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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.

I’ll take ages to sort out all the photos I took in Yorkshire, but here are a few to be going on with! Julia.

A view from the Castle across Yorkshire – I didn’t realise quite what a beautiful place it would be! Julia.

The two waterfalls are on the River Swale which runs through Richmond – on Saturday there were loads of people swimming in the river as well as some kids diving off the waterfalls!! I couldn’t watch!! Julia.

The bridge crosses the River Swale and this photo was taken from Richmond Castle. Julia.

Yesterday Chris and I went to Morrisons in Weston Super Mare to do some shopping and there were volunteers from Secret World animal sanctuary with two of their rescue birds – Ben the Owl and Amber the Kestrel. Amazing what you get to see when you go shopping! Julia.

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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.

If it had not been for two of our Holiday Guests and Wendy having taken photographs whilst the Sheep were being sheared there would not have been a today Photograph of Thornton before shearing or the shearing in progress as I had lost the photographs that I had taken when I thought I had down loaded them.

Thornton before his hair cut. His long fleece was making him very uncomfortable. Lorraine.

Thornton’s turn, little undignified. Wendy.

Shock and horror. Is it Thornton.

Thornton going off with his mates.

Ewy with her two Lambs after the remainder of her fleece being removed. There wasn’t a lot left to take off.

After going through my previous years diaries I found the phone number of Alex the person who has done our Sheep Shearing in the past. He is very good and competes in shearing contests at County Shows. He came early this morning and with his Sheep dog got our Sheep into the holding pen we had put up. His dog soon rounded the Sheep up in the Horse Field and pushed them into the direction of the pen. The Sheep decided they were not going to go in the pen on the first try. Mind you that was my fault as I had decided to get my camera from the Farm House to get the photographs and there was no one to stop the Sheep from taking the only route to freedom. The second attempt with the help of a couple our Holidays Guests was successful. One of the Ewes made a dash for freedom, as she was loosing her fleece naturally it wasn’t that important that she was sheared. We also managed to get Ewy captured. Most of her fleece had naturally fallen but there was still a bit to come off. Thornton followed into the pen not knowing what was going to happen.

From the pen we had made the Sheep were put into the shearing holding trailer pen that Alex had come with. The Sheep were all cramped in tight so as to make it easier to catch them when it was their turn for shearing. Alex was very fast shearing. It took him less time to shear our eleven Sheep than it had taken to round them up. Thornton didn’t protest like we thought that he may have done, he was very good and I should think feels a lot cooler no that his fleece has gone. He looks a little flea bitten but should look better in a few weeks time.

Tass and Kye cant make out what has happened to Thornton. They are constantly going up to him and sniffing around him in amazement.

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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.

Duck. Karen.

Hot pink water lilly in our pond. The blooms open during the night and early morning. By noon they starting folding back up. Karen, Florida (USA)

Monarch Butterfly caterpillars forming into their chrysalis (cocoons)
Karen, Florida (USA)

Two pictures taken at Kew Gardens.May 2009. Janice of Leeds.

One our Holiday Guests pointed up to a Bird who was flying high above us this afternoon. The Bird was so high that I could not see what it was other than it was the colouring of a Swallow, it wasnt, or I don’t think it was as it was flying quite slow. The Bird seemed to be playing with something that was in its beak. It was letting the something fall from its beak and flying around to catch it. I saw it happen twice our Holiday Quest a few time more. Strange.

The Chicks on the Hatchery webcam are white Turkeys. Unfortunately our broken computer was repaired after the Chicks had all hatched. Tomorrow there will be Geese eggs that should be hatching any time. I must admit that we are not best pleased with the eggs that we purchased. Out of 35 eggs only one has hatched. The eggs that we got from our Geese have been very successful with all but two that we have put into the incubator hatching, with all of the Gosling being healthy. To be honest I didn’t think that after moving our Geese on to Denbury that we would have had a fertile egg.

We were given three Rhea eggs from Cricket St Thomas. The eggs are from a proven pair of breeding Rhea so with a bit of luck we may have some Rhea at Denbury. The eggs are going into the incubator tonight and take between 36 to 40 days to hatch.

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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.

As promised Louise has downloaded her photos off her lap top onto my pc. Jacqui

A lovely white pigeon or dove that regularly visits the garden

Close up of a hornet which landed on her car windscreen wiper

Another shot of the hornet. I wouldn

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font color red One of computers crashed today so we…

One of computers crashed today, so we are working on it to try to get it going. Only Denbury Farm Cam 1 and 3 are working. Denbury Farm Cam 2 may be off for a few days.

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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.

The photographs on tonight’s Photo Page were only just sent this evening. There are none for tomorrow.

As you seem short of photos, my daughter has a new camera and has been trying it out. The robin has 4 babies they still feed on our patio. She has a wonderful shot of a hornet. When she downloads it for me I will send it on. Jacqui ( Louise

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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.

There are no photographs left after those on the Photo Page tonight.

ALL TOOK IN MY GARDEN. LYNNE.

BABY SPARROW. LYNNE.

MUM FEEDING BABY SPARROWS. LYNNE.

SPARROW ENJOYING A BATH. LYNNE.

ONE OF MY TAME ROBINS BABY’S. LYNNE.

MY TAME ROBIN. LYNNE.

A Jenny Wren has decided to nest by our kitchen door, inches from our head when we come and go. Other than last year one would nest in the same place every year. The previous year a Squirrel or Magpie pulled the nest apart after the Chicks had left the nest. Last year a Robin attempted to nest in the place but left the nest before the eggs had hatched. Probably we disturbed the Robin going in and out. I will try to find the time to fix a camera to show the nest.

Our three Black Swan Cygnets were delivered this afternoon, but after talking to the person who looks after the Birds at Cricket St Thomas who came with them we sent them back. I didn’t realise that the Cygnets needed to be on the Lake within a few days or they may have started to have problems. We would not try to put them on the Lake until the Geese and Goslings have left, as I am sure that the Geese will attack the Cygnets if we introduced them. Our intention was to house them in one of the Stables and after letting them get use to the noise and surroundings we would have let them out to walk around the Farm Yard until the Geese had left. By all accounts that is not a good idea as they need to have some period in the water or they may get leg problems with their weight be constantly on their legs. Once the Geese have left the Lake the Cygnets will be returning.

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There is only one day of photographs left so I…

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

We have needed to alter the way that you log into the webcams to have a cut off period after 15 minutes. All the webcams will have this restriction over the next week. Unfortunately there are to many viewer who are leaving the webcams going 24/7, many not watching them. The costs for this are far to high and if we had not had taken this action we may well have needed to close the site. We attract 10000+ unique visitors a day that cost a substantial amount of money. Those leaving the webcams running 24/7 don’t help.

The hatchery webcam have Gosling on. After the failure of the first incubation of the Geese eggs we were worried that these eggs would also fail. We put the eggs from the incubator to the hatcher three days before they were due to hatch. One decided to hatch that day and it has taken four days for five to breakout. It wasn’t a great success under 50%. Those Goslings that have made it look good and strong. We have had a lot better success with the Turkey and Bantams hatching. 80% of the Turkey eggs have hatched and about 65% of the Bantam. The Bantam eggs were due to hatch at the same time as the Goose eggs, as we have only one webcam working on the hatching we put a hatcher in one of our Holiday Cottages so that our Guests could see the hatching live.

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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.

Getting really short of photograph’s.

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ALL TOOK AT THE TROPICAL BUTTERFLY CENTRE NEAR WORKSOP. LYNNE.

Just took this capture shot thought you might like to put on the gallery. The adults are either side and the chick is the white blob in the middle. Elaine.

Two Badger Cubs have been out for the past couple of nights, one was helping to get new bedding for the Sett. They had a bounce about and left to what looked like a hunting trip with their Mother.

It does seem that two of the Adult Badgers are missing. The most that I have seen is nine and a few on the Forum have seen nine.

By a bit luck the Swallow webcam is positioned in a place where it can be turned onto a doves nest with a pair of Dove chicks in the nest. There is a large choice of nesting Doves to pick from. They don’t stop breeding and we have far to many on the Farm. We have a couple of young boys holidaying on the Farm this week and they have managed to catch a few for friend who wants them on their Farm. They may well come to regret it.

We have so many Dove that we will need to consider that we will need to cull some. I reckon that there must be well over a hundred. It wouldn’t be a problem if they were not so dirty, but their droppings are every where. You can guarantee that at least a few times a day we manage to put our hands on it. Another problems with the Doves is that they will go straight to the Horses feed bowls when we feed the Horses. Branston does try to stamp on them but they still keep trying to eat his feed. For a couple of days of the Dove seeing the nets that they are caught in, they avoid feeding with the Horses, within a couple of days they go back again.

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No diary or photographs tonight as I have been putting…

No diary or photographs tonight as I have been putting up the Swallow webcam. I have not counted how many eggs there are but I believe she has just started sitting them. The nest is in a very dark area of a Barn that we have been converting for ever. In the day there should be ample natural light for it to change into colour, if not I will put the lights on. The cameras inbuilt infra-red lamps has to be reset every hour, so there are going to be times when the screen will be black.