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

Picture of the lovely bread basket we used to get at breakfast on our holiday in Dubai. The birds used to come down to pinch some before you had even left the table. Cant say I blame them. Janet South Yorks.

Some of the birds we used to see. Cute little babies in the background. Janet South Yorks.

Next door neighbours cat seems to think I clear tubs out to make a new bed for him. Janet South Yorks.

Visitor who used to come and visit last summer. Janet South Yorks.

You don’t leave your seat for long otherwise you loose it. Wouldn’t mind but it isnt even my cat. Janet South Yorks.

As you can see on the webcams we had a lot of snow at Denbury over the past few days. If I had the time I would really enjoy it, but when I have to work in it I cant stand it. More so when we had a fourteen hour power cut with it that caused us to have no water at hand for the animals. That is the only down fall of us having our own water supply. As we pump our water from 50m underground we need electricity to work the pump. Fortunately we have the Leet Spring as a last resort, but that entails fetching the water a lot further that the tap.

We were more fortunate than the many hundred or thousands who also had power cuts in our region. Our oil fired Aga gave us the means to cook and have hot water for drinks as Julia found out. We also have a wood burner for heating, and we were also able to watch television powered by a small petrol generator, so we could have suffered the loss of electricity for longer than most.

Our Drive and the Lanes gave us the biggest problem with the ice. If the snow and ice had not have partially thawed through the day we would have stood no chance of leaving the Farm in our cars. As it was we could not get up our Drive yesterday until late afternoon as the wheels of our cars spun on the ice, and it was the same today.

The heavy snow settled on the trees, especially those with a lot of Ivy on them, It is liable to cause them to come crashing down by the great weight of the snow. More snow will settle on the trees that have Ivy growing on them. Without Ivy the snow will only settle a little on the branches. There are many so called wildlife and forestry experts who say that you should allow Ivy to grow on trees. I completely disagree. The weight of Ivy that grows very big at the top of a tree and the water that that it holds make trees with Ivy more prone to fall down. With the added weight of snow it makes the chance even bigger. Nearly all of the trees that have fallen at Denbury are caused because of Ivy. One tree has fallen in to the Valley Field because of the snow and Ivy. I haven’t had the chance to look in the wood, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the trees with Ivy have fallen.

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

We have lots of photographs for the Photo Page. I thought you would find Julia photographs of interest whilst on her stay at Denbury.

The Peacock looking through the cottage window; Julia.

Old piece of honeycomb in dead tree trunk in the woods; Julia.

Quarry in the woods; Julia.

Thornton thinking about taking a jump – he eventually walked around this
one!; Julia.

Lime Kiln in the woods; Julia.

I haven’t really had the time to walk the Wood as I really needed to do since I purchased it. Although the Wood joins our Fields I never have looked around it properly in fifteen years that we have lived here, so taking Julia and Chris for a look around gave me the opportunity to see a little more of it. For sure both will sleep well tonight after the walk.

It will take a few visits for me to take in all there is in the Wood. With the two Quarries and Lime Kiln I find it very interesting. It is also very undulating that makes it even more interesting and will make a very good nature walk. Today we found a couple of Deer foot prints and heard a Woodpecker hammering a tree.

Just before I moved into Denbury I got lost in the Wood. It was late one afternoon. I had gone to look over Denbury and decided to walk in part of our Wood. I decided to keep walking to see where the Wood finished. Some how I had managed to get into a part of the Wood where I was unable to see what way to get out. I was lost and it was starting to get dark. I wasn’t very happy to be in the situation that I was in, even less so when I came face to face with a dead Badgers head that I purposely been place in a fork of a tree at face height. I cant imagine why it had been put there. I went in one direction to get out of the Wood but there seemed to be no end and it was getting darker. I needed to make a decision to walk on way until I reached a road. Eventually when I was nearly unable to see as it was so dark I came to the edge of the Wood that went into a Field. I still could not see a road but kept walking. Eventually I saw the light of a House and made my way towards it. On entering the driveway of the house to find out where I was I heard a familiar voice from an open window. The voice turned out to be of a friend who I did not realise had move to the area. I had walked a good distance from Denbury and was grateful for the lift back.

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

The “Gates of Heaven” for Karen! Julia.

Branston in the snow; At last, someone to laugh at my sense of humour!; Julia.

Reindeer; Julia.

Snowfall!; Julia

Two deer running across the valley; Julia.

I was pleased that Julia saw and had managed to take a photograph of the Deer in the Valley yesterday. I was starting to think that they had deserted Denbury. Julia saw four. We changed the infra-red lamps when we put the new camera up. The original lamps had a longer beam that made it possible to see further along the Valley. We have two new lamps that when I manage to find the time I will put up. I will also need to put a another lamp further along the valley.

I heard the Geese flying over the Farm House this morning to land on the Lake at about 6.am. They will keep returning to make sure that it is safe. Last year a pair did the same but lost it when another pair landed one day and stayed claiming the Island very soon after. I will get to the Island to cut some of the grass back so that the Goose will be able to be seen sitting the nest.

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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.

Built a snowman ( in Surrey , England )From my friend in England . Marie/NJ.

Photograph of snow in the garden. 2nd February 2009. Merrilyn.

Baby time at Martin Mere. Merrilyn.

Photograph of Rosie who is a Tortie. She doesn’t look much like a Calico. What do you call this type in England please? Rosie’s Mum in Toronto.

There was a few inches of snow on the ground at Denbury this morning. A lot less than we thought there would be. Seeing the snow falling on the Valley camera last night I thought that there was going to be a lot more. It seemed to be coming down so heavy that the camera would not focus on the Owl that landed on the post in the Valley. It was the first Owl that I had seen on the post for a while. The snow was soon gone when the sun came out, although there has been a few flurries.

It was just as well that Julia and Chris were here as I was unable to get my car up the drive because of an ice. There is one spot on our drive that does not get the sun. When it is cold the ice will stay there until it warms up. This morning I had to go out with the trailer, but the wheels would not grip on the ice so I needed to reverse back to the Farm Yard. Fortunately Julia and Chris wanted to go to the shop that I was going to so they offered to tow my trailer with their Land Rover.

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

Starling i sitting in my apple tree. Vicky.

Sleeping mute swan taken at Markeaton Park in Derby. Vicky.

Seagulls fighting for food on the river Trent. Vicky.

Sun over the river Trent. Vicky.

In light of the predicted snow, thought this may amuse. Edenfield,Lancashire in 1940 – we don’t have bad winter’s afterall!! Janice Leeds.

We have only had as much snow at Danbury as we have had since 3.30pm today once before, it must have been about seven years ago. Then we got snowed in for a couple of days. By the looks of it it could well be as bad this time. We have had 2″ already.

I put the Badger food out at the normal time tonight, but it looks as if the snow has covered it already, even though instead of spreading it about I put it in a pile. If the Badgers come looking for the food I should think that they will find it. I can see one Badger is feeding on the lower feeding spot.

What I did notice when I went to feed the Badgers were what looked like small Deer foot prints in the snow. There were quite a lot of them leading from the where I leave the footpath to the feeding place. But I did not see any Deer. If I get time tomorrow it is my intention to take Julia and Chris to our new woods, it will be interesting what footprints we see on the way.

I think it was Saturday that the Geese returned to the Lake, they stayed for a good while, with the Goose going onto the Island. I am sure that this pair of geese were the last pair we saw on the Lake last year. Some thing must have taken the Gosling making the Geese fly off. I will increase the height of the electric fence this year, that should protect the Geese nesting. The Electric fencing that we use around the Lake is stranded wire and a 12 volt mains operated electric fencer. It has quite a kick to it that I found out when I accidentally got my foot in between two of the wires. I got three shocks from it, believe me I wont be going back for another dose. On Saturday I found that some thing had also got a shock as one wires had been broken. It would have been very hard to break. On Sunday I found another one of the wires at the other end of the Lake broken. I cant imagine that it was the same animal going back, if it was I don’t think that it will try to get to the Lake for a while.

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Geese and deer…

Geese and deer

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

ALL TAKEN AT THE TROPICAL BUTTERLY HOUSE NEAR WORKSOP. LYNNE.

Tonight and yesterdays photo page is only able to happen because of Lynne and Penny. There are very few left.

As those who have visited Denbury know our Sheep to the annoyance of our Neighbours tend to be free range. We lost some weeks back two Lambs that we believe have been rustled, and they still haven’t been found. Mind you for getting on for a week or more we have not seen the rest of the Sheep. We normally see them in the Woods most days so I was concerned that they may have been stolen. This morning I had a drive around the Lanes in the hope that I may see them in the fields on the opposite of the left hand Woods. They were nowhere to be seen although there were plenty of their droppings in one of the Fields.

When I went to feed the Reindeer this evening, one Reindeer, as two of them decided to go walk abouts this morning and were on the Lane on the other side of our drive gates. When we went to try to get them back on the Farm they decided to run in the direction that we would not want them to go. At the end of the Lane there are two many directions for them to go and an open common that would have been nearly impossible to catch them if they reached it. They did, and whoopee that went going into a trot. It seemed that it was going to be an absolute disaster. I could see that they were going to get out of sight and finish up making their way to the main road and getting run over. If not that finish up on the Quantock Hill.

I called out to them in the hope that one of the two Reindeer who was friendly would come to me. Both of the Reindeer stopped on hearing my call and the friendly one came towards me. If she came close to me I would grab hold of her. She wasen’t that stupid, just as was nearly in grabbing distance the other one started to run again. I had lost my chance but I had managed to get in front of them. It made them turn into the wrong direction but a car made them turn again running in the direction of the Lane, with luck they turned down the Lane. At the entrance to the Farm and our neighbours they chose our neighbours entrance, with their gate closed the Reindeer were secure.

Back to feeding the remaining Reindeer. On the way to feed it I heard Thornton calling out in distress. He was caught up in some bramble. I soon released him and on continuing to the Reindeer Field I noticed the Sheep in the Horse Field looking in the direction of Thornton. Thornton’s distress calls had been heard by the Sheep and they were making their was to the calls. At least I knew they were about.

On my way back from feeding the Badgers one of the missing Reindeer was in the Horse Field. With a bit of coaxing with a bucket of feed we got it back to the Reindeer Field and the other missing Reindeer was waiting for it.