I have put on four new photographs. The first one is from Chris. Chris and his Wife Holidayed a Denbury the week Willow was born, when he took the photograph. Thanks for the Wensleydale Cheese Chris. The second and third are from Julia, The Bird is a Black Cap. All for photographs sent by Julia are from her Garden. The Fourth photograph is from Janet. This is part of her email. I hope this photo will be OK for the forum. It is a female Sparrow Hawk, in my back garden, she managed to pluck several feathers from the chest of the starling, the noise the starling made was horrible, I thought it would die, but when I opened my back door, the birds both flew away, in opposite directions, of course. PLEASE TRY TO PUT A FEW LINES ABOUT YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS.
Elsie your photographs of the Fox were to dark and the Fox to far away. I could have made you look a rubbish photographer, but I am to kind. When any of you send in photographs please add a return receipt, so that you know I received them. We have a number of photographs to go on the photo page, all will go on.
We finally managed to get the Sheep camera working today. The problem that I had was the camera is a mobile unit, with the controller etc all in one in a large case. When wire in to our webcam system, I should have been able to control the camera as I would any of the other moving cameras, I couldn’t, and I could not work out why not. This morning I spent two or three hours trying to get it going, in the end I decided to put the camera in position without having control. We set it all up positioned on the Sheep, when I tried to get the picture on the screen it was blank, I tried other channels, the picture came up and I also had control. Somehow I had put the camera on twp opposing channels. Making it right took two minutes, so I am not best pleased that I have spent so much time on the camera unnecessarily.
With the camera working as it should, we will now be able to show the Sheep and Willow with the new Foal with the same camera. Over the next couple of days I will put an infra-red lamp in the barn so that we will be able to see both the Fillies and the Sheep of a night. I am going to leave the Sheep in the Barn until they Lamb. Partly as we have no secure areas to stop them breaking out, and disappearing as they did earlier in the year, the other reason is it will be good to be able for you to see the Ewes Lambing. I am trying to think of a good area to be able to fence of a largish area for the Sheep to go into once they have Lambed. It was ideal and good viewing when they were in the Valley with the Fox walking in between the Sheep, without the Sheep bothering one bit, although I cant remember seeing many Deer when the Sheep were in the Valley. I could fence off an area in the Valley, but there is now way of telling if the fence would discourage any of our Wildlife. What ever, if I keep the Sheep I will need to fence an area for them. I keep on making more work for myself.
The new Horses should be at Denbury Sunday morning. I spoke to the person who has been looking after them for a couple of days until they were collected. The Broodmare has been with him for a few days. The Foal only arrived last evening with her Mother. They thought that it would be better if the Foal was weaned last night, she was lightly sedated, just to make sure that she did not get to upset, causing her to try to get out of the stable, that she was in when her Mother was taken away. This morning she was very calm, she was calling a little, but not as much as they thought that she may of. It is not a nice job weaning, but it has to be done. The Foal was born in April, so like Willow she was also left with he Mother for a lot longer than they would normally be. We have got to do the same with Willow and we are not looking foreword to it. But at least Willow will now have company.