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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. Merrilyn

The 2 swans in my previous photo’s have got one cygnet. Which is one better than last year, she didn’t manage any. Merrilyn

Dad rushing back to mum and baby. Merrilyn

Duck with ducklings. She started off with 12. Merrilyn

My dog Mick. Merrilyn

Busy Bee. Merrilyn

There was one entry on the forum that stood out that made me annoyed and it caused me to pick up on previous moans about the webcams being down. It generalised on the webcams, forum and answers. It is now forgotten. But I will remind those who have had a moan of the work that goes into getting the webcams to you.

Just recently the Barn Owl cams went down. You would not believe the running about and costs that the Barn Owl Trust went to in getting the webcams back up and running. Peter at the Lock has needed at times to climb the tree that the Osprey nest is on to get it running for when the Osprey return to nest. You wouldnt catch me climbing the tree. When the Perigrine webcam power supply got flooded a couple of weeks back, the at the falls of Clyde got the webcam back on line the very next day using a generator. There still is no power other than the generator even now. Michael the SWT IT person is back and forwards to the various SWT location making sure that the computers are working properly. I could go on and on.

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There is only one day of photographs left so I…

There is only one day of photographs left so I will leave them for tomorrow.

We have needed to alter the way that you log into the webcams to have a cut off period after 15 minutes. All the webcams will have this restriction over the next week. Unfortunately there are to many viewer who are leaving the webcams going 24/7, many not watching them. The costs for this are far to high and if we had not had taken this action we may well have needed to close the site. We attract 10000+ unique visitors a day that cost a substantial amount of money. Those leaving the webcams running 24/7 don’t help.

The hatchery webcam have Gosling on. After the failure of the first incubation of the Geese eggs we were worried that these eggs would also fail. We put the eggs from the incubator to the hatcher three days before they were due to hatch. One decided to hatch that day and it has taken four days for five to breakout. It wasn’t a great success under 50%. Those Goslings that have made it look good and strong. We have had a lot better success with the Turkey and Bantams hatching. 80% of the Turkey eggs have hatched and about 65% of the Bantam. The Bantam eggs were due to hatch at the same time as the Goose eggs, as we have only one webcam working on the hatching we put a hatcher in one of our Holiday Cottages so that our Guests could see the hatching live.

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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

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

Here are some pictures from San Diego California where I am visiting with my husband (he is attending a conference). It is not as warm as one would think here, sadly, but is still very nice and warmer than Chicago where it is supposed to snow again! Penny Chicago Chicago Chicago

Thank you all that have sent in donations to keep the webcams broadcasting. It has stopped us from having to cut down the number of viewers who can view the webcam at one time for this month. It cost me many thousands of pounds annually to keep broadcasting. At this time of the year our visitor numbers increase so much that it is becoming uneconomical. I can see that most of you that use the Forum have sent us a donations. It is very much needed and appreciated. Hopefully donations and any revenue that we get from Google will keep the website going.

I started the webcams at Denbury Farm nearly six year ago to market our Holiday Cottages and to hopefully save on advertising. It would now cost me substantially less the advertise in the nationals papers every day than what it cost me to keep the website going. I do have to think of that as the webcams are not bringing in many visitors to the Farm that advertising would.

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font color red Please help keep this Website Wildlife TV…

Please help keep this Website Wildlife TV to continue Broadcasting.

We have been for nearly 6 years broadcasting Wildlife Webcams around the World completely free of charge. We supply most of the locations Free Broadcasting Equipment. One PTZ camera with the controls cost in the region of

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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 eleven.

This was taken at Beamish Open Air Museum a wonderful place to go if you want to re-live your past or the younger ones to see how we lived. I have more if anyone would like to see them. Elsie.

Vicky was our neighbour’s cat but he decided to come and live with us. He was old when he went missing and we never found him so took it that he had gone away to die. Elsie.

Mr Farmer please find enclosed more photos. The first 5 are of Pollperro when we were there earlier this year on holiday 6 and 7 are in Perranporth as are 12 and 13
8 to 11 are of Dingles world of steam the Speedway ride was running while we were there and we paid

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Peter the Manager of the Lock of the Lowe s…

Peter the Manager of the Lock of the Lowe’s sent me this link of photographs of Ospreys. As Peter I like the photo of the Osprey catching two fish at once. There are also a variety of other wildlife photographs.

http://www.miguellasa.com/gallery/1001578#33603804

I haven’t seen the Kingfisher for nearly a week now. I have left the camera on the branch, but of course I am not able to watch it all day. Let me know if any of you have seen it. If it is not about I will put the camera on the Bird feeders. I know that the Buzzards are about with their calling and I put the young one on the webcam last evening. It was on the fence in the Badger field. It didn’t stay there to long, but some of you may have seen it.

Funny Elsie should mention the Beavers. I am trying to get a place in Gloustershire, who introduced Beavers about three years ago, to let me do webcams from their site. I spoke to the people in the middle of last week. My suggestion are with the Directors at the moment, They have been thinking about doing it themselves, so we may be lucky. I had hoped to have done another Beaver webcam from a site in Scotland, unfortunately it looks doubtful, there is not a very good Broadband connection at the site. The connection is Satellite Broadband. We may be doing something else with them when they finish a new building.

I don’t know a lot about Beavers. I know that they are mainly nocturnal and their homes are called Lodges. We will need to use infra red lamps. We have a number of underwater cameras, If we are able to get the Beaver site, we may be able to put one in their Lodge.

We had expected to have had a visit from another organisation that are interested in us installing webcams for them. I mentioned them a while ago. I cant tell you who they are at the moment. It will be very good if we can work with them. They intend to come to Denbury in the first week in October.

We are quite confident that we will be doing a Barn Owl Nest next year. We have two alternative. Although I had hope that we may have encouraged them to Denbury. I have put up three Barn Owl Nest boxes and have left a few places to overgrow and die back to encourage voles, the Barn Owls main diet.

Derek Gow the specialist in Water Vole was going to send me some photos of his breeding site. This was over a month ago. I will speak to him next week. Chris Speering from the Hawk and Owl Trust is visiting us on the 10th of this month, he maybe able to suggest or find us other locations for webcams. Both Derek and Chris have websites. http://www.watervoles.com/ and http://chrissperring.com/HOTlocalgroup.htm

I did manage to see the Kingfisher this evening, so I will be putting the camera on the branch as usual.

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The network connection from the farmhouse to the telescope observatory…

The network connection from the farmhouse to the telescope observatory is turning out to be a bigger problem than I initially thought it would be. I have been trying to get it going for a time last night, and on and off today. It looks very much like I will have to run a new cable. It is not a very easy job and is liable to take a good few hours. I will make sure that I get it done for the New Moon starts showing itself on the 16th. August is also a good month to see Meteors. I don’t know much about meteors, or if it is even possible to be able to catch them on the webcams, but I will try to find out. Of course it will be dependant on the weather.

Some of you have seen how quick the Badgers are eating the food that I put down for them. It has been taking them up to an hour to eat it, but for the past week they are managing to finish it off within half an hour. The Cubs are fighting to get the feed. I should think this is causing the Adults to make sure that they get share. This year is the first time that I have noticed the Cubs being as aggressive as they are. I have been trying to catch them playing on the webcams after they have eaten. Unfortunately they don’t play in the same areas, and often not in sight of the webcams. The new camera on the Sett entrance gives more of a chance of seeing the Badger. As soon as I get time I will get another camera located to the rear of the Sett.

I am going the the Barn Owl Trust on Tuesday or Wednesday to take the new camera for the orphaned Barn Owl youngster that have been handed in to the trust. They have been found after falling out of their nests or other reason. By all accounts they are in a barn on the Trusts grounds and are free to come and go as they please. I will let you know more about it after I have been there. I could well get the opportunity to speak to the Conservation person, who is arranging the webcams at the nesting site in Cornwall that we are to host.

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The Lock of the Lowe s fitted a new camera…

The Lock of the Lowe’s fitted a new camera today. A close up of where the Red Squirrel and Pine Martens can be seen. I had hoped that they may have got the Pan, Tilt and Zoom camera up and working, so that we could have seen the Osprey fledglings learning to catch fish from the Lock. With a bit of luck they may get it installed before the Ospreys migrate in a few weeks time.

I know why the Kingfisher perches on the branch now. Both last night and tonight I have seen some very large fish swimming nearby it. Going by the size of the branch the fish must be at least a foot and a half long, probably weighing more than 10lb. Mind you a fish that size would be able to swallow the Kingfisher. There were a lot of fish in that area, that a Kingfisher would make a meal of.

I didn’t post it on the forum, but some one mentioned that they prefer the cameras at Denbury and Lock of the Lowe’s, because that some of the other locations were distant and were not on that good of wildlife. We supply all of the cameras and we know what work does go into installing and keeping them going. Fixed cameras cant be altered at will, and would have been installed for a specific reason. One of the Rye Harbour cameras has a minor problem and cant be put right until the Gulls have finished nesting, or the Gulls may abandon the young. Alteration do take place from time to time to keep you all interested.

Karen mentioned that Springwatch were always looking for new locations. Our webcams have been offered to the BBC and will always be available to them. This year they put on very good web cams, but nothing that they could not have got from using our web cams, which would have saved them many thousands of pounds. In fact I reckon going by the content, that they got their ideas from us. To make matters worse we had some outside contractor, who was working for the BBC on the Springwatch production, emailing me telling that I was taking their ideas and that I was claiming to be the provider of the BBC webcams. He also assured me that the BBC would make me stop. I couldn’t even be bothered to answer his email. We were one of the first doing webcams and have done a few very firsts in the bargain.

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You can just about see the heads of the Dove…

You can just about see the heads of the Dove chicks emerging today, It may sound cruel but I reckon that they are, well if I say that they are unattractive, it would be an under statement, the real word is ugly, but when mature they are a very attractive bird.

We let the Ewes and lambs out today, the last Ewe to lamb, who had the single lamb is doing very well, the lamb is already bigger than the twins. The twins are doing fine but not growing as quickly, although I should have expected it, being the breed very rarely has more than a single lamb, the Ewe looked a little down last night, that is why I made the decision to let them out this morning, the grass will buck her up.

A couple of entries on last nights forum, tells of one of the Badgers limping, when it was feeding last night. I must admit I did not notice it, it must have been because I was seeing how many were out, I will check it out tonight, although there is very little that can be done. Some years back, before we did the webcams we found an injured Badger, it was a bit of an experience getting it into the car to take to the vets, I would try to avoid doing it again, as I nearly got bitten. Our local RSPCA is West Hatch, I believe is the largest centre for wildlife in the UK, they told us they would contact us if they were going to release it, we never did hear back from them.

A question also asked last night on the forum, was who was more dominant, the Fox or Badger? The Badger is, their cubs will show themselves in a few weeks time and you will see how aggressive they can be to the Fox.

At this time of year the Vixen does not join in the feeding, as she is looking after her cubs in the lair, every year I tell myself that I will find the lair that is in the woods, close to the main horse field, but I can never find the time. This year I will make the effort to see them when they first emerge, and get them on the webcams.