Two sheep have been rescued from a tiny cliff ledge in Perthshire after being stranded for 11 days.
The terrified sheep had become ‘crag-fast’ and were unable to move safely from the short cliff in Glen Lednock.
Members of both the Tayside Police Division Mountain Rescue Team and Tayside Mountain Rescue Team plucked the sheep from the crag on Wednesday.
Constable Paul Morgan, Deputy Leader of the Police Mountain Rescue Team said, it was “one of their more unusual callouts in recent times”.
He said: “Although this type of incident is not common for us, given the nature of the location and our concerns for both the shepherd and animals, we were more than willing to lend a hand in an environment we are more than comfortable in.
“Given how much assistance farmers had given police all over the country in recent weeks following ‘Storm Emma,’ where they helped keep roads open and dug out countless stranded motorists, this seemed a very fitting way of repaying the favour.”
Whilst the rest of the country had started to breathe a sign of relief following the beast from the east and storm Emma, the shepherd in question had been struggling to gather his sheep together.
The severe weather had driven them far and wide across the glen.
Showing true community spirit, team members attended in the glen and safely rescued the sheep.
They used some improvised technical rescue skills, which saved the local landworkers putting themselves in harm’s way.
Although shaken by the ordeal, both sheep were happily reunited with their grateful shepherd.
Earlier this week five sheep were rescued by the RSPCA after being trapped on a cliff ledge for several days in Cornwall.
The sheep were spotted halfway down the steep cliff, unable to move out of danger as they precariously balanced on a steep ledge looming over the sea below.
A sheep also got rescued from the mud on a river bank in North Yorkshire as temperatures plummeted during the beast from the east.
