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If the rain had not stopped in the night the…

If the rain had not stopped in the night, the outcome of the Swallow Chicks could well have been a little different. The adults Swallows have been working hard feeding the chicks all day. Late this afternoon we started to get some quite heavy showers. I can still see that the chicks are being fed even through the showers, Whilst I was fitting the new IR lamp by the lake I could see the Swallows skimming the lake to catch the flies. The showers have stopped me from finishing installing the new lamp. If the sky clears I will try to finish it tonight, but as I am writing it is getting blacker all the time, with again heavy showers. The weatherman has got it wrong again. I do not think that the Swallows will be out looking for food if it carries on as it is. I will have to remember to turn the light off in the barn where the nest is. With the light out, the chicks very quickly settled down.

I must admit I was also a little concerned about the little Badger Cub last night. It was getting very wet, it was also quite cold last night. Just the reciepe for hypothermia in a young animal. There must have been three Badger Sows that had Cubs this year. The cub out last nighr was to small to have been out of the same litter as the others. It will be interesting to see if it has a sibling.

It is no good me complaining about the rain, I was praying for it a few weeks back. I didn’t think that prayed that hard though. But it has made the grass grow. If we get a five or six day period of hot sunshine, I will take a flyer and try to make the hay early, as we have so much grass. We don’t usually make the hay until the end of June, when the seed is about to drop. You people who get hay fever will know the time. There is more feed value when you make the hay with the seed still on the grass.

Web cams for sure really do bring home the reality of the hard times that wildlife has to endure, to keep their off springs alive. They give us the opportunity to experience every minute of wildlife’s ups and downs in real-time as it happens. Until I installed the web cams, I would never have had thought twice about what would have happened to the Swallow or Blue Tit nests. I would never have known what a close knit family the Badgers were, or even how the Osprey Chicks could have been harmed by the Eel that their parent had took to the nest for their feed.

Soon we will get broadband speeds that they do in many other countries. It will allow us to broadcast so much better, that when you use the full screen or use your computer through your television, the quality of the pictures will be as good as what you get on your television. It wont be to long.

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