Posted in General on Nov 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
I learnt from the two RSPB Volunteers that Tawny Owls will push a Barn Owl out of a nest box and take the nest box over to breed their own young.
I always thought that Tawny and Barn Owls were similar. Never thought that one breed of Owl was agressive and the other was not.
It’s bird against bird again. [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Nov 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
The other year we put up a Barn Owl Box. It was used by Jackdaws. We don’t know what type of bird used this box this year. It was over a year ago when we found out what was in the Barn Owl Box
Luckily two RSPB Volunteers wanted to and walk round the wood and see the [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Dec 30th, 2007 3 Comments »
Yesterday I was close to
a woodpecker.
I was also at eye level with, and close to
an owl.
Would you believe it?
Early yesterday morning I was looking out of the kitchen window and a relaxed woodpecker was tapping away at a tree just about 8 feet away from the kitchen window.
There’s something mesmerising about watching a wild creature in it’s natural [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Nov 19th, 2007 No Comments »
The story of the Barn Owl Nest box continues. In May we went to the trouble of putting up a Barn Owl Nest box. We’d seen barn owls flying nearby and wanted to help.
What happened? I’ll tell you what happened. A Jackdaw pinched the nest and used the barn owl nest box to bring up [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Oct 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
We’ve had jackdaws nesting in the barn owl box. The jackdaws have flown the nest now so last weekend we cleaned the barn owl box out to tice barn owls and give them somewhere safe and warm to overwinter in.
No sign of any barn owl yet!
Hope it’s not been a wasted effort.
We’ve seen barn owls flying in daylight [...]
Posted in Diary on Oct 7th, 2007 1 Comment »
Earlier in the year we put up a barn owl box that we had bought from the Hawk and Owl Trust. Armed with nails and a hammer we fixed it to a tree. We heard noises from the box and knew something was breeding. We thought it had worked and we had barn owls, but no it was not to [...]
