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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.

Any more photograghs.

Dont forget the Adds.

Not at all worried! by those prying eyes. Karen Stoke.

Lurking up the corner is an alligator, I laughed when I saw it. He has two in there the ducks, didn’t seem to mind lol. Karen Stoke.

Some heather, around my Dads pond. Karen Stoke.

This is Tuco my parents Japanese Akita, he likes to sleep on the stairs in this manner as he has all the doors covered. Karen Stoke.

These cheeky pair took up residence on my parents pond. They were there every day for about 5 weeks they have disappeared now about a week ago. Karen Stoke.

Just had a phone call from PC Mclean. You do not have to attend the Police Station tomorrow to answer your bail, as The Crown Prosecution Service do not believe that it would be in the public interest to prosecute you. I bet that hurt.

What a waste of Police time, let alone mine. It was only pursued because the complainant was a Crown Court Judge. If it had been any one else nothing would have been done. Why do I say that. Because it was the Easter weekend and it would not have been through the Police system other than that the Judge went to the highest ranking Police Officer that he could on the day to make the complaint. The Police jumped. That’s wrong.

An other part of this episode is even worse. The incident was witnessed by one of our Holiday Guests. A few weeks ago the Police phoned him in Wales and took a statement from him over the phone. The Statement was duly sent to him to be signed. Last night he phoned me telling me that he had returned the statement unsigned to the Police with a covering letter explaining that the statement that was sent to him to be signed was not what he had intended. It was one sided and against me. I should think that the letter to the Police had a lot to do with today’s decision.

I should think that the Judge would not be to happy when he hears. He would have been a lot less happy if I had been charged as I had intended to take out a private prosecution against him for trespass.

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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. Merrilyn

The 2 swans in my previous photo’s have got one cygnet. Which is one better than last year, she didn’t manage any. Merrilyn

Dad rushing back to mum and baby. Merrilyn

Duck with ducklings. She started off with 12. Merrilyn

My dog Mick. Merrilyn

Busy Bee. Merrilyn

There was one entry on the forum that stood out that made me annoyed and it caused me to pick up on previous moans about the webcams being down. It generalised on the webcams, forum and answers. It is now forgotten. But I will remind those who have had a moan of the work that goes into getting the webcams to you.

Just recently the Barn Owl cams went down. You would not believe the running about and costs that the Barn Owl Trust went to in getting the webcams back up and running. Peter at the Lock has needed at times to climb the tree that the Osprey nest is on to get it running for when the Osprey return to nest. You wouldnt catch me climbing the tree. When the Perigrine webcam power supply got flooded a couple of weeks back, the at the falls of Clyde got the webcam back on line the very next day using a generator. There still is no power other than the generator even now. Michael the SWT IT person is back and forwards to the various SWT location making sure that the computers are working properly. I could go on and on.

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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.

Lavender field. Sarah.

Ducks on the gruffy. Sarah.

Two more from my day of cheering up. Julia..

The 2 swans in my previous photo’s have got one cygnet. Which is one better than last year, she didn’t manage any. Merrilyn.

Some how I missed Merrilyns photographs from a couple of weeks back. I will put the rest on tomorrow. THAT IS THE LAST THAT WE HAVE. SO IF YOU HAVE ANY SEND THEM IN. MAYBE THE WHINGERS MAY PUT THEIR MIND TO SENDING SOME PHOTOGRAPHS IN, INSTEAD OF WHINGING.

I am going to make a phone call to the US Virgin Islands tomorrow. I know that they are very keen to get the underwater webcam going, so I don’t know what the problem is other than Peter has not been about to pass the equipment over through him having problems with his injury.

There are still outstanding webcam opportunities that I need to follow up. I am also talking to people about a very exciting webcam. I Cant tell you to much as it may get pirated. All that I will tell you is that there is only one webcam that does the same and a charge of $20 is made yearly to view it. The owner of the location is very interested and is getting her website person to talk with me. I will follow it up this week. If I get a negative answer there are other location that I can try. The webcam will be a good addition as it is a winter webcam. Don’t start guessing and put the guesses on the Forum as you may although very unlikely get it correct. Then I wouldn’t approve it as I don’t want the idea to get known until we start.I had to laugh at one of this weeks Holiday Guests. I noticed that he was taking some photographs out side of his Cottage with out Chickens nearby. When I enquired what he was photographing, he showed a Paxo Stuffing packet an was trying to get photograph of the Chicken with the packet. If he got it I will put it on the Photo Page.

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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.

We still need more photographs.

The fox was too distant in fading light to get a good picture. Peter.

The church is at Hartpury, Gloucestershire and shows a Bee Shelter (Bole), plenty of information on internet. Peter.

The horse’s, I would like to know what breed they are, also they occasionally wear tight grey covers over their heads with no apparent eye holes, wonder what these are for? Peter.

The two Horses look like cross breed Pie Balds, although the one at the back seems to be white and brown (Skew Bald)

The Kingfisher has been landing on the branch quite a lot today. I have seen it seven times. Last year I don’t think that I saw it seven times in total all year. A Willow tree had fallen into the Lake just behind the branch. A lot of the branches of the tree were covered by the leaves and I think that the Kingfisher had been fishing from the trees branches covered by the leaves and out of sight of the camera. Although I have never found the nesting site It is in the bank behind tree in the background.

Although Kingfishers are not seen very often, it would not because they avoid people or that they are nervous as a few of those fishing on the Lake last year had the Kingfisher land on their fishing rods. Only one person is holidaying at Denbury for the fishing this week. The other two cottages are being used by those that are only here for the wildlife, so I will be interested in what they manage to see.

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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.

Nearly out of photographs.

Chris thought I needed cheering up, so this afternoon we visited Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm, near Bristol. Julia .

Every day we can see the Goslings getting bigger and changing colour and gaining confidence in what they do. They are starting to swim away leaving their parents on the bank. Over the past few days the Goslings have been trying out their wings in earnest. They really seem to be enjoying themselves moving quickly over the surface of the Lake, then diving under the water before preening themselves.

It wont be long before they try to take their first flight. That is when they will be in danger. For they will be liable to land on the other side of the electric fencing. If we are unable to guide them back to the safety behind the electric fence the Fox will have easy pickings.

The other danger for the Goslings are the over head cables as there is a chance that they will hit them on taking off and landing. I hope that as they have seen them since hatching they will realise the danger the overhead wires will be.

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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.

Here are some pics from Dungeness –

Swans with cygnets. Jill (Epping)

Sunset over Lydd. Jill (Epping)

Nesting Cormorants with Dungeness Old lighthouse in background. Jill (Epping)

Hebridean black sheep with ram. Jill (Epping)

close up of the ram. Jill (Epping)

The Wallaby Joeys were returned to Cricket St Thomas this morning. I was wrong to bring them to Denbury as they were not going to be suitable for what we had hoped from them.

I had attempted for nearly three weeks to contact a Wallaby Breeder to get advise on the keeping of them, but had never got an answer. Even up to minutes before we left to collect the Wallaby’s I tried to phone again. After I had finished last night Diary we went to feed them. Worried that on seeing light they would make an attempt to escape we opened the trailer door very slowly. Believe me that was a good move, for no sooner that we had opened the door the two Joeys tried to barge their way out. One managed to get most of the way out. It was so quick I really don’t know how we managed to get it back into the trailer. It wasn’t us being cleaver, just pure luck. We did get the feed into the trailer but one of the Wallaby’s was bouncing all around the trailer looking for an exit. There was not way that it was going to hurt itself physically, but it was stressing its self out.

I tried phoning the Wallaby Breeder again and was fortunate to get an answer. I explained the situation and the reasons for having the Wallaby’s . They were obviously not suitable for us to keep at Denbury, and we would never be able to train them or to be able to let them eventually to be free range. The Breeder had experienced the bouncing around the trailer and around holding shelters. The Wallaby’s would have needed to be kept in a six foot high compound. Even that may not have stopped them from jumping over. The Breeder believes that he is responsible for some Wallaby’s running wild in his area.

We had done quite a lot of reading up on Wallaby’s before we decided that we would try to keep them. A lot of the reading told us that they make extremely good pets and are easy to train, what they failed to tell us is that the Joeys need to be taken from the Mothers pouch and bottle fed, then they would be trainable and friendly as they will be looking to the human as their parent. We would never contemplate that. In Australia Joeys are found on their own after their Mothers are killed by being run over or by fires or many other reasons. Some of these are kept as pets.

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We have Friends staying this week so the Diary will…

We have Friends staying this week so the Diary will be a bit hit and miss when I manage to find the time.

We have also had a very busy day so I haven’t got the time to put any photographs on.

After a hectic morning of cleaning stables and preparing a stable for the Wallaby Joeys we finally left for Cricket St Thomas to collect them a couple of hours later than we intended. The Joeys had been weaned for a little over a week and were in an area away from the group. By the time that we had turned the car and trailer around at the Wildlife Park the Joeys had been caught and put in carry cages to be let loose into our trailer, so that they were not confined in a very small area.

After an initial panic the Joeys soon settled and sat quietly for the whole of the return Journey. We arrived back at Denbury a little after half an hour after we had left Cricket St Thomas. We parked in the Farm |Yard to let the Joeys settle before putting them into their holding stable until they got use to the different noises. It was then that one of them decided that the plastic window at the front of the trailers was an escape route and it kept charging into the window trying to get out. We found a dark blanket and covered and darken the window. It seems to have worked and the pair of Joeys have now quietened down. I am going to have to leave them in the trailer for a few days so that they do not have any chance of escaping. It is secure and very large so it is ideal for a couple of days to quieten them and for them to realise that they are not in any danger, We will them move them into the stable that we have prepared for them, letting them out into the confined area in front until they have the confidence to venture a little further to graze and meet the other animals, Chickens and Geese.
I hope to get a camera working so that you can see them.

This morning we hunted every where for the remains of the Goose that was taken yesterday afternoon by a Fox. There was not a sign of her any where. Before we left to collect the Joeys we put all of the Geese away just in case the Fox returned. About half an hour of arriving back at the Farm we found what at first we thought was one of the Geese we had put away walking close to the Holiday Cottages. We thought that one that we had put away had flown over the half open stable door. On a second look after seeing how she was walking we realised it was the Goose who we had thought the Fox had got. Both yesterday and this morning we had hunted high and low for her with out any luck. Where she had been I really don’t know.

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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.

These were all taken in my garden the nest in the eaves of the house is a housemartin I think there are only 2 babies this year. Sue.

This is a snap my sister took of my Dads cascade on his pond. Karen Stoke.

Duck. Karen Stoke.

It looks very much as a Fox has had one of our Geese. We have been looking for over an hour in the places that she hangs out but as of yet we have no managed to find her. Although it is not a certain sign we have found some down feathers that look as if they may have come from her neck area. Although not a certain sign it doesn’t look good.

The Goose is one that has slightly deformed legs that makes her waddle with her body nearly touching the ground. The deformity has caused her to have difficulty walking so she is very often sitting on her own mostly on the lawn area out side our kitchen door. There are two other areas that she could be found, one being the overgrown sand Horse arena the other close to where we found the down.

It is nearly impossible without great expense to confine Geese and Chickens in a area that is suitable where the Geese can graze and Chickens scratch around so we allow them to be free range. They are not going to like it as we will need keep them in for a few days in the hope that the Fox will hunt in a different area if he doesn’t see the Geese and Chicken around when he comes. As for sure he will be back tomorrow.

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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.

JUST HAD A WEEK IN DORSET

WEYMOUTH LIFEBOAT LYNNE

CONDOR FERRY WEYMOUTH LYNNE

PORTLAND BILL LIGHTHOUSE LYNNE

SUNSET OVER CHESIL BEACH LYNNE

BLUE POOL DORSET LYNNE

I hope more of you than Janice (Leeds) saw the Red Deer Hind with Twin Calves on the Valley Camera last night. We very rarely see Calve at all, so seeing twins was a first even for us. The images were not that good. It was only for a short time that we managed to see the three in the full infra-red light. The long grass didn’t help either. Once out of the full infra-red light the images wee poor.

Unfortunately we found a dead Hind in the Valley. Worse still laying with her was a dead Calf. I knew there was something dead just under the trees on the left hand side Wood as there was a Fox hanging around the area. Some thing always seemed to delay me when I went to go and see what it was. It was only on Thursday evening that Diane, Vicky and family went there for me. It was to late to see what had caused the Hind to die. Although I am concerned that it may have been shot by a nearby Farmer who had found it on his crop and the wounded Deer fell in our Field in the Valley.

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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.

Just looked outside at the (almost empty!!) fatball feeder in the Crab Apple tree and was totally shocked to see a Woodpecker! That’s a first in our garden! I couldn’t believe it! There was also a very agile squirrel a few days ago. Julia.

I took these pictures on Monday afternoon during a very violent thunderstorm. I have never witnessed anything like this before, the funnel cloud came and went about four times, it did eventually touch down and was classed as a torando, but, only for a moment. It didn’t cause any damage. Jan (Herts).

Need more photographs.

Speaking today to one of this weeks Holiday Guests who was fishing I mentioned that I had not seen the Kingfisher this year other than once earlier February March time. She told me with two other of our Guests she saw the Kingfisher on the branch on Wednesday. I will for part of the day leave one of the webcams on the branch.

The Swallow wont be long in the leaving the nest. It only seems like yesterday that the first egg hatched. I will start to look for a new nest so that when they fledge we have another one to watch on the webcam.