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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.

This was taken this morning in the Cairngorm Mountains by my daughter.A bit bleak. Lindsay. North Yorks.

Picture was taken at John O’Groats last year at what they call harbour day, when life boats and air sea rescue from Hoy, Wick and Scrabster do a display.Vicky, Derby

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

Sunflower fell as a seed from the bird feeder onto concrete and somehow managed to sprout to this in the collected dust at the bottom. FF.

Glenfinnan Monument and Loch Shiel. Judy.

I am going to have a couple of days off from doing the Diary. I have a lot of Ministry farm paperwork to do, and also would like to try to get the new Lake camera working.

As long as the Lake is not to choppy tomorrow, I will show you the Duck working. I am not sure that I will have the camera going tomorrow. It does work but I need to fix a bit of wiring to get it working on the webcam.

ALL GOING WELL I WILL PUT THE DUCK ON THE LAKE AT ABOUT 12.AM. I WILL NOT IF THE GEESE RETURN.

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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.

Photo is looking down from the top of Plodda falls. The falls are over 100 feet high, and one of the highest in Scotland, they are near Tomich, in Glen Affric. Jan.

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

The late Freddie & Fiona these were my first two Ferrets. CH.

Three young cygnets taken at the Apex , Burnham on Sea. Marie.

Windmill in Norfolk we stopped at. FF (Rose)

I too was a little surprised on seeing two Lambs this morning when I went into the barn to make up the Horse feeds. I had only checked the Ewes udders a day before. A few of the Ewes were quite large, but two of them have been like that for a few weeks now.

It is Dolly who has Lambed. They are both Ram Lambs, both looking very healthy and strong. What I cant make out is who is the Father. Going by their colour they cant be Ramsdens, his off springs, even as crosses would not have the spots that they have. I have been trying to work it out all day. I cant remember any young Ram Lambs being in with the Ewes, that would have been that mature to have been able to mate with the Ewes and Father the Lambs.

It was a pity that the webcam was not on the Ewes when Dolly Lambed. A week ago when we had a load of bales of straw delivered, the high load hit the cable and broke it. I was so busy last week that did not get the time to repair it. On checking the Ewes again today I reckon that there is at least one of the Ewes that is going to Lamb very soon, and maybe more. I will keep an eye on them and probably put the Ewes on instead of Emmi and Sox after 10.pm. unless any look as if they are going to Lamb. I will also now and then change the webcams over.

The Lock of the Lowe’s new camera is very clear and is located in the Osprey nest. Being a pan, tilt and zoom it promises to be able to get some fabulous nest viewing positions. It should also be able to show the Ospreys leaving and returning to the nest. Peter had hoped to have got the PTZ camera that I supplied fitted in the last couple of days, but it does not look as though he has. A CCTV manufacturer is supplying us with a new camera that we will install down the valley. We were going to change the one that is installed now before the Summer as it is quite difficult to adjust the focus when trying to view close up at the end of the valley, when watching the Deer. The new camera is a posh affair. It has an automatic focus as do most of our other cameras, and we should be able to look high into the sky with the tilt that it has, making it possible to watch the Buzzards soaring. If we are lucky it will also have a 36x zoom, this will when at wide angle give a larger view of the valley. I will have to get a tower to install it on, as the post that the valley camera is now on is a telegraph pole, that has started to lean. We wont be able to fix the IR lamps to the side of the camera as we do now, so it will mean having to install them at different positions and angles around the valley.

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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.

Photo is looking down from the top of Plodda falls. The falls are over 100 feet high, and one of the highest in Scotland, they are near Tomich, in Glen Affric. Jan.

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

The late Freddie & Fiona these were my first two Ferrets. CH.

Three young cygnets taken at the Apex , Burnham on Sea. Marie.

Windmill in Norfolk we stopped at. FF (Rose)

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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.

Duck and Duck again.

This plant was given to me,they are Moth Orchids.Lindsay.

View from Aonoch Mor. Nevis Range. Scotland. from Judy.

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

Pam, an episode with that name, could well have been made in our Village.

I have a lot of paperwork to catch up on tonight, so I will only update you on the remote Duck. It arrived back today. Jack has done an excellent job making it for me. I don’t like to admit it but it was a lot better job than I would have done. On the first photograph you can see the camera in between the Ducks eyes. Underneath at the rear you can see the steering propeller. In the second photograph you can see a little of the workings. Under what you can see is a lot more, including the electric engine, prop-shaft and the steering mechanics. Believe me there is very much more inside the Duck than you can see. Jack had not tried the Duck in water, so I tried it very briefly on the Lake this afternoon. I wasn’t going to let you see the first launch just in case something went wrong. It sat perfectly in the water and the control was faultless. I haven’t tried the camera, but Jack tells me that what he saw was good. I will put it on the water over the weekend and show it on the Lake webcam. I will put the day and time on the Forum in case you want to see it. I am not sure that I will be able to have the camera working, as I was let down the wire for the new Lake camera and did not receive it until late this afternoon. I thought that I should show you a photograph of the Duck just in case it decides to take a dive.

If any of you are considering purchasing a nest box, you wouldn’t go far wrong in looking at the boxes that you can access from the Denbury Farm webcam pages. Clicking on the nest box on the left hand side of the page will direct you the a better description.

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Pam talking to the dead…

Pam talking to the dead

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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.

Ben Nevis,Scotland. Lindsay.

Screen shot of the young Stag that was in the valley with the Royal Stag last week. Sent in by Marie.

Eden Project. Sue.

Wild Orchids, from Judy.

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

Jack has finished making the remote controlled Duck. It will be with me tomorrow. If I can manage to wire up the new Lake camera before Easter I will try it out and put it on the webcam. We were installing the new camera and making the remote Duck to watch the Geese, but unfortunately we have not seen the Geese for a few days. They may well have decided to nest in another place.

I was talking to Peter at the Lock of the Lowe’s when he panned the camera around, he was showing me the how the new nest camera works. Hopefully this will be the camera that will be used for the webcam. It is possible that the PTZ camera that we supplied will be fitted tomorrow, so that it can be used for different views at the Lock.

Julia, Arthur.C.Clarkes brother still lives in our village. Ash Priors is a small village. As small as it is I have only ever spoken to six people in the fifteen years that I have lived here. That would only be because of necessity not by choice. I would not know what his brother looked like. Like a lot of small country villages, they have their Women’s Institutes and meetings in the Village Hall. The sort of village you see in the television programme Midsomer Murders.

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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.

Ben Nevis,Scotland. Lindsay.

Screen shot of the young Stag that was in the valley with the Royal Stag last week. Sent in by Marie.

Eden Project. Sue.

Wild Orchids, from Judy.

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

Jack has finished making the remote controlled Duck. It will be with me tomorrow. If I can manage to wire up the new Lake camera before Easter I will try it out and put it on the webcam. We were installing the new camera and making the remote Duck to watch the Geese, but unfortunately we have not seen the Geese for a few days. They may well have decided to nest in another place.

I was talking to Peter at the Lock of the Lowe’s when he panned the camera around, he was showing me the how the new nest camera works. Hopefully this will be the camera that will be used for the webcam. It is possible that the PTZ camera that we supplied will be fitted tomorrow, so that it can be used for different views at the Lock.

Julia, Arthur.C.Clarkes brother still lives in our village. Ash Priors is a small village. As small as it is I have only ever spoken to six people in the fifteen years that I have lived here. That would only be because of necessity not by choice. I would not know what his brother looked like. Like a lot of small country villages, they have their Women’s Institutes and meetings in the Village Hall. The sort of village you see in the television programme Midsummer Murders.

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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. Getting short of photographs again.

Sox.

Cockatiel on the balcony which there a lot and will feed from the hand. Once again from Australia. Elsie.

Picture for the Forum; taken in my garden in Wales. PM.

I met these two on the coast path between Boscastle and Tintagel. CH.

A waterfall in Glen Coe in the Highlands of Scotland. Lindsay.

Thank you for all of your suggestion for the naming of Emmi’s Colt Foal. We have thought about what we would like, and although there were a lot of suggestions you sent in that we did like, the more we looked at him and his leg markings, we could not give call him Sox. The four white markings on his legs are in fact known as stockings, but we couldn’t really call him Nora Batty. Socks on a Horse, go to the first joint from the foot. The first joint being known as the Fetlock. Stockings go to the knee that Sox has.

Sox is very well marked Foal with four Stockings and a Blaze on the front of his face. Stockings on Horses do tend to make them stand out. Emmi has got two stockings and a sock. You may have seen how friendly Sox is in the stable. As far as he is concerned every person is his friend. He goes up to every one to greet them and he lets you know if you don’t give him the attention that he expects, by pushing you with his head. He is a happy Foal for ever bouncing and skipping about. The sooner Lady Foals and he has another Foal to run with the happier we are sure he will be.

I spoke a couple of days ago to the Stud in Ireland that we have our Horse at, that we are hoping to get in Foal. She has been to the Stallion twice. As of yet the mating has not been successful. She is going back to the same Stallion again this week and we can only wait again. Every thing is happening as it should. There doesn’t seem any problem with the Mare and the Stallion has already shown that he is fertile by getting other Mares in Foal this season. Now and then a Mare and Stallion don’t manage to produce a Foal. You put the Mare to another Stallion and they go straight into Foal. I will be disappointed if we don’t get a Foal from the Stallion that we have chosen as our Mares Sire and the Stallion we have chosen has produced Group three winner. We have started to look for another Stallion that she could go to if the mating is not successful this time.

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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. Getting short of photographs again.

Bush Turkey from Australia sent by my friend, she says they are ugly little things. Elsie.

Pictures for the Forum; taken in my garden in Wales. PM.

Red deer. Judy.

Not Donkies but taken at Island Farm Donkey Sanctuary in Oxfordshire. CH.

Winter sunset through my trees in North Yorkshire. Lindsay.

There are a pair of Blackbirds collecting food and taking it back to a nest some where near the Farm House. I haven’t had time to have a good look to try to find it, but I have looked in a few places that I have seen them disappear to. I will come across it. As soon as I do I will put a camera on it. That is of course if the Chicks haven’t fledged.

Those of you who saw our Sheep in the fields last year with their Lambs, must have remembered that the Fox would walk in between them and that the Ewes would take no notice of them what so ever. This morning whilst we were mucking out the Horses, we saw a Fox this side of our boundary fence. On the other side of the fence were our neighbours Ewes and Lambs that he had moved from the field that we had the webcam on yesterday. What made us notice the Fox was that for a moment we thought that it was either Tass or Kye and they were stalking along the fence line. The Ewes were panicking and bleating out, so much so that it was a very loud noise. For sure the Fox was looking for a meal. The Fox must have been hungry or a chancer, for it stood very little chance of catching any of the Lambs, they would have been to fast for any easy kill and it was in daylight.

We believe that we have found out why we not been getting very good pictures from the new camera in Delaware, USA. I managed to get a technical person from one of the pieces of equipment that we use, that I believed could be causing the problem to speak to Peter. Peter from the site has probably not installed a part of the equipment correctly. I will be talking to him later tonight. It looks as if new wiring may be needed. I will keep you up to date with the progress.