Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
Getting short of photographs.
Lou named this nice nature and I think it sums it up. Jacqui
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Month: June 2009
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
I’ll take ages to sort out all the photos I took in Yorkshire, but here are a few to be going on with! Julia.
A view from the Castle across Yorkshire – I didn’t realise quite what a beautiful place it would be! Julia.
The two waterfalls are on the River Swale which runs through Richmond – on Saturday there were loads of people swimming in the river as well as some kids diving off the waterfalls!! I couldn’t watch!! Julia.
The bridge crosses the River Swale and this photo was taken from Richmond Castle. Julia.
Yesterday Chris and I went to Morrisons in Weston Super Mare to do some shopping and there were volunteers from Secret World animal sanctuary with two of their rescue birds – Ben the Owl and Amber the Kestrel. Amazing what you get to see when you go shopping! Julia.
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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
If it had not been for two of our Holiday Guests and Wendy having taken photographs whilst the Sheep were being sheared there would not have been a today Photograph of Thornton before shearing or the shearing in progress as I had lost the photographs that I had taken when I thought I had down loaded them.
Thornton before his hair cut. His long fleece was making him very uncomfortable. Lorraine.
Thornton’s turn, little undignified. Wendy.
Shock and horror. Is it Thornton.
Thornton going off with his mates.
Ewy with her two Lambs after the remainder of her fleece being removed. There wasn’t a lot left to take off.
After going through my previous years diaries I found the phone number of Alex the person who has done our Sheep Shearing in the past. He is very good and competes in shearing contests at County Shows. He came early this morning and with his Sheep dog got our Sheep into the holding pen we had put up. His dog soon rounded the Sheep up in the Horse Field and pushed them into the direction of the pen. The Sheep decided they were not going to go in the pen on the first try. Mind you that was my fault as I had decided to get my camera from the Farm House to get the photographs and there was no one to stop the Sheep from taking the only route to freedom. The second attempt with the help of a couple our Holidays Guests was successful. One of the Ewes made a dash for freedom, as she was loosing her fleece naturally it wasn’t that important that she was sheared. We also managed to get Ewy captured. Most of her fleece had naturally fallen but there was still a bit to come off. Thornton followed into the pen not knowing what was going to happen.
From the pen we had made the Sheep were put into the shearing holding trailer pen that Alex had come with. The Sheep were all cramped in tight so as to make it easier to catch them when it was their turn for shearing. Alex was very fast shearing. It took him less time to shear our eleven Sheep than it had taken to round them up. Thornton didn’t protest like we thought that he may have done, he was very good and I should think feels a lot cooler no that his fleece has gone. He looks a little flea bitten but should look better in a few weeks time.
Tass and Kye cant make out what has happened to Thornton. They are constantly going up to him and sniffing around him in amazement.
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
Duck. Karen.
Hot pink water lilly in our pond. The blooms open during the night and early morning. By noon they starting folding back up. Karen, Florida (USA)
Monarch Butterfly caterpillars forming into their chrysalis (cocoons)
Karen, Florida (USA)
Two pictures taken at Kew Gardens.May 2009. Janice of Leeds.
One our Holiday Guests pointed up to a Bird who was flying high above us this afternoon. The Bird was so high that I could not see what it was other than it was the colouring of a Swallow, it wasnt, or I don’t think it was as it was flying quite slow. The Bird seemed to be playing with something that was in its beak. It was letting the something fall from its beak and flying around to catch it. I saw it happen twice our Holiday Quest a few time more. Strange.
The Chicks on the Hatchery webcam are white Turkeys. Unfortunately our broken computer was repaired after the Chicks had all hatched. Tomorrow there will be Geese eggs that should be hatching any time. I must admit that we are not best pleased with the eggs that we purchased. Out of 35 eggs only one has hatched. The eggs that we got from our Geese have been very successful with all but two that we have put into the incubator hatching, with all of the Gosling being healthy. To be honest I didn’t think that after moving our Geese on to Denbury that we would have had a fertile egg.
We were given three Rhea eggs from Cricket St Thomas. The eggs are from a proven pair of breeding Rhea so with a bit of luck we may have some Rhea at Denbury. The eggs are going into the incubator tonight and take between 36 to 40 days to hatch.
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
As promised Louise has downloaded her photos off her lap top onto my pc. Jacqui
A lovely white pigeon or dove that regularly visits the garden
Close up of a hornet which landed on her car windscreen wiper
Another shot of the hornet. I wouldn