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Border collie Sweep travels to Orford Ness by boat

Published: 12:15 AM April 7, 2021    Andrew Capell with Sweep, the border collie responsible for rounding up sheep on the Orford Ness - Credit: National Trust/Richard Scott A seafaring border collie has been recruited to round up flocks of sheep that live in the Orford Ness nature reserve, off the Suffolk coast. One-year-old Sweep travels by boat across the water to the shingle spit, where he looks after some of the country’s rarest breeds of sheep under the watchful eye of National Trust shepherd Andrew Capell. Sweep travels over to the Ness via boat - Credit: National Trust/Richard Scott Breeds kept on the Ness include the Whitefaced Woodland, which was saved from extinction in the 1970s, the Manx Loaghtan, which has fewer than 1,500 breeding females left in the country, and the Herdwick, which has long been associated with author Beatrix Potter.

Sea-faring sheepdog recruited to work with rare sheep

Sea-faring sheepdog recruited to work with rare sheep 7 April 2021 | Sweep will round flocks of rare sheep on a remote island off the Suffolk coast (Photo: National Trust) A one-year-old border collie has been recruited by the National Trust to help look after some of the UK s rarest sheep on remote land off the Suffolk coast. Sweep travelled to Orford Ness nature reserve by boat where he will round flocks of sheep under the watchful eye of shepherd Andrew Capell. Breeds there include the Whitefaced Woodland, saved from extinction in the 1970s, the Manx Loaghtan which has fewer than 1,500 breeding females left and the Herdwick.

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