Banks Rural Cam - Banks Lancashire

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   Joined Apr 17, 2022
Part of the rear of the property is being refurbished so that camera looking over the fields is going to be on and off as the power gets cut intermitterntly.  The work should be done in a week or two.

I switch the camera around several views, some at the front and some at the back. I'm based in rural Lancashire amongst cereal crops - although currently nothing in the back fields as you'll see - vegetable farming, horses, rural life in general, and an abundance of fresh air.

From my garden, there's nothing but a few fields some trees, the sea and then Ireland. Out front is a residential but quiet lane where you'll see horses, the occasional horse-drawn buggy, farm machinery, cyclists, hikers and me wandering back from the pub drunk occasionally - usually on a Saturday.

Cam views will be the lane out front, the views out back, the bug motel, the garden, sunsets, sunrise, and rural life. The Chilean Pine or monkey puzzle tree you see in the field view, was a birthday present in 2006, given to me in a pot by my wife, it was about 30cm tall, or 12 inches for you American folk.  It's around 5.5 metres tall now (18 feet) and is an excellent specimen of a monkey puzzle and indeed my most prized possession. The other tree is a cherry and needs to come down, it's supposed to be a dwarf cherry tree.. erm.. no. There are a couple of small wind turbines on the right, these feed a battery array and run in conjunction with a solar array, on sunny windy days apparently they feed energy back into the national grid. There are a lot of birds of prey around here, kestrels, peregrine falcons, sparrow hawks, barn owls, small owls, buzzards and 3 or 4 species of bats.

We also get the Euro Fighter test flying over the bay, BAE Warton is visible from the garden (I used to work there last century) When the Southport and Blackpool airshows are on I get a free viewing of the airplanes which is great. The camera streaming server is a development server and gets rebooted most days at some point between 19:00-21:00 UK time, so if nothing is happening wait a minute or two and it should be back up. 

I've recently upgraded the network switch and all the cabling to CAT6, but there's still a 5 or 6 second delay loading the page.
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