Forget crop circles - now we've got a mysterious SHEEP circle

OK, this is weird.





Photographer Russell Bird, who captured the amazing scene, said:"I was quite taken aback. I couldn't believe what I was seeing," he said.

"I did see a dog worrying sheep nearby beforehand and the dog ran off round the hedge in a different field, so I don't know if they were discussing that."

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Bizarrely, he then spotted another circle three fields away, but was unable to take a picture with both "formations" lasting around 10 minutes before dispersing.

Estate agent Mr Bird added of the scene in Kington, Herefordshire: "They moved around inside and were almost filling the gaps in.

"The only reason this circle came to an end was that the farmer came in with a tractor and some food."

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but can be explained by a knot of sheep grazing outwards from a central point where the herder left them that morning.

Well, unless that lone sheep in the gap lines up with any sort of solar event like an equinox or solstice. Then it's weird.

If you can't see it, you aren't religious enough.

A sheep circle jerk.

:wow:

They're organizing!

This tendency is one reason sheep chutes are usually designed to be curved rather than straight. Sheep are less stressed when they're in curves.