Owl Breeding

In 2010 we commenced a project to assist the Barn owls in our area.

To these ends we put up two nesting boxes on land we had just purchased, one in the edge of a wood and the other in a solitary tree on the open marsh.

These were put up in the February with advice obtained and we were surprised to find both boxes occupied almost immediately.  That year we raised 3 chicks in each box which were duly ringed in the June.  Unfortunately sometime during the hard winter one of the chicks died.

2011 again both boxes are occupied and we have ringed the four chicks which have now fledged