Scubi, thanks for your evocative post; we haven't met but it feels as though we may have walked in each other's footprints at times. Wessex/Wiltshire - sometimes I think I will leave but I would always come back.

We've talked about the fauna but no one has mentioned the flora yet.
The fragile heather at the Ring of Brodgar; the wild grasses and camomile around Avebury - wild orchids at Morgans Hill and Adam's Grave.

Imnorie, yes I agree there is more to sheep than they let on - last week I was walking though a field scattered with sarsens; there was black faced sheep standing proudly on one - it let me get my camera out then stepped off the stone and showed me its backside.
Welcome to the forum from me too.

tjj