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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.

A few more pics from Dungeness ….

Red legged partridge on bird feeder. Jill (Epping)

Painted Lady butterfly on red valerian. Jill (Epping)

Eyed Hawk Moth. Jill (Epping)

“Dead Man” sculpture found on Denge Marsh Gulley shingle beach near power station – its been there for many years, no-one knows who put it there or why! Jill (Epping)

Cattle egret following the cows. Jill (Epping)

There is not enough grazing for the Geese around the Lake and we are having to supplement there feed with corn and bread. I am going to have to let them out of the fence area for part of the day from tomorrow, that is of course if they will leave it. I know I will have to do it but we will need to keep a watchful eye for at about 6.pm this evening I was talking to one of our Holiday Guests who was fishing on the Lake. He noticed it first. A Fox was running between the Sheep in Reindeer Field, chasing a Cock Pheasant. They went out of sight as the Fox was gaining on the Pheasant and no doubt the Fox caught it. The Sheep who barley moved looked up and a few of them started to make their way towards where the Fox would have caught the Pheasant. It was a hedge that stopped us seeing the outcome of the chase and it could well be that the Pheasant reached the safety of the hedge, that the Fox would have found a bit more difficult to get through than the Pheasant. Why the stupid Bird didn’t take flight I really cant imagine. I do like seeing them around the Farm. And with the Fox so close we will have to make sure he doesn’t try to take any of the Goslings.

Jill, now you have started me off about the thunderstorms. We didn’t get the fore-casted weather that we were promised. It was meant to have started about 8.am this morning and passed us by clipping Minehead. Let me tell you we haven’t had a correct forecast since last Saturday. The over paid idiots at the Met Office and BBC have got it completely wrong every day all of this week. If they had managed to get it right we could have made our hay this week. As regulars know I often complain about forecasting, sometimes to the Met Office. If I had the time I would have screamed at them today. We are paying lots of Met Office employees big money to be wrong. They are no better than the Bankers and MPs taking our money under false pretences.

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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.

MALE PHEASANT.

FEMALE PHEASANT.

SQUIRREL HAVING A GOOD SCRATCH.

REEDS IN THE WIND SUNSHINE.

ALL TAKEN AT OLD MOOR RSPB RESERVE NEAR DONCASTER
LYNNE.

The picture of the heron was taken through my back window in the rain he was eyeing up my fish in the pond for breakfast !! LYNNE.

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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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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

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

Grey seal in the sea in Pembrokeshire last September. View over Sheffield city centre at night Lynne.

First picture is a Hibiscus blooming in my garden. It was a nice 78 degrees in Florida today (Saturday) and I worked in my garden. Karen, Florida (USA)

Awider view of Brimham Rocks, this is only a small part of it.Elsie.

With the recent talk of coal fires I remembered this pic of Charlie one of our cats, she died at christmas aged 21 1/2. We hardly ever light the fire now as she was the one who made us light it!!! Rose W’canton.

The Close Season for the Pheasants Shooting started on the 1st of February, the last day being the 1st of October. For those who have not heard of it, it is the time of year when it is illegal to Shoot Pheasants. I cant imagine that the law was passed for any other reason other than to allow the Pheasants to produce their young so that they can be shot next year. There are Close Seasons for most Game Birds. Probably the best known are the Grouse. The Close season for those start on the 10th of December and finishes on the 12th of August. Hence the phrase the Glorious Twelfth.

There must have been a few people around our area who forgot or ignored the Law. I must admit I thought that it was today the 4th. I don’t know why that date stuck in my mind. I hope it wasn’t important. To late now anyway. If I have known for sure of the date, I would have had the shooting stopped. Any person who shoots Pheasant would have known the dates of the Close Season. If they didn’t they should not be allowed a gun. We heard shooting on the 1st 2nd and yesterday. The Police will prosecute any person found shooting Game Birds in their respective Close Season. Different Game Birds have different Close seasons.

I am still at a loss to understand why hunting with dogs was banned and not Game Shooting. As I have said before I believe that shooting is by far a more cruel activity, than what was banned. I recently was in a conversation with a person who has a Pheasant Shoot. I have told him my feelings about the Sport. I like or love my Pheasant Shooting he told me. Why I cant imagine. You don’t need to be an expert shot to shoot a Pheasant. You would be an extremely bad shot if you missed one, especially as Beaters push the Pheasants in to the Guns, and with the wide spread of the shot from the shotguns cartridges. That is why so many Pheasants are injured rather than being killed outright, by the inexperienced people on Corporate perk day outings and the wannabe big game shooters.

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Elsie asked how any one could kill such a beautifull…

Elsie asked how any one could kill such a beautifull as a Pheasant.

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Every morning when we start work we are greeted by…

Every morning when we start work we are greeted by a hen Pheasant at the Farm House door, she is always pleased to see us, for she knows that she will get a handful of sunflower hearts that we feed to the birds in the feeders. With this particular bird it started when she would wait under the bird feeders with other Pheasants for the odd seed that the birds dropped, she got a bit wise and realised where the feed came from, near the farm house.

It is good to see Pheasants around the farm, but they are only there because of the farmers who have game shoots on their farms and have released them in the first place. If I had a choice of having them on the farm or of hearing the guns when they are shot, I think that I would prefer not to have the Pheasants. For it is not a very pleasant sport.

We had a year or two back, Wild Boar, one of the supermarkets before being taken over give us their out of date and overs bread and cakes for their feed, within a very short while we had as many as seventy Pheasants in the pen at a time feeding with the Wild Board, they were not to impressed and would mop up all that went over a certain area so that the Pheasant would not get any, it never worked, the Pheasants got pretty fat on the bread and cakes.

Most of the Pheasants are, or will soon get trusting, they have been in contact and fed by humans from day one. At the moment we have quite a few that hang around, either near the horse feed when we feed them or other places that we may at time spill a little feed.

Every now and then we get a Road Runner, who will wait at the entrance of the farm yard, waiting for cars leaving, they sometime do it for months and seem to be always there when you leave. As the cars approach on leaving, it starts chasing by the side and keeps racing at a considerable speed, some times for up to seventy yards, until it must get worn out. I can only imagine that he sees vehicles as a threat. When they stop chasing, we always wonder what happened to them.