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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo page, all sent in by Lynne. There will be five from Vicky tomorrow.
Only two more days of photographs left.

SWAN LANDING ON THE LAKE AT THE WELSH WILDLIFE CENTRE. LYNNE

BABY STARLING IN MY WATERFALL. LYNNE

WOODPECKER IN THE CRAB APPLE TREE OUTSIDE OUR HOLIDAY COTTAGE IN PEMBROKESHIRE. LYNNE

BUZZARD SAT ON A FENCE IN PEMBROKESHIRE. LYNNE

FERRY ARRIVING AT FISHGUARD. LYNNE

The new nest that you can see belongs to a Robin. It is within inches from our heads when we are in and out of our kitchen. In previous years the nest has been used by a Wren. Until last year every nesting has been successful. The Wren nest was a ball shape with a tiny entrance hole. Last year a Magpie raided the nest and we found the nest on the floor. I stuffed the nest back hoping that a Wren would return. There is a Magpie close by this year, so there is a chance that it will raid the Robins nest. Yesterday a Magpie fledgling was under one of the cars out side, close to the kitchen door. Tass and Kye were looking under the car, I must confess I wasn’t that concerned that they may have got the fledgling.

The Goose returned to the Lake this morning, calling out as she arrived. She didn’t stay long, again calling as she left in the direction of the Valley. It was quite misty around the Farm and I don’t know why but she turned to fly back in the direction of the Lake, it may have been the mist but as she flew over the Farm she was calling a little louder, maybe the last call hoping for a reply from her lost Goslings.

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo page, all sent in by Elaine. There will be five from Lynne tomorrow.

A picture of the Jolly FIsherman water feature taken yesterday at Skegness. Elaine.

Some photos of the sea at Chapel St Leonards. My son took these for me as he was nearer the shoreline. Elaine.

I saw the Kingfisher today for the first time this year. I was showing one of our Holiday Guests who had come for the fishing, where to look for the Fish on the webcams. As by appointment the Kingfisher landed on the branch. Since then I have realised that some are fledglings and we have seen the parents feed them. I will have one of the Lake webcams on the branch some time during each day.

The Goose stayed overnight on the Lake, but why we were mucking out the Horses this morning we heard her calling as if she was about to fly off. I haven’t seen her this afternoon. She may well have gone for good, although other Geese have returned for a couple of days. I must admit it was a shock to loose the last two Gosling as we did.

The Griffon Vulture webcam will not be on this year. Technical problems with a wireless broadband connection that we were not aware of when we agreed to supply the equipment, made it a to unreliable to carry on with the project. If another nest site can be found near a normal broadband connection, we may well start to broadcast the bird.

Peter in the USA is going to try to raise the camera height on the USA Osprey nest this coming Monday. It is a shame that we have been unable to see the chicks, if just to see the difference in the growing rate.

I thought that you would like to see the email that I have received from US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean this morning. I have spoken to Michael who sent the email. We have made sure that the location and connections are a in place for a webcam, and we have agreed to send all the equipment that is needed to get an under water camera working, at the site. As the location crosses 250m of water it will need a wireless connection as Rye Harbour, with the transmitter being sited on a buoy. The email explains most about the site. What it does not tell is another site that we spoke about in our conversation. Next to the location is a beach that Turtles come ashore on and lay their eggs. Michael has already spoken to the people concerned and they are very keen and excited, so there is a very good chance that we may be able to site a webcam on the beach to watch the Turtles.

Greetings,

I came across your site this morning while looking for underwater web cams. I am blessed to live in Paradise, a few hundred yards from a SCUBA diving site. The diving on St. Croix is a large portion of the tourist draw and some of the best in the world. We are located on the largest living reef in the Caribbean and boost of a wall that drops 3,200 feet into the Abyss.

I was wondering if your group would be interested in setting up a camera at the wrecks dive site to not only open the undersea world to the land lovers of the planet, but to also monitor the incredible sea life associated with the fantastic artificial reefs that the sunken ships at Butler Bay have become. Since I dive the site frequently, I can personally tell you that the creatures that visit the site on a regular basis are quite amazing. Three types of protected or endangered turtles make St. Croix home, the Hawksbill, Leather back, and Green turtles are majestic. We also have rays, southerns rays and Moray Ells hanging about.

If you are interested, I would volunteer to assist in any manor. Installation, maintenance, whatever. Additionally, there is an Internet repeater on the roof of my house which provides true broad band connections. I would be willing to provider arrange for the signal from your unit to make it to the WWW if you can provide the rest.

Thank you for your time and please let me know your thoughts, opinions.

God Bless,

Michael

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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo page, all sent in by Liz. North Yorkshire. There will be five from Elaine tomorrow.

The Goldfinch was taken on the feeder in the front garden.

The blackbird is one of an army of birds that come for their daily servings of sultanas.

Greenfinch on the feeder.

The remaining 2 shots are of the back garden, the plant on its own is a Dicentra spectablis (Bleeding Heart). I have planted a few fruit trees and bushes, but so far have not had any fruit from any as the birds always get there first!!! Oh well that’s life as they say lol Liz North Yorkshire.

As you may have noticed the Gosling disappeared last night. I spoke to soon in last nights Diary. They disappeared in such a small space of time I find it hard to believe that two of then went at the same time. I had fed them just before I had fed the Badgers and returned to the Lake at about 9.25 pm with a new battery for the electric fencer. The Battery had very little life in it so I would use the battery from our lawn mower. At about 10.20pm I went to change the battery over. I checked the Lake webcam, the Goose and Goslings were making their way to the fenced area but turned away. I went to the lawn mower to remove the battery that is on the way to the Lake. Whilst moving the Battery I heard the Goose start to call, it was no longer than 10 minutes after I had seen the three on the webcam probably less. When I got to the Lake a minute or so later the Goslings had gone.

Later I checked the recording device that I had put on to record the Badger Cubs if they had shown their selves. All camera record at once, so I was able to look back at the two lake cameras. The last that I saw of the Goslings was as they were making their way to the right hand side of the Lake, away from the fenced area. It was strange that the two disappeared. If they had got taken or were frightened and fell into the stream and got wash away I really don’t know. There are no sign around the Lake of any remains of the Goslings. I had hoped with the way that the Goslings were growing that this year we may have seen them fly off of the Lake. We tried all we could to keep them alive this year, but it has been a disaster for the Geese. Only the Goose has survived, all five Goslings gone and the Gander. I will stop any Geese from breding in future years. I should have this year. The Goose will stay on the Lake for a day or so and will fly off.

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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo page, all sent in by Angela (Kent). There will be five from Liz tomorrow.

Yes I know you don’t show people but thought you would like to see one of the things they have around Formby point were the red squirrels are this kept my sister and I amused Angela.

What a beak this bird has photo at Southport lancashire. Angela (kent)

This Avocet looks like its walking on water Angela (kent)

This is a Avocet take at the R.S.P.B. In Southport Angela (kent)

Lets compare beaks, Angela.

I missed the Badger Cubs last night. Although they were due to show their selves any time now, that was of course if there were any Cubs, I didn’t expect it last night as it was raining quite hard.

Like most of the Country we have had our fair share of rain this week. The stream is very high and flooding over the bridges in the Valley. As last year it started to rain very shortly after we let the Fillies into the main Horse Field. The Gosling are permanently wet through but a least they are alive. Their colour is stating to change and you can see a little bit of grey coming through. It would be good for the remaining two to survive, but there is still a good chance that they may not make it. When I look at the webcam at night the Goose is always on the Lake with the Gosling tucked in very tightly into her side. I don’t know if this is what they do all night. In the electric fenced area they would be quite safe, but they choose not to using it at night when I look in on them.

We have a Bird nest just out side our kitchen door. In other years it has been used by a Wren. It is not a Wren this year, what ever it is we cant tell as it is so very quick coming and going. The nest has eggs in it, but they are very low in the bottom of the nest and it is very dark at the bottom. I am trying to fix a tiny camera and light to watch it. I will try to finish it tomorrow.

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We have been experiencing our broadband connection on Denbury Farm…

We have been experiencing our broadband connection on Denbury Farm Cam 1 & 2 going off intermittently, I will keep checking to make sure that they are on. If they do go off, they will be put back on very quickly.

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo page, all sent in by Anjela, Connecticut USA. There will be five from the other Angela tomorrow.

Squirrel.

House Finch.

Butterfly.

Woodpecker.

Baby Crow.

A number of you saw the large bird on the Lake and on the bank of the Lake yesterday. It was a Cormorant a Bird that you really don’t want on Lakes that have Fish. They tend to to be coastal birds, but are just as happy on inland waters where there are Fish. They are excellent divers and under water swimmers. And also very greedy. We tried for a long while to frighten the Bird off of the Lake, but it only went when it decided to. When it dived under water it came up as far as a 100 metre from were it went down. I was only saying to one of our Holiday guests the day before, that we have never seen a Cormorant on our Lakes. There are many Fishing Lake that are inundated with Cormorants a real nightmare. I should think that with the Gales that we had yesterday that it came inland. I hope so and hopes that it forgets its way to Denbury in future.

What some of you thought were rats on the webcam last night, were in fact Field Mice. As much as I hate to see them or Rats I do try to encourage the Field Mice, as they are the main food source for Owls. We let the small field that you see the badgers in to over grow and die back, It allows a thick base of dead grass under the growing grass, a good habitat for the Mice and Voles. We also do not let any livestock graze the field for the same reason. Also with the holes that the Badgers have dug it would be dangerous for animals to graze, as they could well break legs if there legs go down the holes.

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo page all sent in by Lynne. There will be five from Anjela, Connecticut tomorrow and another five from another person the next day.

JUST BACK FROM PEMBROKESHIRE LAST WEEKEND THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE THESE. LYNNE.

SPRING FLOWERS ON THE PEMBROKESHIRE COASTAL PATH. LYNNE.

ST DAVIDS CATHEDERAL. LYNNE.

SEAL AT RAMSEY ISLAND. LYNNE.

LICHEN ON A CRAB APPLE BRANCH. LYNNE.

TREES WITH A REALLY STRANGE ORANGE BARK AT PICTON CASTLE. LYNNE.

We had a bit of a gale here on Saturday night. A tree in the Farm Yard was snapped and whilst taking Tass, Kye and Thornton on their walk last evening, a large tree on the left hand side of the valley was seen to been blown down. I will have to walk the Valley this afternoon to see if any other damage has been done.

A couple of you have remarked on how scruffy Ewy is looking. As you know we have had problems catching her to be able to have her fleece shorn. As we have been unable to catch her it is now dropping naturally. Since we have turned the Horses out this year Ewy is becoming a little braver. She has started to come very close to the gate. A couple of times she has even followed Breeze and Arnie out of the Horse field, nearly to their stables. We feed Willow and Gypsy in the field and over the past few days Ewy has started to eat some of the Fillies feed out of their bowls with them. If we are patient I reckon that we will be able to catch her. She does need to be checked over and to have her feet trimmed. We will then let her go free range again.

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Today s photographs starting from number eleven were taken by…

Today’s photographs starting from number eleven were taken by Vicky and David, two of this weeks holiday guests staying in the cottages at Denbury Farm. There are still various dates available during June and July for holidays at the Farm.

Branston sharing his food with a lamb at Denbury. Vicky.

Lady and her Foal. Vicky.

Train at Minehead station. David.

Lady’s foal taken at Denbury. David.

The goslings at Denbury. David.

Here are a couple of news items sent in bu Elsie over the past couple of weeks.

Here is their message …

Whatever next, Karen would love this. Elsie.

Swans cause a flap for rush-hour drivers

RUSH-hour traffic was brought to a standstill when two swans and their cygnets wandered across a busy road.

Passers-by rushed to stop cars as the six birds tried to cross the busy Claremont Road roundabout in Newcastle city centre today.

Vehicles on the sliproad for the city’s central motorway were stopped in both directions for several minutes.

The swans were ushered in the direction of nearby Leazes Park. and once there they headed for the parks lake.

Radio producer Steve Drayton, 47, was cycling to work when he saw the swans.

“I saw the traffic backed up in all directions. At first I thought there had been an accident then I saw the swans,” he said.

“They were being ushered across the road by two ladies from the roundabout where it seems they had roosted for the night.

“But they were heading for a slip road so I jumped off my bike and helped steer them back towards the park.”

Ural be expecting me…

LIFE’S a hoot at an owl sanctuary in the region after the arrival of a long-awaited addition.

Ural owls Ursula and Unwin have been trying for three years to start a family.

Staff at the Kirkleatham Owl Centre, near Redcar, east Cleveland, decided to help out this year and put the clutch of eggs laid by Ursula in an incubator.

After a month-long incubation, the proud parents have a son.

Centre manager Craig Wesson said: “Ursula and Unwin have been attempting to breed without success for the past three years, so this year we decided to place the eggs in our incubator to check that they were fertile or discover why they were not hatching. After a month-long incubation, our first Ural owl hatched.”

In the wild, the brown and ash greycoloured Urals are a bird of the northern forests and are found from Europe to Japan.

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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. There are only five photographs left to go onto the Photo page that were sent in by Anjela. After tomorrow I will have no more.

Mute Swans Head. Anjela Connecticut

Stray Cat. Anjela Connecticut

Common Raven. Anjela Connecticut

Ducks down under. Anjela Connecticut

This how far the pomegranite plant has grown. Think it will make a nice house plant when it is bigger. Elsie.

We manage to find two Swallow nests today with the eggs in the nest that the Swallows are sitting on. The close up webcam has had eggs in the nest for about a week, but have only been incubating for a day. I don’t believe that the Swallows are incubating the second nest, although the adult birds are returning very often through the day. I should think that within a couple of days the incubation will start. The two nest are very close to the nests that I thought were going top be used, that I have had the camera pointed at. I will show one of the nest through the daytime hours.

Thornton wasn’t very well this morning. When we got up he was continuously bleating and was not at all interested in his bottle. We were quite worried about his condition. Last night he pawed at the floor a couple of times, but not enough to cause any concern, and this morning he did not seem to have a belly ache, as pawing at the floor indicates. We tried feeding him with a syringe, we got a little milk in to him but more seemed to go onto the floor. Early afternoon it was decided to try to take him for a walk down the Valley. Although he didn’t go far it made a great difference. He started to eat a some grass and when he returned to the Farm House he drank a full bottle. Within half an hour he had disappeared to be with the other Lamb. I can only think that he had eaten something that didn’t agree with him yesterday.

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There are four new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are four new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one. We have very few photographs left.

Smuggler the Horse that we brought down from the paddock when Sonny went last week. Photograph taken by Vicky who with her Mum Dad and Boyfriend are on holiday at Denbury this week.

Ewy by the Horse field gate. Again taken by Vicky.

Cygnet from Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset. Lisa, Eastleigh, Hants.

Butterfly. Anjela Connecticut

Chapel built into the rock in Sedona Arizona. Anjela Connecticut.

We have started to break Smuggler so that he can be a riding Horse. He is being kept in Arnie and Breezes stable block. We are giving him a lot a attention, one thing that he hasn’t had for a few years, when he was in the paddock with Sonny. For all the lack of attention that he has missed he is a very kind Horse.

Smuggler was born at Denbury a little over four years ago. When he was born he belonged to some one else who was a Tenant on the Farm. When the Tenant move out he sent Smuggler to another Horse livery yard. As he didn’t pay for the livery, Smuggler was left out in the Winter without being rugged or given any feed other than Hay. He was only about nine months old, being a thoroughbred he did need a lot more care than he was given. The following Spring I purchased Smuggler and he came back to Denbury.

I delivered Smuggler when he was born. Smuggler was his Mother first Foal and initially she was not very interested in him. I had to milk the Colostrum off of his Mother and bottle feed Smuggler. After a few days of persevering with holding Smuggler on to his Mother udder, she eventually accepted him. So Smuggler is a little special to us.

With Smugglers breeding he should make a very good jumping Horse. After breaking him to the saddle we will start to get him to jump on a lunge line in the sand school. Once jumping we will then make a decision on his future. If he is good at jumping he will be wasted at Denbury and we will have to decide if to sell him or find a rider who would want to compete with him in either eventing or show jumping. We will have to wait and see, but we will show him working from time to time when he is being broken.

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There are four new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are four new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven. We have very few photographs left.

Flower in the tropical Biome at Eden I no idea what it is, it was the only picture the camera lens did not steam up! CH.

Red squirrels on the Isle of Wight. Lisa. Eastleigh, Hants

Squirrel thinking. Anjela Connecticut.

Baby Woodpecker….Anjela Connecticut.

Lilac Tree. Anjela Connecticut.

Pink Flamingo’s, Sanibel Island, Florida. Anjela Connecticut.

Emmi did not manage to get into Foal. She came back into season a few weeks back. I was going to send her back to the Stud to be covered by the Stallion but after the way that she came back with kick marks on her body I decided not to.

Lady will not be going to stud this year after the injuries that she got when she Foaled this year. We could have sent her when the injury was better, that would have taken a about three weeks. She is well due a break this year after the run of Foals that she has had. We will be able to send Emmi and Lady to Stud early next year. We have another Mare in Ireland that I need to see if she is in Foal.

The grass has grown very well this year. Already we have a five acre field that if the weather gets warm we could make hay with. The rest of our hay fields in the Valley are growing well. When we have made hay from them and the grass has regrown we will probably let our Contractor use for his Cows. We have not had any stock on them for getting on for eight years other than our few Sheep. It is good for the ground to have stock on them.