THE sight of new born lambs frolicking in a field is usually a sign spring is upon us.

But late arrivals Dick and Steve – named after the builders that saved them and their mother – are summer babies.

No-one at their home in Cannon Hall Farm, Cawthorne, realised that the twin lambs’ mother was pregnant as lambing season finishes in Easter.

The ewe was out in a field at the farm when she went into labour – but she ran into difficulties and was struggling to give birth.

Her plight was spotted by builders Richard Dickinson, from Skelmanthorpe, and Steve Coles who were working on a house in the neighbouring field.

They spotted the distressed animal and rang one of the farm owners.

Farm director Richard Nicholson told the Examiner: “We didn’t know the sheep was pregnant – it must have sneaked in with a ram somehow.

“It’s unusual for this time of year because normally the ewes wouldn’t come into season now.

“Our lambing season here is from Christmas until Easter.