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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 all from Elsie.

Sky – before Katrina struck- awesome & terrifying

These pictures were made by a man in Magee , MS where the eye of the storm

passed thru – what an experience.

Magee is 150 miles North of Waveland , Mississippi where the Hurricane made land fall.
Worth passing On!!!
The dance with Katrina, part of her beauty as she left destruction on her exit. They are remarkably dramatic.

I don’t know if you managed to see Kye swimming in the Lake yesterday. The reason that I have mentioned it is that the Geese don’t seem to be worried about her being close to them when she is swimming. It makes you wonder if the Geese are worried about any Fox that are on the prowl. Kye is the only German Sheppard that we have had that likes water. Tass and her Mother Cass never swam, although when kye is swimming Tass does try to be brave by putting a foot in the water.

Breaking Smuggler is going well. He seems to be enjoying the work he is getting in the breaking procedure. We do take our time in breaking Horses, only going at a pace that the Horse is comfortable with, that is of course that the Horse wants to be broken. As long as the Horse has always been treated well, or at least has been well treated by those breaking them, it is an enjoyable experience for both those breaking and the Horse. We have broken many Horses at Denbury, and have never had any Horses that we have had problems breaking. At the moment Smuggler is being long reined. That is when he has a bridle and bit on, with long lung lines fitted to the bit in place of reins, you then walk behind the Horse steering the Horse with the lunge lines. This is done to teach the Horse to turn, steer and stop before the Horse is mounted. There is little point in sitting on a Horse that doesn’t want to turn or stop when you want it to, especially stopping. Later in the week we will show Smuggler being long reined in the sand school.

It was an opportune time for the Buzzard to show itself on the pole today, as we are hoping to put the new Valley up next week. Because it needs to be controlled from a computer different wiring had to be put up over a distance of nearly a quarter of a mile, it also had to have an untried piece computer equipment put on to get it working. We think that we have now managed to get it going now and as long as we get a free day next week we start to install it. It should be a vast improvement on the camera that is installed now. Being auto focus as most of the camera that we use, so instead of having to focus the camera manually on a subject it will focus immediately. It is also capable of seeing completely up into the sky, this will give us the chance of seeing the Bird flying high and hopefully the Buzzards hunting.

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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, all sent in by Lynne..

CARVED WOODEN SQUIRREL AT PICTON CASTLE. LYNNE.

BEE ON CRAB APPLE BLOSSOM. LYNNE.

FUNGI ON A TREE STUMP (THE BOTTOM ONE LOOKS LIKE A SNAKES HEAD). LYNNE.

ELLIE AFTER A SWIM. LYNNE.

CENARTH FALLS. LYNNE.

One of the two nesting Swallows that we have the cameras on must have hatched yesterday by the way that the parent birds are feeding them today. I shouldn’t think that the eggs in the other nest wont be long from hatching. As for the Robin she hardly sits on the nest at all. I cant imagine that her eggs will hatch. I hope that I am wrong.

I spoke to Peter in Delaware this afternoon, he hopes to move the USA Osprey camera higher tomorrow so the we can see into the nest. He told me that their are two chicks in the nest. If all goes to plan we shall be able to see inside the nest tomorrow. We are going to send Peter a pan tilt and zoom camera, the type we use on the Farm and other locations that you see the cameras move. With the camera he hopes to be able to show more of the wildlife that there is around Indian River Bay. The name Indian River Bay does get my mind working overtime. The new camera will be sent to him within the month.

I also managed to speak to Michael in the Virgin Islands this afternoon. A permit is needed to put a camera into the sea. The people who issue the permits are helping Michael in the application, and can see no objections to it. We are having a new camera fitted into the under water enclosure that will go into infra red mode as it get darker. It should prolong the time that we will be able to see the sea life as it gets darker.

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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 one.

Photo of nesting Herons at Attenborough Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire. Vicky, Derby

Wild Turkeys(really strange looking birds) in Anjela.

The white shrub is outside my window, in my neighbours garden. Barbara.

Tulip beds at the tulip mania festival. Lindsay.

Gardens At Newstead Abbey. Judy.

We put Lady and her Foal into the Horse field for the days. It was important for Lady to start moving after her having the stitches. She had a few canters around the field that caused her to discharge fluids from the stitched area. In the stable the Foal seems a little subdued, in the field he soon got out of that and cantered keeping up with Lady. I put the webcam on so hopefully some of you managed to see them.

I missed seeing the Fox around the Lake last night, but I managed to see the couple of entries on the Forum about it. I could not see the Goose or the Gosling when I panned the camera around the Lake so we went to the Lake to take a look. We soon saw the Goose. I should think that the Fox did have a go at her as she was in the middle of the Lake with the Goslings motionless. I checked on them one evening last week, before we had started to feed them. They were on the bank of the Lake. I got very close to them before they got into the water. If it was a Fox looking for dinner for sure the Goose would have been killed. The problem would be that the Goslings would not have known any better, and they would have followed the Goose.

We have started to put the wire in place for the new valley camera. The distance from the Farm House to the camera is over 300m. Putting it up through trees and a good 50m along the pathway that the Badgers use to get from one part of the sett to another is very painful with the bramble and nettles. I am hoping that it will work with the wiring that we have put in as it differs from what we usually use. Once the new camera is up and running it will hopefully be a lot better than what we have installed at the moment. Focusing the camera when following the Deer is quite difficult and a bit hit and miss. The new camera has like the other cameras, has automatic focus.

One of this weeks Holiday guests has been helping to run the wire. He is a keen amateur photographer with his own website www.kevswildlifephotos.co.uk check it out there are some good photographs on the site.

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A beautiful little white duck which someone had dumped in…

A beautiful little white duck which someone had dumped in the ford at Rufford Country park.The other ducks used to bully her so she just stayed in the ford. How can people do that??

This is heather, from a distance I thought it was an Azalea. You can just see the back end of Max sniffing around. Elsie.

Fuschias. Lindsay.

A Racoon came out at dusk this week- I had left some ‘Weetabix’ on the fence and it loved it- scooped it up with its ‘hands’ Anjela, Connecticut.

Photo I took at the airport last week. The field in the foreground had dozens of rabbits leaping around – as though they were welcoming the day!! I tried to photograph them but they could only be seen in highly pixelated magnifications! Julia.

The Gander was missing this morning. Some thing happened in the night at about 3.25am. I had the cameras recording during the night to try to find out what may have taken the Gosling the night before. For some reason the Geese did not return to the Island last night as they had since the Goslings had hatched. It could have been that what did take the Gosling, had taken it from the Island. It is only a guess but something had stopped them returning to the island.

Going by the recording at 3.25pm a Fox stopped by the spot on the bank near to the camera. He had a drink and went out of view of the camera. The Geese had been resting at the spot until about half an hour before the Fox arrived. The other lake camera I had left so that the whole of the Lake was in view, but very little of either side of the banks of the Lake. A little while after the Fox had gone from view of the other camera, the Goose returned to the Lake from the stream side of the Lake. The Gander was not seen on the recording from then on.

I walked around the Lake at about 7.30pm, other than a couple of feathers near where the Fox had drank there was no sign of the Gander. The couple of feathers would have not been caused by a Fox attack, and there was no other evidence that a Foxed had taken the Gander. I thought, I think that I probably hoped that the Gander had flown off and would return later in the day.

Later I got one of my Lads to walk around the Lake in case I had missed anything. Unfortunately I had, for in the bushes in an area that the Geese would not have gone, he found the remains of the Gander. With the Goose with her Goslings going onto the Lake on the right hand side at the time that the Gander would have been taken, I cant imagine why he would have been on the opposite bank in the bushes that he was found in. I can only imagine that Gander had faced up to the Fox instead of getting back into the Lake, and that the Fox had chased him to where he was killed. The way that the Gander would guard the Goose and Goslings, he seemed a bit cleverer that previous Ganders

I was going to try to get the Geese to return to the island before I went to bed, but if they had made up their mind to stay on the bank they would only had returned when I left. I don’t hold out a lot of hope that the three gosling will survive more than a day or so, the Goose may also be taken. I will put up an electric fence from the direction that the Fox came from, and try to get the Goose with the Goslings to return to the island, but I am sure that I will be wasting my time.

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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 eleven.

Inside the caves at Wookie Hole. Bec.

MY FAT CAT SMUDGE STRIKING A POSE !!! LYNNE.

Pineapples growing at the Eden project. Lindsay.

This rose was given to us on our Wedding Day last May. Its called Lovers Knot. It’s a climbing rose apparently suitable for a container. The size it has grown to already I think I am going to have to put it in the gound!Jacqui.

I was driving down through Burrington Coombe last evening and came across these goats – they were grazing on the roadside but scarpered when I parked the car! I’m glad they did scarper though because a few moments later a couple of “Boy Racers” came tearing down the gorge. I dread to think what might have happened! I often see the goats high on the rockface and find it difficult to look up at them! How they stay there is beyond me! I was very pleased to see them so close last night. Julia.

The Gosling have managed to survive another night. Every morning the honking of the Geese wake me. I quickly run down and check the cameras to see if they are all there. This morning I couldn’t see them, but there were a pair of Tufted Duck on the Lake. I don’t know how long that had been there. They flew away just after I had turn the camera on. We use to have a few pairs nest on the Lake a few year back, since then I hadn’t seen any until this morning. The other pair of Geese are still on the Lake. It looks as if they may well stay.

Now that the weather has warmed up the Fish are spawning. As the Geese were getting out of the water onto the bank yesterday, there were a few that were mating right underneath the Goslings. There is quite a frenzy when a female is ready to spawn. You would be surprised just how many male fish chase the spawning females. Last year we lost a very large Crucian Carp who must have died died from exhaustion after being chased around the Lake. Fish normally spawn in the reeds on the water edge, so when they are spawning you can often see them. If I see any I will put the camera on them for you to see.

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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 one.

Sunrise over St Michael’s Mount,Cornwall. Lindsay.

FUCHSIAS IN OUR GARDEN. LYNNE.

Pair of ducks pictured at Savil Gardens. Bec.

Heavy horses taken at the Bloxham Steam Rally near Banbury. CH.

Black Pheasant. Maddi.

The Geese managed to loose one of their Goslings by this morning. You can only guess why, but there is a chance that some thing has taken it. The Goslings also got quite wet in the showers that we had here yesterday. A Veterinary told me some time ago that although Ducks and Geese spend a lot of time in water, their chicks can die if they get wet through with rain. I am worried that they will survive tonight. As you have seen there are now another pair of Geese on the Lake. After a little bit of squabbling they seemed to have been getting on with each other through the day, but the new pair look as if they are going to nest. This morning they made their self comfortable on the island. If they get on the Island before the Chicks tonight, I don’t hold out a lot of hope that they will be alive in the morning. All four Geese and the Gosling have been grazing on the Holiday cottages lawn for part of the day quite close to the Farm House.

We have moved the Sheep and Fillies camera onto the Wrens nest today. The Wren has had her head looking out for a lot of the time. I am going to try over the weekend to position the camera to be able to look right into the nest. If I can find the right place, the eggs will be clearly visible. We also found a bit of time to put the cable into the barn for a Swallow nest. They are in and out of the Barns all day tidying up last years nests. I will get that camera working over the next couple of days.

Thank you for reminding us of Willows Birthday, and Elsie for her email card to Willow. Unfortunately she wont be having a party.

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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. Getting very low on photographs.

A picture of Thornbury (I actually stayed for 2 nights here last year it’s brilliant and quite an experience!!) Bec.

LADYBOWER RESOVOIR WALL, VERY SPECTACULAR IF THE WATER IS COMING OVER THE TOP . LYNNE.

The second one was captured from one of my cameras last night (Sunday) The cat sure was curious as to what the hoggy is eating but not stupid enough to get too close. Liz ( North Yorkshire )

Photo of a nuthatch taken at Markeaton Park in Derby. Vicky.

Shelduck. This photograph was sent to me by Barry at Rye Harbour. It was sent for other reasons than the Photo page. I hope he does not mind.

With the amount of work that we seem somehow to be doing this spring I have not had a lot of time to look for nest site around the Farm. Because of the obscure places that the Birds other than the Swallows manage to find to nest, nest can be difficult to find. By accident this afternoon we found three in the main Barn. Two are in a haystack that we have started to use to feed the animals with. We will need to use the hay in the stack but we will now have to be very careful to make sure that we do not disturb any of the nests. I have positioned the Sheep camera on the hay stack where a Robin is going in and out to feed her chicks. The nest is about nine inches into the stack and I will try tomorrow to put a miniature camera close to the entrance. I wont promise that we will see much of the chicks, but we will do the best we can. At the other end of the stack is what looks as if it maybe a Wrens nest. We will watch to see if we are right when we are in the Barn. Also in the Barn roof but it is unfortunately to high for the camera, is a Blackbird nest.

Lindsay mentioned in her entry on the Forum last night that one of the Badgers was waiting for the feed before before I had time to turn around. For the past week it has been waiting very close to the path that I take to get to the Sett. It follows me just out of view of the webcams below the lower part of the webcam. I have been trying to stop it as I really don’t want pet Badgers, this one is becoming far to brave. Last year I managed to stop it.

I received the email below from Simon this morning. If all goes well we will get the webcam on the website quite quickly.

Hi, I have good news as I have been checking the nest several times and I was there yesterday putting the panel in place and running the wires down from the nest where the chick sits happily. The parents have been returning regularly so today I have to focus the camera, Gerry down in the house will tell me via the mobile while I am in the nest. I will be in the mountains all day so I will send you an email before I leave Gerry’s House at the end of the day and then you can check out the nest. Cheers Simon

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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 one. A few photographs were sent in today so we are able to put five on tonight.

A PARAKEET THAT HAS VISITED OUR GARDEN A FEW TIMES LYNNE.

The Italian Chapel made by the Italian prisoners of war at Scapa Flow on the island of Orkney. It was made from a nissen hut and concrete used to build the Churchill barriers on Scapa Flow. Lindsay.

Newquay Harbour. Wales. Judy.

I’ve seen these sheep several times and thought they had similar markings to Thornton. Usually I don’t have a camera or am unable to stop the car. Today, however, Chris was driving and I DID have the camera! I’d always thought that only Rams had horns, but now I find that in some breeds Ewes also have them. I was going to ask whether Thornton’s Mum had ever been to Barrow Gurney where these were photographed. (I remembered that you were unsure of Thornton’s paternity!!!)Julia.

I took this picture of this unusual looking tree at Savil Gardens in Surrey. Bec.

We saw our first Swallow of the year yesterday evening. As I went into the Barn to get the Badger food, one flew out. It must have missed hitting me by a whisker, It frightened the life out out of me. A few years ago before I did the webcams one hit me in the side of the head. It didn’t do either of us a lot of good. The Swallow fell to the ground, I thought that it had killed itself. I picked it up, after a minute or so it flew away. I will try to get the camera working in the Barn why they are building their nest.

We have had another pair of Geese hanging about around the Lake for most of the day. The two pairs have been honking awasy all day long. The new pair landed on the Lake a couple of times, that put the resident Gander on the war path. Other than the Moorhens and Coots he chases off everything that he sees, including Tass and Kye, so with a bit of luck and the Ganders aggression the Gosling when they hatch may survive this year.

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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. Getting low on photographs again.

Penguins at Birdworld. Bec.

THIS IS ONE OF TWO THAT FELL DOWN OUT OF A NEST ONTO SOMEONES GARAGE ROOF THEY WERE VERY COLD AND SKINNY SO I THINK THEY WERE PROBABLY TRYING TO FIND MUM WHO WAS MISSING.THEY ARE JUST ABOUT EATING ON THEIR OWN BUT ARE STILL NEEDING MILK. Lynne.

Donkey took at Markeaton park in Derby. Vicky.

For Sue know how she loves these. Elaine.

This is the fist snow Ally has seen. He didn’t quite know what to make of it. Jacqui.

The new Barn Owl Nest Box webcam is now live. You may have noticed there is one egg in the nest. It was only laid today. The Barn cam will be going as soon a possible. We did not preview the webcam for very long before going live so the camera will be adjusted over the next few days, to get the best picture.

I have been trying to get a Barn Owl nest on the webcams for a couple of years. The ideal people to do it with were the Barn Owl Trust. They found the right location last year. Since then the Trust has been working on the project to have it running this year. We supplied all the equipment for the webcams. I didn’t realise that there would be as much light in the nest box or I would have supplied a colour and night camera. Installing a new camera now would possibly disturb the Barn Owls. We did have another location that wanted us to put their Barn Owls on our website, but it was right to do as we have.

We have been allowing Thornton to have more time out of his home in the washroom. He has found a spot under the kitchen table to lie when he is not running around with Tass and Kye. This afternoon we had the kitchen door open. Tass and Kye come in and out as they want when ever it is left open. Thornton did the same, and I must admit we did forget about him. Tass and Kye normally stay close to the Farm House and never leave the Farm Yard. This afternoon when we realised about Thornton, we called out for Tass and Kye, knowing that Thornton would be close behind when they came in. None of them came at all. A few minutes after shouting loud to Tass and Kye all three came running back to the Farm House from the direction of the Valley field. Obviously Thornton had decided after being taken for his walks in the valley, that he was going to make his own way there. Tass and Kye must have decided to follow. It makes a good story and we did laugh, but of course the serious part is how far would they have got if we had not realised that all three were missing.

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There are five new photograps on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photograps on the Photo page, starting from number six. Getting low on photographs again.

Penguins at Birdworld. Bec.

THIS IS ONE OF TWO THAT FELL DOWN OUT OF A NEST ONTO SOMEONES GARAGE ROOF THEY WERE VERY COLD AND SKINNY SO I THINK THEY WERE PROBABLY TRYING TO FIND MUM WHO WAS MISSING.THEY ARE JUST ABOUT EATING ON THEIR OWN BUT ARE STILL NEEDING MILK. Lynne.

Donkey took at Markeaton park in Derby. Vicky.

For Sue know how she loves these. Elaine.

This is the fist snow Ally has seen. He didn’t quite know what to make of it. Jacqui.

The new Barn Owl Nest Box webcam is now live. You may have noticed there is one egg in the nest. It was only laid today. The Barn cam will be going as soon a possible. We did not preview the webcam for very long before going live so the camera will be adjusted over the next few days, to get the best picture.

I have been trying to get a Barn Owl nest on the webcams for a couple of years. The ideal people to do it with were the Barn Owl Trust. They found the right location last year. Since then the Trust has been working on the project to have it running this year. We supplied all the equipment for the webcams. I didn’t realise that there would be as much light in the nest box or I would have supplied a colour and night camera. Installing a new camera now would possibly disturb the Barn Owls. We did have another location that wanted us to put their Barn Owls on our website, but it was right to do as we have.

We have been allowing Thornton to have more time out of his home in the washroom. He has found a spot under the kitchen table to lie when he is not running around with Tass and Kye. This afternoon we had the kitchen door open. Tass and Kye come in and out as they want when ever it is left open. Thornton did the same, and I must admit we did forget about him. Tass and Kye normally stay close to the Farm House and never leave the Farm Yard. This afternoon when we realised about Thornton, we called out for Tass and Kye, knowing that Thornton would be close behind when they came in. None of them came at all. A few minutes after shouting loud to Tass and Kye all three came running back to the Farm House from the direction of the Valley field. Obviously Thornton had decided after being taken for his walks in the valley, that he was going to make his own way there. Tass and Kye must have decided to follow. It makes a good story and we did laugh, but of course the serious part is how far would they have got if we had not realised that all three were missing.

TC. As far as we can we try to be give every organisation represented on our web site the same exposure opportunities as each other. We are fortunate that those represented have allowed us to broadcast for them. I am sure that you will understand. We will be changing the thumbnails again over the next couple of days.