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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.

Here are a few more photos from our stay at Denbury. Julia.

Finn leading Breeze to the field – Tass and Thornton in the background. I grabbed the small camera from Finn and managed a very blurred picture!

Tass the footballer;

Finn and Tass feeding the horses;

For Jordan – fungi in Denbury woods;

Karen asked if we’d seen the Peacock – well, yes we did, but he’s a bit camera shy!!

Some where I’ve got one of Finn with Arnie – I’ll search it out. Julia.

It didn’t take the Squirrels long to work out where the peanuts were. And the Cock Pheasant soon found them too. He could see the peanuts through the perspex front but unfortunately for him he couldn’t work out how to get to them. I wont extend the course for a few days to give the Pheasant as chance to work it out. It is entertaining watching the Pheasant and the Squirrels. The Squirrel seem to be a little wary of the Pheasant and seems to be trying to stay away from them. I have an idea for the first post to make climbing that a bit more interesting. I will look around the yard for the bits a pieces needed and will try to do it by the middle of the week. If I cant manage the time I will try to get Vicky’s boy friend David to do it when he returns next week.

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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 are being put on the Photo Page by someone else, so they may not be on the website when the Diary comes up.

There are only a couple of photographs for tomorrow night Photo page.

Padfoot and one of the females at Denbury. Vicky.

Thornton taken today at Denbury. Vicky.

Fireworks, from my front window overlooking Jordan’s house. Karen Stoke.

Fireworks. Karen Stoke.

Fireworks. Karen Stoke.

I am trying to put some equipment together to try to get the Valley webcam working again. we are having to try a new system where we have a camera as the Badgers and most of the other cameras. With these type of camera we are unable to fix infra-red lamps to the sides so that as the camera moves the lamps show in the same direction. As the Valley is so big an area to light up we need a system where we are able to direct the lamps in the same direction as the camera, so it will need to be on a separate pan and tilting head. Tonight I am going to try to get the system working before it is installed down the Valley.

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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 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.

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ing from number six there are five new photographs on…

ing from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page from Judy.

A few more photos for the Gallery Mr Farmer,

Thieves Wood Nottinghamshire.

Pretty Chrysanthemum in my garden

Looks like this Pig at the Piggery had been having a lovely wallow in the mud

Butterfly I saw on my walk in Thieves Wood (Needs a name if anyone knows it)

Some more Funghi for Jordan. From Judy.

Sorry I forgot to put the new photographs on the Photo page last night.

The original Female Reindeer that went missing is still not back. She is still about, close to the Reindeer Field. She has been seen and we have seen her droppings along our drive. We are spending a lot of time looking about for her and our local radio station are still reporting that she is missing. The radio station have asked me to do a short interview about the missing Reindeer tomorrow morning. The thought of it frightens the life out of me. I couldn’t really refuse although, but I have tried to talk others into doing it for me. I have got a reputation of cussing so I have got to watch my mouth or there will be a complaint or two.

We need to make the fencing in the Reindeer Field a lot better. When the Females were delivered here a few weeks back, by the people who we got them from, we asked to make sure that the Field was secure for the Reindeer. We were told that it was. That has proved to be wrong, but we have only ourselves to blame. The far end of the Field is where we have the biggest problem and we will start to secure that tomorrow.

I have been trying to find the time to put a camera in the Reindeer Field but we have so much to do at the moment it is proving difficult. It doesn’t help that Paddy is in his rutting mood. He hasn’t been as bad as I was led to believe that he would be, but he did half heatedly attacked the front of the Quad Bike a few days back, so the is always a chance that he may not like us being in his Field installing the camera. With putting in a post, running the wires and fixing the camera it not a quick job.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number six.

GJ and B wedding cake. PM.

I thought the ladies would like to see Robin in his bridesmaid dress!! PM.

I had to put this email on. Not to get you to holiday here.(hope you don’t mind Jenny) We thought it was very funny. The photograph of the Reindeer is of two that are coming to Denbury taken when Jenny and her family visited Cricket St Thomas.

Thankyou again for the brilliant week we had at the farm. We are determined to return next year even if we have to sell one of Jasmines kidneys!
I know the weather is plotting another wet week and sincerely wish you a drier week sometime very soon.
Noah has decided that he is going to move to the farm so watch out for any suspicious large unplanned parcels (the clue will be the address written in crayon).
As promised I have attached the pictures of the Reindeer herd I am sorry they aren’t brilliant but I only had the digital camera with me. Jenny, Gareth, Jasmine and Noah.

I took this photo on the way up the lane to the stables, of some ducks, my sister threw out most of a loaf so i could get a good photo, only managed this the others turned out blurred. Karen Stoke.

We just had a real nasty storm in Florida today and after the storm, a double rainbow. You can just make out the 2nd rainbow, but the other rainbow was real bright. Karen, Florida (USA).

Unfortunately the Green Woodpecker cant be enticed onto our bird feeders, their diet consists of Insects that they eat from the crevices in the trees and Ants that they eat from the ground, so what is on offer on the feeders is not what they would want. We hear their chattering laugh every year close to the Farm House. This year we have heard them a little more than other years and a couple of days ago the chattering laugh seemed to be all around us. Sitting in our lounge yesterday evening we realised why, for sitting on the garden wall were a couple of fledglings with one of the parent birds in a branch overhanging the wall, with an insect in it beak. Today as many as five have been flying around. They must have nested close to the Farm House. Next year we will watch to see if we can find where they are nesting. We wouldn’t be able to put a camera in the nest, but we could put a camera so that we are able to watch them entering and leaving the nest.

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There are five photographs on the Photo page starting from number six, sent in by Vicky.

Baby Great Tit that had to be rescued after it flew into a neighbours window, after it had a drink and a rest it flew off to join his friends again. Vicky.

Red-Crested Pochard taken at Attenborough Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire. Vicky.

Cornflower in my garden. Vicky.

Goose as the sun was going down taken at Attenborough Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire. Vicky.

Moorhen was taken at a local park in derby. Vicky.

We have fitted a camera on a new Swallows nest that we found this morning in the same barn that we have shown previous Swallows nests. There are three eggs in the nest that are now being incubated.

Last Monday I received an email from a European Nature Conservation body asking if we would broadcast a Barn Owl Nest Cam for them. With the Owlets ready to leave the Barn Owl Trusts Nest over the coming weeks we emailed back accepting the invitation. Unfortunately since then I have not had a reply back. That is not to say that we wont, but being that the Owls are incubating the eggs it would be good to start from the beginning of the nesting. This is the second nesting this year of these Barn Owls. As soon as I hear back from the body I will let you know. UPDATE. We have received the reply and we will be broadcasting the new Barn Owl Nest Cam with sound by tomorrow. Watch out for the new Thumbnail.

The Nature Conservation Body have a close relationship with The Barn Owl Trust, who next year will also have sound and hopefully a day and night camera so that the Barn Owls Nest Cam can be seen in colour in the daylight hours.

A few weeks back I told you about the underwater webcam in the US Virgin Islands that we have been asked to do. All the equipment has been sent to the Island. Michael the person who has asked us to broadcast for them had a meeting with the Port Authority and Pier Manager at the site. They are going to recommend to the Board, full approval of the project at the August 6th meeting. The webcam will be sited at a different location than we first were told, and it will be under a different US department who have other sites that they would consider webcams including a beach that the Turtles nest at.

There has been mentioned that the quality of the Red Squirrel and Pine Martin Camera is not a clear as it might be. The Broadband connection at the Lock of the Lowe’s is quite low. To get a good picture from the Osprey nest it mean using a lot of the available bandwidth on that webcam causing the other webcams to use a very low bandwidth. When the Osprey nesting finishes the bandwidths will be adjusted so that both webcams at the Lock have good images.

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There are five photographs on the Photo page starting from number six sent in by Karen.

These Photographs were not taken by me. My daughters Partner Steve ,took these for me and Emailed them for us to go on the Gallery. I hope you enjoy them. Karen. Stoke.

We started to make our hay today. Not quite as late as last year, but later than we would want. The grass seed would be ready to drop so when the gray is turned to let it dry evenly a lot of the seed will be left on the ground when it is baled. Early this morning the grass was cut and this evening it was turned for the first time. It will be turned again every day in the hope that we can bale it at the latest on Thursday evening as the forecast is for rain on Friday. We normally would like five days to make hay but for the past two years we have needed to take our chances as the hasn’t been many five days periods without rain. We managed to make thirty bales about five weeks ago. The forecast at the moment is giving us a chance, so with a bit of luck we can make our hay.

I had hoped with the new camera being able to look straight up into the sky that we may have been able to see the Buzzards hunting for food for their Chick in the Valley. There has not been one year in all of the time that we have lived here have they not hunted in the Valley except for this year when the are hunting in the small paddock that we kept Smuggler and Sonny. The three of the Buzzards can be seen in the trees most days. Unfortunately the nearest camera to the paddock is unable to look upwards very far. I am hoping now that we have cut the grass in the valley it will make it more open for the Buzzard to hunt. There are a lot of Rabbits for the Buzzards to catch there so we may be lucky. We have nearly finished the kitchen and cottage so next week I will be able to spend a little more time on the Diary and camera.

The sudden appearance of a strange light in the corner of the nestcam is, we think, a spider’s web/nest that is in front of the camera lens. The movement is the spider crawling across the lens. We are reluctant to go into the building at present as the two oldest owlets have not left the barn yet and we do not want to risk flushing them out. Again we will monitor the owlets’ activity and will review the situation if any circumstances change. Matt. BOT.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page from number six. All from Judy.

Photos taken at Clumber Park Steam & Country Fair on Saturday From Judy.

Tonight as long as it is not raining, when it gets dark we are going to put the Goosecam on. The intention is to park it a little way off of the bank. We may let it roam on the end of a line, or tie it to a stake so that it is looking in one direction. We will make up our mind when we see how calm the water is. The infra red picture should be good as the camera in Gordon is probably the best night view camera that you could get. It is the same one that we used until a couple of weeks ago in the Valley. We have never tried any thing like it before so it could be a disaster. If it is not that good I will turn it off. If it is interesting I will leave it on and It could last for up to five hours before the batteries run out of power.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page from number eleven. Getting short of photographs.

Hi I recently bought a squirrel box off you . Here are some pictures of squirrels feeding. Only the 1 squirrel so far. First time it’s taken food today. Kids have called it Rusty! Grant O’fee.

Daisey Fleeblane taken along the Great River State Trail in Wisconsin, USA. Penny, Chicago.

Fruit bats photographed in the wild in N.S.W. Rose W’canton.

Still getting the Starlings!!! Julia.

We had Gordon the Goose working on the Lake this afternoon. Unfortunately it was a last minute decision to get it working, as I had a bit of trouble with him when I was getting it ready this morning. There was bad interference with the picture. I tried various things to get it right and had all but give up on it for the day. A small movement of the ariel put it right. Jack and Brian have done a good job as it works very well. For some reason the picture has a lot of blue in it, but it is only like it by the Lake, I will sort it out some how. I will let you know when we try it out again. The batteries that work the camera and wireless connection will last for maybe five hours, so as soon as I am sure that every thing is alright, I will tie Gordon somewhere on the bank of a night time. It is an infra red camera that will be able to see in the dark as the other Farm cameras can.

As Swallows return to the nest of a night and and when it is raining for a while after they have fledged I will keep the camera going for a while longer. We have found another Swallows nest that will be easy to put the camera on to. There are a couple of eggs in it at the moment, so I would expect a couple more to be laid before the Swallows start to incubate them.

We put in a new branch into the Lake in the hope that the Kingfishers will start to use it as the original branch. It is sited close to the Island where have seem them land on the plants on the Island.

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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. Three from Vicky and two from Jack.

Badger feeding at Denbury taken from the hide. Vicky.

Woodpecker at Denbury. Vicky.

Harlequin Ladybird. Vicky.

Gordon the Goose. Jack

Jack and Brian on Gordon’s maiden voyage. Jack.

As you can see from the photographs that Jack sent to me yesterday, Gordon is working very well. Brain in the red shirt, I have never met Brian, bit of an exhibitionist with that colour shirt if you ask me, and Jack worked on making Gordon. Gordon is in a box on his way home to me, and will be here tomorrow. I will find the time to show you him working with the camera over the coming weekend. I don’t know about Brian but Jack unfortunately is taken and unavailable, just in case any of those seeing his photograph are bowled over by his obvious desirability.

We managed to get the new Valley camera set up and working today. It is going to be a vast improvement on the old camera with the amount of panning around that we do so that we can see the large variety of wildlife that visits the valley. I don’t know about you, but I get very annoyed when I see the wildlife but we are to slow to focus before it has moved away. The new camera has about the same zooming capability but a larger wide angle view, that makes it able to see more of the Valley. At night time the cameras wide vision and infra red lamps will stand more chance of seeing the wildlife’s eyes that we can then follow and zoom in on, getting immediate good images with the automatic focus. The camera also has a windscreen wiper that I have tried and have found very good.

We have still to fix the infra red lamps to the camera, so we will be unable to use it of a night time until we have, hopefully that maybe tomorrow, but what ever it will be by the weekend. You will also have to be patient, as the camera is controlled from a computer and we will have to get use to this different way of controlling the camera.