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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.

Female Peregrine feeding her 4 chicks on Derby Cathedral. Vicky.

Male and female Peregrine with their 4 chicks on Derby Cathedral. Vicky.

Canada geese gosling. Vicky.

Canada geese goslings. Vicky.

Carpet of bluebells. Vicky.

In between the work on the Farm I have been try to catch up with the outstanding webcams. I sent to the USA Osprey a PTZ camera but unfortunately it was returned to the UK. Got no idea why, and I cant get any one to tell me, or even to let me know where it is. So sorry to both you and Peter in Delaware as the new camera would have been really good as it was to be positioned on Peters House that was only a 2 hundred feet from the nest.

I spoke to Paul in the US Virgin Island this afternoon about the underwater webcam on the Island. The delay has been caused by Michael the initial contact on the Island. Unfortunately Michael has had a serious accident causing him to have a very bad broken arm that he nearly had to have amputated. He has had to go the US mainland for a number of operations.

The circumstance of the accident was that his car left the road on the Island and landed into a tree. Michael and the car were left hanging in the tree. Michael by his arm that caused the injury. By all accounts he was in the tree for some hours before he was rescued. So Paul has not received the webcam equipment or the drawing that have to be presented to the Port Authority to confirm the permission that have been given verbally.

Michael at the SWT is going to try to finish putting up the camera and infra-red lamps at the Falls of the Clyde Peregrine Falcon webcam so that it can be viewed of a night.

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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.

Garden birds feeding on dried meal worms. Clive.

We went to Cricket St Thomas this afternoon to see the new Ostrich that we purchased for them. It was collected last week but it hasn’t settled in to well. When it was collected it should have been a very large Red Breed as the photograph that I put on the Photo Page, but the person who collected it decided for a number of reasons to take a Black type Ostrich.

On the first night at the Wildlife Park the new Ostrich was put into a holding area so that he could get use to the new surroundings. Somehow he got out and managed to get stuck in a muddy part of the Lake. After rescuing him he was put in a different holding area but was not at all happy. A Female Ostrich was introduced to him. That seems to have quietened him down a bit and it is hoped that he can be introduced into the main paddock Wildlife paddock shortly.

In all of the time that I kept Ostrich I never experienced any problems that the Wildlife Park have. The Ostrich was kept in an Ostrich Farm before I got him and may never had seen or been in the type of environment as the Wildlife Park,
the large area and other animals that again he may never have seen before properly stressed him out.

Whilst at the Wildlife Park we looked at the Black Swans Cygnets that we are having. They hatched in the Winter and should be ready to come to Denbury in a couple of weeks time. We have a bit of a problem of where we are going to put them. The best place would be on the Lake, but the Geese would have something to say about that wouldn’t have them intruding, especially whilst they have the Goslings. There would be a lot of scrapping with the Black Swan Cygnets coming off worse. Until the Geese leave at the end of the Summer we will need to find somewhere else for the Swans to go. If I can find the time I will fence the Pond, or there is a small lagoon close to the Cottages that if we get time to clear the weeks will do temporarily.

There are also some Joey Wallaby’s that have now left their Mother Pouch that we may also get very soon.

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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.

Only one person has sent in photographs for the Photo Page. There cant be a Photo Page with out photographs.

ALL TAKEN IN THE MOSS VALLEY NEAR SHEFFIELD
LYNNE.

The Geese intruders have been coming to the Lake most days. Our pair with the Goslings are starting to get use to them and the Gander has stopped attacking them. He just marches back and forward on one side of the electric fence with the intruders on the other. Last year another pair of Geese must have nested by the pond. The area was well over grown that must have given them protection from any predators. This year other than a small area around the pond has been mowed leaving it open. As last year I did consider putting into the pond a floating island made from a pallet so that the intruder could nest. I don’t think that it would be a good idea, especially as this morning the bottom two wires of the electric fence around the Lake were loose where some thing has tried to get into the Lake area.

Some of the Bantams that hatched over the weekend needed a bit of help in breaking out of the shell. Two that I needed to do had nearly broken all around the shell mid morning time. As far as I could see the Chick should not have had any problem getting out. By mid afternoon there was very little movement. On looking I could see that the Chicks were not going to get out as the membrane had dried out and was sticking to the Chicks. On breaking away the shell it looked as if I was to late to save then. I broke most of the shells away and one was having a good try, the other was all but finished, so I removed it from the shell and damped both down with water to get rid of the dry membrane and shell that was restricting their movements. It seemed to have done the trick as both after a good few hours started to look a lot better. Both seem to be alright at the moment. Although there is a chance that they may not survive. One of the two is only half of the size of the other Chicks, it is really tiny. The eggs were an assortment of eggs from various purebred Bantam that may have cross bred, so we wont know what type it is, or any of the other until they get a bit older.

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There are no photographs for the Photo Page The eggs…

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The eggs that have hatched on the Hatchery webcam are from an assortment of Bantam that we were given. Out of 14 eggs there are 10 live Chicks. Three eggs have failed to hatch and one Chick had tried to break the egg in the wrong place and died. We needed to help four of the Chicks to hatch by gently taking part of the egg shell away. The Bantam eggs were given to us from people that we had got some Geese eggs from. They have a large number of fancy Bantam so hopefully we may get a few pure bred.

We put 10 Goose eggs in another hatcher that we had hope to show on the webcam but unfortunately none are going to hatch. The embryos have died in the incubation period. We have more Goose eggs that are due to hatch over the coming weeks. After these failures we are not to confident that any will hatch. There are Turkeys and more Bantams due to hatch next week.

After a lot of running around and fencing with have finally managed to stop the Sheep from straying onto neighbours potato crop. They are staying mainly in the Horse Field. There is one gap in our fencing that they have managed om find but that leads onto our drive so that are straying local. This morning a few managed to find their way to the Lake area and were grazing around the unfenced smaller Pond. Fortunately our new gates have stopped them from leaving the Farm. Ewy has now gone back with the rest of the Sheep. She manages to feed with Breeze when we feed the Horses in the Field. We need to get the Sheep penned in shortly to get their fleeces cut off. Don’t think that is going to be particularly easy. Ewy has started to lose her fleece naturally. Just as well as she would have been a nightmare to get in. Her new fleece is very dark, nearly black. I cant remember it ever being that colour before. I cant imagine that it would have changed.

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Starting from number six there are four new photographs on…

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

I thought you might like the following pictures to post in the photo gallery, they are all of the Canada Geese that nest on a lake near where I work and there are some pictures of ducklings with their mum on the water. Bec.

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Starting from number one there are six new photographs on…

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

Photos taken in our local park, Edwards Gardens, which is City owned. The flowers and bushes in this park are beautiful but still early for many flowers here.

The Bridal Bridge – brides like to have their photos taken here. This is a new bridge since in the winter of 97, the Bridal Bridge along with others in the park, and the river edges, were washed away after a massive storm. Repairs are ongoing – will cost millions of dollars to put as it was.

A yellow Magnolia tree – they say this one will grow to 25 feet tall.

Another shot taken in the park.

Rosie’s Mum in Toronto.

The beautiful white beaches of the Outer Hebrides.Lindsay.

Ullapool,North West Scotland.Lindsay.

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New Geese Ewy strip grazing…

New Geese

Ewy

strip grazing

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There is only one day photographs left so I will…

There is only one day photographs left so I will leave them until tomorrow.

I was speaking to the owner of a Fishery yesterday about the chemical that we need to get so that those who fish at the Farm are able to disinfect their landing nets to make sure that there is no disease put into our Lake. We got onto the subject of the Otter and the problems that they causing to fisheries with the fish that they are killing. One of our Holiday Guest showed me a fishing magazine a couple of weeks ago. In the magazine were photographs of fish up to 40lb, worth a

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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.

A footpath called the Devil’s Back-bone named by the shape of the path, linking South hinksey to New Hinsey near Oxford. Clive.

Grandpont nature reserve, this used to be the site of the old Oxford gas-works. Clive.

Railway bridge over the Thames at Osney with “boneys” footbridge in the back ground. Clive.

Narrow boat on the Thames at Osney with the old power station in the back ground. Clive.

Horse Chestnut Tree on the tow-path at Iffley. Clive.

As I was on my way to feed the Badgers last evening one of last years Cubs was walking towards me about 30 yards away. He was probably making his way back to the Sett in time for the food that I put down and would have turned onto the path towards the Sett before we go near to each other. It must have been in a world of its own as he was walking quite slowly. We both got to the path towards the Sett at the same time, and the youngster still had not seen me. Another youngster was also on the path at the turn, so it was a three way meeting with us all being within 4 feet of each other. The Badger on the path knew who I was there and unhurriedly knowing turned towards the Sett. It was then that the first Badger saw me. I have never seen a Badger move so fast. It spun around and was a distant blob in under 2 second.

The second Badger that was on the path is one that waits for me to feed them most evenings. As I climb over the gate it is waiting within a few feet of me and follows me just out of sight of the camera and appears close to the Sett entrance when I put the feed down.

Elsie want to know about Thornton. Thornton is spending some time with the Sheep. After breakfast Thornton goes to the Holiday Cottages on the scrounge. If he can scrounge enough he will hang around, if not he joins the Sheep in the Horse Field. He has a couple of favorites that he is with more than the others. He is fascinated with the Lambs and the Lambs with Thornton. The other evening whilst we were fencing to keep the Sheep in the Horse Field we saw Thornton laying with the Sheep surrounded by the Lambs. Thornton doesn’t want to be a Sheep full time. He can always be found of an evening close to the Field Gate waiting to be called for his dinner. After dinner he settle himself in his sleeping place.

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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.

Oystercatcher,Bantry Bay,Southern Ireland. Lindsay.

Little Egret,Bantry Bay in Southern Ireland. Lindsay.

Sea Pink everywhere in May on the Outer Hebrides. Lindsay.

The Torridon Mountains. North West Scotland. Lindsay.

Entrance to Loch Ness at Fort Augustus,the Highlands of Scotland. Lindsay.