Wed 31st Jul

Sheep in west/central compartments for short time. Couldn't persuade them back to central. Hampshire gate between left open, so they have access to water.

Wed July 31st

Tim couldn't find the nuts and counted about 30 sheep near the trough. Others scattered around in the undergrowth.         Please advise where nuts are so I can tell W/E wardens. Pippa

Saturday 27th Call Out

Pippa phoned me (see previous post ) so I headed out to Broughton with some stock netting to full fill a gap in West comp fence .

Found the 4 sheep in West and called them down to Hampshire gate and got them through.  Tried to move them to East as we know the fence is sound but I couldn't get them in.

Decided to leave them in Central  and focus on filling the gap left on the western end of West Comp in case they got through again.

Left thw bucket of buts in the centre of the multi stemmed birch rather than behind the trough

Will re evaluate next week with Mike.

Saturday July 27th

Report from a village weekend warden: "Although the sheep nuts were shaken in the Central compartment no sheep came. Walked through the bottom gate to the western compartment saw 4 sheep. No others to be seen." They didn't take the nuts through to the Western compartment. They cannot go tomorrow to check. Pippa

Thursday 25th July

Fairly confident that all are accounted for. Counted 57 but then 59 .

Sheep now moved to central compartment.  Water trough is full and water running.  Feed bucket left on the field side of the fence near to water trough.

Wed. July 24th

Tim counted up to 57 twice and then he heard one bleating, went to investigate & it skipped out to join the others. Trough full.   Pippa

Monday 23rd

Local farmer Mark reported that the sheep seemed ok . I am not sure if they were counted though? 

I saw both blog entries to say that only 57 counted but the next time staff will be over there is Thursday morning.

Sunday July 21st

Found it difficult to count but made it to 57 sheep. All seemed healthy. Pippa

Fri 19th Jul

Only 57 counted. Trough full. No loner found on search of compartment.

Wed. July 17th

58 sheep counted and all seem OK. Trough full. Top gate near to the footpath: the lock does not engage and the weight not heavy enough.    Pippa

July 13th & 14th

58 sheep all present & correct. Pippa

Wed. 10th July

All 58 sheep present & correct. Trough full and gates OK. Pippa & Tim Evans

Tues 9th Jul

All 58 shorn sheep in eastern compartment. No issues seen. Water topped up and mains left on during this warm spell. Hope to move sheep to centre compartment soon.

Friday 5th July

Ellie checked the sheep for us today. She had difficulty counting them all.  We have been informed that only 58 were put on the reserve so I have changed the side bar details.

Water trough full

Wednesday 3rd July

I was unable to confirm that all 60 sheep were present.  I recounted several times and walked around the compartment  but couldn't get a better count than 59 or 56. I hope I miscounted .

Trough was full and I left a bucket of nuts next to the trough for weekend wardens