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Post by 4wd on Sept 17, 2022 12:36:50 GMT
Went down to this late yesterday - not been for about 15 years and it hasn't changed much Still quite good fun to go round watching them all screaming and being sick.
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Post by 4wd on Sept 19, 2022 7:30:42 GMT
Cawthorne Camp yesterday. There were a string of these associated with a Roman Road from York to Whitby - being Roman they took little account of finding an easy route in favour of straight lines. It is thought this was actually a specialised camp where they were instructed on ... how to build similar camps. Anyway it survived due to remote moorland location north of Pickering though in recent years the farmland has encroached from the south and forest plantations from all sides so the main threat to it is scrubby trees invading especially birch as they would hide it and gradually destroy it as they toppled.
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Post by 4wd on Sept 23, 2022 19:18:37 GMT
The brief time-lapse sections in this are amazing viewed full size - should have done more of that with hindsight. It is of course rather time consuming (and boring) to wait while it creates the file, even a four second clip takes nearly 3 minutes.
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Post by 4wd on Sept 24, 2022 18:12:55 GMT
Charity tractor run today for McMillan nurses.
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Post by 4wd on Sept 26, 2022 22:35:16 GMT
Playing with aspect ratios ...
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Post by 4wd on Oct 7, 2022 19:18:34 GMT
Caution it is LOUD in first half
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Post by 4wd on Oct 28, 2022 17:36:41 GMT
Our feed delivery driver took this - though you have to squint you can see lattice sections arriving to be taken up the steep track for new Bilsdale mast *finally*. They suggest it might be on air again by the end of the year depending on weather. (Original caught fire August 2021 and was demolished soon after) I assume once it is all close to the site the final assembly will be quite rapid using heavy lift helicopters over a few days. The sections have been fabricated as a special one off job by a firm near Leeds
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Post by 4wd on Oct 29, 2022 18:49:20 GMT
Still quite a lot of colour about, some places lower down have less leaves still on than higher up I suppose they had more light frosts.
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Post by 4wd on Dec 12, 2022 22:35:41 GMT
This is day one of work to replace small radio mast with big radio mast. The most striking thing was as that big digger scraped topsoil aside it was still very dry a few inches down.
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Post by rgsp on Dec 18, 2022 18:34:41 GMT
Seals at Horsea on Wednesday last General view of the breeding beach. There are a couple of miles like this. Typical cow seal and pup. Seal milk is of very high energy, and in around 6 weeks after birth, the pups get to be like this, and have enough fat to live off without their mothers, who leave them to grow up and learn to fish on their own. After being abandoned, the pups get quite adventurous, and come right onto the foothpath, 30' or so up steep sand dunes. I had understood that bull seals fought over their harems, but I saw this horrid injury happen: the injured bull just flooped up to a big cow on her own, presumably asked her what she fancied, and she took a great chunk out of his neck. Neither he nor she looked bothered afterwards, but it's a useful reminder that seals have huge sharp teeth. The whole interaction took maybe 20 seconds.
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Post by 4wd on Dec 18, 2022 19:11:08 GMT
On Whitby local Facebook there is a very small pup on it's own just below Spa Pavilion and lots of different opinions as to what if anything should be done with it. Being entirely clueless about seals are they normally born at start of winter it doesn't seem a particularly good plan when they could get bashed about by storms. They are around the are abut not very high numbers they like the inaccessible areas below cliffs between Scarborough and Whitby
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Post by rgsp on Dec 19, 2022 10:13:34 GMT
Seals can be born any time between October and January, and at other times occasionally. Mating happens about now, but they have delayed embryo implantation which lasts 2 or 3 months, like some deer, and sheep too occasionally, just to confuse us all. If the pup you mention needs help, the East Wynch seal rescue centre near Kings Lynn has a very good record for rescuing poorly seal pups, and perhaps more importantly, a good record for releasing them successfully back into the wild. I dare say they would give an opinion based on someone's video.
I don't think seals are bothered much by storms: they either go into deep water or right up the beach.
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Post by 4wd on Dec 22, 2022 23:17:51 GMT
(Clickable)
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Post by 4wd on Dec 22, 2022 23:19:34 GMT
This is the new Bilsdale Mast with temp one behind - it looks to me like quite a way to go yet they did at one stage hope to have it done by New Year.
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Post by Joyce on Dec 24, 2022 14:53:07 GMT
Thankyou for all the interesting pics above.
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