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

statue is at the visitor centre,Grizedale Forest, Cumbria. Carol.

I am not a gardener so dont know what this is called there was lots of the trees at formby Angela.

These mallards were snapped in Monmouth today. G.J.

Needs no introduction, Fluffed up Robin waiting for food. Judy.

A TREE WITH VERY WET ROOTS !!! LYNNE.

I thought that you may like to see a couple of emails from Simon in Anderlucia, who is installing the camera for the Griffon Vulture webcam.

Hi, I climbed today with matt but we could not get the camera in the spot we wanted, simple reason, it was the last 6ft that we could not get across, the limestone is all fractured and loose and all 3 of the safety anchors we put in would fail under any pressure from a fall, we could not go any further. We decided to move away from the nest across the face and slightly above which is where we put the bracket I made for the camera, it is the only option. We fixed safety lines for me as I have to return tomorrow and place the camera to the bracket, and drop the power and signal cable down the face to the panel and battery which I also have to carry up tomorrow. I shall get Nyhal the computer man up there the day after to sit in Gerrys house and check the focus while I am at the camera. There may be a small and I stress SMALL chance I can work my way a few metres closer to the nest once it is up and running but we shall think about that later there is plenty of time, the chick is stuck there for months, I shall obviously set the focus to be as sharp as possible but for now the distance to the nest is what it is, so we shall see the result very soon. I have had a heavy cold for 5 days I have no voice and a blocked nose and today was dangerous hard work, ontop of that I am sunburnt and scratched to xxxx from thorns and stinging nettles so , I am out of contact and in bed until sunrise tomorow. I will e,mail you tomorrow night and confirm all the wires have been connected to the to the panel and battery etc etc. Nyhal will then help as I said before and then it will be up and running.
Cheers. Simon.

Hi. I hauled up the battery and panel yesterday and connected the wires. My computer guy is coming with me tomorrow to sit at the computeer while I climb up and set the focus. I will email you from Gerrys house when it is done. We could not pre set the focus because we had no idea where the camera was going to be and yesterday the computer guy was not available so tomorrow it is. Just so as you know Matt and I spent 7 hours climbing 5 of those hanging on ropes from a vertical face, and yesterday was 4 hours alone on the face, over 80 degrees farenheit, with no shade, threading the cable to the panel and battery.The face is full of thorns and vegetation so you cant throw the cable or it would be snagged in a hundred places. Cheers Simon.

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