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Jose Ereño, shepherd from Orozko (Bizkaia). Itziar Rotaetxe. Labayru Fundazioa Photography Archive.

Jose Ereño, a shepherd from Orozko, who has been the subject of a previous blog, published on 26 June 2020, finishes making the cheeses and begins to shear his sheep between the second fortnight of June and the first two weeks of July. By June, José and the other shepherds have already made their way up to Gorbeia, where the shearing takes place later than in the lower pastures as it is cooler up there.

He starts work early, before daybreak, as he knows that he needs to take advantage of the cool morning, before the sun begins to heat up. Anyhow, he has built a roof out of interwoven beech branches as protection from the sun.

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