Month: April 2008

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven. Getting low on photographs again.

Kynance cove in Cornwall. Lindsay.

Butterfly feeding on fruit taken at Longleat. Bec.

The osprey nest at the Loch of the Lowes, taken last year from the hide. I hope you can see the osprey on the tallest tree in the middle of the picture. Carol Wolves.

Looking down from the glass floor in the viewing platform at about 330 feet above sea-level, good job there were no holes in my socks! CH.

Old Oak tree , Sherwood Forest. Judy.

We have moved Lady back into her old stable so that we can see her through the night, now that she is getting near to Foaling. Her udder is quite large. I should think that she will not be to late from the date she is due.

I put the webcam on the Rabbits this evening so the you can see just how many there are in such small areas. On a walk around the Farm today, I was a little shocked to see just how many that are about. I cant remember seeing the amount that I did before. All the Farms around Denbury seemed to be have the same problem. The mild Winter hasn’t helped. The amount of Rabbit that there are about do eat a lot of grass, it is surprising just how much one Rabbit will eat. Very often when there is large amount of Rabbits in one year we often see Myxomatosis.

Myxomatosis is not as nice disease, it causes the Rabbits to have crusty sores around the Rabbits eyes, noses and lesions on their skin. Very often the Rabbit cant see. Not many survive the virus. I is spread by flies, mites etc and contact with other Rabbits.

The virus was deliberately introduced in Australia to control that amount of Rabbits that they had. It came to the UK from Europe where it was introduce there. As you know we don’t have shooting at Denbury,. but we will need to control the Rabbits.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number six. Getting low on photographs again.

Another picture of my new visitor to my garden. Bec.

Wild Mute Swans over wintering near Glastonbury. Lindsay.

Fred about to chase the Sparrows from my bird feeders up the garden. Karen.

THE OLDER TWO FELL DOWN OUT OF A NEST ONTO SOMEONES GARAGE ROOF THEY WERE VERY COLD AND SKINNY SO I THINK THEY WERE PROBABLY TRYING TO FIND MUM WHO WAS MISSING.THEY ARE JUST ABOUT EATING ON THEIR OWN BUT ARE STILL NEEDING MILK. Lynne.

The Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth, well worth a visit. CH.

Some of you managed to see the camera going on Donald the remote controlled Duck. The picture was not as good as we had got in the Farm House, when we tried it before putting it on the Lake, then it was very good. We had to get a very small wireless camera so that it could be fitted into the Ducks head. The only place where we could get one was from China. I will try later in the week to get the picture better. It could well be with messing about with it we could get it a lot better. It will then be worth showing it on the web site. When we were trying it one of the Dogs decided she would have a swim. The Gander wasn’t best pleased, it was only by making sure that she came out of the water, that she was not attacked buy the Gander. The Gander was then watching every thing, including Donald. I ordered a decoy Goose in the week to make that remote controlled. Being a lot bigger we, or Jack and his friend, I should say will be able to use better equipment to make it.

With it being cold for the past few weeks the grass is well behind growing to what it is in other years. We always try to let the Horses out in to the main Horse field by the 1st of May. The way it is looking we wont be doing that this year. Fortunately we have ample hay to feed them, but it does mean that we will have to mucking out the stables for longer. This afternoon it did get quite warm. We have got to hope it carries on so that the ground warms up, then the grass will grow.

We are very lucky at Denbury. We don’t need to use fertiliser to get a good crop of hay. Mind you the price of fertiliser has rocketed up in price. As fertilizer is used on many crops it will mean food will be even more expensive than it has been getting over the past few months. I don’t no where they get these inflation figures from. Our Horse feed has gone up over 15% with price rises that there have been in cereals. You must have noticed it in the price that your bread has gone up. The cheep bread that we use for the Badgers has gone up 30%.

Thornton went down well with our friends over the past couple of days. No one who sees him can believe how tame he is. Our Holiday Guests last week loved seeing him. He is acting more like a Dog each day. Earlier today he was seen playing with a ball with his front feet, and he seems to be getting a little more playful with Tass and Kye. When we call him most of the time he come straight back to us as do Tass and Kye.

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Sorry there will be no Photograghs or Diary tonight as…

Sorry there will be no Photograghs or Diary tonight as we are transferring all the data from my old computer to a new one. As long as Jack does it correctly there will be tomorrow. We stand a chance, as it was Jack who made Donald the remote controlled Duck.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one. Getting low on photographs again.

A good surfing sea.Scarborough,South Bay.North Yorkshire.Lindsay.

A picture I took while out in the Aylesbury countryside. Bec.

Tree taken in Christchurch Meadows Oxford. CH

MY SONS FRIEND IS IN THE RAF AND THEY HAD AN

OPEN DAY FOR FAMILY AND FRIEND.THEY GOT TO SEE THE PLANES AND HAD AN AIR DISPLAY. LYNNE.

Here as promised are the first photos of the new puppy. His name is Jet and he is just 7 weeks old but already he knows who is boss..Sue.

Cant do a Diary for a couple of days as we have friends staying. Below is an email from Simon about the Griffon Vulture. After all the hype by Simon when he first contacted me, I now dont see it happening.

Hi, It has been blowing a gale up in the mountains around Casares and Gaucin for the last couple of days and today the Antenna in Gaucin the village Gerry gets his internet from was damaged so they are off line. I am in Seviile working but I am going up again on Monday weather permitting and hopefully it will be repaired. Gerry said they have still not returned to the nest, so I shall try to locate another site, but I dont think jerry will be too happy to leave his computer and internet on 24/7 for an empty nest, you can see his point. As I said I will check for a new site,close to Gerrys we may get lucky. I am also going to visit the owners of a house a couple of kilometres from gerrys house who I might be able to convince to let me use their internet facilities , I have no idea who they are but it is worth a shot. I will need another patch as I think it is a few hundred metres more in distance. The nest has an Egg in it and is very easy to acceess I was in it a week ago and the adults are around. Again dont get your hopes too high as it all depends on the owners at the new house, Cheers Simon.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven. Getting low on photographs again, because of from tomorrow I will only be able to put three new photographs on the Photo page each day.

Picture of my two cats Chloe and Claudie. Bec.

To my surprise sat looking at me when I opened my compost bin last night not sure how it got there or how long it has been in there. Elaine.

This is Strav. She is in foal, she is off to the stud this week to prepare for the birth. Karen.

Charlestown Harbour near St Austell in Cornwall. CH.

Maze at Longleat. Bec.

The Barn Owl Trust nest webcam computer developed a fault last night. I believe that it had to be replaced today. It was a bit of a journey back to Cornwall for the Trust to fix the problem, but it was worth the trouble to see the Nesting Barn Owls. There are many reasons for the webcams to stop working. Believe me none of us in the main would want them not to be broadcasting. I get a few problems with my broadband connection temporally going down for a few seconds. Then the webcam broadcasting point have to be restarted. Another problem that occurs is that a broadband connection is slow making the webcam to stop. Cameras also breakdown. The worse one I had was last year when my Denbury Farm URL address got lost in the system and my website could not be accessed for nearly two weeks. Although it was nothing to do with me, I had to pay for it to be found.

We have started to knock down the Tree House in the main Horse field. It was put up nearly fifteen years ago. My two Lads when aged about seven wanted a Tree House, but were frightened for it to be in the Woods, so we built one for them up at the top of the hill in the field. They only ever used it once to sleep in, and that was when our friends stayed in it with the Lads.

We are going to rebuild the Tree House come Wildlife Watching hide, as last year a number of our Holiday Guest especially Children said that they would have liked to have used it. Arnie had made it to dangerous for it to be used. When it is hot he stands under the Tree House, but every time he put his head up he would cause a little bit of damage. The little bits have now become major. The rebuild is going to make the Tree House usable again, so that it can be used by our Holiday Guest or their Children, as a Wild Life Watching hide, or just for an adventure for the Children.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number six. Getting low on photographs again.

Penguins at Birdworld. Bec.

THIS IS ONE OF TWO THAT FELL DOWN OUT OF A NEST ONTO SOMEONES GARAGE ROOF THEY WERE VERY COLD AND SKINNY SO I THINK THEY WERE PROBABLY TRYING TO FIND MUM WHO WAS MISSING.THEY ARE JUST ABOUT EATING ON THEIR OWN BUT ARE STILL NEEDING MILK. Lynne.

Donkey took at Markeaton park in Derby. Vicky.

For Sue know how she loves these. Elaine.

This is the fist snow Ally has seen. He didn’t quite know what to make of it. Jacqui.

The new Barn Owl Nest Box webcam is now live. You may have noticed there is one egg in the nest. It was only laid today. The Barn cam will be going as soon a possible. We did not preview the webcam for very long before going live so the camera will be adjusted over the next few days, to get the best picture.

I have been trying to get a Barn Owl nest on the webcams for a couple of years. The ideal people to do it with were the Barn Owl Trust. They found the right location last year. Since then the Trust has been working on the project to have it running this year. We supplied all the equipment for the webcams. I didn’t realise that there would be as much light in the nest box or I would have supplied a colour and night camera. Installing a new camera now would possibly disturb the Barn Owls. We did have another location that wanted us to put their Barn Owls on our website, but it was right to do as we have.

We have been allowing Thornton to have more time out of his home in the washroom. He has found a spot under the kitchen table to lie when he is not running around with Tass and Kye. This afternoon we had the kitchen door open. Tass and Kye come in and out as they want when ever it is left open. Thornton did the same, and I must admit we did forget about him. Tass and Kye normally stay close to the Farm House and never leave the Farm Yard. This afternoon when we realised about Thornton, we called out for Tass and Kye, knowing that Thornton would be close behind when they came in. None of them came at all. A few minutes after shouting loud to Tass and Kye all three came running back to the Farm House from the direction of the Valley field. Obviously Thornton had decided after being taken for his walks in the valley, that he was going to make his own way there. Tass and Kye must have decided to follow. It makes a good story and we did laugh, but of course the serious part is how far would they have got if we had not realised that all three were missing.

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There are five new photograps on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photograps on the Photo page, starting from number six. Getting low on photographs again.

Penguins at Birdworld. Bec.

THIS IS ONE OF TWO THAT FELL DOWN OUT OF A NEST ONTO SOMEONES GARAGE ROOF THEY WERE VERY COLD AND SKINNY SO I THINK THEY WERE PROBABLY TRYING TO FIND MUM WHO WAS MISSING.THEY ARE JUST ABOUT EATING ON THEIR OWN BUT ARE STILL NEEDING MILK. Lynne.

Donkey took at Markeaton park in Derby. Vicky.

For Sue know how she loves these. Elaine.

This is the fist snow Ally has seen. He didn’t quite know what to make of it. Jacqui.

The new Barn Owl Nest Box webcam is now live. You may have noticed there is one egg in the nest. It was only laid today. The Barn cam will be going as soon a possible. We did not preview the webcam for very long before going live so the camera will be adjusted over the next few days, to get the best picture.

I have been trying to get a Barn Owl nest on the webcams for a couple of years. The ideal people to do it with were the Barn Owl Trust. They found the right location last year. Since then the Trust has been working on the project to have it running this year. We supplied all the equipment for the webcams. I didn’t realise that there would be as much light in the nest box or I would have supplied a colour and night camera. Installing a new camera now would possibly disturb the Barn Owls. We did have another location that wanted us to put their Barn Owls on our website, but it was right to do as we have.

We have been allowing Thornton to have more time out of his home in the washroom. He has found a spot under the kitchen table to lie when he is not running around with Tass and Kye. This afternoon we had the kitchen door open. Tass and Kye come in and out as they want when ever it is left open. Thornton did the same, and I must admit we did forget about him. Tass and Kye normally stay close to the Farm House and never leave the Farm Yard. This afternoon when we realised about Thornton, we called out for Tass and Kye, knowing that Thornton would be close behind when they came in. None of them came at all. A few minutes after shouting loud to Tass and Kye all three came running back to the Farm House from the direction of the Valley field. Obviously Thornton had decided after being taken for his walks in the valley, that he was going to make his own way there. Tass and Kye must have decided to follow. It makes a good story and we did laugh, but of course the serious part is how far would they have got if we had not realised that all three were missing.

TC. As far as we can we try to be give every organisation represented on our web site the same exposure opportunities as each other. We are fortunate that those represented have allowed us to broadcast for them. I am sure that you will understand. We will be changing the thumbnails again over the next couple of days.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one.

Herons at Birdworld. Bec.

From yesterdays paper. Elsie.

Horses at markeaton park in derby. Vicky.

MY SONS FRIEND IS IN THE RAF AND THEY HAD AN OPEN DAY FOR FAMILY AND FRIEND.THEY GOT TO SEE THE PLANES AND HAD AN AIR DISPLAY. LYNNE.

Here as promised are the first photos of the new puppy. His name is Jet and he is just 7 weeks old but already he knows who is boss. Sue.

The new Barn Owl Trust nest camera is now working and we hope to have it on the web site within a day or two. The camera where you will be able to see the Barn Owls going into the nest box we hope will be working soon. When you see the webcam you may think that it is very light in the nest box. It is in fact very dark, and it is only possible to see the Barn Owls by using an infra red lamp.

We are also going to put the Osprey nest site from Delaware in the USA within the next week. Peter has got to raise the camera a little and he also needs to focus the camera slightly. I will be sending Peter a Pan Tilt and Zoom camera so that we are able to see more of the wildlife in Indian River Bay.

I am waiting to hear from Simon in Andalucia about the Griffon Vulture webcam. A new ariel was sent to him last week, as the distance was more than we allowed for with the wireless signal from the mountain range to the computer.

We put up an infra red light in place for the new Lake camera, to overlook the Island at night and to see what may be lurking about that may be a threat to the Goslings when they hatch. The Valley infra red lamps bulbs failed a few night ago. We replace the bulbs today.

At 8.15pm there was a very pregnant Red Deer Hind in the Valley. She wouldn’t have long to go before she gives birth.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven.

I SAID THAT APRIL NEEDED SOME FRIENDS !!! THE FOUR TINY BABIES ARRIVED IN A NEST THAT WE THINK SOMEONE HAD REMOVED FROM A LOFT. THEY ARE VERY SMALL BUT ARE DOING QUITE WELL.

Levant near St Just in Cornwall owned by the National Trust, has a working steam engine. CH.

These little cuties are in the field opposite my house and they have been keeping us amused for most of the week. They have mad half hours when they run around the field chasing and jumping up and down as thought they are on springs.

Parrots at Birdworld. Bec.

Compos house from Last of The Summer Wine. Karen.

For those of you who have asked, Ewy is still about. I do show her now and then on the webcam in the Horse field. She has been in the field for most of the Winter, only going into the woods and valley now and then, very rarely coming near to the field gate. We were only talking about her last night, we reckon it could well be because of when the Sheep were chased last year by a Riders Dog who passed through the Farm. Since Breeze and Arnie have been in the small paddock opposite the Horse field, she has got a little braver. If we left the Horses out of a night I am sure she would join Breeze in the paddock, but of a daytime she only has to see a human or the Dogs and she is gone like a bat out of hell. The grass has started to grow and If we get a bit of warmth in the ground the grass should have it away, so that we can turn the Horses out into the Horse field on the 1st of May. Ewy will no doubt then hang out with Breeze.

I have just had a few words with the Manager of the Stud that Emmi went to, when she was mated with a Stallion. Emmi and Sox arrived back to Denbury late in the evening, last Friday. We really didn’t look to closely at her until on the Saturday I noticed that Emmi was a little lame. On checking her over we notice that she had six kick hoof marks on her. Four on her nearside rear leg, one on her nearside rear quarter and another on her offside shoulder. It was the kicks to her leg that were making her lame. It will heal itself within a few days.

I had warned the Manager of the Stud before Emmi went that although I had not had any experiences of Emmi being a madam, I thought that with strange Horses she may well throw out a kick. It seems that the Manager did not heed my words, for she most definitely had been kicked, being her or other Horses starting it it doesn’t matter. The Manager of the Stud wasn’t best pleased with me telling him, mostly he denied it, tough for him. Mares with Foals are protective. How many Mares and Foals were together in their paddocks together, I guess I will never know. When Horses have a kicking session with Foals at foot, they tend to get very close to the Foals, thinking that they are protecting them, but of course it puts the Foals in danger. One good kick and a Foal could be severely injured or killed. I wont be using that Stud again.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number six.

APRIL HAS COME ON IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS THIS WEEK. SHE HAS GROWN SO MUCH AND OPENED HER EYES YESTERDAY. LYNNE.

These little cuties are in the field opposite my house and they have been keeping us amused for most of the week. They have mad half hours when they run around the field chasing and jumping up and down as thought they are on springs. Liz.

Here is a broom in my next door neighbours garden. Sue.

Duck on the thames at Iffley near Oxford, any idea what species it is? CH.

Snowy scene taken in Woking. Bec.

Donald the remote controlled Duck did go well and the battery lasted longer than I had thought it would, it would have gone on for longer, but I got fed up after a while. I didn’t realise that I was working it for so long until I got told off by the camera operator. It would have gone from one end of the Lake without me moving. I was tempted to go closer to the Geese but the Gander chases the Ducks when they get to close. Real Ducks can fly away, Donald would have stood no chance if the Gander had attacked him. I reckon that he would have finished up at the bottom of the Lake. I will try to get the camera working in the week. I am hoping the camera will be alright. There was not a lot of choice as I want a colour and mono camera so that it can be used at night with the infra red lights that are now on the Lake. If the camera doesn’t work that well I will get a remote Goose made so that I can fit a high quality camera. Jack who made Donald was unable to see it working today, as he went out for lunch. He may be coming to the Farm next weekend, so I may let him have a little go at working Donald, if he is lucky.

I hope more than a few of you managed to see Thornton on his first walk with Tass and Kye, I am sorry but it was a last minute decision so I was unable to let you know on the Forum. I will next time.. I must admit it was magic watching them. I was operating the camera, but by all accounts walking to the valley field he walked to heel as Tass and Kye do. As soon as he got into the field away he went off with Tass and Kye. Kye by what I saw was the instigator, but I still would not trust her to be alone with Thornton. Thornton wouldn’t cross the stream as Tass and Kye, but I don’t think that he did bad for his first outing. On the way back from the walk he walked at heel to the Farm House. This morning we tried to introduce him to the other Sheep, but he wasn’t that interested. He had a little sniff around the other Lambs who now are exploring out side of the Sheep pen. He preferred running mad on the grass and exploring all the plants. He is now lying out in the kitchen with Tass and Kye, exhausted