Month: March 2024

  • New owls

    Last month a lone female took a liking to the new owl box and quickly settled in. Not long after, she started bringing a fella back and they are now officially a couple. No signs of eggs yet but it shouldn’t be long.

    Two new barn owls: male on the left and female on the right

    19 March 2023. Having set up a third camera on the ledge we’ve managed to work out the leg ring numbers on each owl. The male is a young barn owl, hatched last year at a site five miles from here, and the female much older, almost five years old and has come from a site about nine miles away.

    Part of one leg ring (upside down but legible)
    One owl posing for a leg ring photo in front of the camera.

  • That’s no barn owl

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    A tawny owl takes an interest in the nest box but realises it’s already occupied.