Scottish Wildlife Trust Flying Squad
Needs Your Help

The Fife-based Scottish Wildlife Trust is on the look out for budding bo (or beau) peeps to lend a hand looking after 50 four-legged SWT volunteers working hard to improve its grassland reserves.

Currently looked after by Tim Brain and Laura Cunningham, 50 Shetland ewes, also known as the 'Flying Flock', are grazing a suite of SWT grasslands in Fife moving from site to site throughout the year, eating back dominant plant species and allowing others the opportunity to flourish in order to improve the biodiversity of the reserves.

The flock has been hard at work since early January 2002 browsing on the coarser grasses of Fleecefaulds Meadow, Cullaloe, and at Bankhead Moss helping to control encroaching birch scrub on the moss itself over the summer.

The flying flock requires daily inspection and we are on the look out for volunteer flock checkers to help cover weekends and  holidays.

Either Tim, Laura or one of our volunteer shepherds checks the flock every day but we are small in number so further help would be appreciated. No specific knowledge of sheep is required, as training will be provided, however private means of transport is required. Please contact Tim on 01577 840317 (mobile  07739428224) or  Laura Cunningham - mobile 07739428229.
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