OK – now this is weird. While on the aerial job I mentioned in my last post, we were returning to the airport, flying over essentially a lot of farm fields. Of course, I’m always looking for other cool stuff to shoot when I’m up there, and we flew over something I’ve never seen before – Cowcircles!
HUH??? Now, most of us have heard of crop circles, and of course there are tons of possible explanations for those babies – everything from aliens to the military to hoaxers to divine beings. But have you ever seen a cow circle? I hadn’t – until that day. Here’s another shot, slightly wider:
Makes you wonder what they were doing, doesn’t it? Did the main cow call a meeting? Were they plotting a hostile takeover of the farm? Was this the daily cowcircle where they all sing Kumbaya and give each other positive affirmations? I guess I’ll never really know for sure.
Here’s a completely different field, but apparently these cows couldn’t quite get it together:
They’re terribly out of formation, as you can see. But there does seem to be some semblence of order going on here, and they could be trying to complete the cowcircle like their neighbors a few fields over have. Who knows? I guess it’s just one of those zany wonders of the Animal Kingdom.
Leave me some comments – what do you think’s going on with these future hamburgers?
How interesting. We have a small herd of herefords. If one starts going somewhere, the others usually follow. They do stick to certain paths, wherever the ground is the most solid. Especially in mud and snow. Once they have that path, they dont vary a whole lot. The bottom picture looks like they are going around a swale or small creek or dip… a topographical reason to make a partial circle.
Thanks for the opportunity to see something interesting from a different vantage point.
Gayle and Steve
Gayle,
Thank YOU for the explanation! Or a possible one, anyway. Personally, I’d like to think those cows were ‘up to somethin’ !
In the last picture you took, it appears there are hay bales on the ground, so perhaps the farmer dropped off the bales in a circle??? Just a thought…but I like the idea that the cows were just playing ring-around-the-rosie…..cow.