I’m off to Slovenia tomorrow for the British Nationals, so we were a little reticent about going too far afield. Malverns would have been our first choice, but we decided to stay local. We went out to Corndon at 2pm, when the sky got better. There was still no wind when we got there, but Kai had showed up and he’s always good for lobbing off and marking thermals.

We all got ready and Kai took off, but struggled initially until he got a climb on the SE face. I spotted a gaggle of swifts/swallows on the NE corner about two minutes after he launched and I managed to climb up to over 1000 feet ATO. As I was circling I could see a lamb with a hind leg caught between two rocks. It was jumping and tugging, clearly in distress. I radioed down to Geoff, but he didn’t get the message. Once I was high, I flew over to Kai’s thermal, but didn’t get in it, so flew back to launch and top landed to go and try to rescue the lamb.

When I got to it, its foot was wedged in the rocks and in trying to kick itself free he had cut and bloodied its other foot. Once I grabbed it and stopped it from struggling, I managed to free it and set it down. He hopped away, but there was no movement in the damaged leg.

I got back to launch, but a cloud had come over the hill and grew, shading us for an hour. No more birds, so we sat there watching Kai go round his usual mega triangle. We got a quick couple of hops, but nothing spectacular…

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