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We have a resident muscovey too here. Flew in and decided to stay. I can hand feed him. He's a lovely fellow. We call him Gerald (from Clarksons Farm) Here is a mink followed a few mins later by an otter here at Wood Farm. I have three otters together on film too. Ignore the date/time. The trap camera resets to default date when you change the batteries.

Otters in my little bit of river here. Have them on trap camera a few times now.

I have a pond on the farm here and took these pictures. Some were taken yesterday, the rest a few days ago. Parent feeding its chick(s). We had 5 chicks, two died and three survived.

Thanks guys. Here is a close up of the keel hole (image 2). The red ant is for scale 😀. It looks like fibre glass? I have another tender (image 1) which is plastic moulded (SportsYak) on another of my ponds but the use I have for this fibre glass one is in a pond 1/2 mile distant:- saves porting the plastic one over rough land so worth repairing.

Good advice - I will go there later and have a good look for the presence of strands

I found this boat sitting abandoned in the long grass - I'm about to make a low offer (to the current landowner) to buy it as it will be good for maintenance tasks . Any tips how to repair the keel? I assume epoxy/glass fibre kit after rubbing down?

Fruit and Nut case

Best wishes to Tim - I don't visit here much lately so just seen this.

https://www.bagshaws.com/property/the-white-house-consall-forge-wetley-rocks-stoke-on-trent/ Next door to the pub at Consall Forge, think it's been hawked about before.

Slightly OT, We have 9kW here (26 panels). On the ground poles they are easy to clean so I spent some time giving them a good clean last summer only to see the kW being generated remained identical to the dusty state. In a way I was happy cos it meant I would not be fretting about cleaning the beggars.

Kingston

Croxley had a coal device - not sure who made it though. Just before Common Lock.

Sorry no idea of date.