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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven.

Aren’t these lovely. They flower right from late spring until the frosts. Elsie.

This was made out of slate and all sorts of other bits. It stands in the grounds of the Eden Project,Cornwall.Lindsay

Ponies taken last August. GJ

MORE PICS OF WSR, TWO ENGINES ABOUT TO LEAVE THE STATION. FROM MARIE AND JOHN.

Dolphin photos taken in scotland on the Murray Firth last year. Vicky, Derby.

Emmi is due to Foal on the 1st of March. I should think that would have been taken on a 365 day year, not a leap year, so her due day to Foal is today. Watching the monitor in or bedroom before I went to sleep, Emmi was turning her head toward her rear end, a sign that she may have been going to give birth. We put the alarm clock on for every three quarters of an hour just in case. It does tire us out waking so often through the night, but at least with a monitor I don’t have to go to the stables to check on her as we did before we used cameras. Imagine what it would have been like last year with Lady being a month overdue, if I had gone out to the stables every hour or so. I have done that a few years back. Angela some Horses do occasionally give birth in the day, but I haven’t been that lucky. It all goes back to when Horses were wild. It was safer to give birth in the early hours, after predators had finished hunting. Its a shame someone hadn’t told them that there was no such risk in a stable. I suppose if I was so inclined, I could tell you what sex Emmi’s foal is. Your unlucky I am not inclined to.

I am starting to wonder if my Sheep are in lamb, it could be that the Ram wasn’t fertile. I will need to check them over some time during the weekend. Being that the Ram was running with the Ewes all of the time, I would be surprised if they were barren this year. I could be wrong, but they all look large.

The Snowdrops have gone over and the Wild Primroses have shown themselves for the first time today. With the Trees and Hedging budding we are well on our way to Spring. This Autumn and Winter seems to have gone so fast with us being able to leave the Horses out in the fields until nearly Christmas.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number six.

This pidgeon made us laugh, as was taken at the forum in Rome and he appears to have a roman helmet on. FF (Rose)

My clematis Nellie Moser in its early stages. It just gets higher and higher. Elsie.

This is one of the Eden Project Robins.They have taken up residence in the domes! Lindsay.

Geese taken last August. GJ.

Karen wanted to see this picture of a crab apple leaf in our garden. Most people I’ve shown it to agree that there’s a face in the leaf at the centre/botom of the photo! Regards, Julia.

There is no reason why you should have realised that there is a cost to us when you watch the webcams, I should have mentioned before that each webcam that you put on your computer, doubles or trebles etc the cost of Bandwidth that you use when watching them. Another way of helping to cut our costs would be if you turn the webcams off, when you are not watching them or go away from the computer. It helps our visitor numbers when you log back onto the websites.

We are in the process of revamping the website to allow for us to be able to offer advertising on the site, so that it does not disturb you viewing. The Google adds on the Puppy page make a need to scroll down to see the webcams. Shortly any advert will be on either side of the screens. Only certain sites will be showing adverts. unfortunately we will need to do advertising to pay for the bandwidth that you use. Just one site last summer was using bandwidth to the value in access of

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one.

My dogs, Maggie and Millue waiting for their tea.FF (Rose)

These two beautiful Black Labs – mother and daughter, I think, possibly, kept visiting us at our Campsite in Cornwall last year. They looked to be quite comfortable posing by our Landy!!
Julia.

My sisters Springer Sam from Cornwall I don’t know if men are welcome on this site as we don’t get the time to natter like the Ladies! I’ve spent many hours since June last year watching your site and love it. CH Oxford

Hope you can get this have called it evening chat. Cant remember when I took it. Elaine.
Sunrise over St Ives Bay Cornwall.Lindsay.

Sunrise over St Ives Bay Cornwall.Lindsay.

For the past two night I have shown the lower Badger Sett entrance feeding site. When it is zoomed in at the back you are able to see on the right hand side, one of the sett entrance and exit holes. You may have seen the black and white photograph of a Badger coming out of the hole that I put on the Photo page a little while back. This place was the first that I had ever put a camera up to try to see the Badgers. We didn’t see many Badgers, as at the time. The Sett only had three Badger living in it. The other reason was that it was not the main entrance and exit hole, that at the time was well hidden. I only found it by chance, when I thought that I had broken my leg after as it disappeared down a hole very close the main entrance, that I first visit when I feed. The little field that it is in, would now be too dangerous to put the Horses into, as there are to many Badger excavations, that their legs could go down into. last year when I was putting in a wire for the camera that faces the main Sett entrance, there were so many holes that it has made it quite dangerous for me to walk about. Ever few steps that I made by the hedge, one of my legs would find a hole. We leave the field un-grazed or cut to encourage the Voles, in the hope that a Barn Owl will start feeding and eventually find one of our nest boxes.

Our Mare in Ireland, that went to the Stud to be covered by the Stallion, did not get in Foal. It was probably a good thing, for she could well have had the Foal in December, making it a yearling, only a few days later. She was put to the Stallion again If that covering puts her in Foal, the foal would be due on the 24th of January next year. There will then be a very little chance of a December Foal. The covering of our Mare was the first that the Stallion had for this year and it would not be unusual for the covering to be unsuccessful. I would be disappointed if this covering does not take. We will know on the 10th of March one way or the other. I purchased the Mare without seeing her or knowing very little about her, other than she is a very dark bay, and that she had won one race, so when I spoke to the Stud today I asked them for an opinion on her. It seems that my purchase was very good. She was described to me as being a very good type, getting on for 16hh. and If we are successful in her getting her in Foal to the Stallion, it should produce an excellent Foal. The Stallion had its first runners last year. 48% of those that run won their races. This is an excellent strike rate. Even better, one of the winners won a Group 3 Race, the Dam of the winner being by a Stallion called Royal Academy. the same Sire as our Mare. So as you can imagine I am hoping.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven.

These pinks fill my garden every summer with perfume. They really do have the most beautiful smell. Elsie.

This is one of the Eden Project Robins. They have taken up residence in the domes!Lindsay.

Screen shots of Hazel and Valentine. FF (Rose)

Swans they were taken last August. GJ.

This is a photo of Cowm Reservoir Whitworth Lancashire Angela (Kent)

I always check the Mares last thing of a night when they are close to Foaling. If the Foaling looks imminent I will let you know.

As much as I dislike felling trees, today we had to take down a Willow by the side of the Farm House. It just appeared about seven years ago in a flowerbed, and it has grown to well over twenty foot in that time. When I say it was by the side of the Farm House, it was within a couple of feet and was stopping light from getting into our kitchen and stopping most of the light to the flowerbed. The worse part about it was that every year it produced fluffy flowers that turn in to seed. When they drop they fly everywhere, making a mess all around the Farm Yard. If we leave the Farm House door open the kitchen finishes up full of the things.

Being so close to the Farm house we needed to be very careful in felling the tree. The main trunk of the tree had managed to separate into three, all very large and spreading out into different directions. One was leaning into mains electric overhead wires that feed one of our barns, another the largest was leaning towards the Farm House.

The easiest way to have felled the tree would have been to have cut it down as it stood, cutting it up in to pieces on the ground. that wasn’t possible being that the trunks leaned into different directions. We worked from a scaffold tower, cutting off the branches with handsaws so that we didn’t bring the mains electric cable down. We cut off a good forty large branches that would have been the size of ten to fifteen foot young trees. We were unable to get to the branches of the trunk that was leaning towards the Farm House with out damaging the Farm House roof, that we would leave until last.

After cutting away the branches off of two of the trunks, we tied a rope around the trucks and with wedges cut out, we pulled the trunks with the Quad Bike, into the direction that we wanted, so to avoid hitting the mains overhead wires. It was time to cut away the trunk leaning towards the Farm House. Again we tied a rope around the truck as high as we could so that we could pull it right away from the Farm House. We cut into the truck and started pulling it into the opposite direction of the Farm House. It was then that the tree decided to get its own back for us cutting it down. Instead of falling away from the House it twisted and fell to the side, landing precariously perched on the Farm House roof and a twelve foot chimney, the cut end was on the stump of the tree by a whisker. This was a bit of a problem. One wrong move could well have caused a bad accident or could have caused major damage to the Farm House roof and chimney.

We needed to wedge the trunk so that it would not fall any further. We managed after a lot of head scratching and two props to make it secure and safe. One of my Lads had to climb onto the Farm House roof and cut away the branches that we were unable to remove earlier. With other parts of the trunk removed to lighten it, we were able with four men to lift the trunk, to get it off of the roof and chimney. Fortunately the roof only suffered minor damage, just a couple of slates damaged. It could have been a lot worse.

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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 six. Lots been sent in. They will all be put on. Sometime the photographs are to dark or the subject to small. I always try to make them OK but sometimes it is impossible.

Another photograph of Casares taken by Simon.

You may like these 2, they are of my sisters Springer Sam from Cornwall I don’t know if men are welcome on this site as we don’t get the time to natter like the Ladies! I’ve spent many hours since June last year watching your site and love it. CH Oxford.

Bluebells at Thorp Perrow Arboretum near Bedale,North Yorkshire.Lindsay.

Shapwick Nature Reserve in the winter sunlight, near Glastonbury Somerset. Lindsay.

Dolphin photos taken in Scotland on the Murray Firth last year. Vicky, Derby.

Lady and Emmi seemed to have hit it off with each other. We can now let them out in the area next to the field, that is next to the Sheep that belong to our neighbour. They seem inseparable at the moment, and we haven’t seen them having a cross moment with each other. Every now an then Lady will have a go a Emmi over the stable wall, but outside they seem to be the best of friends. Emmi is definitely not as unhappy as she was, and Lady has a new friend after loosing Woody.

We have always said that it must be hard for any animal to be taken away from a flock, herd or any environment that they know, but more so for Horses as they do mostly have one to one contact with their owners. Be it because they are family riding Horses, in fact any situation. We knew nothing about Emmi or Gypsy when they arrived here. It wasn’t until I received their passports did I know where they came from. Before I knew anything about Emmi, by coincidence I had booked a Stallion from the Stud that she came from. Even with Gypsy’s passport, I still no nothing about her.

I am sure that the Cock Pheasants are just born to die with sticky endings or they are on a death wish. This time of year is nearly the Pheasant mating time. Every where that we go around the Farm or along the lanes we come across them fighting. Driving back from the Village yesterday I came across two in the middle of the road, they were having right old row. I couldn’t get past them so I kept hooting my car horn at them to try to get them to move on. These pair must have been mutton. I drove so close to them hooting, that I could not see them over the cars bonnet. Still they were at it. In the end I had to get out of the car a shoo them away. That didn’t work exactly how I had planned it. One ran and the other flew up in the air, its wing catching me on the side of my head. Stupid is not the word, maybe I should have run them over. Maybe not.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one. Thank you for the Photograph you sent today.

This was the Skimmia Shrub this morning covered in frost. Patterns on the greenhouse, shows how cold it has been last night Tuesday. Elsie.

The Old Neptune pub in Whitstable. Fantastic place well worth a visit. A young seal from when we were in Dingle. FF (Rose)

UNDER THE BRIDGE!!! AT BISHOPS LYDEARD, JUST UP THE ROAD FROM DENBURY FARM. Marie & John.

I need to catch up with some paperwork, so no Diary tonight. Elaine sent in the following information that she believes that you should all be aware of. Copy and Paste the link at the bottom of the page.> Did you know that this was happening?

Drivers License And Privacy Act – Check your driver’s license information on-line.

Now you can see anyones driver’s license on the Internet, including your own!

It asks for U.S. Info, but unfortunately it works for Canadian, English, Australian and New Zealand licenses as well.

I just searched for mine….putting in England as the city and there it was, picture and all.

This is really scary. I removed mine. I suggest you all do the same.

Go to the website and check it out. Just enter your name and city (in city put England ), leave ‘Select a State’ and see if yours is on file.

After your license comes on the screen, click the box marked ‘Please Remove’.

www.license.shorturl.com

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven. We have some photographs left, but mainly from FF and Elsie. As good as they are they wont last long if we have a one or two Ladies show.

The last of the Panda. Elsie.

The dingle robin. The swallow taken at minsmere sat on the signpost for ages we thought it must be lost. FF (Rose)

This capture shot was taken on the 16th September . I think there were 13 feeding. Elaine.

Casares by Moonlight, Photograph taken by Simon. The two photographs at the top of the Photo page and this one are the area written about in tonight Diary.

The Wireless link for the Griffon Vulture is being sponsored by a Wireless Radio Manufacturer who will be putting page on his website with photographs and text about the Village of Casares and the Griffon Vulture. Using snippet from the web and information from Simon in Spain I put together some text for the website. I will use it for tonight Diary and hope that you find it interesting.

The Historical Village Casares is the closest Village to the Sierra Crestalina, the Mountain range that the Broadcasting of the Griffon Vulture Nest Site Colony is coming from.

The history of Casares is wide ranging from Prehistoric, Roman and Arabic. Prehistoric remains can be found at different places all around Casares, such as the caves and shelters of Ferrete, Crestellina, Pelliscoso, the La Novia hill, Utrera and the farmstead of Alechipe (or perhaps Alepiche).

The farmstead of Alechipe is a very important archeological site where many remains have been found that may have been part of the Roman city of Lacipo, which seems to have been built over an Iberian-Phoenician town.

The Roman Empire left its footprint in Casares. Many rests of Roman roads can be found in its vicinity. Casares, together with Gauc

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number six.

Another Humming Bird photograph. Alex.

Another Panda photograph. Elsie.

Strange cloud – “rubbing out the sun” Julia.

Swans at Martin Mere. Goldfinch at Minsmere FF (Rose)

The camera and equipment that was needed to set up the broadcasting in Delaware, USA, is installed and we are getting images of the location through our private viewing. At the moment the picture is not as good as it should be. We can see the area but the picture is rolling. I spoke to Peter this evening, he is working on the problem and it will be rectified very shortly. Unfortunately it is snowing where he is. To get to the camera he needs to use a rowing boat. I know that is not a very nice experience in the snow. We will have to monitor what is being broadcast privately for a month, as the location is in a built up area and we do not want to intrude on peoples privacy. We also need to make sure that we are not broadcasting any thing that will offend our viewers. The water area where the camera is located is called Indian River Bay. It sounds an exciting wildlife area.

Now that you have seen how many Sheep and Lambs there are in the field next to ours, you will know for sure that they are our neighbour’s and not mine. The thought of having that amount frightens me to death. I remember when I had a hundred of them. The trouble with Sheep is that you can get a lot of problems with their feet. Foot rot is not uncommon. You need to regularly trim there feet, trouble is Sheep have four feet, multiply that by a hundred and you have got a very aching back. Especially when you are new at trying to be a Shepperd. With me it was trying. Try catching Sheep when you are new at it. It starts off being a bit of a laugh until you are sweating buckets on a hot summers day, and you have still only managed to catch one. To trim their feet you need to have their backs leaning into you legs, with the Sheep backside on the ground. Try getting them in that position so that you are able to trim their feet without them being able to move, when you are new at keeping Sheep. You would be very fortunate if you managed to get one of their feet trimmed before they had managed to wriggle into a position, that made it impossible for you to keep them where you wanted them, and it is not easy to get them into that position in the first place, there is a knack to it. Until you get the knack it is hard work. The few we have, are a few to many but we will keep them. Mind you I do like to hear the Lambs bleating and calling out from the field next door.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one.

The Mountains of the Griffon Vulture Colony Nest Site and Casares.

The Panda Cub. Elsie.

Friendly Geese at Backwell Lake. Julia.

A goose watching the barges go by in Stratford upon Avon. Rose (ff)

I would have thought that you may have realized that the sheep with Lambs that have been on are not mine. I have a job looking after the few that I own, let alone that lot. They belong to our neigbour, and are in one his field that is adjacent to Denbury. He kindly gave us his permission for us to show them on our webcams. None of our Sheep are showing any sign of Lambing.

Simon the Photographer who invited us to do the Griffom Vulture Colony Nest Site sent the Photographs of the Sierra Crestalina and the White Village of Casares. Simon lives very close to both. Being a wildlife enthusiast he regularly visits the Mountains to climb to find the nests. As you are looking at the Mountains from the photograph it was taken from Casares, the distance that you can see is about 3 kilometers, that being the distance of the Wireless Radio Connection will be the the broadband connection in Casares.. All the equipment is being powered by Solar Energy.

I have shown you two photographs of Geese on the Photo page, for it could well be that these will be the only Geese that you see at Denbury. For since we put the ramp on the island the Geese that we thought may nest have not returned. We may well have frightened them off when we rowed out in the boat to put the ramp in place.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven.

More of the Panda from Elsie.

Here are some photos of the Black Swans at Dawlish yesterday evening. Julia.

This Seal photo was taken at Weymouth Sea Life Center. Rose W’canton.

This is flatform mill I think, (sure the forum ladies will correct me if I am wrong) from the haywain. FF (Rose)

We finally put Willow and Gypsy in the area that we made for them next to the Sheep. As of yet we have had no problems or calling out by either Willow or Lady. Touch wood we may be lucky. It was very easy to get them in to the area, they followed their feed bowls. I thought that we may have had a little bit of a problem as not many animals like to go into a dark area, and we had to take them through our main barn that when you first enter is quite dark. The food in front of them was the enticement. Once they had gone a little way into the barn it lightens up with the large doorways. The area is very large for two Fillies, big enough to have a kick and a buck. We will let them out into a larger area for a few hours every other day or so, but not until we are sure that they have settled in their new surroundings.

We were going to try to leave the Fillies in the large stable that we made for the Mares, once that they had Foaled, but on second thoughts if we had needed the new stable and the Fillies had not wanted to go in to the area we had made for them, it would have meant more work. We weren’t to know that it was going to be as easy as it was. At least now as soon as Emmi has Foaled she will have a lot more room if she need to stay stabled because of bad weather.

Our Mare in Ireland was covered by the Stallion today. A nice early covering, that if the mating was successful will produce a Foal in the first couple of week of 2009. We will need to wait a few week for the Mare to be scanned to see if the mating was successful. We are crossing our fingers. Being one the first few matings that the Stallion has done this year, he will be very high in his fertility, so we are hopeful. There are two downsides of early season matings, one is the Foal is born and will have the first three months or a little more of cold weather. The other is that the Mare would not be able to get the Spring grass. Both are not disasters. Once the Foal is on its feet we can put a rug on it. The goodness that the are will get out of the Spring grass we can make up with extra feed.

I have just looked outside to see what chance we have of Broadcasting the Moon Eclipse tonight. At the Moment the Sky is very clear. If it stayed like it is I would get up to show it and record it. But the forecast is not very good. I spoke to Aurthur the Amateur Astronomer that I know and he gave me the precise times, some how I have mislaid them. The beginning of the Eclipse starts at about 12.30am but you wont see a lot until about 2.45am until 3.30am

The Three Little Pigs sent in by Elsie
Three Little Pigs went out to dinner one night. The waiter came and took their drink order.

“I would like a Sprite,” said the first little piggy.

“I would like a Coke,” said the second little piggy.

“I want beer, lots and lots of beer,” said the third little piggy.

The drinks were brought out and the waiter took their orders for dinner.

“I want a nice big steak,” said the first piggy.

“I would like the salad plate,” said the second piggy.

“I want beer, lots and lots of beer,” said the third little piggy.

The meals were brought out and a while later the waiter approached the table and asked if the piggies would like any dessert.

“I want a banana split,” said the first piggy.

“I want a root beer float,” said the second piggy.
“I want beer, lots and lots of beer,” exclaimed the third little piggy.

“Pardon me for asking,” said the waiter to the third little piggy, but why have you only ordered beer all evening?”

You’re gonna LOVE this….

The third piggy says –
“Well, somebody has to go ‘Wee, wee, wee, all the way home!