Month: September 2008

Categories
webcams

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

This is my Fungi that I collected from a tree in my friends garden it is actually growing on bark. I pulled it off and Karen let me take my own photo of it. Jordan Age 6 Stoke.

Cassie having a brush down on Saturday up the Stables, she had just done a 17 mile ride through the Woods. The lady grooming her told me that was not really enough for her , I just wished I would dare get on a Horse, again it must be the most wonderful thing just riding through the Woods. I would just keep going and going lol. Karen Stoke.

This is TIA, a whippet that was up the stables on Saturday she was delightful, and so friendly. Karen Stoke.

Thornton in his favourite resting place – the Farmhouse porch. Note the “lamb food and water bowls”!! Finn.

Another photograph of the tree in Andra Pradesh -India. Elsie.

Mary was asking about training the Reindeer to pull the Sleigh and the Harness. The entry on the forum reminded me to phone a Lady in Sweden who was going to find out who I may be able to get a set from. She gave me a phone number of a person in Finland. Of course they could not speak english but managed to give me another phone number. After twenty minutes I managed to get the person to understand what I wanted. He has told me to phone again this evening and there should be someone there to help me.

Padfoot is able to be walked with a head collar already so it will not take long to train him to pull the Sleigh, we hope. Nothing can be done with Padfoot until after the Rutting season. I that should finish before the end of November have broken Horses to Harness, Reindeer I am told are a lot easier and you would lead Reindeer rather that drive them. The Females are getting friendly now that we are feeding them in their Field. They come to the inside fence as soon as I call them. They will soon learn to trust me, once they have the trust I don’t imagine that teaching them to lead on a head collar will be hard.

Categories
webcams

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Antique Sleigh.

Antique Sleigh.

Here is a picture of some slugs it had just had babies, and I put the tomato by them to stop them eating Karens Strawberries. I just love Slugs they feel so slimy , and the babies were so cute. Jordan, Age 6 Stoke.

Taking a walk up the valley with the kids we saw this relaxed little group in your field. Julia.

Goose cam on the lake – Finn on remote controls!! Julia.

The two sleigh are have managed to find over the past two weeks. The first one is over a hundred years old and need quite a lot of renovation, to much that I would have time to do over the next few months. The underside is quite good needing a only a small amount of work, so I am tempted to take the body off and have a new body made. I got to decide over the next week or so.

The second Sleigh I got from a person who had purchased it from a Carriage Auction a couple of weeks back. I had made telephone bids for it but as I didn’t know a lot about it I stopped bidding. I made contact with the buyer and got it from him. If I had purchased it I doubt that I would have got the first one. This Sleigh is getting on for a hundred years old, again it need renovation but not anywhere near as much as the first Sleigh. I will get the old paint burnt off to the bare wood over the next two weeks. The original paint is badly crazed and is the only thing that can be done with it. We will then get it hand painted as it would have been done when first made. The upholstery will be renewed with buttoned leather and the floor of the body will be carpeted. The colour of the Sleigh looks blue, when in fact it is a dark green and we will keep it in the original colour. I will let you know how we progress with it.

Categories
webcams

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page sent in by Lindsay.

West Bay, Dorset from the other direction. Lindsay.

Wild Mute Swans on the Somerset Levels in winter. Lindsay.

West Bay,Dorset.A strange cliff in the winter light.I think Vicky has a similar photograph. Lindsay.

Glastonbury church in winter.Lindsay.

Reed Mace and Sedge,in winter at the Shapwick nature reserve in Somerset.Lindsay.

To our great relief all of the Reindeer have stayed in their Field today. The Reindeer getting out is a worry that we don’t want. If we need to put special deer fencing up it would cost in the region of

Categories
webcams

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

More photographs of a Tree in Andra Pradesh – India.
Now have a close look at the bark and experience the unbelievable figures of creatures engraved in the surface of the entire tree trunk
Absolutely real!!! Elsie.

This is my Fungi i collected Karen took a photo of it for me. I just love collecting fungi, it is very interesting i like the smell of it to. Jordan Age 6 Stoke.

Thornton in his favourite resting place – the Farmhouse porch. Note the “lamb food and water bowls”!! Finn. Age 7

Dunster Castle taken on the steam train returning to Denbury. Shame about the parallel telegraph wires, unavoidable unfortunately!! Julia.

When one of the Female Reindeer got caught in the bramble yesterday afternoon it seemed to disappear once it had been released. One of us thought that we had seen it the other side of the fence but as quick as it had disappeared we saw it come from a hedge. We thought that we had not seen it feeding close in to hedge. This morning when I went to feed the Reindeer another one was missing and appeared when I put the feed in to the feed trough. Late this afternoon again another female was missing, and after walking around in the inside perimeter of the Reindeer field I caught sight of it on the other side of the fence. By the time we had got round to the place where we had seen it it had managed to get back inside the fence.

I must admit I didn’t expect the Reindeer would be able to get through the fence. It is fence from when we bred Ostriches. Six evenly spaced horizontal wires six foot high in between ten foot spaced posts. I couldn’t imagine the Reindeer with their antlers being able to get through the fencing. Unfortunately they are, and it is a problem that I have not expected. We have needed to find the time to tie strings vertically to each wire where there are see through places in the hedge, hopefully this will stop the Reindeer from pushing through the wire as now the gaps cant be increased. We will have to wait and see.

What I am worried about is that the Reindeer may be able to breed with our native breeds of Deer, if they can then it is possible that our Females may go off if they get the scent of another Male Deer.

Categories
webcams

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

This is my Sunflower I am very proud of it, I watered and cared for it, it is in Karen’s front garden. It has got 3 heads. Jordan Age 6 years Stoke,

4 Photographs. I cant remember when we last had such a lovely day as today(Saturday 13th Sept). Our garden suddenly came to life again, so I got the camera out. Rose W’canton.

One of the Reindeer Cows managed to get her antlers caught up in a large clump of Bramble this afternoon. Now that they are in their own Field I cant get them on the webcams, as I am using the main Badger camera that is a good four hundred metres away from the field and there are large areas that I cant see. I need to watch them more often than I would have to for a week or two, to make sure that they do not start to scour as they have all been moved from different locations. Changing their grazing could upset their stomachs. When I went to look at them this afternoon one was missing. Other than getting out of the field she was either in one of the two shelters or by the side of one. I found her by the side caught up. It was the friendliest one but she wasn’t best please with the thought of me going to have to get hold of her so she panicked and tried to get behind the shelter. The gap between the fence and the shelter was not wide enough for a Reindeer so I was able to get hold of her. Untangling her wasn’t easy. I came out worse being scratched by very large bramble. We have cut them away so hopefully we wont get that problem again.

Categories
webcams

Yesterday Elsie asked to see some photos of Thornton Well…

Yesterday Elsie asked to see some photos of Thornton. Well, as it’s her birthday today, here are a few I hope she’ll like!

We were walking back to the cottage one day and saw Thornton, up on his hind legs eating across the wall. As we approached, he gave us a look as if to say “I’m busy” and just carried on eating!! Regards, Julia.

Categories
webcams

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page taken by Judy. We have only got aa few photogragh of Finns and some from Elsie of the Tree.

Here are some more of my photos taken on Holiday in Norfolk

The remains of an ancient sunken forest at Thornham

Burnham Overy Windmill

Fishing boat at Wells-next-the sea harbour

Dahlias at Caley Mill. Heacham. From Judy.

Categories
webcams

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page taken by seven year old Finn on his Holiday at Denbury.

A locomotive at Minehead station when we took the kids on the West Somerset Railway.

A view of the Bristol Channel from the train.

A toadstool at the top of the valley at Denbury.

Thornton.

Smuggler and Thornton.

If any of you were watching the Reindeer field this afternoon you may have seen three Birds. They were to far away to be easily recognised but they were a pair of Buzzards with this year youngster’s. It is mainly above this area they they are hunting for food. I should think that the Buzzards nested in this area.

On my walk through the Valley this afternoon I believe that I saw a Rabbit with Myxomatosis. I was a bit of a way from the Rabbit so I could be wrong. The Myxi virus causes tumors on the skin but is noticeable around the eye and nose. The Rabbits with the virus usually die within a couple of weeks, although some Rabbits are immune from it.

Categories
webcams

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page sent in by Judy.

Hi Mr Farmer, here are some views taken whilst I was on holiday in Norfolk. I hope you will be able to include them on the gallery.

The Old Lighthouse. Hunstanton. Norfolk. Taken from the arch of the chapel of St Edmund ruins.

The famous striped cliffs at Hunstanton. White chalk upper, Limestone, or Red Chalk middle layer and then a layer of grey/green Carstone. Many fossils have been found.

Castle Rising. 12th century Castle with keep built around 1140AD. The most famous piece in its history was when it came to the Mother of Edward III , Queen Isabella ,following her part in the murder of her husband , Edward II. It is said to be haunted by a she wolf with hair as white as snow and dripping fangs!!

The Church of St Lawrence, Castle Rising village.

Sunset at Heacham Beach. from Judy.

All of the Reindeer are now in the field we have prepared for them. Last evening we decided to take the four Females (Cows) to the field as we wanted to collect Padfoot the Male from Cricket St Thomas early this morning, before the Zoo opened to the public. We had decided before we loaded the Females that we would have a few problems and a bit of a run around to get them into the Horse trailer to take them from the Stables to the Field. In fact we could not believe how easy it was. We had prepared ourselves with gates to confine then in a small area just by the entrance of the trailer. We let two out of the stable and they walked straight into the trailer, we opened the other stable expecting the first two to come out of the trailer, they didn’t and the second two also walked straight in. On getting them to their Field, no sooner had we opened the trailer doors they ambled out took a few paces into the Field and put their heads down to munch at the grass.

We got up very early this morning so that we could get the Horses into feed them before we set out to Cricket St Thomas. The Zoo is only forty minute away from Denbury, so an easy journey for Padfoot the Male (Bull)back to Denbury. Again he was easy to get into the Horse Trailer. The Zoos two females were watching Padfoot leave. It made us wonder if they will miss Padfoot. Mind you we have the same problem when any of our Horses leave the Farm when sold.

We didn’t know what to expect when we let Padfoot out of the Trailer when we arrived back at Denbury. At first he was in no hurry to leave the trailer. He seem a little bewildered, that was until he saw the Females who had come out of one of the two shelters that are in the field. Head up and away he went for all of ten paces, until he realised that he was in a field of grass. Padfoot didn’t even bother to acknowledge his harem. Even when the Females were next to him they were ignored while he munched on the grass. Thankfully moving the Reindeer and introducing them to each other was a lot different than what we had imagined. It was a bit of an anticlimax. We have been looking in on them all day. They have settled in well and are together as a group, even when in the shelters they are all together. Padfoot come over to the the rails when we call out to him as Paddy bringing the Females with him. He is not in his Rutting mood yet, but going by what we have been told by both the Zoo and the suppliers of the Females he will soon change.

We are using the main Badger camera to look into the Reindeer untill we get the time to install a camera into the Reindeer Field.

Categories
webcams

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

The first three from. Angela (Kent ) that goes with the Horse story.

Branston – the grass is always greener! Finn.

Fungi on a tree in Denbury woods. Finn.

Below is an email from Libor concerning the CZ Owlcam.

Hi.The webcamera and the computer is under small reconstruction now, something regarding to “stream and new server”. I hope, that everythink will be OK as soon as possible.
I hope, that next year we will prepare less complicated arrangement – maybe on our own web sites. The cooperation would be with UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Dolni Morava – we can prepare several interesting webcams from some nests (white storks, kestrels, maybe short-yeared owls). The director is interested in web cameras and we will discuss the technical possibilities and financial conditions. Best regards, Libor

Hello Mr farmer it been a time since I sent any pic to you I have kept myself informed on the farm I was without a computor for a while but I am now back on line Its been so busy here in kent this so called summer I am not too far from Dungernes and rye I just thought you would like to see this horse it a truly amazing animal My grand children are sooooooo pleased you have santas Reindeers on holiday for him I have told them you are going to loan them to hhim at christmas Take care. Angela (Kent )

A terrific (and true) story.
http://www.snopescom/photos/animals/molly.asp

Ya gotta meet Molly

Meet Molly. She’s a grey speckled pony who was abandoned by her owners when Hurricane Katrina hit southern Louisiana She spent weeks on her own before finally being rescued and taken to a farm where abandoned animals were stockpiled. While there, she was attacked by a pit bull terrier and almost died. Her gnawed right front leg becamen infected, and her vet went to LSU for help, but LSU was overwhelmed, and this pony was a welfare case. You know how that goes.

But after surgeon Rustin Moore met Molly, he changed his mind. He saw how the pony was careful to lie down on different sides so she didn’t seem to get sores, and how she allowed people to handle her. She protected her injured leg. She constantly shifted her weight and didn’t overload her good leg. She was a smart pony with a serious survival ethic.

Moore agreed to remove her leg below the knee, and a temporary artificial limb was built. Molly
walked out of the clinic and her story really begins there.

‘This was the right horse and the right owner,’ Moore insists. Molly happened to be a one-in-a-million patient. She’s tough as nails, but sweet, and she was willing to cope with pain. She made it obvious she understood that she was in trouble. The other important factor, according to Moore , is having a truly committed and compliant owner who is dedicated to providing the daily care required over the lifetime of the horse.

Molly’s story turns into a parable for life in post-Katrina Louisiana. The little pony gained weight, and her mane finally felt a comb A human prosthesis designer built her a leg.

The prosthetic has given Molly a whole new life, Allison Barca DVM, Molly’s regular vet, reports.

And she asks for it. She will put her little limb out, and come to you and let you know that she wants you to put it on. Sometimes she wants you to take it off too. And sometimes, Molly gets away from Barca. ‘It can be pretty bad when you can’t catch a three-legged horse,’ she laughs.

Most important of all, Molly has a job now. Kay,the rescue farm owner, started taking Molly to shelters, hospitals, nursing homes, and rehabilitation centers. Anywhere she thought that people needed hope. Wherever Molly went, she showed people her pluck. She inspired people, and she had a good timedoing it.

‘It’s obvious to me that Molly had a bigger role to play in life,? Moore said. ‘She survived the hurricane, she survived a horrible injury, and now she is giving hope to others.’

Barca concluded, ‘She’s not back to normal, but she’s going to be better. To me, she could be a symbol for New Orleans itself.’

This is Molly’s most recent prosthesis The bottom photo shows the ground surface that she stands on, which has a smiley face embossed in it. Wherever Molly goes, she leaves a smiley hoof print behind. Forward this and share it with all of the animal lovers that you know.