There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven. Getting low on photographs again.
Kynance cove in Cornwall. Lindsay.
Butterfly feeding on fruit taken at Longleat. Bec.
The osprey nest at the Loch of the Lowes, taken last year from the hide. I hope you can see the osprey on the tallest tree in the middle of the picture. Carol Wolves.
Looking down from the glass floor in the viewing platform at about 330 feet above sea-level, good job there were no holes in my socks! CH.
Old Oak tree , Sherwood Forest. Judy.
We have moved Lady back into her old stable so that we can see her through the night, now that she is getting near to Foaling. Her udder is quite large. I should think that she will not be to late from the date she is due.
I put the webcam on the Rabbits this evening so the you can see just how many there are in such small areas. On a walk around the Farm today, I was a little shocked to see just how many that are about. I cant remember seeing the amount that I did before. All the Farms around Denbury seemed to be have the same problem. The mild Winter hasn’t helped. The amount of Rabbit that there are about do eat a lot of grass, it is surprising just how much one Rabbit will eat. Very often when there is large amount of Rabbits in one year we often see Myxomatosis.
Myxomatosis is not as nice disease, it causes the Rabbits to have crusty sores around the Rabbits eyes, noses and lesions on their skin. Very often the Rabbit cant see. Not many survive the virus. I is spread by flies, mites etc and contact with other Rabbits.
The virus was deliberately introduced in Australia to control that amount of Rabbits that they had. It came to the UK from Europe where it was introduce there. As you know we don’t have shooting at Denbury,. but we will need to control the Rabbits.