Like the brochures say, no visit to Scotland is complete without seeing the hairy highland coos. While coos (or, in American English, “cows”) are not my usual subject, the critters were there, I had a camera, so I made some photographs. In this case, a small herd was right next to the road north of Portree, so we paused on our daylong route out and around the end of the island to view them.
The small herd included some calfs which are, as you see here, pretty high on the cuteness scale. This youngster seemed to by busy using its horns to scratch its back. About those horns — unlike most American cattle, all coos have horns, male or female. The horns are usually large, curved, and graceful. And, no, this is not the only coo photo I made, but I’ll save the others for later.
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