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Thank you all in the USA who offered me an…

Thank you all in the USA, who offered me an address for the SkyScout. I really do appreciate you offers of help. Strange thing is that Susan the person who is going to do it for me, is from Taunton, and moved to the US many years ago. Susan Brother still lives in Taunton, about five miles from the farm. I am able to send the shipping cost to him. I have ordered the piece of equipment. As soon as I get it, I will be able to get the tracking for the Telescope more precise, and hopefully I will be able to show different parts of the Solar System, other than the Moon.

The Telescope is a very large 14″ Meade, that once set up correctly, is able to track what ever it has been set up to watch, it uses GPS. We have had to motorise the Observatory Dome, so that it is able to move around automatically in time with the Telescope. It caused us a few headaches to work out how to do it. When we finished it, it worked very well. Using Microsoft remote desktop, we are also able to control the telescope from the farm house. In fact it can be controlled from anywhere in the world. At times we lose the object that the Telescope is following, once we get the SkyScout it will happen less. But when it does, we sometimes have a bit of a job finding it remotely, and I have to go up to the Observatory. It is bout 150m from the farmhouse and uphill at that. In the winter it is a job you really don’t want to be doing.

Another of the Swallows was gone this morning. There is another nest next to the one that has the chicks in, it is a lot larger and there would have been less of a chance of the chicks falling out. I have put up a board under the nest, I don’t know if it will help if another one fall out of the nest.

A couple of you have noticed that the Osprey nest web cam, now has sound. We sent the eqiupement up to the Lock of the Lowe’s Centre a couple of days ago, it was fitted yesterday. What an improvement it has made. I have been considering for a long time now, about having sound around the Badger sett. I must admit that I am a little concerned about what may be heard by those watching. I am going to put at least one more camera around the sett, probably on the entrance. I may then try sound, and see how it goes.

After baiting up the cage with bread for the past few days, tonight is the first night we are going to try to get rid of the Rats around the lake. For the past few days we have seen the Rats going into the cage. Tonight we have put into the cage a container with the poison in. They may not take it tonight. They will in a couple of days.

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