THIS SATURDAY MAJOR WORK IS BEING CARRIED OUT ON THE SERVERS THAT BROADCAST THE WEB CAMS ON THE WHOLE SITE. FOR SOME HOURS, POSSIABLY GOING INTO SUNDAY YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO ACCESS THE WEB CAMS. WE DO APOLOGISE FOR ANY DISSAPOINTMENT THAT IT MAY CAUSE YOU.
Looking by what looks like egg shells in front of the Swallows nest, I should think that the eggs have hatched. Unfortunately as the Swallows nest has been built close up to the roof of the barn, I an unable to get the camera looking any more into the nest. It only needed to be a little lower and it would have been a much better view. The chicks should be showing their faces for food in a day or so.
I think that we have found who killed the Goslings. When the hedges of our drive were cut back some weeks back, the tractor driver reversed into a wall of a bridge, under which a culvert runs under the drive. Part of drive was also knocked away. It needed a major repair. Today after returning from a shopping trip, we stopped to speak to the workman who was doing the repairs. Our driveway runs along the side of the lake and the bridge is very close to where the Geese with their Goslings would lay when not in the lake, the same place they use every year. Whilst talking to the workman a rat ran from the lake across the drive in front of us. I commented about the rat to the workman, unconcerned he told me that they ran back and forward all day long. Water and rats go together, but I never thought that we had a problem in that area. We will start putting down poison in that area tomorrow. I think that I will have to bait around the Bird feeders, or we shall have a major problem there.
When I went to feed the Badgers tonight the Badger Cub was at the entrance of the sett, when it saw me it scampered down the entrance of the sett, then popping its head around corner to look at me. Although I was not long there it managed to repeat the same procedure a few times, before starting to walk towards the food as I was leaving. I don’t know how far it got out, as it was not out when I returned to the farm house, and looked at the monitor. It seems that there is only one cub this year, such a shame as when the youngsters play together they seem to have so much fun. It is possible that other cubs have not come out yet. But I wont be holding my breath.
Being such a warn and sunny evening we went to Minehead for a fish and chips supper on the beach. I don’t know where every one was, as there was no one about. Even the treasure hunters with their metal detectors looking for peoples lost pounds and jewelery on the beach, were absent.
We where asked a while back if we had heard the Cuckoos this year. Since then I have been listening out for them, but I have not heard any this year. I know that it is not to early now, normally every year we hear them.