Month: September 2007

Peter the Manager of the Lock of the Lowe’s sent me this link of photographs of Ospreys. As Peter I like the photo of the Osprey catching two fish at once. There are also a variety of other wildlife photographs.

http://www.miguellasa.com/gallery/1001578#33603804

I haven’t seen the Kingfisher for nearly a week now. I have left the camera on the branch, but of course I am not able to watch it all day. Let me know if any of you have seen it. If it is not about I will put the camera on the Bird feeders. I know that the Buzzards are about with their calling and I put the young one on the webcam last evening. It was on the fence in the Badger field. It didn’t stay there to long, but some of you may have seen it.

Funny Elsie should mention the Beavers. I am trying to get a place in Gloustershire, who introduced Beavers about three years ago, to let me do webcams from their site. I spoke to the people in the middle of last week. My suggestion are with the Directors at the moment, They have been thinking about doing it themselves, so we may be lucky. I had hoped to have done another Beaver webcam from a site in Scotland, unfortunately it looks doubtful, there is not a very good Broadband connection at the site. The connection is Satellite Broadband. We may be doing something else with them when they finish a new building.

I don’t know a lot about Beavers. I know that they are mainly nocturnal and their homes are called Lodges. We will need to use infra red lamps. We have a number of underwater cameras, If we are able to get the Beaver site, we may be able to put one in their Lodge.

We had expected to have had a visit from another organisation that are interested in us installing webcams for them. I mentioned them a while ago. I cant tell you who they are at the moment. It will be very good if we can work with them. They intend to come to Denbury in the first week in October.

We are quite confident that we will be doing a Barn Owl Nest next year. We have two alternative. Although I had hope that we may have encouraged them to Denbury. I have put up three Barn Owl Nest boxes and have left a few places to overgrow and die back to encourage voles, the Barn Owls main diet.

Derek Gow the specialist in Water Vole was going to send me some photos of his breeding site. This was over a month ago. I will speak to him next week. Chris Speering from the Hawk and Owl Trust is visiting us on the 10th of this month, he maybe able to suggest or find us other locations for webcams. Both Derek and Chris have websites. http://www.watervoles.com/ and http://chrissperring.com/HOTlocalgroup.htm

I did manage to see the Kingfisher this evening, so I will be putting the camera on the branch as usual.