With tops of about 40 degrees for the last few days and probably staying around that for a few more yet. This cow might have been cooling off, or she might have been trying to avoid the annoying flies and biting insects that tend to show up after rain….or maybe she was posing for the camera.
The dung beetles are getting active and doing their bit to add fertiliser to the soil and reduce fly numbers by burying cow manure, bless their imported little selves. They are even going back and burying older cow pats that have dried out, as well as the freshly deposited ones. While we still have flies, we rarely see them as thick now as when I was a kid. Unless it’s after a drought breaks, and the dung beetles must have died off because they take a while to breed up again. I’ll add a throw back video from 2019 to my stories, just in case you want to see a few bush flies.