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	7:22 Fri 10 Oct 08
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. Huntcliff at Saltburn,Cleveland,with Boulby Cliff beyond, the highest cliff in England. Lindsay. Riding out the Storm off Redcar,North East England. Lindsay. "An English Country Scene" in North Yorkshire. Lindsay. "All Baled Up" A summer scene. Lindsay. A few of the frogs that are in this pond.We counted 15 at one point. Lindsay.

	7:56 Thu 09 Oct 08
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. Nothe Fort Weymouth. Sue. Weymouth sea front viewed from the pier. Sue. Portland Bill lighthouse Sue. Monument on Portland Bill. Sue View from Portland Bill. Sue

	5:43 Wed 08 Oct 08
Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. This is for Elsie! A stormy sea off Redcar on the North East coast of England looking towards Greythorpe power station at Hartlepool,Co Durham. Lindsay. Greylag Geese with Green Plover or Lapwing at Nosterfield Nature Reserve,North Yorkshire.Lindsay. Picture of Longleat House in Wiltshire, go there quite often as it is quite local for us. We are delighted that after an absense of four years a Hedgehog has returned to the area and is lodging in our nesting box. Rose W'canton. Jet, do you all remember the little black bundle we brought home about 6 months ago for daves mum well this is him now. Sue. The Female Reindeer with the maggot infestation damage to her mouth died last night. We were surprised as she looked as if she was getting a little better, but she was still scouring quite badly and I should think that it was that they made her die. She was eating and drinking well yesterday afternoon and was very alert. When she was checked at 8.pm again she looked fine. Just before 10.30pm she was looked at again. She was barley able to lift her head. I went immediately to the stable but in the couple of minutes she had just died. It could have been something that she had eaten whilst she was missing. I am concerned that she may have been given something to eat by the people that did not tell us that she was in and out of their garden. The Veterinary has sent a sample of the Reindeer dropping to a Laboratory for testing. We will see what the results tomorrow. The Reindeer escaping was of course my fault, although I did ask the people who sold us them to look at the field to tell us if it was secure to keep Reindeer in. If we had been told anything other than it was secure we would not have let them into the Field. Two of the Female Reindeer have never attempted to get out of the Field but the other two were escaping every day. We put the Reindeer who was keeping the injured one company back into the Reindeer Field straight after the death. There was some good news with the Reindeer today. Padfoot has served one of the Females today. We were working in the Reindeer Field making sure that it was secure and we have seen him cover her many times. We have noted the date. The gestation period is 210 to 220 days so as long as the mating was successful we may have a Calf in the middle of next April. Another of the Females may have been served last week but I an not 100% sure.

	6:14 Tue 07 Oct 08
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. A few shots taken at Newstead Abbey last week Found this gent fishing in the pond in the gardens. I think he's all hand woven. Some Funghi in the woods. I think its called Cup Fungi or Peziza succosa.It is Poisonous. View across the lake. Some strange weavings. Again all hand made Just for Jordan, a young Red Cap (Fly Agaric) Very Poisonous. From Judy. Only photographs for one day are left. I believe that the Otter may have tried to get onto the Lake on Sunday night. The electric wire on the stream side had been disturbed as if it had tried to get through. It is not a very large shock. just enough for any thing that touches to think about not wanting to touch it again. It should not stop the Otter from returning to the area of the Lake but it will remember the wire when it sees it and will not cross it. Unfortunately electric fencers do stop other animals. We can see by Badger tracks that they use the Lake to drink from, As Badgers have short legs they will be unable to get across the wire without touching it, although it is only about twelve inches from the ground. The Fox would naturally jump the low wire. We walked around the Lake to show one of our Holiday Guests the Lake. Without realising Thornton was following us and he touched the wire. He only ran a few yards back, but I can tell you he wasn't best pleased. We will need to fix a permanent fence with a gate to protect the Lakes. There is a little Leat Pond that water flows into the Lake from that the Badgers will be able too use. The Female Reindeer's damage around her mouth looks a lot better today. She is still eating and drinking well but the scouring has not stopped. As soon as it does we will be able to return her and the Female that is keeping her company back to the Reindeer Field.

	6:27 Mon 06 Oct 08
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. No more photographs left to go on the Photo page after today. These were taken at my aunt’s house on Lake Miltona , Minnesota , USA . Penny, Chicago Chicago Chicago. I can hear the ladies saying ahhhh when they see this. Elsie. Last one sent in by Elsie. Because of the damage that the maggot had done to the mouth of the Female Reindeer and that she was scouring quite badly we got the Veterinary to take stool samples to be tested just in case she has eaten something that she now needs treating for. We also needed more antibiotics, unless the Veterinary has seen the animal they wont prescribe medication. She is still eating and drinking well and she is quite lively. As soon as the injury heals we will put them back with the other Reindeer. Over the past days we are starting to see more Deer in the Valley, both Roe and Red. This evenings walk in the Valley with Tass, Kye and Thornton, four Red Deer Hinds and a Stag were in the far end of the Valley. I should think that there were more in the Woods and may well be a small Herd getting ready for the Rut. I will put a long range infra red lamp up this week so that we can see the far end of the Valley.

	5:58 Sun 05 Oct 08
Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page Red Admiral Butterfly taken in my garden. Vicky. Deer at Chatsworth House in derbyshire. Vicky. Waterfall at chatsworth House in derbyshire. Vicky. Chatsworth House in derbyshire. Vicky. Do you all remember Jet the little black bundle we brought home about 6 months ago for daves mum well this is him now. Sue. It is not good new with the Female Reindeer. When we checked on the maggot infestation last night the damaged area was clean and dry and looked to be healing well. We thought that if we were able to stop the scouring there was a chance that she would survive. This morning we went out to buy some Kaolin that we have used to stop Lambs scouring. To get 50ml down her we must have wasted 150ml as she would not swallow. We then checked the area of the infestation and more maggot were there. A good hour we spent treating her to rid the maggots. We couldn't see any when we had finished. We will check her this evening and late tonight to make sure that they have all gone. We have given her antibiotics and can only hope that it will heal. She is eating and drinking. She is eating the leaves of Willow and Ivy when they are stripped off of the branches. Boots, Superdrug and Moirrisons did not stock Kaolin, Asda were the only Store that we were able to get it from at 72p. All of the others offered alternatives at four times and more of the cost. Not knowing what the alternatives consisted of we would not have tried it. How these stores are ripping people off not offering the low priced Kaolin.

	5:59 Sat 04 Oct 08
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page POPPY FIELD AT DUSK. LYNNE. BABY BLACKBIRD IN WATERFALL. LYNNE. Holiday photograph. Sue. Does anyone know anything about Frogs? This one has been in the shallow end of our pond for days, it is huge and I think it is ill , almost inflated. Would be grateful for any suggestions about its condition. Rose W'canton. This goes to prove how intelligent animals are. Elsie. We seemed to have cleared the maggot infestation in the Female Reindeer. We checked her all over and we have not found any. Unfortunately there is some skin damage around her mouth that will leave her with scarring, but once her fur grows it will not be noticeable and it does not seem to be interfering with he eating or drinking. Both the Female Reindeer and our selves were fortunate that she was captured or the situation could have been a lot worse. The maggots will keep eating there way into her and with them being in the mouth area they were liable to have eaten there way into all of her head causing death. The shock for her may still cause her to die. We have the added problem of her scouring quite badly, that may cause her to dehydrate. We will give her another twenty four hours to see if she keeps scouring, for we would prefer not to give her medication when she she may stop naturally. You may have seen she is alert and eating and drinking well, always a good sign.

	6:08 Fri 03 Oct 08
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page all from Sue. The first photo is of a view from the dog walk around the site we stayed the second week of our hols. Sue The second one is Nics dog Bo enjoying his holiday. Sue. The third one is The fleet lagoon. Sue. Two more hoilday scene. Sue. We finally managed to catch the stray Female Reindeer today, and by the look of her only we hope in time. She was first seen this morning at the gateway between the Lake and the Holiday Cottages. With some one stealthily going behind her we managed we thought to confine her in an area that we would be able to catch her. The Female had other ideas and crossed the stream into a small paddock to freedom, finding her way to the area that she has been staying whilst out close to the Reindeer Field. About half an hour later one of our neighbours came to the Farm to let us know that the Reindeer was in the road at the end of our drive and that she looked to be heading away from the Farm. We followed the road into the direction that she may have been heading and found her to be coming back our way being pushed along by a car. It was just as well for if she hadn't been turned around she would have finished up on the Common a couple of hundred yards ahead, we would then have had big problems catching her. We had hoped that the car behind the Reindeer would have pushed her to the Farm entrance but instead she turned into a field gateway that would normally be closed. After spending a good half an hour running around the Field we gave up. The Field backed onto again to the area that she had been staying whilst out. With a bit of luck she would get back and not be in any danger. A couple of hours later one of my Lads and myself went to see if she was still in the Field. She was at the far end, laying down facing away from us. A noisy wind was blowing towards us so it was worth trying to creep up to her and making a dive to catch her. Trouble was that the creep would be over a good hundred and fifty metres, but it was worth the try. With my Lad in front we kept very close to the hedgerow in the hope that if she turned towards her head towards us as long as we kept still she would not see us. Creeping up to her her seemed to take forever, as we need to be very quite. If the wind died down we would stop so that she would not hear us. How we managed to get so close I will never know. It was just a case of leaning over her back and grabbing hold of her Antlers and she was captured. We tried to pull the Reindeer back to the gateway but we were getting no where fast. Getting back to the gateway was only a third of the way back to the area in the Farm that we needed to get her to, and that would not have been very nice for her, so it was decided that we would get her lying on the floor and I would hold her whilst my Lad returned to the Farm for the Horse trailer. It was whilst stretched across the Reindeer waiting for my Lad to return that I saw that she had quite a bad maggot infestation around the right side of her mouth. We returned the Reindeer in the Horse trailer to the Farm and treated the maggot infestation in the confined space of the trailer. As I thought it was quite bad. The best way to get rid of the maggots is with a diluted disinfectant solution, the maggots come out of the infected areas to get away from the disinfectant before dieing. We have treated the infected area with an antiseptic cream and we must now wait and hope that the stress and damage caused by the maggots does not cause her to die. We have taken the other Reindeer that has been escaping out of the Reindeer Field to keep her company and hopefully ease any more stress. The Reindeer is eating well so with a bit of luck she will make a full recovery. We will check her through the night and look in the morning to make sure that we have got rid of all of the maggots.

	7:19 Thu 02 Oct 08
Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page Another pictures taken at Copped Hall - Mansion destroyed internally by fire in 1917 but since 1990 been taken over by a Trust to restore it to how it was before the fire....a long job but an amazing transformation even in the short time since 1995 when they started work....Jill Male statues on summerhouse (telemons)Jill. 25-cup egg poacher. Jill. This the Birthday Card that my Granddaughter sent me. Elsie. More fungi for Jordan from Elsie. Photos I took this on the 27th Sept. Rose W'canton. Part of an email I received from the Virgin Islands. It is going on a bit. Lets hope that it will be worth it. Sorry I have been so out of touch but this has been a very busy hurricane and remodeling season for me. As for a status update... Everything is a go, just taking more time than I would have ever guessed. We have the necessary approvals and the underwater security holder has been constructed, the solar power set up and gel battery are the only hold ups. Waiting on the panel I am told as well as the gel style battery since it will be in a marine environment and we don't want to risk contaminating the water with an acid spill. Worst case scenario is the cam will be up and running in December. I am truly hoping for November. With regards, Michael.

	8:24 Wed 01 Oct 08
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. I am sure you will like this one. Elsie This will wind the ladies up. Elsie The ladies will certainly not like this one. Elsie Three photos I took on the 27th Sept. Rose W'canton. We have finished electrifying around the Lake to stop the Otter from getting any of our Fish. We had hoped to start on the Pond that is next to the Lake but our contractor who will need to top the area has hurt his foot and cant drive his tractor. It is not goods news as one of this weeks Holiday Guests who is on a Fishing Holiday has seen a very large Carp in the Pond. There are a lot of fish in the Pond. It was never our intention to stock the Pond but the fry have gone through the Lakes overflow pipes that goes into the Pond. Now that we know that the Pond is well stocked we will get it ready so that it will be able to be fished next year. It is going to be a major job preparing it as a some years back we stocked it with a number of different varieties of Bullrushes. Not one of my better ideas as now it is three fifths full of the things. Around the Pond is also well overgrown as we left it to encourage wildlife, all it has managed to encourage is very thick bramble. So before we can make a start it will need to be topped. It was Branston that spooked the Badgers tonight. Some how he had managed to knock a gate down that separates where he wanders about and the Badger Field. Rattling a bucket of feed soon got him out of the Field. We did notice one of the Badgers was lame on its offside rear leg. The photograph of the Mushroom Rose sent in is a variety that we use to get in our Fields when we had Cattle. We also use to get one the same but opposite colouring. When we stopped having Cattle the Mushrooms disappeared. They were the best Mushrooms we have ever tasted.

	5:51 Tue 30 Sep 08
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page sent in by Lynne. TURN NEXT ! SPARROWS BATHING IN OUR WATERFALL LYNNE COLLARED DOVE LYNNE SPARROW IN THE WATERFALL LYNNE LONG TAILED TIT LYNNE FEMALE CHAFFINCH LYNNE Today we are soaked through tired and a few choice words to go with it, and all because of what I consider being the nastiest evil animal that I have ever encountered, the Otter. The Otter in the Valley was the first we have seen for a very long time. And it was big, the size that would have no problem in killing Geese. So I am now convinced that it was the Otter that killed the Geese on the Lake this year and probably in past years. We have needed to waste all of today and it will be most of tomorrow electrifying around the Lake to stop the Otter from taking any more of our Fish, for sure it has been. We had not seen any signs of the Otter for a very long time. In saying that it is because we have allowed areas around the Lake top become wild so to encourage wildlife, no doubt this has hid the signs that we would normally see when Otters are about. In the Stream by the side of the Lake the were two mutilated dead Rabbits probably other victims of last night Otter. I really cant get excited about the Otter and I can well understand why the were hunted to the verge of extinction in this country. On saying that I am pleased that some of you were able to see an live Otter and not just on film.

	6:19 Mon 29 Sep 08
Fritillary butterfly on Sedum at the Edon Project,Cornwall.Lindsay. These plants were interesting,they were all Fly Traps! Eden Project,Cornwall.Lindsay. few pictures taken at Copped Hall - Mansion destroyed internally by fire in 1917 but since 1990 been taken over by a Trust to restore it to how it was before the fire....a long job but an amazing transformation even in the short time since 1995 when they started work.... Jill. Copped Hall front elevation. Jill. Female statues on summerhouse (carytids) Jill. The Female Reindeer is still missing. Again she has been seen on the boundary of the Reindeer Field. I thought that I had got away with the radio interview this morning. The arrangement was that I would get a phone call at about 7.45am to go through what the procedure would be. Nearly ten minutes later I had still not got the call so I decided to feed the Reindeer. Just as I had opened the door to leave the phone rang. I nearly didn't answer it but they have put out info about the lost Female, so I really had to. At about 11.30pm last night there were deer in the Valley, The first that I have seen for months. There were two Doe and a Kid Roe Deer. I think that it may have been Doe and Kid from last year and this years Kid. The Kid was running and playing. I must admit I was pleased to see them. I should think that there have been more in the Valley over the past months, although we have not seen any of their tracks near were we normally see them. The Cattle that we have had in the Valley have made a lot of muddy areas on the paths so any Deer footprints would have stood out.

	6:25 Sun 28 Sep 08
ing from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page from Judy. A few more photos for the Gallery Mr Farmer, Thieves Wood Nottinghamshire. Pretty Chrysanthemum in my garden Looks like this Pig at the Piggery had been having a lovely wallow in the mud Butterfly I saw on my walk in Thieves Wood (Needs a name if anyone knows it) Some more Funghi for Jordan. From Judy. Sorry I forgot to put the new photographs on the Photo page last night. The original Female Reindeer that went missing is still not back. She is still about, close to the Reindeer Field. She has been seen and we have seen her droppings along our drive. We are spending a lot of time looking about for her and our local radio station are still reporting that she is missing. The radio station have asked me to do a short interview about the missing Reindeer tomorrow morning. The thought of it frightens the life out of me. I couldn't really refuse although, but I have tried to talk others into doing it for me. I have got a reputation of cussing so I have got to watch my mouth or there will be a complaint or two. We need to make the fencing in the Reindeer Field a lot better. When the Females were delivered here a few weeks back, by the people who we got them from, we asked to make sure that the Field was secure for the Reindeer. We were told that it was. That has proved to be wrong, but we have only ourselves to blame. The far end of the Field is where we have the biggest problem and we will start to secure that tomorrow. I have been trying to find the time to put a camera in the Reindeer Field but we have so much to do at the moment it is proving difficult. It doesn't help that Paddy is in his rutting mood. He hasn't been as bad as I was led to believe that he would be, but he did half heatedly attacked the front of the Quad Bike a few days back, so the is always a chance that he may not like us being in his Field installing the camera. With putting in a post, running the wires and fixing the camera it not a quick job.

	7:10 Fri 26 Sep 08
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page CATERPILLAR. LYNNE. SUN BEHIND THE CLOUDS. LYNNE. 2 BABY STARLINGS. LYNNE. Photograph from the Northern Echo that goes with the Ewe article sent in by Elsie. This delightful photograph, was taken on a mobile phone sent to my sister, who sent it to me, I then sent it to Tina who downloaded it of her phone, and emailed it to me, then I emailed it to Mr. Farmer, isn't technology just fabulous!. Karen Stoke. Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page A news item from yesterdays Nnorthern Echo sent in by Elsie. THESE randy rams were left feeling rather blue after their sheepish passions boiled over. For they began fighting as frustrations mounted – prior to being released amongst the ewes – and the troubled tups turned turquoise. A passing photographer thought he had discovered a new shade of sheep until the farmer explained the colourful truth. He explained that the tups’ chests are marked with blue dye which is transferred to a ewe when she is serviced, so the farmer knows which females are ‘‘in lamb’’. But before the rams get to the ewes, they often fight, covering each other in dye. The embarrassed farmer, who asked not to be named, said: ‘‘They do look unusual. ‘‘They get a bit bored before they get let out and start fighting with each other. ‘‘That’s how they start covering each other in blue dye, while the ewes just get a bit of blue on their backs. ‘‘If you look closely, the all-blue ones are the daddies.’’ He said the ewes and tups were put together early in the season as he was aiming to get the lambs ready for the spring market. THESE randy rams were left feeling rather blue after their sheepish passions boiled over. For they began fighting as frustrations mounted – prior to being released amongst the ewes – and the troubled tups turned turquoise. A passing photographer thought he had discovered a new shade of sheep until the farmer explained the colourful truth. He explained that the tups’ chests are marked with blue dye which is transferred to a ewe when she is serviced, so the farmer knows which females are ‘‘in lamb’’. But before the rams get to the ewes, they often fight, covering each other in dye. The embarrassed farmer, who asked not to be named, said: ‘‘They do look unusual. ‘‘They get a bit bored before they get let out and start fighting with each other. ‘‘That’s how they start covering each other in blue dye, while the ewes just get a bit of blue on their backs. ‘‘If you look closely, the all-blue ones are the daddies.’’ He said the ewes and tups were put together early in the season as he was aiming to get the lambs ready for the spring market. The farmer, whose tinted tups were spotted in a field outside Dudley, North Tyneside, added: ‘‘I’m going to get my leg pulled around here about this.”

	6:35 Thu 25 Sep 08
Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page These are all very small Snails, they have pooped all over the box. I think this is what helps to make soil, snail poop. Jordan Age 6 Stoke These are the Baby snails I collected they are having a race. Jordan Age 6 Stoke This is a picture of a Sunset I took on Monday night. Jordan, Age 6 Stoke This is my Sunflower it has 3 heads. I am very proud of it. I have got to measure it yet so i will tell you how tall it grew. Jordan Age 6 Stoke But this is how tall it looks taken from Karen`s front window. Jordan Age 6 Stoke The Female Reindeer that I was most concerned about returning came running out of one of the shelters when I went to feed them this morning. As I had not seen her for all of yesterday I was beginning to think the worse. She looked none the worse for her day away. We have not seen anything today of the other more timid Female but after the other one returning I am not over concerned. The one thing that does concern me a bit is that they may get caught up in brambles or a dense hedgerow. Because of encouraging wildlife we do leave a number of dense foliage areas that will have a lot of bramble and we do have a lot of old hedgerows at Denbury. When we caught sight of her yesterday we tried to push her into the direction of the Reindeer Field but she got on her toes and disappeared. I wont be trying that again unless there are more people to help. We will look for her again in the morning. We have got our local radio station to put out that we have a Reindeer missing. All calls are being directed to them as we have only told of the location, not our Farm, or we will have be inundated with unwanted visitors. We have also needed to let all of the Farmers in our area know or she could well be on someones dinner plate. With the large orange collar around her neck I wouldn't be best pleased if she was shot.

	7:34 Wed 24 Sep 08
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page This for young Jordan who is so interested in Fungi. Elsie A few pics taken of the walled garden and long shrubbery at Copped hall - totally overgrown a few years ago! Jill. Walled Garden Long shrubbery (2 pics) set of steps uncovered by archaeologists of an earlier mansion. Jill. We now have two Reindeer missing. Yesterday morning we found the timid Female. After well over two hours we managed to get her back into the Reindeer Field. When I went back to check on them twenty minutes later two were missing. They had got out of a bad bit of fencing that is out of view behind one of the two shelters in the Field. The area had netting around it that the Reindeer had pulled away. By all accounts two the Reindeer have been in and out of someones garden at the end of our driveway, they did not have the common sense to let us know. Her excuse for not telling us was over past history. Believe me there has been past history when the person as well as other incident has also interfered with our animals. She didn't mind the Reindeer in her garden as they did not do any damage like other Farm animals. We have seen the timid female a few times over yesterday and today. The other one there has been no sightings at all. I would have expected for the two Reindeer to have been together, and that is what is worrying. We will have to see what happens tomorrow and if there will be any sighting of the other Reindeer.

	7:36 Mon 22 Sep 08
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page from Lynne. POPPY LYNNE SUNSET LYNNE EIFFEL TOWER IN MIST LYNNE PEAK DISTRICT LYNNE PEAK DISTRICT LYNNE One of the Female Reindeer is missing. We found two on our driveway this afternoon making their way to the Farm Yard area turning into a small paddock before they reached the Yard. We managed to get one of the two back into the Reindeer Field after she decided that she get through a hedge instead of being coaxed back. The other one is a little bit timid and as we tried to coax her she ran through a gap and around the Lake towards the road. We didn't see her go into the road but for after looking for her for over two hours we could find no sign of her. After speaking to the people that we got the Reindeer from, they seem to think that by their past experiences she will turn up within a day or two. If it had been any of the other Reindeer I would have said that it was a possibility, but I am not to sure with the one that is missing. She tend to hang back and doe not get very close to humans after than when I feed the Reindeer. I must admit that keeping Reindeer is more of a challenge than I had expected. I thought that I had secured the fencing, especially as we had found none out of their Field for a good few days until today. We will need to decide if we are able to keep Reindeer without spending more than we would want to on additional fencing. I am not to sure that we will want to.

	5:53 Sun 21 Sep 08
Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page from Judy. All of the photographs on the Photo Page are those that have been sent in By Judy. A few more photos for the Gallery Mr Farmer. Cars driving through the ford at Rufford. You wash my car and I'll wash yours?? Judy A Strange but beautiful Orchid. Judy The next three photos I thought Jordan might like to see Funghi I found on my walk. From Judy

	6:57 Sat 20 Sep 08
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page from Judy. There is only one photograph left to put on the Photo page. Here are a few more photos for the Gallery taken at Rufford Country Park. Great Crested Grebe, having a snooze. Two Beautiful swans. They approached each other making a racket. They sounded like Horses snorting. View across one of the ponds. I love the old tree. My dog chased this little chap up the tree , where he sat chattering to us. A Sunflower we found growing on its own . I think the birds must have dropped a seed. From Judy

	6:59 Fri 19 Sep 08
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page from Judy. There is only one photograph left to put on the Photo page. Some more Norfolk photos; Three Views of Hunstanton Esplanade Gardens Sandringham Estate Woodlands Bircham Windmill From Judy. The Sheep seemed to have settled themselves into the main Horse Field for the past few weeks. A good chance for Ewy to join them. But she hasn't been near them, she only wants to be with the Horses. When we feed Willow and Gypsy in the Field Ewy eats with Gypsy out her bucket, but if any of the other Sheep try to eat with the Horses they get a sharp kick. They have learnt their lesson and keep well away. Watching the webcam whist I am writing tonights diary Ewy is grazing with the Horses. A little earlier on when Ewy realised that Willow and Gypsy had gone to the gate she ran rather quickly to join them. Most time when we let the Hoses back out in to the Field Ewy is waiting by the gate for Breeze. Next week we will need to wean the Lambs off of the Ewes. They are still feeding from the Ewes when the really don't need the milk. When we take the Lambs to Market we will look for a Ram. We want a Jacob Ram but when I use to go to Market it was not very often that we saw any. Jacobs are not a commercial Sheep although we had a number of Jacob Ewes some years back and we crossed them with a Texel Ram and the Lambs were top grade. As most of the six Ewes that we now have are Texel the Jacob cross should be good.

	6:31 Thu 18 Sep 08
Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. This is my Fungi that I collected from a tree in my friends garden it is actually growing on bark. I pulled it off and Karen let me take my own photo of it. Jordan Age 6 Stoke. Cassie having a brush down on Saturday up the Stables, she had just done a 17 mile ride through the Woods. The lady grooming her told me that was not really enough for her , I just wished I would dare get on a Horse, again it must be the most wonderful thing just riding through the Woods. I would just keep going and going lol. Karen Stoke. This is TIA, a whippet that was up the stables on Saturday she was delightful, and so friendly. Karen Stoke. Thornton in his favourite resting place - the Farmhouse porch. Note the "lamb food and water bowls"!! Finn. Another photograph of the tree in Andra Pradesh -India. Elsie. Mary was asking about training the Reindeer to pull the Sleigh and the Harness. The entry on the forum reminded me to phone a Lady in Sweden who was going to find out who I may be able to get a set from. She gave me a phone number of a person in Finland. Of course they could not speak english but managed to give me another phone number. After twenty minutes I managed to get the person to understand what I wanted. He has told me to phone again this evening and there should be someone there to help me. Padfoot is able to be walked with a head collar already so it will not take long to train him to pull the Sleigh, we hope. Nothing can be done with Padfoot until after the Rutting season. I that should finish before the end of November have broken Horses to Harness, Reindeer I am told are a lot easier and you would lead Reindeer rather that drive them. The Females are getting friendly now that we are feeding them in their Field. They come to the inside fence as soon as I call them. They will soon learn to trust me, once they have the trust I don't imagine that teaching them to lead on a head collar will be hard.

	6:38 Wed 17 Sep 08
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. Antique Sleigh. Antique Sleigh. Here is a picture of some slugs it had just had babies, and I put the tomato by them to stop them eating Karens Strawberries. I just love Slugs they feel so slimy , and the babies were so cute. Jordan, Age 6 Stoke. Taking a walk up the valley with the kids we saw this relaxed little group in your field. Julia. Goose cam on the lake - Finn on remote controls!! Julia. The two sleigh are have managed to find over the past two weeks. The first one is over a hundred years old and need quite a lot of renovation, to much that I would have time to do over the next few months. The underside is quite good needing a only a small amount of work, so I am tempted to take the body off and have a new body made. I got to decide over the next week or so. The second Sleigh I got from a person who had purchased it from a Carriage Auction a couple of weeks back. I had made telephone bids for it but as I didn't know a lot about it I stopped bidding. I made contact with the buyer and got it from him. If I had purchased it I doubt that I would have got the first one. This Sleigh is getting on for a hundred years old, again it need renovation but not anywhere near as much as the first Sleigh. I will get the old paint burnt off to the bare wood over the next two weeks. The original paint is badly crazed and is the only thing that can be done with it. We will then get it hand painted as it would have been done when first made. The upholstery will be renewed with buttoned leather and the floor of the body will be carpeted. The colour of the Sleigh looks blue, when in fact it is a dark green and we will keep it in the original colour. I will let you know how we progress with it.

	7:09 Tue 16 Sep 08
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page sent in by Lindsay. West Bay, Dorset from the other direction. Lindsay. Wild Mute Swans on the Somerset Levels in winter. Lindsay. West Bay,Dorset.A strange cliff in the winter light.I think Vicky has a similar photograph. Lindsay. Glastonbury church in winter.Lindsay. Reed Mace and Sedge,in winter at the Shapwick nature reserve in Somerset.Lindsay. To our great relief all of the Reindeer have stayed in their Field today. The Reindeer getting out is a worry that we don't want. If we need to put special deer fencing up it would cost in the region of £4000, an expense that I would not want. With a bit of luck tying the wires together may stop them being able to get through the fencing. We need to spend a good few hours checking around the field tying where a possible breakout may occur. What we have noticed is that where the Reindeer have got through the fencing, is in places that they have been eating the hedge around areas that have Ivy. All livestock that we have had have eaten Ivy and it is said to have healing properties. When I get time I will read up on it. Someone mentioned about us getting a Sleigh for the Reindeer. We have over the past week managed to find two. I will put a photograph of the on the Photo page and tell you about them tomorrow.

	7:46 Mon 15 Sep 08
Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. More photographs of a Tree in Andra Pradesh - India. Now have a close look at the bark and experience the unbelievable figures of creatures engraved in the surface of the entire tree trunk Absolutely real!!! Elsie. This is my Fungi i collected Karen took a photo of it for me. I just love collecting fungi, it is very interesting i like the smell of it to. Jordan Age 6 Stoke. Thornton in his favourite resting place - the Farmhouse porch. Note the "lamb food and water bowls"!! Finn. Age 7 Dunster Castle taken on the steam train returning to Denbury. Shame about the parallel telegraph wires, unavoidable unfortunately!! Julia. When one of the Female Reindeer got caught in the bramble yesterday afternoon it seemed to disappear once it had been released. One of us thought that we had seen it the other side of the fence but as quick as it had disappeared we saw it come from a hedge. We thought that we had not seen it feeding close in to hedge. This morning when I went to feed the Reindeer another one was missing and appeared when I put the feed in to the feed trough. Late this afternoon again another female was missing, and after walking around in the inside perimeter of the Reindeer field I caught sight of it on the other side of the fence. By the time we had got round to the place where we had seen it it had managed to get back inside the fence. I must admit I didn't expect the Reindeer would be able to get through the fence. It is fence from when we bred Ostriches. Six evenly spaced horizontal wires six foot high in between ten foot spaced posts. I couldn't imagine the Reindeer with their antlers being able to get through the fencing. Unfortunately they are, and it is a problem that I have not expected. We have needed to find the time to tie strings vertically to each wire where there are see through places in the hedge, hopefully this will stop the Reindeer from pushing through the wire as now the gaps cant be increased. We will have to wait and see. What I am worried about is that the Reindeer may be able to breed with our native breeds of Deer, if they can then it is possible that our Females may go off if they get the scent of another Male Deer.

	6:28 Sun 14 Sep 08
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. This is my Sunflower I am very proud of it, I watered and cared for it, it is in Karen's front garden. It has got 3 heads. Jordan Age 6 years Stoke, 4 Photographs. I cant remember when we last had such a lovely day as today(Saturday 13th Sept). Our garden suddenly came to life again, so I got the camera out. Rose W'canton. One of the Reindeer Cows managed to get her antlers caught up in a large clump of Bramble this afternoon. Now that they are in their own Field I cant get them on the webcams, as I am using the main Badger camera that is a good four hundred metres away from the field and there are large areas that I cant see. I need to watch them more often than I would have to for a week or two, to make sure that they do not start to scour as they have all been moved from different locations. Changing their grazing could upset their stomachs. When I went to look at them this afternoon one was missing. Other than getting out of the field she was either in one of the two shelters or by the side of one. I found her by the side caught up. It was the friendliest one but she wasn't best please with the thought of me going to have to get hold of her so she panicked and tried to get behind the shelter. The gap between the fence and the shelter was not wide enough for a Reindeer so I was able to get hold of her. Untangling her wasn't easy. I came out worse being scratched by very large bramble. We have cut them away so hopefully we wont get that problem again.

	2:14 Sat 13 Sep 08
Yesterday Elsie asked to see some photos of Thornton. Well, as it's her birthday today, here are a few I hope she'll like! We were walking back to the cottage one day and saw Thornton, up on his hind legs eating across the wall. As we approached, he gave us a look as if to say "I'm busy" and just carried on eating!! Regards, Julia.

	5:34 Fri 12 Sep 08
Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page taken by Judy. We have only got aa few photogragh of Finns and some from Elsie of the Tree. Here are some more of my photos taken on Holiday in Norfolk The remains of an ancient sunken forest at Thornham Burnham Overy Windmill Fishing boat at Wells-next-the sea harbour Dahlias at Caley Mill. Heacham. From Judy.

	5:53 Thu 11 Sep 08
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page taken by seven year old Finn on his Holiday at Denbury. A locomotive at Minehead station when we took the kids on the West Somerset Railway. A view of the Bristol Channel from the train. A toadstool at the top of the valley at Denbury. Thornton. Smuggler and Thornton. If any of you were watching the Reindeer field this afternoon you may have seen three Birds. They were to far away to be easily recognised but they were a pair of Buzzards with this year youngster's. It is mainly above this area they they are hunting for food. I should think that the Buzzards nested in this area. On my walk through the Valley this afternoon I believe that I saw a Rabbit with Myxomatosis. I was a bit of a way from the Rabbit so I could be wrong. The Myxi virus causes tumors on the skin but is noticeable around the eye and nose. The Rabbits with the virus usually die within a couple of weeks, although some Rabbits are immune from it.

	6:13 Wed 10 Sep 08
Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page sent in by Judy. Hi Mr Farmer, here are some views taken whilst I was on holiday in Norfolk. I hope you will be able to include them on the gallery. The Old Lighthouse. Hunstanton. Norfolk. Taken from the arch of the chapel of St Edmund ruins. The famous striped cliffs at Hunstanton. White chalk upper, Limestone, or Red Chalk middle layer and then a layer of grey/green Carstone. Many fossils have been found. Castle Rising. 12th century Castle with keep built around 1140AD. The most famous piece in its history was when it came to the Mother of Edward III , Queen Isabella ,following her part in the murder of her husband , Edward II. It is said to be haunted by a she wolf with hair as white as snow and dripping fangs!! The Church of St Lawrence, Castle Rising village. Sunset at Heacham Beach. from Judy. All of the Reindeer are now in the field we have prepared for them. Last evening we decided to take the four Females (Cows) to the field as we wanted to collect Padfoot the Male from Cricket St Thomas early this morning, before the Zoo opened to the public. We had decided before we loaded the Females that we would have a few problems and a bit of a run around to get them into the Horse trailer to take them from the Stables to the Field. In fact we could not believe how easy it was. We had prepared ourselves with gates to confine then in a small area just by the entrance of the trailer. We let two out of the stable and they walked straight into the trailer, we opened the other stable expecting the first two to come out of the trailer, they didn't and the second two also walked straight in. On getting them to their Field, no sooner had we opened the trailer doors they ambled out took a few paces into the Field and put their heads down to munch at the grass. We got up very early this morning so that we could get the Horses into feed them before we set out to Cricket St Thomas. The Zoo is only forty minute away from Denbury, so an easy journey for Padfoot the Male (Bull)back to Denbury. Again he was easy to get into the Horse Trailer. The Zoos two females were watching Padfoot leave. It made us wonder if they will miss Padfoot. Mind you we have the same problem when any of our Horses leave the Farm when sold. We didn't know what to expect when we let Padfoot out of the Trailer when we arrived back at Denbury. At first he was in no hurry to leave the trailer. He seem a little bewildered, that was until he saw the Females who had come out of one of the two shelters that are in the field. Head up and away he went for all of ten paces, until he realised that he was in a field of grass. Padfoot didn't even bother to acknowledge his harem. Even when the Females were next to him they were ignored while he munched on the grass. Thankfully moving the Reindeer and introducing them to each other was a lot different than what we had imagined. It was a bit of an anticlimax. We have been looking in on them all day. They have settled in well and are together as a group, even when in the shelters they are all together. Padfoot come over to the the rails when we call out to him as Paddy bringing the Females with him. He is not in his Rutting mood yet, but going by what we have been told by both the Zoo and the suppliers of the Females he will soon change. We are using the main Badger camera to look into the Reindeer untill we get the time to install a camera into the Reindeer Field.

	7:33 Tue 09 Sep 08
Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page. The first three from. Angela (Kent ) that goes with the Horse story. Branston - the grass is always greener! Finn. Fungi on a tree in Denbury woods. Finn. Below is an email from Libor concerning the CZ Owlcam. Hi.The webcamera and the computer is under small reconstruction now, something regarding to "stream and new server". I hope, that everythink will be OK as soon as possible. I hope, that next year we will prepare less complicated arrangement - maybe on our own web sites. The cooperation would be with UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Dolni Morava - we can prepare several interesting webcams from some nests (white storks, kestrels, maybe short-yeared owls). The director is interested in web cameras and we will discuss the technical possibilities and financial conditions. Best regards, Libor Hello Mr farmer it been a time since I sent any pic to you I have kept myself informed on the farm I was without a computor for a while but I am now back on line Its been so busy here in kent this so called summer I am not too far from Dungernes and rye I just thought you would like to see this horse it a truly amazing animal My grand children are sooooooo pleased you have santas Reindeers on holiday for him I have told them you are going to loan them to hhim at christmas Take care. Angela (Kent ) A terrific (and true) story. http://www.snopescom/photos/animals/molly.asp Ya gotta meet Molly Meet Molly. She's a grey speckled pony who was abandoned by her owners when Hurricane Katrina hit southern Louisiana She spent weeks on her own before finally being rescued and taken to a farm where abandoned animals were stockpiled. While there, she was attacked by a pit bull terrier and almost died. Her gnawed right front leg becamen infected, and her vet went to LSU for help, but LSU was overwhelmed, and this pony was a welfare case. You know how that goes. But after surgeon Rustin Moore met Molly, he changed his mind. He saw how the pony was careful to lie down on different sides so she didn't seem to get sores, and how she allowed people to handle her. She protected her injured leg. She constantly shifted her weight and didn't overload her good leg. She was a smart pony with a serious survival ethic. Moore agreed to remove her leg below the knee, and a temporary artificial limb was built. Molly walked out of the clinic and her story really begins there. 'This was the right horse and the right owner,' Moore insists. Molly happened to be a one-in-a-million patient. She's tough as nails, but sweet, and she was willing to cope with pain. She made it obvious she understood that she was in trouble. The other important factor, according to Moore , is having a truly committed and compliant owner who is dedicated to providing the daily care required over the lifetime of the horse. Molly's story turns into a parable for life in post-Katrina Louisiana. The little pony gained weight, and her mane finally felt a comb A human prosthesis designer built her a leg. The prosthetic has given Molly a whole new life, Allison Barca DVM, Molly's regular vet, reports. And she asks for it. She will put her little limb out, and come to you and let you know that she wants you to put it on. Sometimes she wants you to take it off too. And sometimes, Molly gets away from Barca. 'It can be pretty bad when you can't catch a three-legged horse,' she laughs. Most important of all, Molly has a job now. Kay,the rescue farm owner, started taking Molly to shelters, hospitals, nursing homes, and rehabilitation centers. Anywhere she thought that people needed hope. Wherever Molly went, she showed people her pluck. She inspired people, and she had a good timedoing it. 'It's obvious to me that Molly had a bigger role to play in life,? Moore said. 'She survived the hurricane, she survived a horrible injury, and now she is giving hope to others.' Barca concluded, 'She's not back to normal, but she's going to be better. To me, she could be a symbol for New Orleans itself.' This is Molly's most recent prosthesis The bottom photo shows the ground surface that she stands on, which has a smiley face embossed in it. Wherever Molly goes, she leaves a smiley hoof print behind. Forward this and share it with all of the animal lovers that you know.

	6:36 Mon 08 Sep 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number six. Only a few photographs left. Mountain on way to Whistler from Vancouver. Elaine. Sunset over Vancouver.Elaine. Smuggler - taken from the low angle of a 7 year old; Finn.. The Reindeer. Finn. Now have a close look at the bark and experience the unbelievable figures of creatures engraved in the surface of the entire tree trunk!!Absolutely real!!! Elsie. When the Reindeer came here on Friday there was not any feed for them, other than hay and straw, so I had to go to Cricket St Thomas on Saturday to get a bag until I can find a local suppliers. Whilst at the Zoo I went to look at Padfoot and Fleur, who were meant to be coming to Denbury when Padfoot had started to loose his velvet. Unfortunately one of the Female Reindeer at the Zoo had died a couple of months ago. If I had taken Fleur it would have meant that the Zoo would have only one adult female and two of this years calves. Although when I agreed that I would take Padfoot I would need a female to go with him, it would be unfair to leave the Zoo short. Now only Padfoot will be coming to Denbury. We hope that will be on Wednesday. Our intention was to keep two of the female and sell to sell the others. Trouble is that we like them and have decided to keep the four, especially as we are now not getting Fluer. Two of the Female Reindeer are getting quite friendly. We were hoping to get lead ropes on them by tomorrow, but I don't think that will happen. We will need to put the Females into the field that we have prepared for them tomorrow so that Padfoot is not left on his own when he arrives on Wednesday.

	8:52 Sun 07 Sep 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number one. Only four photographs left. Have a close look at the bark of the tree and experience the unbelievable figures of creatures engraved in the surface of the entire tree trunk!! Elsie. Some fish Don't know what sort they are or where she took it. Elaine. The next two photographs were sent by Julia taken by Finn Julia's seven year old nephew whilst staying at Denbury last week. Thornton; (I'd changed the batteries in the camera and forgotten to change the date/time! This was taken on 1st September) The lovely Reindeer. Finn. The Swallows nest had been raided during the night or early this morning. When I changed the camera over this morning most of the nest was gone and on checking out in the barn their were the feathers of the youngsters on the floor. It was more than likely a Magpie. It was late for a Swallows nest, by the time the chicks had of fledged in over a week or more time in would be getting on for October. It wouldn't have left a lot of time for them to have strengthened for the their flight to the south to migrate to a warmer climate for the Winter.

	7:54 Sat 06 Sep 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number eleven. Only four photographs left. Here are a couple of photos my friend Tracey sent from her visit to Vancouver.Hope you can use them. The first one is a bear climbing a tree. Elaine. The second are some fish Don't know what sort they are or where she took it. Elaine. View over the RESPB Reserve at Dungeness. Jill. Epping. Some people have a great imagination to visualize this in their heads first.A Tree in Andra Pradesh -India At a glance you may be confused the above tree with a massive trunk with a 'Baobab' tree (which is renowned to possess the largest tree trunks of the world) but, this is yet another unknown specie which is seen in the close proximity of a hermitage deep in the dense forest in 'Andra Pradesh' in India. Elsie. The bullying by one of the Reindeer last night wasn't very bad, but it was unfair after the long journey that they had yesterday to have one being chased about. After splitting them up into two groups they settled and when we let them out together this afternoon in the corral there was no bickering at all, but until we put them in to their field we will keep them separated. They will soon sort out the pecking order once that they are in their field. All new animals put together for the first time go through it. Although all of Reindeer came from the same place I should think that they were in different groups. A couple of them meeting each other for the first time yesterday. Branston got really spooked when he first set eyes on the Reindeer. He didn't hang around to get out of their sight and hid away for a good few hours. Even when we put his feed down he didn't want to know until we took it to him out of sight of the Reindeer. This afternoon he started to get braver, first looking from a distance, then near the corral but with an exit if he needed to run. Eventually he put his head into the corral, even touching noses with one of the Reindeer. He will be alright now. This afternoon after only being here for a few hours two the Reindeer are getting friendly with us. They are coming up to us and allowing us to touch them. For the next few days before they go into their field we will try to get then being walked with a lead rope. We never have considered keeping Reindeer and if it had not been that we were offered Padfoot from Cricket I must admit that we would not have have got any. Up to now we have found them to be extremely nice animals to have and our Holiday Guests all seem to agree.

	6:21 Fri 05 Sep 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number six all sent in by Jill. Only four photographs left. A few more pics showing the start beauty of Dungeness.... My Accommodation with power station in background. Burrowes Pit with Water Tower in background. Part of the trail path. Yellow Horned Poppy. Cormorant Island. Jill, Epping. When the Reindeer arrived this afternoon we put them straight on the webcam so that you were in on the action as we were. The person who delivered them put head collars on so that we can later start to lead them around. As soon as they were settled one started to put her marker down as the herd leader. They had come from a lot larger herd that would have had a herd leader, so our little herd was leaderless when they arrived. There may be a little more bickering but I think that they are now settled. Once we know who is who we will remove the plastic number collars from around their necks and look to put them in the field that we have made ready for them. We need to try to get them in to their field by Tuesday so that we are able to collect Padfoot and Fleur who will need to go straight into their field.

	4:58 Thu 04 Sep 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number one. Only four photograpgs left. Young Common Seal. Vicky. Young Common Seal. Vicky. Giant Owl Butterfly. Vicky. Glass Wing Tropical Butterfly. Vick. Here is a photo my friend Tracey sent from her visit to Vancouver. Killer whale swimming in the Atlantic I think she said. Elaine. Fortunately I have had no more encounters with Rats. Reading it from a long while back I can see that if it had been any body but myself experiencing the encounter, I would have been falling over with laughter. Nothing to do with wildlife or farming one of the funniest stories that I have ever heard was told to us by one of our relations. They do not own a computer or know how to use one, so I am safe to tell you the story without them seeing it. The lifestyle of our relation who lives in Birmingham, is one of the Women's institute, cake and jam making and visits to the theatre and classical concerts. For sure the Husband would not have the interest as his wife and I should think that the theatre and music night outs were done under protest and to keep the peace, on the Wife's side to make the Husband feel involved and not left out. This story was on a visit to Birmingham Symphony Hall, for a concert by the City of Birmingham Orchestra. At the interval the Husband was in need of the toilet, telling most of the audience with his deep Brummie loud accent. After the twenty minute interval the Wife was starting to get concerned as Husband had not yet returned to his seat. The light dimmed and the Conductor returned to rostrum taking a bow and raising his baton when on the stage came the lost Husband trying to find his seat. He told later that he had been wandering about the theatre trying to find his way to his seat and had followed what he thought was a member of the audience who turned out to be the conductor.

	8:01 Wed 03 Sep 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number eleven. Only four photograpgs left. Does anybody know what this is please?.There were lots of them found on the beaches near Mallaig on the West coast of Scotland.They are quite hard to touch.My daughter said it was a very low tide and wondered if they were Turtle Egg shells which had been swept across the seas in the currents.Occasionally large seeds have turned up on the beaches from the Carribean..Lindsay. My daughter took this at the cottage they are staying at in Glen Nevis near Fort William in Scotland.Lindsay. My daughter has taken this photo tonight in Glen Nevis near Fort William.Lindsay. One of hubbys cards he received for this years birthday we had quite a giggle about it, it has not scanned as well as i hoped it may. Marie in Taunton. This is for Elsie now she is able to use her pc again i took this in Spain growing in my friends garden a Pomegranite in flower with a fruit just setting at the side of the bloom i think the flower is very attractive. Marie in Taunton. The Kingfisher was on the branch this morning. Seeing him got me wondering why we haven't seen him as much as last year. Pity I didn't think a while back, as just behind the branch is a partly broken limb of a tree that has fallen into the Lake. As it has a lot more branches and is lower in the water than what we have put up, it is obviously catching from the tree instead of the branch. We are still getting the fencing ready for the Reindeer that are arriving on Friday, but as soon as I get an opportunity we will cut away the overhanging limb. We also found another Swallows nest in one of the Barns this morning. By the look of it and is was a quick look as one of the Adults dived at me a couple of times, the youngsters are about a week old. I put it on the Cam Two but there seems to be a problem with the Electricity as it kept tripping out. I will get it working from a different supply in the morning. I cant remember how late the last Swallows nest was last year. It was quite late, but the weather was better. At the moment it must be difficult for the Adults to feed their young with the amount of rain we are getting.

	9:07 Tue 02 Sep 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number six. Only three or four photograpgs left. Here are a few pics of interesting finds at Dungeness! Two common cranes that paid us a very rare visit. Rosy Underwing Moth - a rarity for Kent and a first for me and a credit on the mothsofdungeness website! Great Green Bush Cricket - specimen found was 4 inches long and a very handsome chap! The Black Hut on Rye Harbour - just to show you it does exist! Jill (Epping) More Turkeys. Marie/NJ Jill's mention of Dungeness reminded me of a job I once had as a Driver for a Company delivering refrigerant gas to Ships in the London Docks. Boring would be an understatement. An adventure would be a twenty mile journey to Tilbury Docks. So when I was offered overtime on a Saturday morning to Dungeness, it was as if I was being offered an adventure. As it happened it turned out to be very different from my normal working day. The delivery instructions for the gas was to the agent for a ship. On arriving at the office that overlooked the sea, the ship was pointed out to me as a speck on the horizon, with the instructions that I would have to deliver it out there, and that a boat would be available to take me there at the end of a long jetty that was only accessible by a Thomas the Tank look alike train. The gas bottle was as tall as me and weighed twice as much, that I would normally deliver at the side of the ship on the dock side in London. With no wheelbarrow I had to ask the train driver to drop the bottle at the end of the jetty for me. The only place for the gas bottle was on the footplate of the train and which the driver invited me to stand. Although it was the first and last time that I ever stood on an engine footplate, that was not my lasting memory of the journey, it was when the train went round a sharp bend that for a frightening moment I thought that I was going to finish up in the English Channel. The train driver pointed out the boat that was to take me and the gas bottle to the ship. It looked well over laden with stores for the ship before the bottle and me got in, and I swear it wasn't much bigger than the dingy on our lake. The journey to the ship took getting on for three quarters of an hour in not a raging sea but not over calm either. It didn't help my courage with the sea splashing over the sides of the boat, leaving more seas water in the bottom than I liked the look of. If I had a baling implement I would have been using it. Unloading the stores and gas bottle was a nightmare that I would never want to experience again. The ships gangway was lowered fully down but it was still at head height one minute and nearly sinking our boat the next, somehow we had to pass the store to the ships crew who were chain passing them to each other on the gangway. I had signed up for the Merchant Navy and had done a couple of three months trips only a year or so before, never once being seasick, or was I on the outward journey to the ship to deliver the gas bottle, but was I ill on the way back to land. I never had reason or a desire to return to Dungeness. Until Jill's mentioned it I forgot it even existed. And those Heron are still not as far away as I would like.

	7:19 Mon 01 Sep 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number one sent in by Lynne. POPPY FIELD. LYNNE. THORNTON FORCE YORKSHIRE DALES. LYNNE. BISHOPS HOUSE 5 MINUTES FROM WHERE WE LIVE. LYNNE. SHEEP ON THE MOORS IN THE PEAK DISTRICT. LYNNE. BABY BLUE TIT. LYNNE. Two of our Female Reindeer are arriving at Denbury this Friday. We have purchased four Females, two we are selling to a person that I know in Yorkshire. Padfoot and Fleur who are coming from Cricket St Thomas will be here as soon as Padfoot starts to shed the velvet from his antlers, that should start at any time now. We are starting to get the paddock ready for the new arrivals. We hope to be able to put the Females in the Barn where Willow and Gypsy were kept in the Winter for a few days. That is as long as there is no chance of them jumping out. We will need to put a high gate at the entrance of the paddock that the Reindeer will be kept, to stop them from jumping the gate and also to stop uninvited visitors from bothering the animals. We have had a few problems with uninvited people coming to the Farm as a day out when we have kept other different animals and Birds such as Ostrich, Wild Boar, Llama and Zebra. Unfortunately we do not have the time to show people around Denbury. We need all of our time for our Holiday Guests, Webcams, Animals that we keep and the Farm work. We haven't had it a lot, but on a few occasion we have had people who watch our webcams turn up out of the blue. Unfortunately as much as we would like to show people around we really do not have the time even to explain why we have to be so unwelcoming. We also get requests from those holidaying in the area to come and see the Badgers. Again we cant do it as the Badger hide is quite small and it is for our Holiday Guests.

	6:04 Sun 31 Aug 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number eleven sent in by Clive. Iffley lock about 2 miles down-stream from Oxford. Clive. Iffley lock weir stream. Clive. Iffley Church. Clive. Elephant Hawk Moth Caterpillar, this was about 3" long, and found in the garden. Clive. A steam ploughing engine at the 2008 Great Dorset Steam Fair. Clive.

	5:28 Sat 30 Aug 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number six. Hever Castle Kent. Sarah. Another part of Hever Castle. Sarah. Lake in Hever Castle grounds. Sarah. Side view of Hever Castle. Sarah. Photo of wild turkeys that have shown up in our back yard over the last week to eat the birdseed that drops to the ground.They are a bit blurry since some nasty children began scaring them into the woods.The children got a right good scolding from my husband and I and hopefully will not do that again.:-) Marie/NJ An update from Michael in the Virgin Islands for the new underwater camera. Things here are going well but slowly. I have received all of the approvals that I need and the mounting bracket for the cam is be manufactured. I have a company that specializes in underwater welding constructing a lock box for the underwater mounting as to insure the safety of your equipment. That should be completed by Wednesday.The solar power supply has been ordered and we are awaiting delivery as well for the Pelican case that all of the equipment will be mounted inside for protection against the elements at the broadcast point. The network connection is ready on the receiving end. Here on STX, it is the height of Hurricane season so at times goal accomplishment is a little tough. Many leave the Island for the month of August and some for September too. This just slows down getting things done. I know this is an inconvenience but I am doing as much, as quickly, and as properly as can be done. I wish it was easier but after 9/11, everything has gotten tougher as far as dealing with the government. With regards, Michael Sent in by Elaine Why Parents Drink The boss wondered why one of his most valued employees was absent but had not phoned in sick one day. Needing to have an urgent problem with one of the main computers resolved, he dialled the employee's home phone number and was greeted with a child's whisper. ' Hello ? ' 'Is your daddy home?' he asked. ' Yes ,' whispered the small voice. May I talk with him?' The child whispered, ' No .' Surprised and wanting to talk with an adult, the boss asked, 'Is your Mummy there?' ' Yes ' 'May I talk with her?' Again the small voice whispered, ' No ' Hoping there was somebody with whom he could leave a message, the boss asked, 'Is anybody else there?' ' Yes ,' whispered the child, ' a policeman. 'Wondering what a cop would be doing at his employee's home, the boss asked, 'May I speak with the policeman?' ' No, he's busy , ' whispered the child. ' Busy doing what? ' Talking to Daddy and Mummy and the Fireman , ' came the whispered answer. Growing more worried as he heard a loud noise in the background through the earpiece on the phone, the boss asked, 'What is that noise?' ' A helicopter ' answered the whispering voice. 'What is going on there?' demanded the boss, now truly apprehensive. Again, whispering, the child answered, ' The search team just landed a helicopter ' Alarmed, concerned and a little frustrated the boss asked, 'What are they searching for?' Still whispering, the young voice replied with a muffled giggle... ' ME . '

	6:05 Fri 29 Aug 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number one, sent in by Judy. There is only one day of photographs left. Close up of a Moth I saw in our shed Head of the moth Passion flower in my garden White Dahlia in my garden A Red Squirrel taken on SWT2 cam. Judy I thought that you maybe interested in the reply that we got from the Met Office about a complaint we made two weeks or so back, and our reply. Thank you for your recent feedback about Met Office weather forecasts for Watchet in Somerset . We are sorry if you have seen a Met Office forecast that you felt was misleading. We understand that it can be frustrating for people trying to plan activities around the weather, which is why we do always try to get the forecast right. Met Office forecasts are produced from our computer models. These use data fed in from many thousands of observations as a starting point and run programmes which take various mathematical equations of motion, thermodynamics and state to predict the behaviour of the atmosphere. There is then a process by which forecasters quality check the model's output before forecasts are issued. Our forecast model data then feeds into a site specific forecast model which is then run to produce the site specific forecasts for our web site, the BBC weather web pages and others. Our forecast model data, once checked, also forms the basis of the guidance issued by the Chief Forecaster in our Operations Centre and products to all our various customers, including information supplied to the BBC for radio and television forecasts. Please be assured that our forecasters do work hard to ensure our forecasts are as accurate and consistent as possible. The British Isles experiences some of the most complex weather systems anywhere in the world and any forecast issued will always the best possible from the information available. We strive for 100% accuracy but there will be times when we do not get the local detail absolutely correct. Although the computer models are vastly improved compared with even a few years ago, there may be small errors which are magnified over time, for example the timing or position of any low pressure area or weather front passing which can make quite a difference to the forecast for a particular locality. Over recent years we believe we have made great strides in improving the accuracy of our forecasts and I can assure you we are constantly working to improve this. A number of initiatives are being worked on such as recent improvements in the computerised forecast models. Feedback from customers such as yourself is invaluable in bringing potential problems to our attention. Planned upgrades to our supercomputing capacity, due to become operational in the next few years, will allow higher resolution models to be run which will provide even greater improvements in local detail and guidance. Clearly we will be expected to provide more accurate, targeted and localised forecasts in the ye! ars to come and this is where our efforts should and will be directed. Regarding your query about more detaiIed forecasts for the specialist farmer, I wonder if our Talk To A Forecaster service might potentially be of benefit to you? This is a consultancy service where you can talk directly to a forecaster in our Operations Centre to request weather information for any land area in the UK the next few hours or for up to five days ahead. There are more details of this service on our web site at http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/talkfc/. However, we recognise that a paid consultancy service may not be appropriate for all c! ustomers. We do also offer a telephone service called Weathercall where you can obtain a five day forecast for locations within the UK via telephone, fax, web download or SMS. There is more information about this service at http://www.weathercall.co.uk/ . In summary, we are sorry if you have been disappointed with forecasts on some occasions. I hope the above at least reassures you that we aim to address concerns about forecast accuracy. Thank you once again for your valuable feedback, which will help us improve our services in the future, and for taking the time to contact the Met Office. Yours sincerely, Martin Kidds Customer Feedback Manager Dear Martin, Our location is Taunton not Watchet, fourteen miles difference, quite obviously the correct information was not passed on, unless of course you have emailed the wrong complainant. I did not feel that the forecast was misleading, it was. Bad weather forecasting is not frustrating, it is annoying and causes unnecessary problems. I can not for the life of me understand that you always try to get the forecast right. Surely the equipment at your disposal try does not come in to it. My complaint was of a forecast given at 10.pm that was completely opposite ten hours later. I have found your forecasting to be in the region of 25% wrong. Since my initial complaint some two to three weeks back it would be more than 30%. So it is not unreasonable to suggest that forecasts produced from your computer models. data fed in from many thousands of observations various mathematical equations of motion, thermodynamics and state to predict the behavior of the atmosphere are clearly not working. Frankly I do not care where your model data is fed, finishes at, and to whom, to go out where. I only asked for an explanation why the forecast I received was wrong just twelve hours later. I would not suggest for one moment that you do not try to get your forecasting right, unfortunately for all who use it you do not. If the British Isles weather forecasting is so complex and challenging for the Met Office, stop forecasting. I have not seen any improvement in your forecasting over recent years. Three or four years ago I complained as I had 15 acres of hay ruined because of your forecasting, it most defiantly it has not improved since then. As for your Talk to a Forecaster service. If they are that good why is it not being used for all forecasting, especially as the Met Office is taxpayer funded. Your email has not answered my complaint of why you got a forecast completely wrong twelve hours after it was given. I am going to try this service www.weather.weatherbug.co.uk unless you tell me that the Met office supply their information. Regards

	9:10 Thu 28 Aug 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number eleven. As we have lost our email inbox we have just a very few photographs left. I told Karen of Stoke that I would send her some party photos of the raccoons. Hope everyone gets a laugh. Party time in a ravine in Toronto Me, I don't like parties. Isabel. Pine Marten on SWT2 cam. Not excellent quality but they were taken on the spur of the moment. Judy. Piglets having a drink at Sherwood Forest Farm park. Vicky. Marie/NJ seems to be having a problem logging into the webcams. Is any one else having the same problem. I have asked people that I know and asked them to try assessing the site. None have said that they are having problems. The Swallows look as if they are nearly ready to fledge. Those on the webcams are the last nest that we have seen at Denbury, other than the Doves. The nest is the only one that we managed to see from the beginning. I nearly missed it as it was well hidden behind a beam in the Barn. Very often the Swallows use nests that have been used before so we tend to look in the old nests. This year only one old nest was used. We have not had a reply from Elsie.

	6:32 Wed 27 Aug 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number six. As we have lost our email inbox we have just a very few photographs left. Aberdeen Angus taken at Sherwood Forest Farm Park. Vicky. DUCKS RUSHING FOR SOME BREAD. LYNNE. I think her name was Kenya she’s an Eagle Owl. Jan. Wollaton Hall in Nottinghamshire. Vicky. A LITTLE OWL ON THE YORKSHIRE MOORS. LYNNE. IT WAS DAVES 50TH BIRTHDAY ON FRIDAY AND I BOUGHT HIM A DAY OUT WITH PROFFESIONALPHOTOGRAPHER. HE IS THRILLED TO BITS AND I HAVE TOLD HIM I AM EXPECTING GREAT THINGS OF HIM. IT IS IN SEPT SO I WILL SEND YOU SOME OF THE RESULTS. HIS NAME IS CHRIS CEASAR AND HE DOES LANDSCAPE PHOTOS AROUND YORKSHIRE AND NORTHUMBRIA HIS WEBSITE IS http://www.chrisceaser.com/index.html ITS WORTH A LOOK. LYNNE. My laptop that I keep all of important work on was showing a fault when I turned it on this morning. Eventually with help I managed to get it restarted, but I had lost my email inbox content that has the photographs that had not been put on the Gallery stored. After seeing my entry on the Forum Lynne, Vicky and Jan sent photographs in so that the Photo page is updated. As Elsie has not made an entry on the Forum for nearly two weeks I emailed her yesterday to ask how she is, as of yet we have not received a reply. Elsie regularly use to send me emails so we are sure that she would have answered my email to her. It is possible that Margaret has other contact details, but we believe that she is on Holiday. If any of you know how she is let us know.

	6:31 Tue 26 Aug 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number one sent by Lynne. STUNNING SKY ABOVE THE PEAK DISTRICT. LYNNE. BOAT IN A HARBOUR IN PEMBROKESHIRE. LYNNE. MY ELLIE IN THE BLUEBELLS. LYNNE. LICHEN AND BLOSSOM. LYNNE. PEAK DISTRICT DERBYSHIRE. LYNNE. The breeders of Reindeer that we thought that we were going to be able to get another one from to go with the pair that we are getting, were unsure if they were going to let any of their females go. As it is coming close to the beginning of the breeding season it was important to get one in the next few weeks. I had already made a few phone calls yesterday to try to find another female but only managed to get answer phones. This morning I made a follow up call to one of those that I rang yesterday and managed to get the owner of one farm that I had phoned, who did have a couple of four to five year old that he was selling. The price was getting on for half of what I was expecting to pay from my first contact, so I decided to have the two that he was selling. I will be getting a phone call at the end of the week and will make the arrangements to collect them. As well as being less money, they are a lot closer to collect them from. I spoke to Cricket St Thomas this afternoon to find out if the Padfoot, the Male Reindeer that is coming to Denbury has started to shed his velvet. I was told that the velvet is starting to look dry. A good indication by all account's that the blood vessels are starting to dry up. This happens a little while before the velvet starts to drop. I also asked about Fleur the female that we are getting. When I went to see her and Padfoot about seven to eight weeks ago she had a very small set of antlers, that is why I said the she was the female in the middle of the photograph that was put on the Photo page yesterday. I was told that Fleur has a good set of antlers. Hopefully within a few weeks we will have Fleur, Padfoot and the two females back a Denbury.

	9:07 Mon 25 Aug 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number eleven. 2 Barn Owls aged 22 weeks they were called Dawn and Dusk. Jan. I took these photos today (21st August) at Cricket St Thomas, I wondered which of the Reindeer would be going to Denbury? The Monkey we thought was pregnant and fed up! and the Lemurs are just so laid back. Rose W'canton. The Reindeer that are coming to Denbury are the Male with the very big antlers, That I could not mistake, and it looks like the female right in the middle. We are also hoping to buy another female. We know where we can get one from but there are various places in the UK that have movement restrictions because of Blue Tongue disease.

	6:17 Sun 24 Aug 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number six, all sent in by Lynne. ANOTHER SQUIRREL !! LYNNE HOT AIR BALLOON ABOVE CHATSWORTH HOUSE DERBYSHIRE LYNNE MILL STONES NEAR HATHERSAGE DERBYSHIRE LYNNE NUTHATCH IN MY GARDEN LYNNE MY TAME RESIDENT ROBIN LYNNE Sorry I forgot to update the Photo page last night. Saturdays being the holiday change over day a Denbury, we are busy and it wasn't until late last night that I realised. I haven't checked the new Squirrel feeder that we have put up for the first part of the Squirrel obstacle course to see if it being used, but from what I can see from the webcam it does look as if it may have started to be used. Trouble is the Buzzards seem to have found it to as you may have seen on the webcam at about 1.pm today. It looks as if it is one of this years young and it is very well marked. It must be the one that one of our Holiday Guests from last week had seen and mistakenly taken as an Osprey. As much as it would be great to have an Osprey at Denbury I don't think that our Fish in our Lake would be to thrilled about it, and we wouldn't be best pleased to lose any of our Fish. As well as Wildlife Holidays we have started Fishing Holidays at Denbury. I am not a great fan of the sport but we need to have Holiday guests for as many weeks as we can through the year and fishing is helping. We stocked our lake just over seven years ago with quite small fish consisting of Mirror and Crucian Carp, Tench, Roach and Rudd. We had seen large Fish swimming around the Kingfisher branch but it wasn't until this year that we knew just how big they had grown. Earlier in the year Carp up to about 10lb had been fished, and in July and August Carp up to 20lb had been caught with many between 8lb to 13lb. It is now even more important to keep the Herons and Otters away from the Lake. That is the benefit of people fishing. The Heron or Otters wont come to the Lake if there are any people around the Lake. We are going to have to fence to stop Otters or Mink. The posts are in place when we electric fenced the area to stop the Otters a few years back. We will be able to use those posts to put wire fencing up, with an electric fence wire at the top. With the fencing in place it will also protect the Black Swans when they arrive next month, and the Geese, if any come next year.

	7:53 Fri 22 Aug 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number one. The first photograph is from Anjela with a long writeup. After just getting back from Fish and Chips at Minehead Harbour, it will save me from writing a Diary. This picture was taken by me, at Ding Darling Wildlife reserve in Sanibel Island, Florida. It is a lone crocodile. Crocodiles were once seen as far north as Sarasota County, those populations are almost completely gone -- with the exception of the lone female on Sanibel Island and the occasional crocodile that travels north in the summer. Jeff Combs, a park ranger at Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge, believes the crocodile was born on Pine Island, where she was first found in 1980, and has never left the area. "Females stay in their spot for their lives," Combs said "This is home to her." Once abundant in Florida, crocodiles were hunted for their hide and much of their habitat was destroyed before they were put on the endangered species list in 1975. Much of their habitat was lost to a combination of urban development and the conversion of wetlands to agriculture. "Crocodiles aren't really found up north much," Klett said. "On the Atlantic side, all possible habitat has been developed." The saltwater creatures tend to nest in areas where there is more brackish and freshwater, because it takes hatchlings some time to adapt to their saltwater environments. Today they are rarely seen outside of the protected areas of the Everglades, Key Largo and around the canals at Turkey Point Nuclear Power plant near Biscayne National Park. Florida Power and Light has developed a crocodile management plan to promote and protect the species there. The man-made area around the nuclear power plant is considered to have the fastest-growing population of crocodiles. The federal government began buying land for Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge in 1980 and today it provides 5,000 acres of nesting and nursery habitat for the American crocodile. The refuge, which also provides habitat to five other endangered species, is closed to all but researchers partly because female crocodiles are known to abandon their nests after even one disturbance. Also the above crocodile has been taken back twice to the Everglades but amazingly has found her way home to Sanibel. Anjela. 2. Sunset from our balcony in Toronto. 3. Our balcony facing North in Troonto 4. Winter from our balcony facing North in Toronto 5. Balcony facing North in the summer Rosie's Mum in Toronto.

	6:20 Thu 21 Aug 08
There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting from number eleven sent in by Clive. 1/ Wild Buddleia growing in Sandford lane. Clive. 2/ Na