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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

THESE WERE ALL TOOK AT RUFFORD COUNTRY PARK NEAR WORKSOP LAST WEEKEND. LYNNE.

On Wednesday night there where ten Badgers feeding at the same time. As one went off to the left another one came out from the Sett. So it looks very much if there are still eleven Badgers in the Sett. The same number as last year.

Tomorrow we are going to a Poultry Show and Auction to hopefully buy a few Chickens. Most of our Holiday Guest ask if we have Chicken and do we have eggs for sale. It will be good for our Holiday Guests Children to be able to feed the Chicken and collect the eggs.

Today we had a incubator delivered so that we can produce some Turkeys and Geese. It is a fully automatic incubator that will incubate up to 190 Chicken eggs. Again it will be good for our Holiday Guests Children to be able to see the eggs hatching. We will also try to show some of the hatching on a webcam. We are having some fertile Turkey eggs delivered, hopefully next Tuesday, and I am trying to get some Goose eggs.

I have in the past incubated Ostrich eggs reckoned to be the hardest eggs to incubate, and was quite successful. That came about after paying someone to incubate our Ostrich eggs, he managed to give all the Birds that was getting on for nearly 100, Yolk Sac infection that caused them all to die. As you can imagine I was not best pleased. The person hatching them wasn’t best pleased either when I tipped out twenty that had died on his doorstep. The cause of the infection was because his hatcher was dirty. I was told what chemicals where used in cleaning hatchers before special cleaners were made. I never had a problem with the incubating or hatching.

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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

THESE WERE ALL TOOK AT RUFFORD COUNTRY PARK NEAR WORKSOP LAST WEEKEND. LYNNE.

On Wednesday night there where ten Badgers feeding at the same time. As one went off to the left another one came out from the Sett. So it looks very much if there are still eleven Badgers in the Sett. The same number as last year.

Tomorrow we are going to a Poultry Show and Auction to hopefully buy a few Chickens. Most of our Holiday Guest ask if we have Chicken and do we have eggs for sale. It will be good for our Holiday Guests Children to be able to feed the Chicken and collect the eggs.

Today we had a incubator delivered so that we can produce some Turkeys and Geese. It is a fully automatic incubator that will incubate up to 190 Chicken eggs. Again it will be good for our Holiday Guests Children to be able to see the eggs hatching. We will also try to show some of the hatching on a webcam. We are having some fertile Turkey eggs delivered, hopefully next Tuesday, and I am trying to get some Goose eggs.

I have in the past incubated Ostrich eggs reckoned to be the hardest eggs to incubate, and was quite successful. That came about after paying someone to incubate our Ostrich eggs, he managed to give all the Birds that was getting on for nearly 100, Yolk Sac infection that caused them all to die. As you can imagine I was not best pleased. The person hatching them wasn’t best pleased either when I tipped out twenty that had died on his doorstep. The cause of the infection was because his hatcher was dirty. I was told what chemicals where used in cleaning hatchers before special cleaners were made. I never had a problem with the incubating or hatching.

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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

These five photographs were all taken in central Wisconsin , near Wonewoc, while riding our bikes on the

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We have had a few problems with the Photo page…

We have had a few problems with the Photo page, Forum and Diary that needed the servers to be changed. In changing over to the new server some entries have been lost. Last night I thought that the loss may have been worse than it was. The Forum and Diary has become good references that I regularly go back to check the date of things that have happened in previous years. It could be that what seems to have been lost maybe in different files and can be found over the next few days.

Tomorrow I will restart the Photo page and put on the photograph of Thornton, as requested by Elaine.

We are going to try to feed the Badgers earlier tomorrow. I should think that it will be about 8.35pm. Part of the reason is so that our Holiday Guests are able to see the Badgers from the hide. It looks as if the area that the Badgers feed from is well lite. It is not, to the human eye it is as black as the ace of spades, it is only the infra-red lamps that make it possible for the cameras to see the Badger.

Speaking about the Badgers, one Family of this weeks Holiday Guests had the Husband drive here without telling him where he was going. I met them when they arrived and I must admit that he did look a bit surprised. He soon bucked up when he knew that he would be able to see the Badgers live, for he has been a Badger enthusiast for most of his life.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page from…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page from number one, all sent in by Lynne.

SUNSET AT BROADHAVEN PEMBROKESHIRE. LYNNE.

WEEDS GET EVERYWHERE !! LYNNE

PLANE TRAIL. LYNNE.

GORSE ON THE PEMBROKESHIRE COAST. LYNNE.

SOLVA HARBOUR (OUR FAVOURITE PLACE). LYNNE.

Although there has been a lot of Fish caught on our Lake this year, there has not been many big fish caught until this last week. In fact I was getting quite worried that something had been taking a lot of the big Fish, especially after the Geese and Goslings disappearing as they did. Usually you would very often see the large Fish swimming close to the Kingfisher branch. I was starting to think that a Otter or a Mink had been getting its food from the Lake. Fortunately one of our Holiday Guests on a Fishing Holiday caught quite a few large Carp up to 18Ib. Since the Fish have been caught some are now swimming close to the branch.

A few years back we had Otters who must have bred close by the Lake, as every morning for quite a few weeks I found the scales of Mirror Carp on the bank of the Lake. You can tell that it was an Otter by the sweet smell of their droppings that we found many of. If it had been a Mink we would probably had not seen any remains at all. It was not a nice sight as the scales were obviously from the biggest Fish that we had in the Lake and I had only stocked the Lake with the Fish a few years before. It makes me wonder what size the Carp would be now.

There are a lot of Predator for the Fish. As well as Otter and Carp we get Heron. Heron are indiscriminate when they are trying to get there food. Any Fish that moves they try to catch, it doesnt matter if it is to big, so often Fish are caught with injury scars that the Heron has inflicted. Another predator is Cormorant, I have only seen two at Denbury and one was only was a few weeks back. Cormorant are able to swim large distances under water, so they are able to follow a Fish virtually at leisure striking when it is ready. Our Holiday Guests that week helped us to try to dissuade it from catching the Fish, but the law does not give you many options to protect the Fish as most predators of Fish are protected. That is the reason for the Otter to nearly become extinct in areas of the British Isles. The Fish from the Lakes and Rivers were a food source to people, so it was neccassry to try to protect the Fish with Otter hunting.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number six. Getting short againg.

These are the two birds I spotted near the airport – possibly Grouse? Julia.

This bird the rose- breasted grosbeak- is a very rare visitor to my feeder. I have seen it twice in my 15 years of living on the east coast of America. It arrives for about 20 minutes and is
very placid- Then feeds and flies away. Anjela Connecticut.

This tulip was called Ivory Floradale.I thought it was rather nice. Lindsay.

This is a photo of a Aberdeen Angus taken near Ripley in Derbyshire. Vicky, Derby.

Peacock. Judy.

One of our Holiday guests has been playing football. Unless you had seen it with your own eyes you would not have believed what you were seeing. His opponent was Thornton. Thornton pushes the ball along with his head and seems to enjoy every moment. We have not played with balls with him, so he must have picked it up from Tass and Kye when they were playing with the ball. The Holiday Guest took a photograph of it, but he did not bring the lead with him to download the Camera. He will email it to me when he gets home.

After Thornton’s morning feed he waits by the Farm House kitchen door to go out around to visit the Lambs in the Sheep pen. Yesterday he stayed with them for most of the day, grazing the area close to the pen. The other Lambs and Ewes have accepted him, with the Lambs he is just one of the gang wandering and playing around the Farm. The Lambs are a pain with the garden plants, They try the taste of all of them, I think that there favorite are Pansies. Thornton leaves the gang a couple of times during the day, returning to the Farm House when his feed is due. If the door is closed he bleats and knocks at the door with his feet. No one has taught him that. If the door is ajar he will push it open and in he come as do Tass and Kye and nags at the nearest person to him to give him his bottle. After his feed out he goes to rejoin the Lambs. He always returns of a night but decides his own time. A couple of times we have gone to look for him when it is getting late of an evening. If he is ready he follows us in. If he is not he come back bleating and knocking at the door. It must have been the rain, for today he has been in and out all day. Just now he is sitting very quietly in the kitchen by the sink. You have got to see it to believe it.

Lindsay has asked what Bats she could see on the Farm. I would be pretending if I said I knew. By chance one of the Holiday guests has a gadget that tells you what they are by the noise that they make. He told me earlier what they are. If I remember correctly the Bats on the Lake are Pipistrelle, the others are Noctule. I should think that there may well be other types. The ?Farmhouse loft is full of Bats. I tried a couple of years ago to try to get them on the webcams, but we didn’t see one on the webcam. If we sit outside latish on Summer night we see the Bats coming and going from the roof.

A piece from Elsies local.

Swans cause a flap for rush-hour drivers
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RUSH-hour traffic was brought to a standstill when two swans and their cygnets wandered across a busy road.

Passers-by rushed to stop cars as the six birds tried to cross the busy Claremont Road roundabout in Newcastle city centre today.

Vehicles on the sliproad for the city’s central motorway were stopped in both directions for several minutes.

advertisementThe swans were ushered in the direction of nearby Leazes Park. and once there they headed for the parks lake.

Radio producer Steve Drayton, 47, was cycling to work when he saw the swans.

“I saw the traffic backed up in all directions. At first I thought there had been an accident then I saw the swans,” he said.

“They were being ushered across the road by two ladies from the roundabout where it seems they had roosted for the night.

“But they were heading for a slip road so I jumped off my bike and helped steer them back towards the park.”

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number six.

MORE PICS OF WSR, FROM MARIE AND JOHN.

Another photo of Crowm Reservoir on the reservoir there is One lone Ruddy shell duck that has been there for about 3 to 4 years but he goes away for the week ends strange but true he has been known to go for longer Angela (kent)

Sandsend near Whitby,North Yorkshire.Lindsay.

The Chaffinch and the Grey Squirrel photos were taken at Rufford Country Park. Judy.

My Torquay Palm which I cut right down and it grew again from the top. It looks much better actually and does look nice with the frost on it. Elsie.

Just a couple of updates on the Diary tonight. As I need to do some text and find some photographs for the website face lift.

My forum entry about Bandwidth was only put on again today so that people who may not have seen it last time, will see it.

Sorry Rose, Wincanton for not acknowledging your photograph of the Spider.

I must have missed Dolly when I check the Sheep yesterday, as when she was facing away from me I noticed that her udder was quite large. With us having Holiday Guests this week we used the wiring for the Sheep and Horses camera for their live feeds of the webcams into the Holiday Cottages. We had run another cable for the Sheep in the Winter and the Lake in the Summer for the Geese and Kingfisher, but never got around to finishing it. It was an easy job to finish. The Holiday Cottages are now able to have the live feeds as well as being able to show the Sheep.

We had hoped that we would have started to be getting good webcam images coming through from the USA. Unfortunately it has been snowing at Indian River Bay, Delaware and Peter has been unable to get to the camera, to make sure that all is working properly. We think we know what the problem is. I am sure that if I were there I would be able to get it going properly. We are getting a picture through, but It would not be good enough to show on our website.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one. We don’t have a lot more photographs to put on the Photo Page.

Dear Mr Farmer, this was sent to me from my Auntie I don’t know whether there is any way of putting it on the photo page. Alex.

Good grief, what is that line made of?
You won’t believe this!
Thought you might enjoy this.
Ever worry about squirrels getting into your bird feeder? Well, look at this.

Dear Mr. Farmer, Just in case anyone had thought of a visit to the Isles of Scilly, but not actually gone…..here are a couple of photos! These were scanned in, so not brilliant quality!
Regards. Julia.

I was tempted to put Alex’s Bear photographs one a time over the next four day. But it could have spoilt the effect.

The Portland Ram Died today. He found it hard to get up this morning, and It was only me helping him that he got up at all. He was a good age and had lost most of his teeth that caused him not to be eating that well. Once we had got him up this morning I put him out on the grass behind the Sheep pen. He had a few nibbles of the grass and laid down. When I went to check on him an hour later he had died.

There were five Geese on the Lake this morning. Two pairs and a single. One of the pairs flew off. The other three stayed for most of the morning before flying off. I should think that they will return over the next couple of days, if not tomorrow. If they don’t come back in the morning I will get a ramp put up o the island. When the Gosling hatch they are unable to get back on the island as the banks go straight down. A ramp will make it possible to get back on the island of a night time if they want. I don’t really know if they will use it, but will be worth a try. I will have to get on with the remote controlled Duck. I haven’t managed to get time to finish it. I must try to find the time.

We relay the webcams live to our Holiday Cottages. Our Holiday Guest whilst watching the webcams saw a Kingfisher fly in front of the Bird Feeders that are normally on cam two. Has any one else seen them. if you do please let us know. We started putting in new wiring today, to be able to show the the Sheep on the webcams when we have Holiday guests. When the Sheep are out of the pen we will be able to put another webcam on the lake. One new camera that we have I will put on the Bird feeders. The PTZ camera I will try to program it so that it will patrol every ten to fifteen minutes on to the area where the Kingfisher goes.

The equipment for the Griffen Vulture nest webcam arrived in Spain yesterday. As long as Simon does not get any major problems he will start installing it over the next week. it is not in a very good location, needing Simon to do a bit of dangerous climbing.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one. We don’t have a lot more photographs to put on the Photo Page.

Dear Mr Farmer, this was sent to me from my Auntie I don’t know whether there is any way of putting it on the photo page. Alex.

Good grief, what is that line made of?
You won’t believe this!
Thought you might enjoy this.
Ever worry about squirrels getting into your bird feeder? Well, look at this.

Dear Mr. Farmer, Just in case anyone had thought of a visit to the Isles of Scilly, but not actually gone…..here are a couple of photos! These were scanned in, so not brilliant quality!
Regards. Julia.

I was tempted to put Alex’s Bear photographs one a time over the next four day. But it could have spoilt the effect.

The Portland Ram Died today. He found it hard to get up this morning, and It was only me helping him that he got up at all. He was a good age and had lost most of his teeth that caused him not to be eating that well. Once we had got him up this morning I put him out on the grass behind the Sheep pen. He had a few nibbles of the grass and laid down. When I went to check on him an hour later he had died.

There were five Geese on the Lake this morning. Two pairs and a single. One of the pairs flew off. The other three stayed for most of the morning before flying off. I should think that they will return over the next couple of days, if not tomorrow. If they don’t come back in the morning I will get a ramp put up o the island. When the Gosling hatch they are unable to get back on the island as the banks go straight down. A ramp will make it possible to get back on the island of a night time if they want. I don’t really know if they will use it, but will be worth a try. I will have to get on with the remote controlled Duck. I haven’t managed to get time to finish it. I must try to find the time.

We relay the webcams live to our Holiday Cottages. Our Holiday Guest whilst watching the webcams saw a Kingfisher fly in front of the Bird Feeders that are normally on cam two. Has any one else seen them. if you do please let us know. We started putting in new wiring today, to be able to show the the Sheep on the webcams when we have Holiday guests. When the Sheep are out of the pen we will be able to put another webcam on the lake. One new camera that we have I will put on the Bird feeders. The PTZ camera I will try to program it so that it will patrol every ten to fifteen minutes on to the area where the Kingfisher goes.

The equipment for the Griffen Vulture nest webcam arrived in Spain yesterday. As long as Simon does not get any major problems he will start installing it over the next week. it is not in a very good location, needing Simon to do a bit of dangerous climbing.