Bringing our Wildlife to you!
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
GEESE WITH BABIES IN OUR LOCAL PARK. LYNNE.
DUCK MAKING A DASH FOR IT. LYNNE.
LONG TAILED TITS IN MY GARDEN. LYNNE.
NUTHATCH ON MY PEANUT FEEDER. LYNNE.
THRUSH STRETCHING HIS WINGS. LYNNE.
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
Montbretia,an autumn flower.The backdrop is a Scots Pine tree. Lindsay.
This Jasmine has a lovely sweet scent,not like the white which is rather over powering.It has flowered all summer over a pergola near the conservatory. Lindsay.
I took this to show all the individual flowers that make up the teasel head.I am looking forward to the Goldfinches finding the heads in winter. Lindsay.
Waterlily,growing in the new pond built for my birthday. Lindsay.
Another frog.They vary a lot in colour. Lindsay.
Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
The Condor Ferry on its way into Weymouth. Sue.
Weymouth Harbour. Sue.
Nothe Fort. Sue.
This morning we looked out of our front window to see the most amazing rainbow! Because it was fairly early and the sun was still low in the sky, the rainbow was a very high arc – too big to photograph in one go! So I took several pics – here are the two which together best show the rainbow in its entirety. Julia.
For no apparent reason the camera that watches the valley we are unable to control. We are able to see a live picture, so as long as it switches to night time mode we will leave it on through the night in the hope that we may see some deer. We have another camera to replace it but it is a different type that will need a bracket, we will order it tomorrow. The camera that has gone wrong is a very expensive piece of equipment. We put it in the Valley in the hope that we may have been able to see the Buzzard hunting above the Farm, but for some reason after fifteen years the Buzzards decided to nest in the vicinity of the Reindeer Field. Unfortunately we have not had time to fit a camera in that field yet. I must admit that we have not been over impressed with the nighttime performance of the camera and had already decided that we would replace it when we could find the time. We are going to replace it the same type of camera that we mostly use around the Farm. The reason that we have not used this type in the valley before is as we are unable to fit infra-red lamps to them. Being down the Valley the lamps need to follow the camera, but we will need to use more infra-red lamps to compensate.
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page sent in by Judy and Hayley.
We have for a change lots of photographs to go on the Photo page. Any one who has sent any in they will go on.
My daughter thought you might like to see these photos she took whilst on holiday.
A friendly little Donkey, on holiday after giving rides to children.
A Highland Bull
An Alpaca
An Atlas moth, newly hatched and drying its wings.
A young Seal at the Rescue Centre. From Judy and Hayley.
Someone asked last Thursday how the Sleigh restoration was coming along. We have managed to burn all of the old paint from the body but still have the under carriage and runners to finish. There is a bit of damage to some of the woodwork but nothing serious. At the moment with the Farm workload the Sleigh has not been touched for the past two weeks, but we hope to finish the preparation for painting before the end of the month. The upholstery looked as if it had been recently recovered with a cheep tartan type material, when I removed it we revealed the original upholstery, a deep buttoned blue cloth, very similar to how I was going to have it reupholstered. Unfortunately the cloth has deteriorated over the years so it will need to be upholstered. But at least I will get it renovated to the original colour and material. I will put a photograph on the Photo page.
For the past few weeks I have been trying to find an authentic set of Reindeer Harness. After making numerous phone calls to Finland and Sweden I finally got in touch with a person in Sweden who is able to let me buy a couple of sets. I was quoted by a person in the UK stupid money. The two sets I am getting are nearly half of the price for the one from here. The authentic harness has wooden neck collars and should look good when on the Reindeer.
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
Wow! Moose Bigger than horses! What beautiful antlers. Marie/NJ
As you know I very rarely mention names or put photographs of people on the Forum. Margaret will be an exception. On second thought if any of those who use the Forum holiday at Denbury I will put there photographs on the Photo page if they are taken with the animals that we have here.
I wont spoil Margaret’s entry on the Forum that she will be sure to write when she gets home, just a snippet of when she had a ride on Arnie. We usually let the Children who Holiday here have a short ride, but we rarely get the Adults ask. Maybe they do not like to ask. Margaret did have a Ride on Arnie on a lead rope. We are sure that she really did enjoy most of the ride but her face initially told a different story. I was tempted to get Margaret to sit facing backwards but she realised when I told her to put the wrong foot in the stirrups. Arnie being the big lad he is it is not easy to mount him. We have had a mounting block built to make it easy to get on him. Margaret needed the block and a leg up from Chris, it was easy going from then. Arnie is for sure Margaret’s favorite.
Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page
A few photos taken since our return from Denbury – I was surprised to get the camera back from Finn, but there’s an idea for his Christmas pressie!!
The first two photos are of a massive transporter ship at the Royal Portbury Dock – so huge I could barely get it into one frame!!
The next photos were taken last week – the clouds were looking very strange, almost as though they were concealing an “alien invasion”!! They really did look strange!
Next, this morning, as the sun was rising, there was a break in the clouds which revealed the sun’s rays beautifully.
And finally, this afternoon I was in the centre of Bristol and thought Brandon Hill and Cabot Tower was looking especially nice in the sunshine, so I took some pics!
Cabot Tower was built in 1897 in recognition of John Cabot sailing in The Matthew from Bristol in 1497, landing in what we know as Canada. There is a working replica of the Matthew in Bristol and when I get a chance I’ll take some photos of that too! Julia.
I am not best pleased with Tass, Kye or Thornton. I have needed to do some concreting today with one of my Lads helping me. All finished and looking good. I don’t really need to tell what happened you have probably guessed that Tass and Kye had trod in the drying concrete. I say trod, I reckon by the look of it that they had danced in it. Best part was that there really wasn’t any reason for them to be in the area. It must have taken me a good half an hour with a lots of cussing to get it looking as it had when we first finished the job. When we went out to feed the Horses there was Thornton standing in the concrete on his two rears legs reaching to feed from ivy that was growing on the wall. It looked as if he had been walking around in the cement. It can stay like it is now.
A third thing was sure to happen. On my way back from feeding the Badgers I have to walk past the orchard, as I passed a overhanging tree an apple fell onto my head. Some years back we had some friends staying. It must have been about this time of year as there were windfall apples on the ground. I picked up a few to throw to my cows that were in the field next to the orchard. The cows were a good distance from where I was throwing the apples so I needed to throw quite hard. As I threw one it left my hand before I intended it to and it hit one of our friends in her face so hard that it knocked her to ground, all but knocking her out. She wasn’t best pleased with me with half of her faced bruised. They never did come back to visit us again..
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page
Brixham Life boat of which the crew won a Pride of Britain Award. Vicky.
Berry Head in Brixham Devon. Vicky.
Canon up on Berry Head in Brixham Devon. Vicky.
Brixham Harbour in Devon. Vicky.
Seal from an artical on the web. Janet.
Seal pup released back to wild
Seals like Sandy are not common to the south-west coast
A seal pup, washed up on a beach in Somerset more than two weeks ago, has been released back into the sea at Penryn Bay in north Wales.
The four-month-old common seal was found lying on the sands at Brean Down, exhausted and unable to crawl back to the sea.
The seal, named Sandy, by staff at the Secret World animal centre faces a four-hour journey to the Welsh coast.
Staff said he was strong enough after a diet of eight mackerel a day.
Lisa Hills, a veterinary nurse at the rescue centre, said: “He was a little bit traumatised when we picked him up, when he was on the beach originally.
“There were quite a few people around him.
“But he should be fine, so we don’t really have any concerns once he’s back where he should be.”
Seals are not native to the south-west coast – common seals like Sandy are mostly seen off the coasts of Wales or Ireland.
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
STEAM TRAIN AT GOATHLAND STATION ON THE NORTH YORKSHIRE MOORS. LYNNE.
MILK CHURNS AT GOATHLAND STATION. LYNNE.
STAITHES NEAR WHITBY. LYNNE.
WHITBY. LYNNE.
GEESE WITH BABIES IN OUR LOCAL PARK. LYNNE.
Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
Here is your awwwwwwwwwww for the day Marie/NJ
These are great pics!!!!!
A baby moose was in distress in a creek. A man got him out of the creek , tried to find the mother & send him on his way, but eventually the moose stumbled back into the creek & was rescued again. The baby moose followed the man home.
The man has only a small cabin so he took the moose to another neighbor, who took these photos. They took the moose the next day to a woman who looks after wild animals & she put it in a pen with a rescued fawn. Marie/NJ.
The two Female Reindeer from Pewnnywell Farm have settled in very well. We haven’t seen any arguments between them. At feed times they tend to hang back a little but once our Reindeer are eating they soon join in. The Reindeer Field is calm and looking a little fuller than before they arrived.
It is very mild for this time of the year but the leaves on the trees are changing into their Autumn colours. We need for it to stay dry so that we are able to leave the Horses out in their Field. With the rain that we have had over the Summer the grass didn’t stop growing so there there is still a lot of to be grazed off. If I had realised that the weather was going to be as good as it was last week I would have taken a cut of grass off of the Valley Field. There would have been little chance of it making hay as we were getting heavy dews in the mornings and the grass would not have dried completely but we could have made haylage.
Haylage is made by wrapping the bales just before the grass is completely dry. As it is wrapped it is a lot more expensive to make than hay. It take a few weeks to mature in the plastic wrap. Make it right, when the bales are opened it sends out a sweet smelling aroma that Horses cant get enough of. Make it wrong and you could well finish up with bales of mouldy feed that could well cause Horses problems if eaten, so we always wary about making it.
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
Thought some of your many viewers might like this. Janet.
This tiny deer was delivered by Cesarean section at a wildlife hospital after his mother
was killed by a car. Little Rupert, who is so small he can fit in an adults hand, was born
after vets failed in their battle to save his mother.
At just six inches tall and weighing just over a pound, he is now in an incubator in the intensive care unit at a Wildlife Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England . He has only recently opened his eyes.
We brought him out and got him breathing and then he went into an incubator on oxygen.
He is now being fed by a tube.
Tucked up: Rupert in an incubator
Rupert pulls a striking pose for the camera
Staff are optimistic Rupert, now five days old, will make a full recovery.
Deer are very, very tricky but this one has spirit. He’s an extremely feisty.
little guy and quite pushy.
Asleep: Rupert takes 40 winks. Janet.
There is a 50% increase in occupants of the Reindeer Field. We have been asked for Paddy to try to sire two Reindeer Calves for two females that belong to Pennywell Farm in Devon. The two Females arrived this morning from Devon. Our Reindeer had a bit of a shock when the newcomers were introduced into the Field. There was a little chasing around and clashing of antlers between the Females. They seemed to have settled down by this afternoon other than the odd threats. I don’t think that Paddy could believe his luck. One of the Females has only one eye. It was like it when Pennywel acquired it. The two Females will be with us until the end of November, about the time that the Rut should finish.