Sheep on the Sheltered lagoon
Having done a great job grazing one of the Sheltered lagoon islands, our Hebridean sheep have now been moved to a second island.
This video shows our warden, Mike Caiden, moving the sheep.
Hebrideans are a Rare Breed and are kept at WWT London Wetland Centre, Barnes, to manage the grassland which encourages the growth of native wild flowers. They have been moved to a shingle island in the Centre's Sheltered Lagoon to eat the vegetation over the next couple of months. If the vegetation were left to die off and rot the soil would become too nutrient-rich for wild flowers to grow. But using these 'woolly lawnmowers' to eat the vegetation creates ideal conditions for the flowers next spring.
You can see the first part of their journey here: Sheep sail for pastures new
