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Deer at Wollaton Park Nottinghamshire. Vicky

Deer Stag at Wollaton Park Nottinghamshire. Vicky

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly Markeaton Park Derbyshire. Vicky

Squirrel Markeaton Park Derbyshire. Vicky

Wheatear Lincolnshire. Vicky

The Barn Owls are still taking the food we put out of an evening. A number of our Holiday Guests who went to see the Badgers last night saw one of them perched on the main Badger camera tower. It flew in the direction of our Barns when it saw them. We have over the years we have been at Denbury allowed a number of areas to grow into the habitat that Barn Owls find their food supply of Voles and the Mice. The main area is in the Badger field. It is nearly an acre in size. We are unable to let stock into the Field because of the holes that the Badgers have dug, and the risk of any live stock injuring themselves if their legs go into them.

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5 More photographs from Lynne.

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

THE BADGER WILL BE FED AT 7.15PM FROM TOMORROW (MONDAY)

Allium BETTY CANADA

Lupins thrive in ouir garden BETTY CANADA

Small standard lilac bush BETTY CANADA

Sweet woodruff, June 09 BETTY CANADA

Lily of the valley. May 09 BETTY CANADA

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Long time no see!
Here are some photos from or week with you.

Tass (Pup) with a friend; Julia and Chris.

Dennis and Silkies; Julia and Chris.

Geese relaxing in the sunshine; Julia and Chris.

I thought the furniture was for the cottage guests!; Julia and Chris.

Swans on the lake. Julia and Chris.

We had a b rilliant time – again. Thank you both very much. Julia and Chris.

I am going to find it hard feeding the Badgers again after the break I got when Julia fed them for the past week.

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I have recently come back from a stay in Wales and while I was there I visited Powis Castle and the lovely gardens they have there and took some pictures that you might like to post on the website.Bec

The Northern Light webcam can now be accessed. The camera need adjusting to the front of the camera housing. That will make a wider angle and get rid of the circle frame. I don’t think that it will be until next week until that is done. The webcam will also need to be restarted every 10 to 15 minutes. The thumbnail to access the webcam needs to have some text put onto it. Today is meant to be the first day that the light may be able to be seen so I have made it available before it is completely finished. The Northern Lights do not happen every night. There is a Northern Lights link at the top of the page that will give you more details. The Hotel manager is out today. When he is next in I will speak to him for information for he has a good knowledge of the Lights.

The two Barn Owls returned last night and should do for a few night. We will keep putting their feed into the aviary until they stop coming back. We will then know that they are finding food for themselves. When their feed was taken up this evening you could here that they were excited that it was coming. I should think that this is the first time that it has been possible to see a live Barn Owl release. I must admit I thought that they would have stayed close to the aviary for the first couple of nights, but I think that they must have left the area within an hour of the top of the aviary being opened. I did record it last night and see what time they returned. I will go between the Badgers and the Barn Owls with the webcam as I did last night, concentrating mainly on the Owls.

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Have you guessed yet that lupins are my favourite flower BETTY CANADA

More lupins BETTY CANADA

Yet more lupins BETTY CANADA

Yes I even managed to grow 3 little bluebells May 09 BETTY CANADA

Miniature standard lilac May 09 BETTY CANADA

The Barn Owls are being released this evening. I would think that it will be about 7.10pm The Owls will be encouraged into their box inside the mobile aviary with a piece of sponge put into the hole with a string attached to the sponge leading to the outside of the aviary. This to stop the Owls from panicking whilst the top of the mobile aviary is lifted up. When the top is lifted the sponge will be removed by pulling the string allowing the Owls to find their way out of the aviary. They should return to the mobile aviary for a few days. Hopefully they will find a barn that they will roost in over the Winter. There is a chance that they may stay close to Denbury, but they may make a home further away. I have put a larger infra-red lamp up this afternoon, so hopefully we should be able to see more.

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More photographs from Lynne.

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I have recently come back from a stay in Wales and while I was there I visited to a local farm that feeds Red Kites daily and managed to get some pictures that you might like to post on the website.Bec

Photograph to go with the article below sent in by Elsie.

Check your local newspaper website. You may find
something interesting to put on the Diary page.

Yeadon pupil overcoming disorder

For most people, donkeys conjure up images of the seaside but for five-year-old Edward Wright they are opening up communication with the outside world.

Edward has selective mutism, an isolating childhood disorder which has prevented him from talking outside his own home.

For the past year he has been learning to overcome his disorder with the help of donkeys. Edward, a pupil at Yeadon Westfield Infant School, has been making progress since he began visiting a donkey riding therapy centre on the outskirts of Leeds, the Elisabeth Svendsen Trust.

Now he has appeared on television giving instructions to donkeys at the centre.

Edward

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On July 9th, Tai Shan turned four years old! The Zoo’s commissary staff made him a special frozen treat, a three-tiered

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Some fungi pictures for Jordan . Let me know what he identifies them as. All take next to the ranger station at Roche A Cri State Park , Adams-Friendship , Wisconsin , under some red pines. Penny, Chicago Chicago Chicago

I had hoped that the Northern Lights webcam would have been up and running by now. We are getting a very good picture from Iceland, but we are waiting for the Hotels web designer to send us a page of their website so that we can put the webcam screen into it and get the webcam on our servers. At the moment the webcam image is on the Hotels server, If more than a couple of viewer watch it the server will fail and stop the Hotels website from appearing. I spoke to Bjorn the Hotel Manager just before 7 pm this evening, he is going to try to hurry the page along.

There is still no positive news on the Black Swan Pen. It looks as if it is going to be a long time before she returns.

At last we have made our hay with no help at all from the Met Office. They must be crowing to themselves with getting the forecast right for the past week or so. Mind you it is not rocket science to see that there is clear skies from a satellite. That wouldn’t be a bad idea if we were able to see the live satellite images. They would be able to close the Met Office and sack all their employees.

The work is now finished in stopping the erosion that was threatening the Lake. The person who has been doing it has done a good and tidy job. Just after Christmas we will need to plant a lot of willow shoots in the the repaired bank. It wont take long for a good root structure to form and secure the bank for a long time.

Last night at about 8.pm I checked the Valley webcam and saw that Thornton was on his own without any signs of the other Sheep. He was heading down the Valley towards the Woods. Not a good place for Thornton to be going, as Thornton really hasn’t any Sheep sense. That is why he gets parted from the other Sheep. He has a habit of going into a deep sleep. Trouble was when he wakes he is on his own not knowing what way the Sheep have gone. We had no option but to go and get him. Thornton was having none of it, he had me running here there and everywhere. When I finally managed to get hold of him I was exhausted in pain after falling flat out and Thornton wasn’t helping. He wasn’t wanting to go the way I wanted him to go, so I needed to put him across my shoulders. I managed to get a couple of hundred yards but he was to heavy for me to go any further. With help including Jean one of last weeks Holiday Guests in holding him down I went and got our car and drove into the Valley Field to collect him. He soon settled down in the Farm House and has been about the Farm Yard all day. I should think that he will go back with the Sheep when they come back. Well at least until it starts raining.

Julia and Chris arrived for there Holiday this afternoon. They are still keen to feed the Badgers whilst they are here. I wont be complaining. I will show them what to do tonight and leave them to do the feeding for a whole week.