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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 a 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 sure 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.

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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. Getting short of photographs again. I think that I may have deleted a few by mistake this morning.

Two screen shot of the Red Deer Stag that visited the valley yesterday afternoon. Marie.

A scene near Inverary Castle. Lindsay.

This weather has reminded me of last years Womad Music Festival, which was held at Malmesbury Wiltshire, these photos were taken on 27th July.

Australian Curlew. Elsie.

If you look at the two screen shots that Marie sent in of the Stag that was in the valley yesterday afternoon, I reckon that looking at the pictures full on and from the side there are six points/ tips on each antler, making him a Royal Stag. It was definitely a Royal Stag at the Rut last Autumn. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same one. There was a younger Stag with him yesterday that reminded me of the youngster that was hanging about at the Rut. Stags can live for about twenty years. The older they get the more points or tip they will have. Some have been known to have twenty. Twelve tips is a Royal Stag and tend to be called that even if they have more. A Stag with fourteen points/ tips is a Imperial Stag. Sixteen would make him a Monarch, hence the well know painting Monarch of the Glen. I don’t know what they would call a Stag with twenty Points. When we had the large herd visiting the farm a few years back, I was sure that I saw an Imperial.

We had a small flock of Geese on the lake yesterday morning. As we were feeding the Horses in the morning we heard them come in. The pair that we hope will nest must have already been on the Lake, for when I put the Lake camera on they were trying as hard as they could to get the five intruder to fly away. Trouble was that the five were all over the place making it difficult for them to choose which one to start attacking. I dont know how it finished. By the time I went to fill the Bird Feeders all had gone.

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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.

Newquay harbour from up at the top of the road. Sue.

ROCKS ON THE SURPRISE NEAR SHEFFIELD. Lynne.

Moreton Island Australia, this looks absolutely beautiful. Elsie.

A Buzzard at the Red Kite feeding station. Rhyader ,Wales. Judy.

A few more pictures for the Forum; taken in my garden in Wales today. PM.

I received the email below from Peter in Delaware. We just need to get the camera working properly. Peter has a person going to look at it for him today.

,both male and female are back, they have been mating all morning and are building the nest back to nesting status. The nest they are going to use is our nest with the web cam.

I caught a glimpse of the young Vixen that looked a little poor last night. I will try to get a good look at her tonight. She has probably got a litter of Cubs nearby and it has been the first time she has left them since being born. Having and looking after Cubs will take a lot out of a Vixen. The Vixen relies on the Dog Fox for her food for the first weeks after she has given birth to the Cubs. She unable to leave the Cubs for the first couple of weeks, if she does they will be liable to die from the cold. The Dog Fox shouldn’t have a lot of trouble hunting food at Denbury. There are Rabbits everywhere and you no doubt have seen the amount of Pheasant that we have here.

We have seen a Vixen in our garden over the past few days. I cant remember it looking poor, but I will make sure that I look properly next time I see her. Mind you thinking about it she was in the garden when Tass and Kye were outside, quite close to where the Vixen was in the garden, so she must have been hungry.

I bet not many of you saw the Stag this afternoon. I first noticed a young one and was following him. When I moved the camera slightly I just saw the antlers of the larger one. It was only after it disappeared into the woods that I realised that I had not counted how many tips were on his antlers. If there had of been twelve it would have been a Royal Stag. What ever it was a magnificent animal. They may return, so I check the camera in the valley now and then through the night.

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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.

Dawlish Warren beach. Sue.

Another picture from the Dorset Steam Fair hope you all like it. CH.

ROCKS ON THE SURPRISE NEAR SHEFFIELD. LYNNE.

Airlie Beach Australia. Elsie.

Shelduck. Barry, Rye Harbour. It was not really meant for the Photo page.

Nothing seems to be coming together at the moment. I spoke to Peter in Delaware, USA. He hope to be able to get out to the webcam as soon as the weather gets better. We are hoping to see Bold Eagles, Brown Eagle and Osprey. The Osprey has already arrived. I also spoke to Simon in Spain about the Griffon Vulture. I have copied his email to me so that you can see a progress report.

I showed the climber the site and it is possible with ropes, harness and all the bits. He has a group climbing this week in Spain and then he has a five day trip to Morocco next week then he is back for a couple of days before his next trip, so we shall put the camera in the nest as soon as he is back. The easy nest site is still empty which is a pain, but that is nature. I was climbing yesterday on a face where I went into two nests to see if the eggs had hatched which they had not, but the problem is there is nowhere to send the signal too so I can only get stills images from them. I will keep you updated.
Cheers Simon.

As you can see that the location for the Griffon Vulture nest webcam is not easy to access, and is a bit of a challenge.

The other webcam that we are hoping to do is a Barn Owl nest. A new nest box, fitted with a camera was installed last October. The Barn Owls when they finish nesting roost in another barn at the location over the Winter, returning to the nest box in the Spring to start nesting again. They haven’t as yet returned to the nest box barn. We will just have to hope that they don’t go some where else.

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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.

SUNSET IN NORTH YORKSHIRe. LYNNE.

Birds taken in my garden last spring. PM.

The 1st photo is of Newquay harbour from up at the top of the road. Sue.

Zoom into this picture and see if you can see the bat. Taken by my neighbour while they were in Australia. Elsie.

Hope you get this Sorry it appears to be black and white. I thought this might wet appetites of things to come over the Spring and Summer when the Osprey return. It was taken on the 17th July shortly before the chicks fledged. Elaine.

Linsey asked about the Geese. I reckon that it may have been the weather that kept them away. Today two pairs arrived on the Lake within an hour of each other. I put the camera on them but had to get on with some work, so I was unable to follow them. One pair flew off very soon after arriving the other pair stayed until late afternoon, I am sure the one pair will eventually stay and nest on the Lake. I have got the wire to get the new camera working that will overlook the Geese nest. It is just managing to find the time to do it.

Jack has nearly got the Duck finished. I phoned him this evening about it. Whilst putting the camera into the ducks head, he knocked the signal ariel off and was soldering it back on when I phoned. There is a chance that it may not be able to be repaired. If it cant be, it will mean buying a new camera from China. It could well be alright I will let you know.

Anjela asked a few days ago about having sound on the Ghost Cam. We have asked the question, but have also needed to give advice. Sound would be great on all of the webcams, but unless it is in a location away from people, as is the Osprey Nest at the Lock of the Lowe’s, it would be too intrusive to the lives of those broadcasting the webcams. On the Farm when working we would have to be careful of what we said. Private conversation that we may be talking about as we are working, could be overheard. I would like to put sound on of a night where the Badger and Fox feed and in the Valley where we can hear the Owls and other nocturnal life, but it is to easy to forget to turn the sound off of a day. In the house where the Ghost Cams are the occupant very rarely go away, like us they have animals to look after.

The occupants of the Haunted House do very regularly hear noises that cant be explained. Creaking floors as if someone was walking about and other noises. They have promised that as soon as they get time they will tell you of other sightings and incident that have happen, some very recent.

A couple of entries were submitted to the Forum about our sponsors CJ. To those who submitted them, I did not approve them, not because your comments were necessarily wrong, but because CJ are still our sponsors and have been good to us over the period that we have been associated with them. I am sure no offence was meant or taken.

Another entry that I did not approve was from John who suggested that the forum could be on a done via Yahoo, with an on line chat room. Don’t like that idea John. For one it is very difficult to monitor chat rooms and they tend to invite the worse aspects of the web and often the worse people. Our Forum is very basic, but also very easy.

Robin I didn’t put you link on the other day, as there are adds on the side.

Nice idea Margaret-Poole, I don’t need it yet.

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Pam you could be right…

Pam you could be right

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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.

Taken from the rope bridge at Lands End. Quite a scary place to stop and take a photo, especially when you don’t like heights but I had to prove to Elaine that I had been on it. Sue.

WE WENT TO THE YORKSHIRE DALES FOR A FEW DAYS LAST WEEK IT WAS NICE BUT COLD!!! DAVE TOOK THESE PHOTOS PLUS A FEW MORE !! MALHAM COVE. LYNNE.

Photo sent to me from my Australian friend. NOOSAH HEADS. Australia. Elsie.

A white heron in a tree right by my house.. Anjela.

This weather has reminded me of last years Womad Music Festival, which was held at Malmesbury Wiltshire, these photos were taken on 27th July. Rose. Wincanton.

Unfortunately unlike me Peter at The Lock of the Lowe’s relies on others to do most of the work that is needed for the webcams and the CCTV security that protects the Osprey Nest from being robbed. There is a problem with the infra red lamps on the site, where the Red Squirrel and Pine Martin can be seen. A volunteer was to install new cameras, If the weather at the Lock had been better this week and they had not had Gales the work would have been done by now. It is now hopefully going to be done as from the coming Monday. Peter hopes before the Osprey arrive.

Our Sponsor CJ Wild Bird Feeds may well be ending their support to Denbury Farm. CJ have supplied for a number of years all of our Bird and Badger Feed. It represents quite substantial sum of money that we would have to find. CJ need to see that they are benefiting from any sponsorship to who ever they give it to. If you are considering purchasing any type of the products that they sell, check their site out. They also has a lot of interesting tips, advice and much more of interest on the CJ Web Site.

I have got to try to find some good wild life photographs on the web tonight, for a makeover of the WBC home page. The flash at the top of the site is showing a number of sites that we were talking to about webcams, that never came to anything. They will be going when the face lift is complete.

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

This is for Lindsay to show her Nellie Moser when it is a lot bigger. Elsie.

My daughters baby rabbits taken in summer 1994 The grey one at the back we decided to keep and was named Fred by my partner. He used to let him out at the weekends when he was here then he would feed him his toast and then when it was time for him to go back to the hutch Dave would just stand with the door open and he would go in. Sadly we don’t have him now but he certainly was a character Sue.

WE WENT TO THE YORKSHIRE DALES FOR A FEW DAYS LAST WEEK IT WAS NICE BUT COLD!!!
DAVE TOOK THESE PHOTOS PLUS A FEW MORE !! BOLTON ABBEY,LYNNE.

Birds taken in my garden last spring. PM.

A BUSY DAY AT WEST SOMERSET RAILWAY. FROM MARIE AND JOHN.

I have been speaking to Peter at SWT today. He was telling me that Osprey have been known to return to the Lock as early as the 18th of March.
Peter has put the close up camera of the nest on. As you can see there is very little of it left. If you follow the tree trunk up to the smaller branch facing toward you, nearly at the top of the picture, that is where the nest reached last year. The Ospreys will have a lot of work getting the nest ready.

As you can see we have moved Emmi and the Foal into the larger stable that we made a little while back. With the weather as it is the Foal has more room to have a run around. We have not been able to let them out as much as we would like. We do open the stable door when we can. Emmi is not that keen on letting Lady to near her Foal, being in the larger stable she is able to keep him away from the end next to Lady’s stable.

With the days getting longer I am going to have to start feeding the Badgers later. Tonight I fed the at about 6.30pm I will gradually feed a little later so that i will be feeding them at about 7.pm within a week. For a change I am putting the lower camera feeding place on. All that is needed is in place to put another Badger camera on the main Sett entrance. But I have not managed to be able find the time. I want to be able to position it at about the Badger head height. I may be wrong but I think that it could be a quite interesting position.

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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.

Bliss and Misty.

Dave my partners best firend Patch or Fat Man as we all call him. f Newquay harbour from up at the top of the road. Sue.

LINTON FALLS. Lynne.

The first two photographs on today’s Photo page were sent to me by Bliss and Misty’s Trainer in France. He is pleased with the way that the two Fillies are progressing. On speaking to him he has told me that if they keep progressing as they are, they could have their first race in June. I reckon that they look very good. Let hope they run as good as they look.

Unfortunately for a change the weathermen got the forecast right. We were woken just before 3.am by the wind forcing the rain onto the window. The wind was shaking the windows of the Farm House so fiercely that we thought that they may break. It carried on for a good two hours and then became a lot less windy. When we got up to feed the animals it was still quite calm. By 9.30am the wind started to blow up again. Not as bad as it was in the night but still quite fierce. It was to wet and cold to let the Foal out today, and it doesn’t look as if it going to be a any better tonight or tomorrow.

The camera has turned up for the remote controlled Duck, hopefully Jack will get time to finish it during the week and post it back to me. If we get it back in time for the weekend, I will try it out on the lake.

I had a little fright this afternoon, when I looked at the Foal on the webcam. Emmi was pawing the Foal as if she was trying to get it to get to its feet. The Foal was taking no notice, of even making the slightest of movement. The way it was lying didn’t help. It was tight to the wall, bum in the air and head into the stable bed. I really thought that it may have died. Even when I got to the stable and touched the Foal it didn’t stir until I lifted its head. It has started to have a little nose into Emmi’s feed bucket. It is surprising how quick that they do join in with eating the feed. We have to start thinking about giving the Foal a stable name. Send in a few of you suggestions to the Forum.

We now also need to think about what Stallion we are going to send Emmi to this year. I don’t really like ending the Horses on long journeys to the Studs. We don’t have a very large choice in the West Country. The Stud we sent Lady and Woody to has closed, their better Stallion have been taken back to Ireland. There are a couple of Stallion fairly close by, within a couple of hours travelling time that I may consider sending Emmi to. With Lady it is going to be a problem. Her breeding really warrants a good Stallion, but there is nothing close by that would be suitable for her.

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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.

Birds taken in my garden last spring. PM.

Looking forward to seeing more of these as the weeks roll by. We are lucky to get this free show from our lounge window. Liz – North Yorkshire.

This has been erected in Shipley Market Square in the Princess Diana Garden. The reason behind this is, Shipley is derived from Sheep Field. Elsie.

Dorset Steam Fair from the top of the Big Wheel. Sue.

I thought I had better photograph this Camelia today, could be to late tomorrow with all the bad winds forecast. Hope you will all be safe. Rose W’canton.

Emmi and the Foal enjoyed being out in the sun for a few hours today. When we first went out to muck out the Horses this morning the sun was shining, not a cloud in the sky and quite warm. Within half an hour it had clouded over and had started to spit with rain. Half an hour later the rain was quite heavy. I brightened up again and other than a few spit its has been good all day. We had intended to put Emmi and the Foal in the corral, but we had not been finished. We made it secure with a few gates until we find the time to complete the work. Not knowing Emmi to well we were unsure how she would react to Lady if we had allowed them to run together. Across the stable wall it varies. One minute Lady and Emmi get on, the next Emmi with her ears back lunges at Lady. If she did that when running together the Foal could finish up being hurt, I have seen Lady being protective, I am sure that if Emmi had a fall out with Lady, Emmi would come off worse.

Lady is very jealous of the attention that Emmi and the Foal are getting. Lady is not a fussy Horse and normally prefers to just get on with her life. Now since the Foal arrived she has started to push into us to get our attention, I think some one mentioned on the forum seeing her. She pushes and also she puts her head on our shoulder to get a pat if we are looking into Emmi’s stable, and she is able to get by the side of us. As soon as she has her Foal she will change. We have to hope that Lady’s Foal is a Colt as Emmi’s so the the two youngster will be able to run together when the are weaned.

I don’t know what has happened to the Geese. We haven’t seen them for a little over two days. I am sure that they have laid a least a couple of eggs on the island, so I am a little surprised that they haven’t returned. I wont be best pleased either after putting the new camera in place last week. It was my intention to try to find the time to get it going tomorrow. If they don’t return in the morning it wont be so urgent.

Karen asked if she had seen a Stag in the Valley on Friday night. Yes it was a Stag. The Deer were out of reach of a good place to see them with the infra-red lights, so I really couldn’t see the Stags build to well. I should think though that it was the Herd that were here for the Rut in the Autumn.