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

Herons at Birdworld. Bec.

From yesterdays paper. Elsie.

Horses at markeaton park in derby. Vicky.

MY SONS FRIEND IS IN THE RAF AND THEY HAD AN OPEN DAY FOR FAMILY AND FRIEND.THEY GOT TO SEE THE PLANES AND HAD AN AIR DISPLAY. LYNNE.

Here as promised are the first photos of the new puppy. His name is Jet and he is just 7 weeks old but already he knows who is boss. Sue.

The new Barn Owl Trust nest camera is now working and we hope to have it on the web site within a day or two. The camera where you will be able to see the Barn Owls going into the nest box we hope will be working soon. When you see the webcam you may think that it is very light in the nest box. It is in fact very dark, and it is only possible to see the Barn Owls by using an infra red lamp.

We are also going to put the Osprey nest site from Delaware in the USA within the next week. Peter has got to raise the camera a little and he also needs to focus the camera slightly. I will be sending Peter a Pan Tilt and Zoom camera so that we are able to see more of the wildlife in Indian River Bay.

I am waiting to hear from Simon in Andalucia about the Griffon Vulture webcam. A new ariel was sent to him last week, as the distance was more than we allowed for with the wireless signal from the mountain range to the computer.

We put up an infra red light in place for the new Lake camera, to overlook the Island at night and to see what may be lurking about that may be a threat to the Goslings when they hatch. The Valley infra red lamps bulbs failed a few night ago. We replace the bulbs today.

At 8.15pm there was a very pregnant Red Deer Hind in the Valley. She wouldn’t have long to go before she gives birth.

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

APRIL HAS COME ON IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS THIS WEEK. SHE HAS GROWN SO MUCH AND OPENED HER EYES YESTERDAY. LYNNE.

These little cuties are in the field opposite my house and they have been keeping us amused for most of the week. They have mad half hours when they run around the field chasing and jumping up and down as thought they are on springs. Liz.

Here is a broom in my next door neighbours garden. Sue.

Duck on the thames at Iffley near Oxford, any idea what species it is? CH.

Snowy scene taken in Woking. Bec.

Donald the remote controlled Duck did go well and the battery lasted longer than I had thought it would, it would have gone on for longer, but I got fed up after a while. I didn’t realise that I was working it for so long until I got told off by the camera operator. It would have gone from one end of the Lake without me moving. I was tempted to go closer to the Geese but the Gander chases the Ducks when they get to close. Real Ducks can fly away, Donald would have stood no chance if the Gander had attacked him. I reckon that he would have finished up at the bottom of the Lake. I will try to get the camera working in the week. I am hoping the camera will be alright. There was not a lot of choice as I want a colour and mono camera so that it can be used at night with the infra red lights that are now on the Lake. If the camera doesn’t work that well I will get a remote Goose made so that I can fit a high quality camera. Jack who made Donald was unable to see it working today, as he went out for lunch. He may be coming to the Farm next weekend, so I may let him have a little go at working Donald, if he is lucky.

I hope more than a few of you managed to see Thornton on his first walk with Tass and Kye, I am sorry but it was a last minute decision so I was unable to let you know on the Forum. I will next time.. I must admit it was magic watching them. I was operating the camera, but by all accounts walking to the valley field he walked to heel as Tass and Kye do. As soon as he got into the field away he went off with Tass and Kye. Kye by what I saw was the instigator, but I still would not trust her to be alone with Thornton. Thornton wouldn’t cross the stream as Tass and Kye, but I don’t think that he did bad for his first outing. On the way back from the walk he walked at heel to the Farm House. This morning we tried to introduce him to the other Sheep, but he wasn’t that interested. He had a little sniff around the other Lambs who now are exploring out side of the Sheep pen. He preferred running mad on the grass and exploring all the plants. He is now lying out in the kitchen with Tass and Kye, exhausted

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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.

Dragonfly on the pond.Perhaps somebody can identify it properly!Lindsay.

This is pyscho-pathic Chester. Loves nothing more than to run me. He is pure evil, he does not like me. Karen, Stoke.

Swans on the lake and nest in the snow this weekend (there are 2 eggs in the nest) Bec.

SNOW CAN JUST BE SEEN ON THE EXMOOR HILLS TAKEN FROM NORTH HILL IN MINEHEAD. MARIE.

First Ducklings I have seen this year. There were lots more , but they all swam to Mum and hid. Judy.

We finally got the new Lake camera working today. It has been a nightmare getting it going. We have never had problems like we have had before. What has made it worse is that the telegraph pole we have attached it to is along the Farm driveway. None of us can stand heights so we have had to put a scaffold tower up to put the camera in place. You can guarantee that every time we put the tower up, someone came along the driveway making us have to move it. The Geese where not best pleased with us looking over them. The Gander was swimming up and down in front of us as if to tell us, keep away.

I must admit I am always a little cautious of Geese and Swans. Twice as a Boy I was attacked. Once by a Goose and the other by a Swan. The Swan did give me a good hiding. My School had a large Lake in front of it. Every year the Swans would produce Cygnets and I would sit on the bank watching. On one occasion one of the Swans for no reason flew at me, skimming across the top of the water, so fast that it was on the bank attacking me before I could get fully to my feet. It was stretching itself as high as I was, trying to peck my face and flapping its wing around my thighs and backside. That Swan did hurt me.

I cant remember where it was that the Goose attacked me. I was very young, but I remember that I ran into a pond to get away from it. Not the wisest place to take refuge. Where I lived in London there were a number of premises that had Geese guarding their property. I remember seeing a documentary about a Whisky Distillers in Scotland who also had their premises guarded by Geese.

Whilst we were putting the new camera up we heard a bit of a commotion on the Lake with the Gander flapping its wings and flying back and forth on the Lake, that was when he wasn’t stalking us in front of us working on the new camera, but we didn’t see anything. When we got back to the Farm House I noticed on one of the cameras, two Geese in the Field where we show our neighbours Sheep. They must have landed on the Lake whilst we were working and we hadn’t seen them. They were in the same place as last years Geese would land. If I had seen them earlier I would have put a floating island on the Pond. If they are there tomorrow morning I will. They will need to watch out for the Fox if they stay in the field over night.

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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.

Little Egret,Bantry Bay,Southern Ireland.Lindsay.

As you see the collared doves continue to get more trusting. GJ.

I know you’ve met Sam before but this made me smile when I opened my e-mails on my Birthday. CH.

Hi this is a Photo of a Pochard that was taken as Straws Bridge nature reserve in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Vicky.

The Cascade at Hestacombe Gardens A restored Garden 2 miles from Taunton. Marie.

I spoke to the French Trainer last night, Both Bliss and Misty are doing well and enjoying their work. Bliss seems to be training better and she does look promising. Bliss thinks that the training is play. She has dumped her rider twice when she has turned around when she was meant to be going straight. To try to stop her she is cantering with a horse by her side to keep her straight. It is nothing to worry about, a lot of Horses do it. It was good to here that she thinks that it is play. Misty is making noises in her throat when she is working. Again it is nothing to worry about. It is something to do with her tongue. She will probably have to have her tongue strapped when training or racing. All of Woody’s off spring have a habit of playing with their tongues, I should think it is something to do with that.

We tried to get the new Lake camera working today. I had needed to use a different wire than normal, and had wrote the colours of the wires down on the inside cover of my 2008 Diary. Whilst up the pole fitting the camera I phoned the Farm House to ask what the wiring was written down in the 2008 diary. I wont say who but the person who answered the phone looked in the 2007 diary. The telemetry boxed went bang. I wasn’t best pleased I can tell you. I may have also damaged the camera so I will have to fit a new camera and telemetry box just in case. If I get time I will do it tomorrow, but it could well be Monday before I get to do it.

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

There are not sufficent ammount of photographs for tomorrow Photo page.

A GREAT TIT AT A BIRD FEEDING AREA AT BOLTON ABBEY LYNNE

A pair of ducks at Savil Gardens in Surrey. Bec.

These Collared Doves are getting quite tame. GJ.

The red Squirrel at Formby. Angela.

A sign at formby. Angela.

We managed to get the new Lake camera working this afternoon. I even put it on webcam two, but for for some reason it stopped working. I think that I may know what the problem is, and as long as I can get a few jobs finished early tomorrow I will try to get it going.

We have located it on a current telegraph pole along the Farm drive. We may get a bit of grief from BT, we will just have to wait and see. The camera is very well situated overlooking the Lake. We are able to get right into the island to watch the Goose on her nest. Yes she is nesting and by the look over the past couple of days she is incubating the eggs. The Gander quite often sits with the Goose on the island. We have never seen that before on the Lake. They also use the ramp to get on and off of the island. Hopefully you will be able to see it tomorrow. The new camera is also able to see the Pond that is out of view of the current Lake camera, just behind the Lake. The new camera will also be a good security camera for the Farm, as we are able to see most of our drive. I think that it is going to be an interesting webcam.

An Electrician who was putting the electric to the new camera saw one of the Lambs in the stream by the side of the Lake. How it got there we will never know. It is the Minty’s Lamb, the last Lamb that was born. If the Electrician had not seen it in the stream it would now be dead. As it is the Lamb is not very well and we are unsure if it will survive. We have had to bring it into the Farm House to keep it warm and to dry it out. Minty has been calling for it. If it does survive I am not sure if Minty will accept it back.

Thornton is doing very well. With us putting him on to the Ewe when we found him, to hopefully get some colostrum must have worked. Bottle feeding him is making him grow a little quicker than his twin. Tass and Kye are intrigued by Thornton and wont leave him alone, but the Lamb is managing. We wouldn’t leave Thornton on his own with the dogs as we are sure that they would finish up killing him, whilst what they would think as playing.

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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. I am sure that there must be some good photographers who have not yet sent any photographs in for the Photo page.

statue is at the visitor centre,Grizedale Forest, Cumbria. Carol.

I am not a gardener so dont know what this is called there was lots of the trees at formby Angela.

These mallards were snapped in Monmouth today. G.J.

Needs no introduction, Fluffed up Robin waiting for food. Judy.

A TREE WITH VERY WET ROOTS !!! LYNNE.

I thought that you may like to see a couple of emails from Simon in Anderlucia, who is installing the camera for the Griffon Vulture webcam.

Hi, I climbed today with matt but we could not get the camera in the spot we wanted, simple reason, it was the last 6ft that we could not get across, the limestone is all fractured and loose and all 3 of the safety anchors we put in would fail under any pressure from a fall, we could not go any further. We decided to move away from the nest across the face and slightly above which is where we put the bracket I made for the camera, it is the only option. We fixed safety lines for me as I have to return tomorrow and place the camera to the bracket, and drop the power and signal cable down the face to the panel and battery which I also have to carry up tomorrow. I shall get Nyhal the computer man up there the day after to sit in Gerrys house and check the focus while I am at the camera. There may be a small and I stress SMALL chance I can work my way a few metres closer to the nest once it is up and running but we shall think about that later there is plenty of time, the chick is stuck there for months, I shall obviously set the focus to be as sharp as possible but for now the distance to the nest is what it is, so we shall see the result very soon. I have had a heavy cold for 5 days I have no voice and a blocked nose and today was dangerous hard work, ontop of that I am sunburnt and scratched to xxxx from thorns and stinging nettles so , I am out of contact and in bed until sunrise tomorow. I will e,mail you tomorrow night and confirm all the wires have been connected to the to the panel and battery etc etc. Nyhal will then help as I said before and then it will be up and running.
Cheers. Simon.

Hi. I hauled up the battery and panel yesterday and connected the wires. My computer guy is coming with me tomorrow to sit at the computeer while I climb up and set the focus. I will email you from Gerrys house when it is done. We could not pre set the focus because we had no idea where the camera was going to be and yesterday the computer guy was not available so tomorrow it is. Just so as you know Matt and I spent 7 hours climbing 5 of those hanging on ropes from a vertical face, and yesterday was 4 hours alone on the face, over 80 degrees farenheit, with no shade, threading the cable to the panel and battery.The face is full of thorns and vegetation so you cant throw the cable or it would be snagged in a hundred places. Cheers Simon.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one. I am sure that there must be some good photographers who have not yet sent any photographs in for the Photo page.

The Cuilin Mountains on the Isle of Skye. Lindsay.

This goose seemed to think he was a mallard, followed them everywhere. FF.

Sea birds nesting in every nook and cranny on these rocks at Stack rocks near Castlemartin in Wales. Marie.

The blackbird was supposed to be a thrush but as I got the camera sorted it had flown away and I ended up with this. Sue.

White Peacock. Bec.

I did not approve a couple of entries on the Forum yesterday as both had links to other sites.

I must be off of my head, for some how we now have a pet Ram Lamb. The Ewe was not letting the Lamb that I wrote about last night feed from her she was knocking it out of the way with it head every time he tried. We had bottle fed the Lamb all day. When we went to feed it last night at about 9.pm, it was out of the Sheep pen, laying out on its own and bleating. When we picked it up to give him his bottle feed he felt cold. That was it, into the Farm House he came. We partitioned off a small area in the wash room, gave him a feed, and did he drink a lot, a hot water bottle under a towel and off to sleep he went, the first time i should think since he was born. We don’t know if he is going to survive, we really don’t know if he got any colostrum from his Mother. We did manage to get him to get a little feed from the Ewe. That meant tying her up and putting the Lamb on to the Ewes teat, but we are unsure if she had any colostrum left. We have named him Thornton. Appropriate I reckon for this time of year.. He seems really well, but we will have to see how it goes.

We may just have a pair of Geese going to nest on the Lake. I must admit I don’t know if I am pleased or not after in previous years the Goslings not surviving. I don’t think that the pair that are on the Lake have been here before. I am sure that I would have remembered, the size difference is to noticeable not for me to have remembered. I am taking it that the larger Bird is the Gander, The Goose is also feeding a lot from the bottom of the Lake, that other Geese have rarely done here. The pair are also grazing and laying on the sides of the Lake in different places. As we couldn’t see the Geese on the Lake this afternoon we thought that they must have flown off, so this afternoon I started to wire up the new camera that will over look the island. Whilst on the ladder I was able to see that both the Goose and the Gander were on the island, they didn’t seem bothered about us being there at all. I have never seen a pair of Geese on the island before, only the Goose when she has been laying an egg of incubating the Eggs. When I had not seen the Geese on the Lake and had thought that they had flown off, they were more than likely on the island.

I am not going to try the remote Duck for a day or two, just in case it frightens the geese away. The new camera and the remote Duck should help to find out what it is that is a danger to the Gosling.

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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. I am sure that there must be some good photographers who have not yet sent any photographs in for the Photo page.

This was taken this morning in the Cairngorm Mountains by my daughter.A bit bleak. Lindsay. North Yorks.

Picture was taken at John O’Groats last year at what they call harbour day, when life boats and air sea rescue from Hoy, Wick and Scrabster do a display.Vicky, Derby

Taken by my granddaughter last year on holiday in Devon and Cornwall. PM.

Sunflower fell as a seed from the bird feeder onto concrete and somehow managed to sprout to this in the collected dust at the bottom. FF.

Glenfinnan Monument and Loch Shiel. Judy.

I am going to have a couple of days off from doing the Diary. I have a lot of Ministry farm paperwork to do, and also would like to try to get the new Lake camera working.

As long as the Lake is not to choppy tomorrow, I will show you the Duck working. I am not sure that I will have the camera going tomorrow. It does work but I need to fix a bit of wiring to get it working on the webcam.

ALL GOING WELL I WILL PUT THE DUCK ON THE LAKE AT ABOUT 12.AM. I WILL NOT IF THE GEESE RETURN.

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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. I am sure that there must be some good photographers who have not yet sent any photographs in for the Photo page.

Photo is looking down from the top of Plodda falls. The falls are over 100 feet high, and one of the highest in Scotland, they are near Tomich, in Glen Affric. Jan.

Taken by my granddaughter last year on holiday in Devon and Cornwall. PM.

The late Freddie & Fiona these were my first two Ferrets. CH.

Three young cygnets taken at the Apex , Burnham on Sea. Marie.

Windmill in Norfolk we stopped at. FF (Rose)

I too was a little surprised on seeing two Lambs this morning when I went into the barn to make up the Horse feeds. I had only checked the Ewes udders a day before. A few of the Ewes were quite large, but two of them have been like that for a few weeks now.

It is Dolly who has Lambed. They are both Ram Lambs, both looking very healthy and strong. What I cant make out is who is the Father. Going by their colour they cant be Ramsdens, his off springs, even as crosses would not have the spots that they have. I have been trying to work it out all day. I cant remember any young Ram Lambs being in with the Ewes, that would have been that mature to have been able to mate with the Ewes and Father the Lambs.

It was a pity that the webcam was not on the Ewes when Dolly Lambed. A week ago when we had a load of bales of straw delivered, the high load hit the cable and broke it. I was so busy last week that did not get the time to repair it. On checking the Ewes again today I reckon that there is at least one of the Ewes that is going to Lamb very soon, and maybe more. I will keep an eye on them and probably put the Ewes on instead of Emmi and Sox after 10.pm. unless any look as if they are going to Lamb. I will also now and then change the webcams over.

The Lock of the Lowe’s new camera is very clear and is located in the Osprey nest. Being a pan, tilt and zoom it promises to be able to get some fabulous nest viewing positions. It should also be able to show the Ospreys leaving and returning to the nest. Peter had hoped to have got the PTZ camera that I supplied fitted in the last couple of days, but it does not look as though he has. A CCTV manufacturer is supplying us with a new camera that we will install down the valley. We were going to change the one that is installed now before the Summer as it is quite difficult to adjust the focus when trying to view close up at the end of the valley, when watching the Deer. The new camera is a posh affair. It has an automatic focus as do most of our other cameras, and we should be able to look high into the sky with the tilt that it has, making it possible to watch the Buzzards soaring. If we are lucky it will also have a 36x zoom, this will when at wide angle give a larger view of the valley. I will have to get a tower to install it on, as the post that the valley camera is now on is a telegraph pole, that has started to lean. We wont be able to fix the IR lamps to the side of the camera as we do now, so it will mean having to install them at different positions and angles around the valley.

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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. I am sure that there must be some good photographers who have not yet sent any photographs in for the Photo page.

Duck and Duck again.

This plant was given to me,they are Moth Orchids.Lindsay.

View from Aonoch Mor. Nevis Range. Scotland. from Judy.

Taken by my granddaughter last year on holiday in Devon and Cornwall. PM.

Pam, an episode with that name, could well have been made in our Village.

I have a lot of paperwork to catch up on tonight, so I will only update you on the remote Duck. It arrived back today. Jack has done an excellent job making it for me. I don’t like to admit it but it was a lot better job than I would have done. On the first photograph you can see the camera in between the Ducks eyes. Underneath at the rear you can see the steering propeller. In the second photograph you can see a little of the workings. Under what you can see is a lot more, including the electric engine, prop-shaft and the steering mechanics. Believe me there is very much more inside the Duck than you can see. Jack had not tried the Duck in water, so I tried it very briefly on the Lake this afternoon. I wasn’t going to let you see the first launch just in case something went wrong. It sat perfectly in the water and the control was faultless. I haven’t tried the camera, but Jack tells me that what he saw was good. I will put it on the water over the weekend and show it on the Lake webcam. I will put the day and time on the Forum in case you want to see it. I am not sure that I will be able to have the camera working, as I was let down the wire for the new Lake camera and did not receive it until late this afternoon. I thought that I should show you a photograph of the Duck just in case it decides to take a dive.

If any of you are considering purchasing a nest box, you wouldn’t go far wrong in looking at the boxes that you can access from the Denbury Farm webcam pages. Clicking on the nest box on the left hand side of the page will direct you the a better description.