Tue 31 aug

All 60 sheep accounted for. Trough fine, food rather low. Most sheep were gathered in the copse near the bucket, but half a dozen at the top of the hill, making me climb up to get them. A group at the bottom of the hill couldn't be bothered with breakfast, and wondered off to the western slope to feed. Perhaps they are fussy about the flavour! One black face (see photo) is hobbling  (front left leg appears painful when weight bearing, so possibly a joint rather than foot problem? I couldn't see anything untoward on the leg or foot), I saw no other lameness

Sunday 29th August

 

We counted 60 sheep. One of the Shetlands has a very bad leg (front right) and is abit ragged at the rear (maybe got caught in brambles). One of the posts in the wire fence next to the gate down at the bottom by the felled ash is not actually secured in the ground. The water and gates are all fine. Pippa Evans pp Jim & Mary Hagger & Gwen McConnachie 

 

Friday 27th August

Many were hiding out under the trees by the trough. All 60 accounted for. One Shetland seems to be showing a slight limp.

They are stripping the leaves off the dogwood significantly in some places.

Trough full and working. 

I aim to top the bucket up with sheep nuts next week

Some small fire remains within the western plantation, not sure where the concrete block came from but was sat on top of the ashes, I have left it where it was found

Tuesday 25 aug

All sheep appear to be here, but they were more mobile than usual which challenged my counting skills; between 58 and 61 anyway. One black headed individual has a moderate limp, more pronounced when it cantered. Food, water and gates aok

Saturday 21st August

 All sheep accounted for. Trough water level good. Gates checked - suggestion that all 6 gates are numbered and so easier to identify and report a problem. Pippa Evans   

pp Richard & Sally Thompson

Monday 23rd Aug

All 60 accounted for. 1 white faced woodland and a very minor limp.

Trough full and working

Tue 17/8/21

All sheep present and correct. No lameness seen. Trough fine, feed OK (a little less than normal). New feeder bucket hook holding up fine. Sheep gathered easily today, but as soon as I finished they headed over to investigate the tree works. 

Monday 16th August

All 60 sheep accounted for, they were quite spread out but all came to bucket. I did not see any limping.

Trough clean and full

This week we have some contractors in felling diseased ash around the central Hampshire gate and a couple of trees on the southern public footpath. There are signs telling visitors about the work on various gates

Sunday 15th August

 Count of 58/59 sheep. Trough, fences & gates all in good order. No litter. Pippa Evans pp Mike & Lindsey Moore

Wednesday 11th August

 As some weekend wardens have had trouble locating the trough we have, with our grandchildren, cut as much undergrowth growing each side of the path leading to the trough as we can - lots of hawthorn. Sheep were all in various places under the trees along the Northern boundary. Pippa Evans

Weds 11th August

 60 sheep present and correct. Limpers were a bit slow to approach but came eventually after some encouragement. They're looking much better today. Trough full, bucket full. Dog walking signs are in place. 

10 aug

All present, one limping. Food and trough fine. Gates fine. Sorry I'm late posting this, computer (or computer user) error

one lame sheep sprayed

We managed to get one lame shetland in and sprayed it, the others escaped our grasp. Please keep an eye on them to see how they develop. 

Mon 9th Aug

All 60 sheep together. Fawn Shetland limper seems better. Noticed one other limper. All came to nuts. No issues seen. Trough full.

Sunday 8th August

 Trough difficult to locate, path very overgrown. 59 sheep counted, all gates OK and trough full. 

Pippa Evans

Friday 6th Aug

All 60 present. Shetland limper better today. putting some pressure on front left. Trough full.

Wednesday 4th August

 Struggled to count 60 today. Only got to 59 after multiple attempts. Sheep not keen to sit still, so had to do a bit of herding. I went into where they bed down for the night but didn’t find anymore. I’ve seen 3 limpers, the old black Shetland with white and yellow tags, the light brown faces Shetland (looking particularly sad for itself, did a lot of sitting and had a bad front left leg limp) and another Shetland. Bucket and trough full and working fine. Signs still up

Tue 3rd August

Strangely, I lost lots of sheep today. I found only 38 out of the 60. I looked where I could in the central section, and walked through the West calling. I didn't have time to conduct a search of the East section in case they had got in there, and I don't know my way around the copses and bushes of the reserve well enough (previously they have all rushed over to me). Hopefully they will all be there tomorrow, wagging their tails behind them. Guy Bo Peep

Mon 2nd Aug

All 60 sheep appeared fine bar the one limper who was with 4 others under the beech mid slope. Others under beech by trough. Trough full.