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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.

Female Peregrine feeding her 4 chicks on Derby Cathedral. Vicky.

Male and female Peregrine with their 4 chicks on Derby Cathedral. Vicky.

Canada geese gosling. Vicky.

Canada geese goslings. Vicky.

Carpet of bluebells. Vicky.

In between the work on the Farm I have been try to catch up with the outstanding webcams. I sent to the USA Osprey a PTZ camera but unfortunately it was returned to the UK. Got no idea why, and I cant get any one to tell me, or even to let me know where it is. So sorry to both you and Peter in Delaware as the new camera would have been really good as it was to be positioned on Peters House that was only a 2 hundred feet from the nest.

I spoke to Paul in the US Virgin Island this afternoon about the underwater webcam on the Island. The delay has been caused by Michael the initial contact on the Island. Unfortunately Michael has had a serious accident causing him to have a very bad broken arm that he nearly had to have amputated. He has had to go the US mainland for a number of operations.

The circumstance of the accident was that his car left the road on the Island and landed into a tree. Michael and the car were left hanging in the tree. Michael by his arm that caused the injury. By all accounts he was in the tree for some hours before he was rescued. So Paul has not received the webcam equipment or the drawing that have to be presented to the Port Authority to confirm the permission that have been given verbally.

Michael at the SWT is going to try to finish putting up the camera and infra-red lamps at the Falls of the Clyde Peregrine Falcon webcam so that it can be viewed of a night.

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

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

There are no photographs left for tomorrows Photo Page.

Ducks and a swan in our local park the other day. sue.

Some horses that we like to visit in a field not too far from us. sue.

Sorry to those who may not have known that we feed the Badgers as if the clocks were not altered. Every time that we have to change our clocks I moan. There really is no reason for it.

Whilst the Badgers were feeding Thursday night I checked the Lake on my private view of the webcams to see if the Geese were about. When I looked at the Island I saw a rat slipping into the water to swim to the far bank. At first I thought that I had seen one of the Geese on the bank, but on a second look I saw that it was a Heron. The infra-red lamp did not quit allow for a good image on the far bank but it did look as if the Heron may have had a Fish in its beak. I didn’t hang about just in case it was not and it was going to continue fishing. By the time I had reached the Lake it was flying away. It probably heard me approaching. What surprised me was that the the Heron was on the Lake in the dark, let alone fishing. I had always believed that Herons return to their heronries at night. I not sure that I mentioned that some while ago I saw a Heron swimming on the Lake. I know I wasn’t dreaming but when I have told people they have looked at me as if I was mad.

I am a bit concerned about seeing rats on the Island as the Geese eggs will be left until all of the eggs are laid, giving the chance of a meal to the rats. I will monitor the Island to make sure that the Island is not being used by the Ducks, Moorhens or Coots to nest. If not I may decide to try to get rid of the rats.

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

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

The “Gates of Heaven” for Karen! Julia.

Branston in the snow; At last, someone to laugh at my sense of humour!; Julia.

Reindeer; Julia.

Snowfall!; Julia

Two deer running across the valley; Julia.

I was pleased that Julia saw and had managed to take a photograph of the Deer in the Valley yesterday. I was starting to think that they had deserted Denbury. Julia saw four. We changed the infra-red lamps when we put the new camera up. The original lamps had a longer beam that made it possible to see further along the Valley. We have two new lamps that when I manage to find the time I will put up. I will also need to put a another lamp further along the valley.

I heard the Geese flying over the Farm House this morning to land on the Lake at about 6.am. They will keep returning to make sure that it is safe. Last year a pair did the same but lost it when another pair landed one day and stayed claiming the Island very soon after. I will get to the Island to cut some of the grass back so that the Goose will be able to be seen sitting the nest.

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A beautiful little white duck which someone had dumped in…

A beautiful little white duck which someone had dumped in the ford at Rufford Country park.The other ducks used to bully her so she just stayed in the ford. How can people do that??

This is heather, from a distance I thought it was an Azalea. You can just see the back end of Max sniffing around. Elsie.

Fuschias. Lindsay.

A Racoon came out at dusk this week- I had left some ‘Weetabix’ on the fence and it loved it- scooped it up with its ‘hands’ Anjela, Connecticut.

Photo I took at the airport last week. The field in the foreground had dozens of rabbits leaping around – as though they were welcoming the day!! I tried to photograph them but they could only be seen in highly pixelated magnifications! Julia.

The Gander was missing this morning. Some thing happened in the night at about 3.25am. I had the cameras recording during the night to try to find out what may have taken the Gosling the night before. For some reason the Geese did not return to the Island last night as they had since the Goslings had hatched. It could have been that what did take the Gosling, had taken it from the Island. It is only a guess but something had stopped them returning to the island.

Going by the recording at 3.25pm a Fox stopped by the spot on the bank near to the camera. He had a drink and went out of view of the camera. The Geese had been resting at the spot until about half an hour before the Fox arrived. The other lake camera I had left so that the whole of the Lake was in view, but very little of either side of the banks of the Lake. A little while after the Fox had gone from view of the other camera, the Goose returned to the Lake from the stream side of the Lake. The Gander was not seen on the recording from then on.

I walked around the Lake at about 7.30pm, other than a couple of feathers near where the Fox had drank there was no sign of the Gander. The couple of feathers would have not been caused by a Fox attack, and there was no other evidence that a Foxed had taken the Gander. I thought, I think that I probably hoped that the Gander had flown off and would return later in the day.

Later I got one of my Lads to walk around the Lake in case I had missed anything. Unfortunately I had, for in the bushes in an area that the Geese would not have gone, he found the remains of the Gander. With the Goose with her Goslings going onto the Lake on the right hand side at the time that the Gander would have been taken, I cant imagine why he would have been on the opposite bank in the bushes that he was found in. I can only imagine that Gander had faced up to the Fox instead of getting back into the Lake, and that the Fox had chased him to where he was killed. The way that the Gander would guard the Goose and Goslings, he seemed a bit cleverer that previous Ganders

I was going to try to get the Geese to return to the island before I went to bed, but if they had made up their mind to stay on the bank they would only had returned when I left. I don’t hold out a lot of hope that the three gosling will survive more than a day or so, the Goose may also be taken. I will put up an electric fence from the direction that the Fox came from, and try to get the Goose with the Goslings to return to the island, but I am sure that I will be wasting my time.

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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.

There are not sufficent ammount of photographs for tomorrow Photo page.

A GREAT TIT AT A BIRD FEEDING AREA AT BOLTON ABBEY LYNNE

A pair of ducks at Savil Gardens in Surrey. Bec.

These Collared Doves are getting quite tame. GJ.

The red Squirrel at Formby. Angela.

A sign at formby. Angela.

We managed to get the new Lake camera working this afternoon. I even put it on webcam two, but for for some reason it stopped working. I think that I may know what the problem is, and as long as I can get a few jobs finished early tomorrow I will try to get it going.

We have located it on a current telegraph pole along the Farm drive. We may get a bit of grief from BT, we will just have to wait and see. The camera is very well situated overlooking the Lake. We are able to get right into the island to watch the Goose on her nest. Yes she is nesting and by the look over the past couple of days she is incubating the eggs. The Gander quite often sits with the Goose on the island. We have never seen that before on the Lake. They also use the ramp to get on and off of the island. Hopefully you will be able to see it tomorrow. The new camera is also able to see the Pond that is out of view of the current Lake camera, just behind the Lake. The new camera will also be a good security camera for the Farm, as we are able to see most of our drive. I think that it is going to be an interesting webcam.

An Electrician who was putting the electric to the new camera saw one of the Lambs in the stream by the side of the Lake. How it got there we will never know. It is the Minty’s Lamb, the last Lamb that was born. If the Electrician had not seen it in the stream it would now be dead. As it is the Lamb is not very well and we are unsure if it will survive. We have had to bring it into the Farm House to keep it warm and to dry it out. Minty has been calling for it. If it does survive I am not sure if Minty will accept it back.

Thornton is doing very well. With us putting him on to the Ewe when we found him, to hopefully get some colostrum must have worked. Bottle feeding him is making him grow a little quicker than his twin. Tass and Kye are intrigued by Thornton and wont leave him alone, but the Lamb is managing. We wouldn’t leave Thornton on his own with the dogs as we are sure that they would finish up killing him, whilst what they would think as playing.

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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. I am sure that there must be some good photographers who have not yet sent any photographs in for the Photo page.

Dave has bought a new telephoto lens for his fancy camera here is one of the first results !!
Lynne.

Another mishap and they were as surprised as you when Thornton was born. Elsie.

This thrush came to visit me yesterday, he is eating cooked pastry. PM.

Goats? on the North Cornwall coast path near Crackington Haven. CH.

A red squirrel at Formby point seen at easter Angela (Merseyside)

Emmi has not returned home as she has not come into season yet. Mares normally cycle 21 days after their foaling heat. Some Mare may go longer. If she is not ready to go to the Stallion in another day or so she will be given an injection to bring her in season. I don’t like the Horses to be away from the Farm any longer than need to be.

Minty gave birth to a Lamb yesterday. We looked all around the barn just in case she had given birth to twins, and that one had gone astray as Thornton.

I have not been able to show the Geese very much for the last few days, as for most of the time other than today they have been out of view on the Island. Other than them flying around the Lake every now and then they have been on the Lake for four or five days. I don’t know why the disappeared this morning. The way they have been acting they should nest on the Island.

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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. I am sure that there must be some good photographers who have not yet sent any photographs in for the Photo page.

The Cuilin Mountains on the Isle of Skye. Lindsay.

This goose seemed to think he was a mallard, followed them everywhere. FF.

Sea birds nesting in every nook and cranny on these rocks at Stack rocks near Castlemartin in Wales. Marie.

The blackbird was supposed to be a thrush but as I got the camera sorted it had flown away and I ended up with this. Sue.

White Peacock. Bec.

I did not approve a couple of entries on the Forum yesterday as both had links to other sites.

I must be off of my head, for some how we now have a pet Ram Lamb. The Ewe was not letting the Lamb that I wrote about last night feed from her she was knocking it out of the way with it head every time he tried. We had bottle fed the Lamb all day. When we went to feed it last night at about 9.pm, it was out of the Sheep pen, laying out on its own and bleating. When we picked it up to give him his bottle feed he felt cold. That was it, into the Farm House he came. We partitioned off a small area in the wash room, gave him a feed, and did he drink a lot, a hot water bottle under a towel and off to sleep he went, the first time i should think since he was born. We don’t know if he is going to survive, we really don’t know if he got any colostrum from his Mother. We did manage to get him to get a little feed from the Ewe. That meant tying her up and putting the Lamb on to the Ewes teat, but we are unsure if she had any colostrum left. We have named him Thornton. Appropriate I reckon for this time of year.. He seems really well, but we will have to see how it goes.

We may just have a pair of Geese going to nest on the Lake. I must admit I don’t know if I am pleased or not after in previous years the Goslings not surviving. I don’t think that the pair that are on the Lake have been here before. I am sure that I would have remembered, the size difference is to noticeable not for me to have remembered. I am taking it that the larger Bird is the Gander, The Goose is also feeding a lot from the bottom of the Lake, that other Geese have rarely done here. The pair are also grazing and laying on the sides of the Lake in different places. As we couldn’t see the Geese on the Lake this afternoon we thought that they must have flown off, so this afternoon I started to wire up the new camera that will over look the island. Whilst on the ladder I was able to see that both the Goose and the Gander were on the island, they didn’t seem bothered about us being there at all. I have never seen a pair of Geese on the island before, only the Goose when she has been laying an egg of incubating the Eggs. When I had not seen the Geese on the Lake and had thought that they had flown off, they were more than likely on the island.

I am not going to try the remote Duck for a day or two, just in case it frightens the geese away. The new camera and the remote Duck should help to find out what it is that is a danger to the Gosling.

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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 are really short again. Maybe not enough to put five up tomorrow.

Hells Mouth in Cornwall we once saw a leatherback turtle here! Lindsay.

Grey Squirrel photos were taken at Rufford Country Park. Judy.

This was taken in a friends garden in Australia. Elsie.

I thought these two looked rather nice, taken at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, an event well supported by the heavy horses. CH

Mr. Farmer, pictures of our latest butterflies that just recent emerged. The one in my husband’s hand is a Orange Barred Sulphur. Karen, Florida (USA)

A quick turn around about the Geese from last nights Diary. They have been on and around the Lake for all of the day. Late this afternoon I moved the camera around just as one of them used the ramp to get onto the island. Earlier in the day we had been putting the camera on a pole overlooking the island. We couldn’t help being a little noisy, as we needed to use a small scaffold tower to put the camera to the height that we wanted. The tower being a bit rusty we needed to hit it a bit with a hammer. Then we needed to drill the hole to fit the camera. We thought that the noise would have made the Geese fly off, but they didn’t take any notice of us at all. As I am writing the Diary, they are in their courtship ritual and mating, I hope you saw it, so it looks. definite that they are nesting on the island. I will get the new camera working as soon as I can, but no later than the coming Monday.

We have been getting a Barn Owl nest box ready to put up outside. We don’t no where at the moment. I had a sample made when we were selling normal sized nest boxes, but never got around to putting it up. It needed to be oiled to protect from the weather. We will try to get it put in place once we decide where we are going put it. We have two Barn Owl nest box’s in our big barn. We haven’t seen any thing take any notice of them, not even the Doves. The nest box that we are getting ready is going to be put up outside, who will finish up using it we will have to wait and see. Of course that is if anything does at all.

As they say, as one thing goes another comes. Yesterday the Farmer next door moved his Sheep to his field that backs onto the field where the Badgers are. Unfortunately it is in line with his Farm House and I had agreed that I would not show his Sheep in that Field. It would have been nice to have been able to keep watching the Sheep. As the lambs get older they do play a lot more.

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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.

Lifeboat station at St Justians Pembrokeshire. Porthgain Harbour Pembrokeshir. Lynne.

This is one of 6 Siskins visiting the feeders at the moment.We never saw these birds here until the Locherbie air crash.When they were searching Keilder Forest they seemed to disturb them out of their habitat and since then we have always had a few in February.They are very timid and took it through the window. Lindsay.

Hummingbird Fly Zone This woman is Abagail Alfano of Pine, Louisiana – she did not do it for a lark but had studied them daily and one morning put the cup in her hand with water in it. They had gotten used to her standing by the feeder and came over to her hand. She says in touching they are as light as a feather. Said if had known her husband would take pictures she would have put on makeup !! Alex.

A webcam capture shot from Elaine.

Elaine has sent in a few capture shots over the past coupe of weeks. She sent them by Word. I did not know how to change to a jpg. I was shown today.

Very quick Diary as I have to reset the Telescope as it was wandering to much last night. When I have reset the Telescope I will put the Moon on to make sure that it is tracking as it should be. Jupiter can only be seen from well after 10.pm at the moment. It is to late for me to set it up and focus the Planet.. It will be earlier within a month. I will show it then.

The Geese look as if they are going to nest on the Island. I don’t think that they are the same pair as last year as they are using different banks of the lake to rest on. This afternoon we put a ramp from the Island in to the water in the hope that if the Geese hatch eggs this year, they will return to the Island at night. The Goslings were unable to get back on to the Island once they had left the nest in other years as the bank was to steep. I am not even sure if Geese do return to their nest with their Goslings, but it is worth trying the ramp.

We have decided to put up another camera on the other side of the Lake, so that we can watch the Geese on the nest and have more cameras to try to find out the different spots that the Kingfishers perch. Whilst Diane, John and Vicky were on Holiday here last week they saw the Kingfisher on the monitor in the Cottage, fly in front of the Feeders. We are going to put in a couple more branches in the Lake, as perching places. While I was panning around the Lake I stopped at the Kingfisher branch. There were a lot of very large Fish swimming close by the branch. When the Sun is out they do swim at the top of the water to get the warmth of the sun.

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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.