The Stag that you have seen tonight is a Royal Stag. After seeing the Deer on Wednesday night I thought that they would be back, as the way the Stag was mating, I thought that they must be using Denbury for the Rut. The Stag chased away a young pretender who tried his luck with one of the Hinds on Wednesday. There does not seem to be as many Hinds tonight, although there could well be some in the woods. I must admit that I am pleased that they have returned. Moments like this make the webcams worth doing, and what we are seeing is live.
No, Elsie we haven’t planted the trees yet, to be honest I ha-vent even ordered them. I was told by my supplier that they would be in by now. We do need to do some tree planting on the Farm. Since we have lived here we haven’t done a lot, just the odd tree here and there around the lake and holiday cottages. We have lost a number of nice trees since we have lived here, mainly by the wind. My Lads have been cutting up a few over the past weeks for firewood. We have decided that we are going to plant about sixty whips, consisting of Cherry, Elm for the hedges, Silver Birch and Maple. We will also put in some more mature trees, and a eighteen foot Weeping Willow around the Lake.
Jan, when there is no one in the Hide, the Fox are always watching me put the Badger food down. I did get a little worried earlier in the year when there were six of them feeding. I thought that they may have been shot. I think that there are three coming to feed at the moment, one of them only now and then. There is one Fox that is going very close to the Badger Sett entrance. You may have seen him on camera one going in to the gap in the hedge that the Badgers come out from, The Sett entrance is within inches of the gap, he will be caught by the Badgers one day.
Who ever asked if the Bliss and Misty had gone to France yet? They are leaving the Farm Monday night and will arrive in Chantilly about Midday Tuesday. Not an over long journey, but we will worry about them. We will try to put travel boots on their leg to protect them, and tail bandages to stop them from rubbing there tails out on the journey. The intention was for us to be in Chantilly for when they arrived, and after meeting the Trainer we were going to spend a couple of nights in Paris. That has now changed. I am going to France on my own, a day or so later, trying to get there and back in one day. It is going to be tight as I wont fly. As I am travelling from Somerset, it is a two and a half hours journey before I get to St.Pancras for the Eurostar. Chantilly is only half an hour by train from Paris. There has been a few rail strikes in France, so that may cause me a problem. If I need to stay over for one night it wont be a disaster. The Trainer has offered to take me to a good restaurant and I do like France. Normally the French trains are never late. UK railways could learn a lot from them, for keeping to timetables, cleanliness and their very low cost fares. We will shortly be able to upload photos on one of the website pages, so as well as other subject I hope to be able to show you how Bliss and Misty are doing. When I am in France I will also see if there is a Television Channel in France for Horse Racing that I can pay to get here. What ever I will let you know how they are getting on.
As last Sunday we will be showing Bliss and Misty working for the last time in the sand school before they go to France.