We let Tass and Kye out after we came in last evening. They were outside a lot longer than normal, when we went to investigate they were both under the garden table, sniffing around something. We called them in. Tass had something in her mouth that she carried into the kitchen. At first we thought that it was a toy, but on closer examination we found it to be a Hedgehog. Nothing significant, but it is the first Hedgehog that we have seen in fourteen years of being at Denbury. Our friends who we went to dinner with, on seeing the Hedgehog told us that on their way up our driveway they had seen one that had kept them waiting for five minutes to move out of the way. Could well be the same one.
How Tass managed to carry the Hedgehog into the kitchen we will never know, it was quite big, there is no way that the spines didn’t prick her mouth, mind you after she put it down she kept well away from it. Kye seemed a little more sensible.
We had the same old problem with the sheep today. As we drove down the drive the Texels had broken out of the fenced off area around the lake and were walking in front of us. I really had not expected them to get out. If any had of I would have expected it to have been the Portland’s, they were happily munching away. We had spent a lot of time thinking that we had secured the area for the Sheep, obviously we thought wrong. The Texel will normally follow a rattled bag, and they are very tame. They did follow the bag and we early got them into a stable for the night, then Tass and Kye spooked them. What a performance it was after that. Two hours later we managed to get all but two back into the lake area, not the ideal spot as they had just broke out of it. It took another half an hour to electric fence off an area, so that we can keep the contained for the night. Tomorrow will try to get them into a stable so that they can be easily put into a vehicle to send them off to market next week, now that the Foot and Mouth restriction are being lifted. I may try to keep the Portland’s, they have one chance, if they break they will be on there way to. Once Sheep get use to breaking out, they tend never to stop.
The young Buzzard seems to be always around. One of the adults was with it just before 8.30pm at the same time the Kingfisher was pretty busy on another webcam. A fox frightened the Buzzard away. I reckon it was going up the the Badger sett for dinner.
I had hoped to have had the telescope working tonight, but unfortunately I am having a few problems, one with the remote connection to the house and the other I am having difficulty setting it up. I am hoping that it is not the problem that I have experienced before. I will try it again later. It is becoming a bit of a nuisance and I am spending a lot of time getting no where . I am getting to the stage when I am thinking is it worth carrying on with it.