Owls paired up

February 18, 2012  •  Leave a Comment
  • I thought I'd take a dawn drive this morning, to check on our local owls, as I knew my car had to have its MOT today and wasn't 100% sure I'd have it back for tomorrow morning (it passed with flying colours of course, my little LAM (Little Agricultural Machine) so I needn't have fashed mesel...).
  • On the owl front - both adult barn owls greeted me at the barn owl box (two big white round faces peeping at me from the entrance of their box) and both adult little owls greeted me at their site (one on a cattle shed next to their box and t'other in the box itself).
  • Both pairs are still winning the "battle of the boxes" then (the barn owls vs the jackdaws, the little owls vs the stock doves).
  • I will not be photographing the barn owls as they are a schedule 1 boyd and to do so would be breaking the law but I still hope to photograph the little owls as they breed (I hope) this spring....
  • Both the pairs of owls (little and barn) are roosting together in different barn owl boxes - another great example of what the barn owl trust and the Hawk and Owl Trust (Anna's and my owl charity of choice) are doing.
  • So - in summary, both the local "pairs of hooters" that I am watching this year are doing well... very good news.
  • Go on..... adopt a box today!

 

 

 

Keywords: barn owl, little owl

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