There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven.
Dragonfly on the pond.Perhaps somebody can identify it properly!Lindsay.
This is pyscho-pathic Chester. Loves nothing more than to run me. He is pure evil, he does not like me. Karen, Stoke.
Swans on the lake and nest in the snow this weekend (there are 2 eggs in the nest) Bec.
SNOW CAN JUST BE SEEN ON THE EXMOOR HILLS TAKEN FROM NORTH HILL IN MINEHEAD. MARIE.
First Ducklings I have seen this year. There were lots more , but they all swam to Mum and hid. Judy.
We finally got the new Lake camera working today. It has been a nightmare getting it going. We have never had problems like we have had before. What has made it worse is that the telegraph pole we have attached it to is along the Farm driveway. None of us can stand heights so we have had to put a scaffold tower up to put the camera in place. You can guarantee that every time we put the tower up, someone came along the driveway making us have to move it. The Geese where not best pleased with us looking over them. The Gander was swimming up and down in front of us as if to tell us, keep away.
I must admit I am always a little cautious of Geese and Swans. Twice as a Boy I was attacked. Once by a Goose and the other by a Swan. The Swan did give me a good hiding. My School had a large Lake in front of it. Every year the Swans would produce Cygnets and I would sit on the bank watching. On one occasion one of the Swans for no reason flew at me, skimming across the top of the water, so fast that it was on the bank attacking me before I could get fully to my feet. It was stretching itself as high as I was, trying to peck my face and flapping its wing around my thighs and backside. That Swan did hurt me.
I cant remember where it was that the Goose attacked me. I was very young, but I remember that I ran into a pond to get away from it. Not the wisest place to take refuge. Where I lived in London there were a number of premises that had Geese guarding their property. I remember seeing a documentary about a Whisky Distillers in Scotland who also had their premises guarded by Geese.
Whilst we were putting the new camera up we heard a bit of a commotion on the Lake with the Gander flapping its wings and flying back and forth on the Lake, that was when he wasn’t stalking us in front of us working on the new camera, but we didn’t see anything. When we got back to the Farm House I noticed on one of the cameras, two Geese in the Field where we show our neighbours Sheep. They must have landed on the Lake whilst we were working and we hadn’t seen them. They were in the same place as last years Geese would land. If I had seen them earlier I would have put a floating island on the Pond. If they are there tomorrow morning I will. They will need to watch out for the Fox if they stay in the field over night.