Feeling sorry for themselves...

I was lucky to spot them from Bourley Road before parking at the Royal Pavillion car park this morning. All 35 were tucked up behind trees and a drainage gulley in F24 (SU 842 507) below Cheese Hill. They all looked fine if a little sorry for themselves. They were occasionally grazing on tufts of heather sticking up through the snow and were content for me to walk amongst them. "Horns" and "Collar" were together - shame I left my camera at home.

35 on Caesar's Camp

Hello
Following our last post, the errant cow has now been returned to Caesar's Camp, making a grand total of 35.
Rob, the farmer, is going to give the cattle some supplimentary feed to see them through the snowy period. This will be on the bare patch of sand (snow?!) at the bottom of the plateaux (I 20), so they might be hanging around there for a few days.
Thanks for all your help over this tricky period.

Alex

Wednesday 10.30, just got back from caesars camp and read the sad news of the dead cow, i found 34 at R8 all very quiet soaking up the sun and chewing the cud. As the blog had not been posted before i left i had a good look over the area for the 2 missing now i know why i could not find them.

Dead cow!

Hello all,

I am afraid to say that yesterdays incident with a cow escaping was followed by another incident that we have just been informed about by the grazier.

It appears as though two cows managed to escape the site yesterday afternoon at some point. One of these cows was unfortunately hit by a car and subsequently died. As far as we are aware the driver was OK but we are waiting to find out more about the incident itself. The other cow was rounded up and placed in a field. The grazier will collect this cow today and probably take it back to the farm.

As yet this is all we know and we are assuming that these two escapees are in fact the two cows we could not find and which Bob saw up in the woods at midday. We will of course update you on news as soon as we get it but in the meantime this leaves 34 cattle on site.

Elliott

Caesars Camp 4/2/09

We got a call yesterday about a cow on the Bourley Road, the police were out in force to help Alex C. The cow was put back in the site with the rest of the herd.

We managed to locate 2 groups of cows; one of 16 (including the cow that was outside) and one of 18. Making a grand total of 34. the group of 16 were at the bottom of the slope by the covered reservior, and the group of 18 were on Long Bottom.

We couldn't find the 2 wondering cows, at least we know they are together.

The cows looked pretty miserable, loosing their footing as they can't see the ground they are treading on. On the positive side we did observe them nosing the snow to reveal the heather, and eating pine. So at least they've worked out how to get to the food.

I got some good pictures that I'll put on the blog in good time.

A few more

Just as the light was fading, I saw 15 at P 15, trying to find something edible in the mushy melt water. Two laggards were at P16 - possibly those Bob spotted earlier. No signs of the rest. It was very beautiful up there.

Tuesday 13.00, today i only managed to find 2 lonley cows in the woods of the whale tail at R3,i walked over to caesars camp and saw no sign of the others.