Sheep baaing at the start of the second day of Woolfest

This is the sound of the sheep in their pens at the start of day two of Woolfest. Woolfest is an amazing annual festival of sheep and wool where knitters can buy all manner of amazing woolly produce but also meet the shepherds and animals from whom these goods ultimately come. The festival is held in an enormous livestock auction centre, and the first and last comrades to arrive are the sheep, alpacas, and other friends with spinnable fleece or fibre. Their shepherds and handlers often camp on site and before the knitters arrive in their droves at 10am the pens are swept clean and the animals are checked over and fed. One of the shepherds explained that the sheep baa lots at this point in the day because each time a person walks by their pens they think they might be bringing food. You can also hear the swifts that roost in the roof of the auction mart, the rusty gates of the pens, the chatter of stall holders and somebody sweeping. The line of stalls in which this recording was made was host to some very handsome examples of the following sheep breeds; Llanwenog, Bluefaced Leicester, Shetland, Castlemilk Moorit, Herdwick (although the Herdies didn't baa once when I was in earshot). Some of the baas may also belong to sheep in the next aisle... recorded with EDIROL R-09 propped up on a gatepost.