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Month: December 2008
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
We dont have enough photographs for tomorrows Photo Page.
These are all taken at the German Fair in hyde park london. Sarah.
For the past few mornings just before our alarm clock has gone off to wake us we have been woken by Geese or a Goose leaving the Lake. We haven’t seen one on the Lake during in the day so we can only assume that it or they landed on the lake during the night or early in the morning.
We haven’t managed to find the time to do the fencing that we had hoped to do to try to protect any Geese or Swans that may decide to nest on the Lake next year, although there is in place the electric fencing to stop the Otter from eating our fence. That fencing is three strands of wire about four eight and a foot above the ground. It will stop the Otter but little else. We are though able to put more strands of wire on the posts as the posts are about three foot high. I should think that three more strands of wire on the post about every eight inches will stop a Fox or Badger from getting the Geese. Although the electric fence is only 12 volt the one that we are using around the Lake is mains powered so the 12 volts is constant and throws out quite a shock that I found out to my cost. I was showing an erosion expert who I was seeking advice from around the Lake. Some how, don’t ask me how or why, I put my foot in-cased in a heavy boot through two of the strands of wire. One shock was bad enough but I finished getting four as I was unable to get my booted foot out from between the two wires. Electric fences are not constantly live, they pulse every second or so. The shock that I got will definitely keep Foxes, Badgers and Otters from the Lake.
Emmi and Lady have been calling out a lot less for today and we have only heard Socks and Solo call back a couple of times. Hopefully the weaning process will not be to stressful for them.
Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
Not many more photographs to go onto the Photo Page.
Autumn trees at Rufford Country Park.
A Swan on the lookout for Bread.
Autumn in the woods at Rufford country Park.
Not an exotic location but I woke up to the most beautiful Sunrise.
And then a few days later a lovely Sunset. From Judy.
We weaned Socks and Solo from Emmi and Lady today. Not something we like doing and we do try to leave it for as long as we can. But unfortunately the day has to come. For the past few days I had noticed Emmi trying to stop Socks from suckling by lifting her hind leg to push him away. When Mares start to do that there is always a chance that the Foal will get a kick.
We normally stable both the Mares and the Foals when we wean. This year we have only stabled the Foals, letting the Mares back out into the Horse Field. The Mares didn’t realise the Foals had not followed them to the Field until a good quarter of an hour after. It will take a few days for both the Mares and Foals to get through the ordeal, In that time they will be calling to each other throughout. I will put the two Foals on the webcams so that you can see them.
The Badgers are not leaving the Sett for the feed we leave out as much as normal. It is cold when the Sun goes down so they are only venturing out when they need to and because they know that there is food for them without having to venture far from the warmth of their home.
If it is the Fountain in the middle of Lake Geneva Mary was asking about. No it wasn’t working. This trip was the latest in the year that I have visited Geneva, it has always been working on other visits.
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. Not many more photographs to go onto the Photo Page.
DEER IN CHATSWORTH DERBYSHIRE. LYNNE.
CHATSWORTH DERBYSHIRE. LYNNE.
CURIOUS STAG IN CHATSWORTH. LYNNE.
TREE IN CLUMBER PARK. LYNNE.
PEAK DISTRICT. LYNNE.
We have been exceptionally busy this week, so much so that there has been no time to do a Diary or upload the Photo page.
On Tuesday I had to go to Geneva. Being that I don’t fly the journey was by train, leaving Taunton at 10.30am Tuesday morning, arriving back to Taunton at midnight on Wednesday. The journey to Geneva from Paris is all in the dark so it would not be the most exciting of journeys. The day time return is completely the opposite, a journey that I have done on numerous occasions and never tire of. The train passes through mountains and mountain villages, by the side of raging rivers and beautiful countryside. There was quite a lot of snow on the mountains and around the villages. Fortunately there was no snow in Geneva. I had a two hour wait wait for my train in Geneva and spent a good hour sitting by Lake Geneva that is surrounded by mountains that had a little covering of snow.
The only time that I get to read a book is when I travel by train. At St Pancras Station I picked up a Jeffry Archer book, A Prisoner of Birth. Some how I managed to read the 616 pages finishing the book five minutes before. I arrived back to Taunton, so I didn’t notice the time that the journey had taken. By coincidence the books centred around the East End of London and Geneva.
With the Sheep being free range at the moment there has been a lot of contact between them and Ewy. We had thought that she would not bother with the Sheep being that she had been very close to the Horses, but over the past couple of days Ewy has been getting very close to the other Sheep. This evening Ewy after joining in feed time with Willow and Gypsy we noticed that she was grazing in the midst of the Sheep. We are hoping to house the Sheep in the Barn early next week. It will be interesting to see if Ewy comes in with them.
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. Not many more photographs to go onto the Photo Page.
Thornton eating bird seed outside of the cottage. Vicky.
Breeze and her friend grooming each other. Vicky.
Thornton with his head over the stable door of the cottage after some ginger nuts. Vicky.
Two more photos from my cousins collection I have.
Thornton is none the worse for yesterdays ordeal. Pity that I could not say that about the back seat of my car. There are perfect foot prints of Thornton feet. If the Police were looking for a Sheep culprit he would be well of banged to rights.
As you may have seen we had our driveway hedges cut back today. It will make the Reindeer’s Field easier to see and hopefully for you to be able to see more of the Reindeer. As I was not about whilst it was being cut the contractor was unable to go into the Field to make a better job of it. He will be returning in the next week to finish off the job.
At 6.37pm whilst writing the Diary I caught a glimpse of an Owl swoop down on what I can only think was a Rat. It was over so quick if I had blinked I would have missed it. As you know one of my biggest fears are Rats. As much as I would want to poison them, I cant in case an Owl catches a poisoned Rat for it would kill the Owls. When you do see the Rat being taken by an Owl it makes up for having to suffer seeing the Rats. With a bit of luck the Owl will return. We purposely do not do any work in the Badger Field. One reason is that if any heavy vehicles go over the Badger sett it is liable to go into the hole causing damage to the vehicles or injury to the operator.
We will be unable to do a Diary of renew the Photo Page until Thursday as essential work on data base needs doing.