Soay sheep graze in the dunes. We humans are warned beforehand by a sign to leave them alone.

#ColorADay #RedWed #Soaysheep #Vlieland #grazing #Nature #dunes #MobilePhotography #Hiking

We have a Pied Piper of Soay Sheep 🐑🪈 Our colleague Nick was followed by this small conservation grazing flock of Soays when he popped to #TheDevilsSpittleful nature reserve recently as part of our #SavingWorcestershiresHeathlands project.

#SoaySheep #ConservationGrazing #heathland #Worcestershire

I wonder what way the wind is blowing today ?💨
#sheep #soaysheep

Why are sheep always that fluffy? 🐑

🗺️ Wildpark Schwarze Berge
📷 Nikon Z8 + 📸 Nikkor Z 400 f4.5

#soaysheep #sheep #mammals #cute #lamb #photography #animalphotography #animal #zoophotography #zoo #nikonphotography

T-helper cell phenotypes are repeatable, positively correlated and associated with helminth infection in wild Soay sheep AbstractBackground. T-helper (Th) cells co-ordinate immune responses to ensure that infections with diverse parasites are controlled effectively. Helminth

📢 Paper alert! 📢 🐑🪱📝Our latest work studying the immune system of the Soay sheep in St Kilda has just been accepted and is available online on the special collection "Ecoimmunology" of Discovery Immunology! #SoaySheep #Thelpercells #parasites #SoaySheepProject

Rut Team 2024! Xavier, Rebecca, and Lucy have (just about) finished a four week trip to do our autumn data collection: censusing, behaviour, and vegetation sampling, as well as setting up some extra wind loggers for the winter 🔭🐏
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#fieldwork #stkilda #soaysheep #ecology

Every cloud has its sliver lining! Today the Rut team were supposed to be heading home but weather conditions have meant we get an extra day on St Kilda and some bonus data collection 🔭🐏
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#fieldwork #research #stkilda #soaysheep #ecology

What I see vs what the scope sees.
The unsung hero of our field work, our telescopes help us spot all of our study animals and read their tags while not having to get too close to disturb them. This chap is DO004 🔭🐏
#stkilda #soaysheep #ecology #fieldwork #seenature

Finally, after a good break, my brain is ready to read this book that I've been dying to read for months!
#Soaysheep

View of St Kilda in distance from the "dash" of the boat with navigation monitor showing boat on approach to the islands. Beautiful sunny crisp December morning with blue skies and fluffy white, cream, and grey clouds. Crewmen standing looking toward islands through window.

Soay sheep ram with horns grazing on grass in front of turf-roofed, stone storage roundhouses (cleits) and stone fence in background on St. Kilda.

Soay sheep walking in foreground, other sheep in field behind. In distance the "main street" of crofthouses in front of turf-roofed, stone storage roundhouses (cleits) and stone fence in background on St. Kilda.

Islands/tall stacks of the archipelago of St Kilda. Craggy Boreray to the left, Stac Lee ahead, and Hirta and Soay islands in the distance. Blue sky, calm Atlantic, and some dusting of clouds on the horizon.

On Saturday, an unexpected opportunity arose to tag along to one of the high churches of biology & archaeology. AND IT WAS A GORGEOUS DAY!! My face hurt from all the smiling. Thank you Macauleys! #StKilda #SoaySheep

Another highlight was flushing a gorgeous bronzy Woodcock from the heather on Berner’s Heath (after climbing S tower). High density of indignant Wrens there too. #SoaySheep on grazing duty. The maligned Ragwort reflected back, intensified, the winter sunshine #Suffolk #Breckland

Why this winter's high sheep mortality on St Kilda is a normal- and long expected- feature of the population http://soaysheep.biology.ed.ac.uk/news #soaysheep