Tuesday 29th

16 seen along track by Sandy Hill Road
Tag numbers:
400087
600082
200106
100091
100084
100?56 (long fluffy ears obscured digit!)
500044
100105
200057
100098
200092
200064
500067
400087
600075 all were well and happy :)

plus one more (tag not seen) slightly down the slope.

One more was spotted over towards the Gelvert Catchment but I didn't have time to go and check

Wednesday am

5 walking around the Horse Pond, looking for water, without success. They were making a lot of noise.

 

Tuesday am

No cattle sightings, but a beautiful crisp morning

 

Belated Post (21st Nov) Found 26 out of 27!

They were in 5 herds spread far and wide across the site! Fortunately, the missing one was NOT the escapee(eve of sunday 20th), who I saw with a small herd in the centre of the site near one of our controlled burn sites.

Dave is emailing Jack to get the rest of the herds numbers on the blog for us.

Thanks all.

Sorry, should have posted this yesterday!

We walked for a couple of hours around the eastern end of the reserve. Lots of people enjoying the late autumn weather on foot or on bikes.Surprised only to find 6 cows, up beside the lookout, grazing happily on recently cut gorse.

Saturday am

8 in the trees towards the NE corner. Somebody has had a go at the fence around the contaminated area, near the corner around H28.

 

A bit late to record this but before midday I came across 10 cows about 1/3 of the way between Horse Pond and the head of Long Bottom and on western side of the valley well out of the way of the forestry operations.

Thursday am

4 heading along Sunny Hill Road, towards Bourley Road. All looked well, but definitely on a mission.

Call outlast night. One escapee on Farnborough Rd. Police, camera, Action!

Call out last night ar 6pm from police about a cow wandering Farnborough Rd then Wellesley Rd. Got It in with Rosie (and friend Emma's Help). Out looking for hole / clue on How It escaped this morning. According to police, It started its Adventure around Cranmore Lane.   

All found today

12 found behind the houses. I put a lick out for them here.

7 found by the mares pond. 91 with a white face was very slow coming over for nuts, but looked ok otherwise.

8 found in the sandy area near the pavilion and completely ignored me when I called. They must not have been feeling hungry today, however I put another lick out for them here.

All seen today.

Found 14 up behind the houses around the corner with the apple tree. Just one apple on the track which none of them were taking any interest in so maybe they'd had their fill already!

I located a further 5 around O14 who all were munching their way through some heather.

After a detour down through the Gelvert Catchment Area to find the seven on there I came back onto Caesar's and finally found the remaining 8 cattle grazing in 20G where contractors had been working.

All cattle looking really good.

Tuesday am

No cows, but lots of activity and smoke

 

Spell checker blunder!

Sorry, spell checker auto corrected! Of course it should be gorse, not gauze!

Misty afternoon

We walked east from the Sandy Hill entrance and saw no cows until we found 7 or 8, close to the bonfire at about J 24. They didn't seem to be put off by the large amount of smoke from the huge bonfire, or the three workmen tending it.
There are large areas of flattened gauze and heather now, but these 7 or 8 were the only cows we saw.
I note on the 'I love Farnham ' page on Facebook yesterday that there was a distressed cow loose on the road in Farnborough, I hope that it was returned to safety.

Full house today!

found all 27, in several small groups.
4 by K18 on top of camp itself.
9 on top of sandy hill at R19.
3 at O17 on track leading to camp.
7 at P18 on grass area.
4 hiding at D29, near the pavilion.


All looking well.

Finally found some!
14 seen in two groups - 9 by track parallel to Sandy Hill Road, but only able to note 8 ear tag numbers:
200092
100091
301940
200071
200056
300072
100070
400080

Second group up on Caesar's Camp, these were all sitting so very obliging with their ear tag info:
200106
100098
300114
100105

All seemed fine.

Tuesday am

4 warming up in the sunshine near Sunny Hill. All quietly grazing.

Winter is coming!

Beautiful crisp afternoon. We came across 17 along the top path beside Sandy hill, all grazing happily. Have some new cows been introduced? Because there seemed to be a few faces I did not recognise. Then as we walked westward at approx P19 we found 5 further cows, lying down and chewing the cud contentedly in the winter sunshine.Everyone seemed calm and happy.

Walking back from the Water Tower to Sandy Hill at about 2 PM I came across 3 at a short distance from SW corner of the large gravel pit and another 17 on western slope of Long Bottom some 300 hundred yards SW of Horse Pond.

Tuesday am

4 cows, 9 Canada geese and numerous ducks around the Horse Pond. Lots of bellowing, as they tried to find each other in the fog.