comparatively low in nutrients and were sometimes the parts of the animals given to the dogs.
The reindeer haven’t only been used for food, in almost all cultures of people of the reindeer, every bit of the animal is used. Clothing and boots are made from their skins – often the skin from the belly of the reindeer is chosen for the soles of shoes for its toughness; the hide from the back for coats and parkas due to its thickness and warmth; hoods, mittens and boot tops are made from the hide from the brow due to its suppleness; etc… The shelter the reindeer provide also extends to summer tents, where scrapped and tanned hides are stretched around (often) birch poles to form the semi-mobile summer home. To lash the tent together, many cultures make use of the long and strong sinews from the back of the reindeer. These are also used to sew the clothing together – they have the bonus of swelling when they get wet so that most well sewn seams are fairly watertight.
The trousers and parka of an Inuit man, southern Baffin Island, Hudson Bay, 1910-1914 – Royal Ontario Museum
Reindeer antler and bone is also a useful material, antler is still commonly used for making knife handles and for fixings of all kinds. Reindeer House here in Glenmore is held together by reindeer antler (click here for proof)! The parts of the reindeer that remain can be used as ritual objects or donations back to the ecosystem. This respectful use of the whole animal is repeated through most people of the reindeer, even in people who now live with domesticated reindeer.
August has been a busy and fun month. We’ve had lots of visitors and three sold out Hill Trips almost everyday. Lots of people have also been coming into the Paddocks to see the reindeer on display there, and very excitingly the Exhibition is nearly ready. It’s looking super! You’ll definitely hear to social media and our website when we’re open.
We’ve also been having lots of free range action which every herder loves! Generally we start to see the free ranging females more as they come down in altitude as the weather gets cooler and the mushrooms appear on the side of the hills. We start bringing in the mums and their calves back into the enclosure any time in August. They spend June through to August/early September out roaming the hills learning how to be little wild reindeer and enjoying all the best grazing, but when the autumn rolls around it’s time for them to learn what a feed bag is and in time, how to walk on a halter etc. The following photos are a small snapshot of what’s been occurring this month…
1st of August: Limpopo looking super! Lovely tall antlers and in his dark summer coat.2nd of August: The morning of the storm! Sadly in the afternoon we had to cancel our Hill Trips as the wind was so strong. 3rd of August: Scoop and Elbe are full brothers. Their mum is Suebi and their dad is Morse. They’re both very handsome!5th of August: Yukon looking as cheeky as ever! He’s such a lovely lad.6th of August: Found Marple and calf on the free range. Fiona and I brought them back into the hill enclosure. The first calf born back in April and the first calf back in the enclosure after the summer out free ranging.8th of August: Kernel looking very handsome, coming in for a close up!9th of August: All of my human colleagues abandoned me in the office for an afternoon on various free range missions! Ginger snuck in to keep me company!9th of August: Marple’s calf already very comfortable in the enclosure. 12th of August: Lovely boys waiting for food! From L to R we have Kulfi, Rocket, Limpopo and Adzuki.12th of August: Cicero posing beautifully!13th of August: Bordeaux’s wee male calf hanging out with the big boys!14th of August: Choc-ice wandering down the food line looking for the best pile of food. 15th of August: Zap found the perfect tussock to rest his chin on.18th of August: Butter posing beautifully. As a 5 year old bull he’s grown nice big antlers this summer. 20th of August: Macchiato wandering over for food. He is Marple’s (see above) calf from 2024.25th of August: Turtle and calf are back in the hill enclosure after the summer out free ranging.25th of August: Three-year-olds, Zoom and Iskrem standing together. I thought this was a nice photo until I noticed Iskrem hadn’t changed his position after taking a pee!26th of August: Trilby and calf are back in the enclosure.27th of August: Merida brought herself back into the enclosure, she’s looking fantastic, especially for 13 years old. 28th of August: Sundae and calf looking great!28th of August: I wanted to try to take some photos of the gorgeous calves, but Zoom had other ideas, everywhere I turned, there he was!
I (Maisy) have been helping out with the reindeer here and there since March 2024. I am now working on weekends and during my school holidays to my delight. I have started to spend a lot more of my time up at the Centre whether it’s because of reindeer, the people and the dogs, it’s just such a welcoming place and I’m very grateful to know them.
Last Christmas I was working quite a bit while being up at Glenmore nearly every weekend in December! This is our busy season for obvious reasons, and it can get quite manic. By the end of December, I think everybody who was working on weekends were really fed up with Christmas songs from hearing the so many times… We were going up the hill in sunshine, rain or snow we just had to wrap up warm and get on with it. At one point I was wearing so many clothes I could hardly move my body it was so cold. Including the wind, it felt like roughly -19 which is pretty cold especially when you’re not moving very fast with your visitors.
My Mum and Dad are friends with Alan and Tilly so when I was younger, we went to the farm to give a hand. One of the only memories I’ve had at the farm when I was little was being in a tractor with my dad and Alan and falling out of it. I have slowly accumulated quite a lot of photos so when Ruth suggested for me to possibly write a blog I obviously said yes.
Magnum in the sun on a really hot day in mid August.Chai running for food in the enclosure on the 12th of April 2025.Lisette with Frost and Busby at a Christmas event in Fort William.Christie snoozing on a gorgeous day in December.Lolly looking surprised, overlooking Kidney Lochan while free ranging on the 2nd of March.And of course, can’t miss a dog photo can I. This is Fraoch on the summit of Meall a’ Bhuachaille and it was the best sunset I’ve ever seen! Scotland at its best.The herd following Lotti in early March heading down Plantation Hill.Wee Fika last year in the enclosure. She is currently Free ranging with her mum Sunflower.The herd crossing the Alt Ban on the 9th of March 2025.Trilby with her calf in front of Meall a’ Bhuachaille in the enclosure being just a few days old on the 11th of May.The first calf of the year building up his confidence in the enclosure. And also, being super-duper cute!Me and my dad were out on the hills in May and came across a herd free ranging. This is wonderful Mocha.This is me and Nuii on the same day who was very interested if we had some spare food going. We sadly did not!Marple and her calf with the herd after coming off free range. This was taken on the 14th of August 2025.Zap having a chill time before a busy day with visitors on the 16th of August.
Reindeer live for an average of 12-13 years, with 17 or 18 being an exceptional lifespan, and I have now worked here since November 2007 – getting on for 18 years. In 2023, it got to the point where only a small handful of old reindeer still remained in the herd who had been alive when I first arrived, with everyone else having been born in the duration of my employment.
These five, Lulu, Enya and Elvis (born in 2006) and Fern and Fly (born in 2007), became the ‘oldies’, outlasting many reindeer who were younger than them. I thought of them as my gang of old buddies, the only reindeer to have been here longer than me. Lulu in particular was a real character and a favourite of mine – you can read a previous blog of mine about her here.
Fern in 2018 in her heyday, aged 11 and with an incredible set of antlers.Handsome Elvis with his silver coat.Fly looking shocked that I wanted to take her photo!
But after a couple of years of the situation not changing, 2023 rolled around and in the second half of the year, suddenly we lost Lulu, Enya and Elvis close together. My cohort of oldies was down to two! Fly managed another few months before her time came, leaving just Fern, older by a year to any others in the herd. But Fern was in remarkably good condition for a reindeer aged nearly 17. Big antlers for an old girl and in really good condition, though by late summer 2024 she was definitely looking a bit ‘older’ in comparison.
Fern in February 2024 at nearly 17 years old – looking incredible still.
Throughout winter 2024/2025 Fern continued to soldier on, in better condition than some of her younger buddies other than a bit of arthritis that we could manage with pain relief. We saw that part of the reindeer herd at least every day or two through the winter (in summer we see the females much less) and in the latter part of the season it started to become apparent that Fern’s sight was declining.
We made the hard decision to put her down at the end of the winter, at the point when we would naturally stop seeing the females daily as they move away to their summer pastures. Whilst she may have continued on for a few more months, the potential of her injuring herself accidentally out on the mountains and suffering a slow end without us knowing about it was a risk we were not willing to take – welfare always has to be the first priority for our animals.
My last photo of Fern, taken about 5 weeks before she died. Snoozing in the sunshine!
With the passing of Fern, the whole herd has now completely changed since I started. Gazelle, Sika and Sambar are now 17 years old (Gazelle the oldest by about a fortnight), and I have known them for their entire lives, and this feels like quite a significant point in my time here. Possibly mainly because it’s making me feel even older than usual, but hey ho.
You know something has gone very right when you accidentally end up being a reindeer herder for the summer. I met herders Mel and Chris on the Isle of Rum, and about two months later I found myself moving into Reindeer House. I couldn’t have predicted becoming a herder, and it has exceeded all of my expectations!
I arrived in Glenmore at the start of May, right in the thick of calving season. The first month was an amazing blur where every day was different, calves were being born left right and centre, and the sun was shining every day. By June I felt fully settled in to my new role, the calves were now free ranging in the mountains, and I was able to work on perfecting the art of guiding Hill Trips! July brought on some very impressive sets of antlers, looking back at photos from May, I can barely recognise any of the boys! It has been a process of constantly learning and relearning who is who because the reindeer seem to shape shift on a weekly basis. Now that August is upon us, I’m starting to get sad realising my first summer here at Cairngorm is nearly over!
Here’s some photos from this summer of herding:
Giving Helsinki’s calf a lift into the nurseryJelly welcoming me to the paddocks on my first dayTexel’s calf seeing if any milk will come out of my fingerDruid working his magic…trying to persuade me to feed himDruid’s magic clearly workedA poorly Jimmy on his morning walk. Don’t worry, he recovered well!Rainbow on the free rangeSoggy but happy faces after taking the last group of cows and calves out to the free rangeSolstice camp out with TireeEmily and Alex busy behind the scenes building the new exhibitionA scruffy Yukon in the foreground looking bored while I waffle on to visitors about how cool the reindeer are.
