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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one. I am sure that there must be some good photographers who have not yet sent any photographs in for the Photo page.

Dave has bought a new telephoto lens for his fancy camera here is one of the first results !!
Lynne.

Another mishap and they were as surprised as you when Thornton was born. Elsie.

This thrush came to visit me yesterday, he is eating cooked pastry. PM.

Goats? on the North Cornwall coast path near Crackington Haven. CH.

A red squirrel at Formby point seen at easter Angela (Merseyside)

Emmi has not returned home as she has not come into season yet. Mares normally cycle 21 days after their foaling heat. Some Mare may go longer. If she is not ready to go to the Stallion in another day or so she will be given an injection to bring her in season. I don’t like the Horses to be away from the Farm any longer than need to be.

Minty gave birth to a Lamb yesterday. We looked all around the barn just in case she had given birth to twins, and that one had gone astray as Thornton.

I have not been able to show the Geese very much for the last few days, as for most of the time other than today they have been out of view on the Island. Other than them flying around the Lake every now and then they have been on the Lake for four or five days. I don’t know why the disappeared this morning. The way they have been acting they should nest on the Island.

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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.

WATER FEATURES OUTSIDE SHEFFIELD RAILWAY STATION. WHEN THEY ARE LIT UP AT NIGHT THE COLOURS KEEP CHANGING. LYNNE.

You may not be interested, but these Collared Doves are getting quite tame. GJ.

Frosty trees at Rufford Country Park. Judy.

A very rough sea At formby ,Robin will know you dont see the sea further along the coast at Southport this was taken Easter this year. Angela.

I will use Peters press release on the return of the Female Osprey to The Lock of the Lowes today for tonight Diary.

PRESS RELEASE

For immediate use: 30 March 2008

First osprey returns to the Lowes

The Scottish Wildlife Trust [SWT] is delighted to announce that today (30 March 2008) the original female osprey has returned to her summer home at Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve near Dunkeld. Once the first egg is laid, staff and nearly 70 volunteers will take it in turns to man the round-the-clock watch to safeguard these magnificent creatures.

The female osprey arrived at 2pm this afternoon and has already been joined by, and mated with, a male osprey with a yellow ring. The resident male has not yet been seen but can arrive some time after his partner, when he will attempt to chase any interloper away and take over the breeding process.

Once a common species in Britain by 1916 ospreys were all but extinct. Thanks to tremendous conservation efforts ospreys are once again an established part of Scotland

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

This thrush came to visit me yesterday, he is eating cooked pastry. PM.

These mallards were snapped in Monmouth. GJ.

A duck with one of her babies taken at Leeds castle. Bec.

Another view from around Port Isacc Cornwall (aka Port Wenn from the Doc Martin tv programme) Elaine.

The blackbird was supposed to be a thrush but as I got the camera sorted it had flown away and I ended up with this. Sue.

Elsie sent this artical to me that was in todays Northern Echo. I will use it for tonight Diary. Send me the link to any good wildlife stories from your local papers.

Badger baiter jailed after dogs badly hurt
By Graeme Hetherington

A MAN has been looked up for six months after being found guilty of taking part in the “barbaric sport” of badger baiting. John William Lee was arrested as he walked through a busy town centre while blood dripped from the face of one of his dogs. The 40-year-old was also carrying a rucksack on his back with a garden spade sticking out of the top. When his bag was searched, an eight-inch machete was found.

At his trial at Teesside Magistrates’ Court yesterday, Lee, of Farndale Avenue, Middlesbrough, denied one charge of wilfully attempting to take a badger and two charges of causing unnecessary suffering to his two dogs. But the court was told that one of his dogs was in such a terrible condition that a member of the public flagged down a police officer. Lee was arrested in the middle of the afternoon on January 26 last year as he made his way through Yarm town centre.

Matthew Brash, television vet and badger expert, told the court the wounds on the Plummer terrier were the type associated with badger bites. But Lee’s solicitor Nic Woodhouse said: “There was no evidence that any badger had been injured by his dogs and there was no evidence that any badger had been found dead. “My client suffers from mental health issues and anger management problems. When he has these problems he takes himself away into the country for a couple of weeks until he calms down.”

Magistrates found Lee guilty and sentenced him to six months for wilfully attempting to take a badger. He was also sentenced to two months concurrent for causing unnecessary suffering to his dogs and for allowing them to come in contact with wild animals. The court heard the cost of bringing the case and kennel fees was in excess of

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

Dave has bought a new telephoto lens for his fancy camera these are the first results !!
Ps The robin is a really tame one that has started to take mealworms out of my hand. Lynne.

View from around Port Isacc Cornwall (aka Port Wenn from the Doc Martin tv programme)Elaine.

Ducks from Bec.

This photo shows a plane tree which has forgotten to take down its Christmas baubles. GJ.

Here’s the latest new butterfly that just emerged on Thursday. It’s called a Buckeye. Karen, Florida (USA)

Looking from the Farm House kitchen we are able to see part of the Horse field. If I hadn’t of put a hedge behind the pond that is in the Farm Yard, we would be able to see a lot more of the field. The hedge is also overgrown and instead of a hedge there are trees. But it did not stop me from seeing five or six Red Stags from our window this afternoon. They were not there for very long but I put them on all three webcams. Going by the Forum none of you saw them.

The Stags were frightened by tree felling in the woods on the right hand side of the valley and unfortunately were panicking. The woods did until a year ago belong to the County Council, but they sold them with some Farm land on the other side of the wood. I really should have tried a little harder to have purchased them, but I thought that the price that they made at Auction was too high. Twenty more acres of the wood are to be sold in June with a Farm. The woods will be in separate lots and I may consider bidding. The wood behind the trees in the middle of the valley will be part of the sale. We own all of the wood on the left hand side of the valley.

The new owner of the wood obtained permission to fell forty seven trees in the 10 acres that he owns. Most are Oak. The wood does need thinning and I would have thinned it myself, but it is a shame to see Oak trees felled, and off course it does frighten wildlife with the noise the felling makes.

The Stags would never have been in the Horse field if it were not for the felling of the trees. They must have run through the wood until there only way was to come out near the Farm House, then they ran into the wood near the Tree House, coming out immediately into the corner of the valley field, crossing from right to left in front of the trees in the middle of the valley and into our wood on the left hand side. I should think that they are lying low in our wood. It happened so fast that I only recorded in panic, the cameras were going every where so until I check the recording I wont know what I saw, but I am sure there where a couple of Royal Stags amongst the five or six. They may well graze in the valley tonight if they are in the wood, so I will leave the valley webcam on for most of the night.

Thornton went home with one of my Lads last night. He is still alive and doing well, but kept the house up through the night with his bleating.

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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.

Thornton first day out.

Thornton feed time.

First pair born.

A Yellowhammer that has started visiting my garden. Have never seen one in the garden before so very happy. Liz.

A GREAT TIT AT A BIRD FEEDING AREA AT BOLTON ABBEY. LYNNE.

The first two photographs are of Thornton our pet Lamb. One of my Lads is taking him home to look after. He will be coming back to the Farm when he is weaned from the bottle. The other photograph is of the twin Lambs that were born to Dolly. When we went to give the Ewes their hay, the twins were missing. We hunted every where for them. After half an hour of looking for them and not hearing them calling we were about to give up looking when we noticed Dolly looking into the black rubber bowl that one of the Lambs are standing in. When we looked into the bowl there they were snuggled up together in the bowl. I ran in to the Farm House to get the camera as it would have been a good photograph. By the time I got back they were just getting out.

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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.

Thornton first day out.

Thornton feed time.

First pair born.

A Yellowhammer that has started visiting my garden. Have never seen one in the garden before so very happy. Liz.

A GREAT TIT AT A BIRD FEEDING AREA AT BOLTON ABBEY. LYNNE.

The first two photographs are of Thornton. One of my Lads is taking him home to look after. He will be coming back to the Farm when he is weaned from the bottle. The other photograph is of the twin Lambs that were born to Dolly. When we went to give the Ewes their hay, the twins were missing. We hunted every where for them. After half an hour of looking for them and not hearing them calling we were about to give up looking when we noticed Dolly looking into the black rubber bowl that one of the Lambs are standing in. When we looked into the bowl there they were snuggled up together in the bowl. I ran in to the Farm House to get the camera as it would have been a good photograph. By the time I got back they were just getting out,

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number six. I am sure that there must be some good photographers who have not yet sent any photographs in for the Photo page.

Birds taken in my garden last spring. PM. taken by my granddaughter .

This was made up of old lawn-mower parts, at Trerice a NT property in North Cornwall, sadly it has now been removed. CH.

Cygnets in Stratford. FF.

Picture of the John O’Groats to Orkney ferry in John O’Groats harbour. Vicky, Derby.

Where is it Bec?

Emmi and Sox went off to the Stud today for Emmi to be covered by a Stallion. It is 21days after she gave birth to Sox and she is due to come in to season tomorrow to be mated. She is only going to a Stud about an hour away from the Farm. As soon has she has been to the Stallion she will be returning, hopefully by the end of the week. We have put Lady in Emmi’s stable until she returns, so that we can let you see her for a change. I must look it up when she is due to Foal, going by memory I should think it is a bit over a month.

Thornton our pet Lamb is doing well. He is always hungry and call endlessly for a bottle. He follows everyone around hoping that they have a feed for him. Tass and Kye are not to pleased with the arrangement, and we wouldn’t trust them, not to get him off of their patch. For sure Ramsdem is not his Father or of the Lambs that have been born. It could only have been one of the cross Ram Lambs that we put in the pen last year when we managed to catch two that had been running free.

You will be pleased to know that the webcam in Delaware USA is now working and it is sending excellent pictures that we are able to see on out system. We can not put it on the website yet, as we need to make sure there is nothing in the location that might offend. As you may remember the location of the webcam is in an location where private houses can also be seen. The camera also needs to be move slightly to show a better view. I am trying to sort out a moving camera to send to Peter so that we can view other wildlife that is on Peters door step. When I as speaking to him the other evening he had a couple of Otters playing just in front of his house.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one. I am sure that there must be some good photographers who have not yet sent any photographs in for the Photo page.

The Cuilin Mountains on the Isle of Skye. Lindsay.

This goose seemed to think he was a mallard, followed them everywhere. FF.

Sea birds nesting in every nook and cranny on these rocks at Stack rocks near Castlemartin in Wales. Marie.

The blackbird was supposed to be a thrush but as I got the camera sorted it had flown away and I ended up with this. Sue.

White Peacock. Bec.

I did not approve a couple of entries on the Forum yesterday as both had links to other sites.

I must be off of my head, for some how we now have a pet Ram Lamb. The Ewe was not letting the Lamb that I wrote about last night feed from her she was knocking it out of the way with it head every time he tried. We had bottle fed the Lamb all day. When we went to feed it last night at about 9.pm, it was out of the Sheep pen, laying out on its own and bleating. When we picked it up to give him his bottle feed he felt cold. That was it, into the Farm House he came. We partitioned off a small area in the wash room, gave him a feed, and did he drink a lot, a hot water bottle under a towel and off to sleep he went, the first time i should think since he was born. We don’t know if he is going to survive, we really don’t know if he got any colostrum from his Mother. We did manage to get him to get a little feed from the Ewe. That meant tying her up and putting the Lamb on to the Ewes teat, but we are unsure if she had any colostrum left. We have named him Thornton. Appropriate I reckon for this time of year.. He seems really well, but we will have to see how it goes.

We may just have a pair of Geese going to nest on the Lake. I must admit I don’t know if I am pleased or not after in previous years the Goslings not surviving. I don’t think that the pair that are on the Lake have been here before. I am sure that I would have remembered, the size difference is to noticeable not for me to have remembered. I am taking it that the larger Bird is the Gander, The Goose is also feeding a lot from the bottom of the Lake, that other Geese have rarely done here. The pair are also grazing and laying on the sides of the Lake in different places. As we couldn’t see the Geese on the Lake this afternoon we thought that they must have flown off, so this afternoon I started to wire up the new camera that will over look the island. Whilst on the ladder I was able to see that both the Goose and the Gander were on the island, they didn’t seem bothered about us being there at all. I have never seen a pair of Geese on the island before, only the Goose when she has been laying an egg of incubating the Eggs. When I had not seen the Geese on the Lake and had thought that they had flown off, they were more than likely on the island.

I am not going to try the remote Duck for a day or two, just in case it frightens the geese away. The new camera and the remote Duck should help to find out what it is that is a danger to the Gosling.

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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.

A single ray of sunshine on the beach at Amroth Wales. Marie.

This lovely fellow was so intersted in us, I thought he might cross the stream. FF.

Marsh Orchid. Judy.

Photo is of the sign at John O’Groats taken last year. Vicky, Derby.

This is what we woke up to this morning and yet on Easter Saturday 1987 Harold and I were married and it was a glorious day. Elsie.

When we went to feed the animals this morning another of the Ewes had Lambed. At first we thought that she had had a single Lamb. With a Lamb bleating out non stop we realised that she had given birth to twins. Unfortunately it seems that whilst having the second of the twins, the first had lost its Mother. When we put the Lamb back with the Ewe she rejected it. If I had been able to find the after birth there would have been a reasonable chance that the Ewe would have accepted the Lamb if I had wiped it over the Lamb. I could not find it. There was a little chance that if the Lamb had suckled the Ewe she may have let it feed from her. For most of the day I have been holding the Ewe and letting the lamb feed. Over the day the Ewe has kept pushing the Lamb away. I have bottle fed the Lamb and will carry on doing so, but I don’t know if it has had a colostrum from the Ewe. If the Lamb hasn’t, I don’t rate its chances of surviving very high. I don’t want to take the Lamb completely away from the other Sheep or we will finish up with a pet Sheep, and we don’t want that. The twins were a Ram Lamb and a Ewe Lamb. It is the Ram Lamb that has been rejected.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number six. I am sure that there must be some good photographers who have not yet sent any photographs in for the Photo page.

Loch Linnhe,near Fort William. Lindsay.

Mallard in a carpark in Norfolk. FF.

Taken by my granddaughter last year on holiday in Devon and Cornwall. PM.

Plodda falls, photo was taken about half way down, looking back up at the top of the falls. The falls are over 100 feet high, and one of the highest in Scotland, they are near Tomich, in Glen Affric. Jan.

A working quarry on the Quantock hills Marie