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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.

Northern California , near San Jose/San Francisco:

Golden Gate Bridge with fog rolling in. Penny

Looking back up Lombard Street. Penny

Almaden-Quicksilver State Park. Penny

Big Sur. Penny

Dolphins off the coast near Monterey. Penny

I really thought that you would be more imaginative than you have been. Just a few guesses of what the new webcam is going to be. I have written down at least 50 ideas that there are with the clues I have given, and that was not even trying, and I know what it is. Still as long as it is up and running in the expected time you wont have long to wait.

The Cob Swan is still eating well and looking alright even with the lump on it neck. The new Cob is being collected on next Tuesday. Not to sure how he will be greeted when we introduce him onto the Lake with our three. Speaking to the person we are getting it from there is no telling how it will go. His experience has been with the Pen playing hard to get, chasing the Cob all over the place. They eventually got together but it took a few weeks. Another person has told me that the Cobs may have a bit of a set to.

Sorry that I have been neglecting the webcams recently. For the past few weeks we have been very busy. I need to replace a couple of infra-red bulbs. One in the Valley and the other on the Lake. I also need to find the break in the cable for the webcam that faces onto the Badger Sett. It is not the best of jobs, but it would have been worse still if I had of tried to do it in the rain. One of the webcam cables for the Swallows was broken earlier in the year. The Barn that it is wired to is the only place that the Swallows are still nesting in. Usually the Barn that the working Swallow webcam is going has Swallow nest this time of year, but since the Tawny Owl raided the Swallow and Doves nest a month or so back nest no birds have nested in the Barn.

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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.

THESE WERE ALL TAKEN AT HAMPTON COURT.
THEY HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDENS. LYNNE.

The lump on the Cob Swans neck is still there, but the secondary swelling has now gone.He is eating well and looks well in himself. I hope that I am correct in believing that there are two Pens and one Cob as we are getting another Cob next week. I am not sure that I will be keeping two pairs, but if I decide not to it will be easier to sell a pair of Swans rather that one on its own.

The new webcam that I have been keeping you in suspense with is hopefully going to be broadcasting before the beginning of September. I have decided that I will torment you a little more and as it is so close to be going. You may think with the little tit bits I will be giving you that you know. Try me. I may tell you if you are correct.

The camera will be located in a cold place. Although the webcam will be broadcasting all through the year the main subject that it will be covering will only be able to be seen for about six months from the middle of September. To my knowledge there is only one other webcam broadcasting the subject.

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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.

Keep checking the adds. It does help.

On a walk on the common this afternoon, plenty of insects buzzing about including –

Gatekeeper butterfly – aka Hedge Brown. Jill, Epping

Comma butterfly. Jill, Epping

Painted Lady butterfly. Jill, Epping

Bee on bramble flowers. Jill, Epping

Small cricket. Jill, Epping

Haven’t really got a lot to tell for today. I had hoped a few of you may have had a few different regional Chicken words. Although the Forum has been very quite.

I did send the new camera to Peter in Indian River Bay Delaware today, so that next year we can get a really good Osprey Nest webcam from the USA. I have sent a pan, tilt and 18x zoom camera. As the nest is lower than the top of Peters house and only at the most a 150 feet the camera will look right into every part of the nest. Peter tells me that there are a lot of other wildlife in the vicinity. Including the Bold and Brown Eagles. We hope to have the new camera working by September.

And just to tease. When I finish the Diary I will be putting together the camera for the new webcam that I am having to keep secret.

I have been trying to get the secret webcam going for a while and have sent a few emails to possible people in the location. I have now been contacted by another person about the secret webcam in a slightly different location. There is also in the location a White Tailed Eagle that does at times nest.

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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.

Here are 5 photo’s i took whislt i was holidaying at Denbury in June. Vicky.

Goslings and Geese on the lake. Vicky.

Ladybird in the Valley. Vicky.

Butterfly in the Valley. Vicky.

Small Magpie moth that came in our cottage. Vicky.

Yellow Brimstone Moth that came in our cottage. Vicky.

I was speaking to Peter at Indian River Bay Delaware last evening about his Osprey webcam. The Ospreys laid there eggs but they did not hatch this year. He is not sure why. I didn’t realise until last evening that along the stretch of the River where Peter lives there are at least fifteen Osprey nests. I am sending out a new PTZ camera this week so that we can see the other wildlife on the River through the Winter.

As a few of you mentioned on the Forum yesterday about the Bird on the post yesterday morning. It was a Buzzard hunting in the Valley. I should think that it was an adult. With the weather as it has been for the past few weeks, we have been unable to cut the grass to make our hay, so it is standing very tall. Every time the Buzzard went down into the grass after its prey it was coming back to the post with clumps of grass.

A Tawney Owl was on the Horse jump at the Badger feeding area last night. It was there for a long time. A rat walked right below the Owl. Although it was watching the rat it didn’t try to catch it.

I managed to find the time to put a webcam on another Swallows nest today. It is a different nest with different adults. The nest had eggs in it whilst the first Swallow were still in their nest. There are two other nests in the building that the nest are in. One with older chicks and the other with eggs. I have taken the the camera from the Dove nest. As soon as there are no Swallows nesting I will show the whole of a Dove nesting from the start when the eggs are first laid.

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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.

Still very short of photographs.

Thanks for continuing to check the adds.

Taken on a walk by the Thames at Iffley, some-one had just feed the Geese. Clive

White Feral pigeon on my Lawn at home, looks like the grass needs cutting. Clive

Climbing Petunia “Tidal Wave” Clive

The reason I did not have a Great Tit in this box this year

I was going to put a few photographs on the Photo Page of the new Chickens that we got last night, but it has been raining all of this afternoon and we are wet through and I really don’t want to be outside getting wet for a photograph. We only got four. That was one Black and one White Silkie Pullet that are fourteen weeks old and one Black and one Gold Silkie Chick. We would have had a few more but that was all that the breeder had left. We did get nineteen hatching eggs that we are going to incubate and we will put them on the Hatching webcam when they are due to hatch. We use to have Chickens and Geese on the Farm some years ago but the Fox got the Chicken and when one of the Geese was taken we gave the others away. We wouldn’t like it to happen with these that we have now as they are a big favorite and very friendly with our Holiday Guest.

There were four Canada Geese on the Lake this morning. They flew on to the Pond quite early and stayed there for most of the day. This evening I noticed them on the webcam on the other side of the electric fence so I tried to encourage them back onto the Lake with bread. I wasted my time. One of the Gosling who had flown off had returned. All of the Geese are now on the Lake. All I hope is that they stay there as they have no protection against predators around the Pond area.

The new webcam that I mentioned yesterday is not any Wildlife, but be assured it will be very popular and a great one for the Autumn and Winter time. I will keep winding you up with progress reports

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Got to go out tonight to look at some Silkies…

Got to go out tonight to look at some Silkies Chickens. So just a quick update. Three of the Goslings seem to have left the Lake. I have looked around for them but as of yet there is no sign of them. It is possible that they may return tonight, but I am not holding my breath.

Our injured Goose is getting better every day. The way she is looking I should think that she will now make a full recovery.

I mentioned a couple of weeks back that we were talking to people about a new webcam. On speaking to the people this afternoon we are going to do it. In fact they are more enthusiastic than I am. I cant tell you about it until we are up and running as there is only one other in the World and I would not like it to be pirated. I can promise that it will be a big favorite and one of the best webcam available to watch. And should be up and running by the end of August.

The underwater camera from the US Virgin Islands is still going to happen, but because of American Security there are procedures that have to be adhered to.

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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.

Racing pigeon having a lift on Rogers ship.
Carol Wolves

This is Cassie on the left who sadly died a couple of weeks ago she had done a 26 mile hike, I think they call it long distance. she started to show signs of great distress on her return to the stables. So a Vet was called and she was rushed to Liverpool it was diagnosed as twisted gut she lost her life, her owners are distraught as you can well imagine. Chester my sisters horse is the rogue on the right… Karen Stoke

Hyacinth, there is nothing quite as nice as the scent from these for me. Karen Stoke

A new product? ready stuffed chickens! Maurice.

Broad Bodied Chaser Dragonfly drying itself in the sun after emerging from my tiny wildlife pond in Hastings. East Sussex.

We left the gate open around the Lake so that the Geese could graze just outside of the fenced area but they were having none of it. I tried to coax them with a scoop of corn but they decided to go so far and no further. I scattered the corn on the grass and went around the Lake. On the way back I I was behind the Geese and tried to push them on towards the gate in the hope that they would go through the gate but there was no contest trying to stop eight Geese from getting passed me and I soon gave up. I will put there feed closer to the gate when I feed them. They will only need to go through once and they will no be worried. Our Holiday Guest who was fishing us that when ever the Geese hear my voice even if it is near the Farm House they swim to the direction of where I feed them.

It wasn’t until I read Roses entry on the Forum that realised that the Brno Beaver webcam was up and working. As far as I was concerned
the location was to far from a broadband connection and electricity to be able to get a webcam going. I will contact the Zoo on Monday to find out more about it. It is great to get it on our website. I tried to get a translation from the text but it came out like double dutch. We may have a Czech speaking viewer who could translate it for us. If not I will get a translation on Monday from the Zoo. I found the webcam took a little slow to load, so be patient.

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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.

Lavender field. Sarah.

Ducks on the gruffy. Sarah.

Two more from my day of cheering up. Julia..

The 2 swans in my previous photo’s have got one cygnet. Which is one better than last year, she didn’t manage any. Merrilyn.

Some how I missed Merrilyns photographs from a couple of weeks back. I will put the rest on tomorrow. THAT IS THE LAST THAT WE HAVE. SO IF YOU HAVE ANY SEND THEM IN. MAYBE THE WHINGERS MAY PUT THEIR MIND TO SENDING SOME PHOTOGRAPHS IN, INSTEAD OF WHINGING.

I am going to make a phone call to the US Virgin Islands tomorrow. I know that they are very keen to get the underwater webcam going, so I don’t know what the problem is other than Peter has not been about to pass the equipment over through him having problems with his injury.

There are still outstanding webcam opportunities that I need to follow up. I am also talking to people about a very exciting webcam. I Cant tell you to much as it may get pirated. All that I will tell you is that there is only one webcam that does the same and a charge of $20 is made yearly to view it. The owner of the location is very interested and is getting her website person to talk with me. I will follow it up this week. If I get a negative answer there are other location that I can try. The webcam will be a good addition as it is a winter webcam. Don’t start guessing and put the guesses on the Forum as you may although very unlikely get it correct. Then I wouldn’t approve it as I don’t want the idea to get known until we start.I had to laugh at one of this weeks Holiday Guests. I noticed that he was taking some photographs out side of his Cottage with out Chickens nearby. When I enquired what he was photographing, he showed a Paxo Stuffing packet an was trying to get photograph of the Chicken with the packet. If he got it I will put it on the Photo Page.

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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 six there are five new photographs on…

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

Female Peregrine feeding her 4 chicks on Derby Cathedral. Vicky.

Male and female Peregrine with their 4 chicks on Derby Cathedral. Vicky.

Canada geese gosling. Vicky.

Canada geese goslings. Vicky.

Carpet of bluebells. Vicky.

In between the work on the Farm I have been try to catch up with the outstanding webcams. I sent to the USA Osprey a PTZ camera but unfortunately it was returned to the UK. Got no idea why, and I cant get any one to tell me, or even to let me know where it is. So sorry to both you and Peter in Delaware as the new camera would have been really good as it was to be positioned on Peters House that was only a 2 hundred feet from the nest.

I spoke to Paul in the US Virgin Island this afternoon about the underwater webcam on the Island. The delay has been caused by Michael the initial contact on the Island. Unfortunately Michael has had a serious accident causing him to have a very bad broken arm that he nearly had to have amputated. He has had to go the US mainland for a number of operations.

The circumstance of the accident was that his car left the road on the Island and landed into a tree. Michael and the car were left hanging in the tree. Michael by his arm that caused the injury. By all accounts he was in the tree for some hours before he was rescued. So Paul has not received the webcam equipment or the drawing that have to be presented to the Port Authority to confirm the permission that have been given verbally.

Michael at the SWT is going to try to finish putting up the camera and infra-red lamps at the Falls of the Clyde Peregrine Falcon webcam so that it can be viewed of a night.