I received a phone call from Peter the Manager at the Lock of the Lowe’s visitors centre. The problem with the webcams is all to do with their computer that keeps on crashing. Peter managed to get the webcams going for a short time, after rebooting the computer, but unfortunately it went down again very shortly after. Nothing can be done with the computer until next week. So sorry their will be no webcams from the Lock until the earliest, late next week.
I have uploaded three new photographs of the Horses in France. The first one is the grass gallops that Bliss and Misty will be training on. It would be good to be able to show you the whole site, but it would have taken at least ten photographs, it is a very large, getting on for a couple of miles around the track. The second and third are Misty and Bliss in the Horse Walker. It looks as if it is not very nice for them to be in the Walker, but it is not as it looks. I would not let the Horses do what I thought was not right for them. I have taken off the photograph of the Horse Walker, that showed how large it is. I had to speak to the trainer today, he told me that Bliss and Misty are going out onto the gallops with the other yearling. They are doing a little trotting to start strengthening them.
I have a couple of photographs of the Osprey nest that were taken in the Summer before the eggs hatched. One of the adult Ospreys are on the nest. I will put them on the photo page next week.
I opened my mouth to quick last night, for it started pelting down with rain just before the Horses came in for their night feed. When the weather is like this, at this time of year we keep the Horses in overnight. Unless it is raining as it at the moment, in the morning they will be turned out in the waterproof turn out rugs. As their is no decent grass for the Horses to eat in the field we have started to put hay out for them in the day. Now we have started putting the hay out, the Horses wait by the gate until we give it to them. We need to be careful how we put the hay out. If you don’t put it out in separate piles a good distance apart, with a couple of extra piles over the amount of Horses that you are in the field, you can finish up with a kicking session. It is always Breeze who start the arguments.
I saw the Red Stag and eight Hinds in the the valley field last night. It was after midnight, so I cant imagine many of you saw them. It will be good if they keep coming through the Winter for there will be a chance that the Hinds may give Birth in the area. When we first came to Denbury there were signs that some gave birth in the woods behind the Horses field, to the left of the tree house.